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Originally Posted by WarChild
I'm fairly certain that liver damage can still happen with intramuscular injections. Remember, the Liver holds up to about 13% of all the blood in the body at one time. One of it's purposes is to clean drugs and what not out of the system. Intramuscular drugs still end up in the blood stream, and thus by definition in the liver.
The danger, as far as I understand it, with oral steroids is the the liver has to process the drug twice where as only one time with IM.
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not exactly
the steroids that are known as liver toxic are ones that are specifically designed to be active orally by attaching a molecule to the main steroid so that they will survive the digestive system to become active, and that is what makes the liver have to do the work to cleave that attached molecule..... if you swallow a steroid that doesn't have that attached molecule, it won't hurt your liver at all, but it also won't do anything for you because the digestive system will destroy the steroid
many injectable steroids are not liver toxic because they don't have the attached molecule