There are side effects in practically everything that happens to our bodies,whether they are self-inflicted, through carelessness, forgetfulness, intentionally or through medical drug treatment. In this article we shall have a detailed look at the side effects of the drug medication, Aromasin, which is known as an estrogen inhibitor used for the treatment of breast cancer and for the prevention of gynecomastia or enlargement of breast glands in men. Read on to learn more about this drug medication.

A brief overview of Aromasin side effects

Generally speaking, the drug medication Aromasin can be described as a well-tolerated drug by mostly everyone who has used it.

Estrogen plays a different role in both men and women. F or instance in women, it reveals its presence in the form of breast cancer and in men, it acts as a threat in the form of gynecomastia a dreaded enlargement of breast glands that can occur in male bodybuilders due to their consumption of steroids.

In women, estrogen is the main sex hormone but men only need low levels of the female hormone to ensure that levels of testosterone are kept at a balanced level with estrogen levels.

The bulk of side effects that occur with the use of Aromasin arise mainly from its use as a cancer drug treatment.  Woman who avail themselves for taking the treatment usually take the drug of two or three years or perhaps for a longer time.

This is in sharp contrast to the shorter periods that bodybuilders make use of Aromasin  when they are in their steroid cycle or at some stage of their post cycle therapy at the end of the steroid cycle.

In either of these cases, you’d more than likely use Aromasin for several weeks at a maximum.  This is the reason why there’s a greater risk of experiencing more side effects for people (women) who use the drug for several years than for the short period during which it’s used for bodybuilding purposes.

When Aromasin is used medically to treat a condition, it can potentially cause the following common side effects:

Muscle, joint or bone pain

Both studies and experience show that estrogen is an important ingredient as mineral content and health of the bones of the body.

However, in the case of those who take steroids such as bodybuilders, their use of the drug is of such short duration that they are not likely to result in noticeable changes in this area.

If you permit your estrogen levels to decrease too much, you may experience some bone and joint pain but they are usually gone when your use of Aromasin ceases.

Bone mineral content

One problematic side effects that bodybuilders and athletes dread most is the likelihood that Aromasin may lower the bone mineral content.

This possibility has the potential to cause a higher risk of fractures and osteoporosis. However this threat may not be as serious as it sounds when you remember that many of the steroids used actually improve bone mineral content.

This means that this downside of Aromasin can somewhat be compensated for and as with so many side effects, thought to be only individualistic in its effects may actually be a concern for some users but certainly not for all for others.

Fatigue or tiredness

Fatigue usually emerges when estrogen has been reduced below a certain point, sometimes to a critical level. To reign in this unwanted side effect and control it, you should modify your dose of Aromasin.

Cholesterol

While cholesterol is another known side effect of Aromasin there are conflicting evidence about the effect that the drug has on cholesterol with some indicating that there’s no effect and others indicating that there’s negative effect.

The controversial concern for those using steroids is that steroids usually show a negative impact on cholesterol this could be improved more significantly when you’re using a cholesterol-impacting anabolic steroid.

So if you are susceptible to cholesterol issues, you should make it your personal priority to monitor while you’re taking steroids and you should put more effort in your monitoring if you’re using Aromasin or any other aromatase inhibitor.

Another surprising aspect of Aromasin to new users is its ability to exhibit mild androgenic side effects.

It should be remembered that Aromasin is a steroidal aromatase inhibitor unlike other AIs which are normally non-steroidal.

Much higher doses of Aromasin would be needed for androgenic effects to manifest themselves but when they do appear they would usually be weak such as s mild case of acne which would go unnoticed by many people.

Some solid evidence on Aromasin effect on cholesterol

In a study lasting a whole year which focused mainly on women who used the drug for the treatment of breast cancer, it was found that Aromasin has a neutral effect on cholesterol.

This meant that generally speaking there were no significant changes from high to low levels and vice versa. The study focused on the effect on total cholesterol as well as the good cholesterol type, HDL.

The LDL or bad cholesterol were similarly unaffected by Aromasin, however there was an actual benefit found from the study where Aromasin actually lowered the levels of of triglycerides so that a lesser amount of fat lipids are stored in the blood.

Despite this one study, other studies found that Aromasin does actually lower HDL levels in some of the women studied.

This suggests that the effects of this drug may be highly individual between people and these results may be individually oriented between people, and that they may not have any bearing on men who take Aromasin just for short periods of time while taking anabolic steroids.

Other minor side effects of Aromasin to women who use it as a medication can include:

  • Depression
  • Insomnia
  • Nausea
  • Sweating
  • Hot Flashes
  • Anxiety
  • Diarrhea
  • Upset stomach
  • Dizziness
  • Headache.

It’s most likely that the main use people would use Aromasin would be during a steroid cycle to prevent estrogen related side effects of which the most important and dreaded threat would be gynecomastia.

Because Aromasin is an aromatase inhibitor its main function is that of lowering your entire estrogen levels and of course ‘gyno’ is mainly caused by the presence of excess estrogen when you’re using aromatizing steroids like testosterone and other testosterone derivatives such as Dianabol.

Conclusion

This article has presented an interesting wealth of information on the side effects that the taking of Aromasin can cause. Focus has mainly been on the taking of anabolic steroids during post cycle therapy (PCT) for boosting muscle mass and athletic performance which causes a surge in the presence of estrogen in the body and at the same time sees the suppression of testosterone which needs to be recovered during the post cycle therapy to most appropriate supplement, in this case Aromasin.