He knows. We know. Nobody said anything about actually abusing them for improvements on trumpet. I should say that student I mentioned above was having serious medical issues. Example: He had no control over his bowel movements and had to wear diapers. Eventually, the steroids and many others treatments helped, and I believe he is off them now for the most part.
So, if you need steroids and are prescribed them by a doctor in the first place, you probably have MANY other serious things on your mind. A slight change in trumpet endurance is the least of your concerns.
"
From what I have read, certain steroids have an overall effect on a person, not only in strength and muscle gain, but also in a feeling of well being and confidence, and those things can affect your playing too."
I don’t think steroids have this effect, these could be attributed to hormones often taken (improperly) when steroids are abused. This is just what my gym rat friend of mine told me (who is clean BTW, but often hangs around those who have made some poor decisions with these substances), and he himself wasn’t totally sure.
Trickg, where do you come up with this stuff?
