{"id":2914,"date":"2006-06-19T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T18:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/06\/19\/segui-denies-bizarre-side-effects-of-h"},"modified":"2006-06-19T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T18:56:25","slug":"segui-denies-bizarre-side-effects-of-hgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/06\/19\/segui-denies-bizarre-side-effects-of-hgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Segui Denies Bizarre Side Effects of HGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8560'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\/images\/seegui.jpg\" width=\"247\" height=\"309\" align=\"left\">NEW YORK &#8212; Former major leaguer David<br \/>\n        Segui admitted yesterday in an ESPN interview that he used human growth<br \/>\n        hormone and was among the players mentioned by ex-teammate Jason Grimsley<br \/>\n        to federal investigators. Segui added that he used the drug with a doctor&#8217;s<br \/>\n        prescription because of a growth hormone deficiency.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Segui, who spent 15 years in the majors and retired<br \/>\n        in 2004, said on ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;Outside the Lines&quot; that he continues to<br \/>\n        use HGH legally. He said he first started using the hormone after the<br \/>\n        deficiency was found when he went for blood work before surgery during<br \/>\n      his playing career.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/baseball\/articles\/2006\/06\/19\/segui_admits_to_using_human_growth_hormone\/\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>We can imagine how the conversation between David<br \/>\n          and his doctor went&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Well, David, while we were doing the workup to<br \/>\n          see why its taking you so long to come back from your latest arm surgery, we came up with some unexpected results that are cause for some concern&#8230;&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Oh, God, I knew it&#8230;.What is it Doc? Give it to<br \/>\n          me straight. AIDS? Syphilis? Lou Gerhrig disease?&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Nothing so dire, luckily, but we did notice that<br \/>\n          your weight was down&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Not much appetite lately.&nbsp; Thought it<br \/>\n          was the pain killers and the greenies&#8230;&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;But then we took some more accurate measurements.&nbsp; Did<br \/>\n          you know that you are now one hundred eighty millimeters shorter than<br \/>\n          the last time we examined you? Or that your arms, measured from armpit<br \/>\n          to wrist, are also almost two centimeters shorter?<\/em>&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Are you nuts! There must be some mistake. Are you saying<br \/>\n        that I&#8217;m&#8230;..SHRINKING!&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;I&#8217;m afraid so.&nbsp;The clincher was when<br \/>\n        we measured your feet. You&#8217;ve lost a full shoe size.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Jesus Christ. What&#8217;s causing it? Is there any treatment<br \/>\n        to stop it? I don&#8217;t want to end up a midget!&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;We believe, Mr. Segui, that your condition is caused<br \/>\n        by a very rare Total Internal Deficiency of Human Growth Hormone (TIDHCH).<br \/>\n        Luckily, modern science HAS found a treatment &#8211; external injections of<br \/>\n        HGH. Up until recently, HGH had to be extracted from the pineal gland<br \/>\n        of a living human being. Since no one can live without a pineal gland,<br \/>\n        this made collecting HGH an expensive proposition. Most of it came from<br \/>\n        Asia and Africa and only the superstars could afford it.&nbsp;But now<br \/>\n        we have learned to synthesize the stuff, and its as easy to get as silicon.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Sounds good, but isn&#8217;t that stuff dangerous, not to<br \/>\n        mention banned from baseball. There&#8217;s supposed to be all sorts of Cro-Magnon<br \/>\n        side effects Are you sure its worth it?&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Well, we haven&#8217;t had a chance to measure it yet,<br \/>\n          but medical research shows that in cases like yours the shrinkage in the size of your maximally<br \/>\n        aroused member will be at least as dramatic as the decline in your shoe<br \/>\n        size and other bodily measurements&#8230;.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;How soon can we start?&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Former major leaguer David Segui admitted yesterday in an ESPN interview that he used human growth hormone and was among the players mentioned by ex-teammate Jason Grimsley to federal investigators. 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