I went to a new dermatologist on Wednesday to get better treatment for my horrid acne. The nurse practitioner asked me a bunch fo standard questions and I gave her background info about my recent bodybuilding contest etc. I left out any info about certain less than legal compounds I was taking.
When the doctor came in, like the second question he asked was "have you taken or are you taking any anabolic steroids?" WOW, that was awkward. In a split second my brain mulled over the question of, do I tell him the truth in the hope that it will better help him come up with a solution, or do I lie to avoid the risk he puts it on my chart and ####s me up with my health insurance company?
I opted to lie and say "No." I even added to it by saying "That's probably why I didn't do all that well in my competition." So I guess I lied twice, since I did make top 5 in a very tough competition.
My other reasoning for not telling him, was that since I didn't know him, I figured he'd likely just stand on a soapbox or something going into the "dangers" of AAS (the crap most doctors believe that's been fed to them by the establishment).
Anyway, I was just wondering what you folks do in that situation? Do you tell your doc or not? This is a brand new doctor for me so I felt really uncomfortable divulging that kind of info immediately.
When the doctor came in, like the second question he asked was "have you taken or are you taking any anabolic steroids?" WOW, that was awkward. In a split second my brain mulled over the question of, do I tell him the truth in the hope that it will better help him come up with a solution, or do I lie to avoid the risk he puts it on my chart and ####s me up with my health insurance company?
I opted to lie and say "No." I even added to it by saying "That's probably why I didn't do all that well in my competition." So I guess I lied twice, since I did make top 5 in a very tough competition.
My other reasoning for not telling him, was that since I didn't know him, I figured he'd likely just stand on a soapbox or something going into the "dangers" of AAS (the crap most doctors believe that's been fed to them by the establishment).
Anyway, I was just wondering what you folks do in that situation? Do you tell your doc or not? This is a brand new doctor for me so I felt really uncomfortable divulging that kind of info immediately.