Ghoul
Well-known Member
Serious question. Is it that you believe a contaminant that doesn't cause symptoms soon after it's injected into your body can't damage your health over the long term? Or that following the lead of medical professionals, trying to find ways to avoid unnecessary exposure to the same things professional medicine is concerned about makes you a conspiracy theorist or pussy?
Because you sound genuinely offended that the topic is even discussed.
This attitude had been around forever, many of us are old enough to have heard the guy claiming cigarettes don't cause cancer, or the guy who said asbestos was fine because he'd been exposed to it at work for 20 years and never called in sick once. Until he got mesothelioma a week after retiring and wheezed through an oxygen machine for his last few years.
Things change. Threats we didn't recognize before get uncovered. This process is happening all the time.
Look at posts 10 years ago here on MESO and the understanding of safe practices was not as developed as it is now. That required someone to be curious, ask questions, and often simply looking at what medical professionals were doing and adapt those practices.
Asymptomatic latent infections have been called an invisible epidemic. They go undiagnosed and either do low level damage over a long period, or spring to life decades later when the immune system is weakened, like herpes simplex. The worst of these enter the body parentarally (bypassing the immune system, like an injection). These are rare because modern medicine goes to great lengths to take exceptional care of what's being injected into people, so it's only the tiny population of IV drug users shooting crap made in some sketchy lab from unregulated ingredients into their bodies that are exposed to that threat, so who really cares what happens to them in 20 or 30 years.
Oh, and AAS users too.
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