It seems like the only sports stories I hear about are the scandals involving professional athletes and steroids and/or performance enhancing drugs. It got me thinking. How can I personally relate these stories with my life?

Imagine if you will, that I am a world famous athlete. I’m one of the world’s top baseball players. Never mind that in reality I’m recently 44, 5’4” with frizzy hair and I’m shaped like a baseball… Why, even my face is shaped like a baseball… Anyway, someone gets suspicious… my bat’s on fire, and I hit for the cycle almost every game! Hey battah-battah!

My batting average gets better and better, until finally, the baseball commission finally has no option, they must test me for steroids and performance enhancing drugs. Bad news for me! The blood tests come back and my testosterone comes back “freakishly high” and I’m clearly on steroids… They are even starting to affect my life off-field, getting into fights…

Well I does seem obvious that you took the steriods because your levels were 11 and the norm is 1 or 2......so did you take them? :welldoneclap: :think

Hi Teresita, no, I didn't take them, that's what my brain tumor does, pumps out extra cortisol, which is a steroid. I've had ER docs ask me how long I've been on steroids, when I haven't been on them for over a year!

And that's the point, that my body is naturally producing excess hormones like testosterone and steroids like cortisol.