Please help! Needing info concerning steroid use in someone who had a kidney transpla

[TAMARA J]

I posted this on several sites and have gotten no feedback so if someone here can help I would be most thankful.
I have just found out that someone who I deeply love took an injection of an anabolic steroid. I have heard about the risks concerning the use of this but in this case I fear it might be even worse. The person I am referring to had a kidney transplant at the age of 21 due to a condition called IGA NEPHROPATHY. He is now 27 and is on daily medication due to the transplant. He just informed me that he took the injection yesterday evening and has only taken the one (or so he says) the reason for doing so was to get ripped faster. I am deeply concerned over this and he keeps telling me that I have nothing to worry about as he has only did it the one time. I feel I have the right to worry. Any help that I could get on this would be much appreciated.
It was an injection of D-BOL but now he has told me it may have been M-DROL. It is one or the other. It's hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that he doesn't know considering he allowed it to be injected into him.

[Beth Witten MSW ACSW]

Anyone who has a chronic illness, including a kidney transplant, should talk with his/her doctor about any medication or supplement (prescribed or over the counter) that he/she is considering taking. The long-term survival of a kidney in a person who received a transplant depends on following a regimen of healthy diet, exercise, and taking medications as prescribed.

If your friend admits to taking one injection, it's possible that he took more or will in the future. Anabolic steroids can be dangerous in people who believe they're in good health, much less someone who is healthy because he received "the gift of life" from someone (living or dead) who donated their kidney. It's a huge responsibility for the transplant recipient to take care of the gift he was given. Taking steroids to get "ripped" faster could lead to many health problems, including kidney failure. Sellers of steroids downplay the health risks to make money. Here's a government website that describes some of the health (and mental health) risks.

http://www.drugabuse.gov/about/welco...eroids305.html

Your friend must decide for himself whether having bigger muscles faster is worth the risk of losing his transplant and returning to dialysis.