proken said:
has a lifespan of only four hours, seems it would clear the system rather quickly if tested. Perhaps anavar, perhaps bribing the lad admin to tell you when you're due to get tested ?
Unfortunately, the half life of a steroid and the ability of a test to detect usage are very different. Tests can generally detect a fast acting oral about 1 to 2 weeks after discontinuance. Injectables forget it, unless you're talking about something with no ester like Test suspension.
See the following study which shows the detectability of oral steroid metabolites for up to 14 days following discontinuance.
MaxRep
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J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 1996 Mar;57(5-6):363-76.
Gas chromatography/mass spectometry identification of long-term excreted metabolites of the anabolic steroid 4-chloro-1,2-dehydro-17alpha-methyltestosterone in humans.
Schanzer W, Horning S, Opfermann G, Donike M.
Institute of Biochemistry, German Sports University, Koln, Germany.
The misuse of anabolic steroids by athletes has been banned by sports organizations and is controlled by the analysis of urine samples obtained from athletes using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). To extend the retrospectivity of the analytical methods, research is focused on long-term excreted metabolites.
Preliminary results concerning the long-term detection of metabolites of the anabolic androgenic steroid 4-chloro-1,2-dehydro-17alpha-methyltestosterone I are presented. A new metabolite 4-chloro-3alpha, 6 beta, 17beta-trihydroxy-17alpha-methyl-5beta-androst-l-en-16-one was isolated by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) from urine following a single oral administration of 40 mg of I and characterized.
Metabolite II was excreted into urine with a maximum excretion rate at approximately 48 h after administration and could be detected by gas chromatography/high resolution mass spectrometry (GC/HRMS) for up to 14 days. Two further partly characterized metabolites III and IV were confirmed for more than 9 days.
The same three metabolites, II-IV, in varying amounts were also detected in urine samples from athletes who administered I.
PMID: 8639473