Steroid Urine Testing

[ROCKETW19]

I have a friend (realy) that got busted with some test he was sentencted to drug deversion when they will piss test him for the next 6 months. thing is he is on test, EQ and GH right now and wants to stop, witch I agree with! what he or I dont know is how acurate is the piss test? if he stops right now his test will be in about a month.
now normaly I would say they wont even test for steroids but since that is what he was busted with I figured why take a chance.

[ROCKILLER]

They can test and they probably will if that is what he was busted for. I was under the impression that Test could be detected for a long time. I thought it was up to a year. If that is true, why bother stopping. I'm not sure on that though so he should look into that.

[THE BOUNCER]

Anabolic steroids and their by-products can generally be detected quite easily in urine, using mass spectrometry. However, since they occur naturally and their levels in the body fluctuate daily and can vary from person to person, setting a threshold above which an athlete is deemed to be ‘using’ anabolic steroids remains a subject of debate.

Testosterone and a related compound, epitestosterone, are eliminated from the body in urine. When an athlete takes anabolic steroids, the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone (the T/E ratio) increases. The International Olympic Committee states that an athlete is guilty of doping if their urine sample shows a T/E ratio above 6.

There are problems with this test. For example, British athlete Diane Mohdahl had a 4-year competition ban lifted after demonstrating that a high T/E ratio detected in her urine sample could have been caused by bacterial contamination. Another problem is that some athletes have been shown to have a naturally high T/E ratio, so that the threshold of 6 could be set too low. Alternatively, athletes with a naturally very low T/E ratio may not go above 6 even if they are taking additional testosterone.

source: science.org