Is prednisone anabolic

it is a good story. Now I've got to go research the effects of sulphate anabolic steroids.

Well Connor is an ass. Maddox is acting irrationally and nearly hormonal. Did he take some anabolic steroids to get more muscular? Rusty is probably upstairs crying while Dex and Kane try to intervene-but maybe Maddox needs a bit of time to himself to calm down and realize what he stands to lose. Not believing your closest friends even if they are imperfect doesn’t make them liars. I don’t know but seems like a lot of drama even for Maddox.

Ironic that I'm hopped up on prednisone & some antibiotics that I think are called Godzilla. I've got pneumonia gagantuosa, & lo & behold your story speaks to me. I love the sweet, gentleness of this story, how so many people show their concern & caring. The worst thing after a rape is the loneliness & I'm glad that wasn't part of the mix. You are a joy to read & a gifted writer. I'm moving on to the next installment, happily, because I have the company of a beloved writers stories to help me heal.

Courtship had more red flags pop up than in the annual running of the bulls, yet our put-upon protagonist can't hear the sound of the Mack truck bearing down on him, at full ramming speed.
Goodness, do all such folks have to be possessed of IQs lower than their age? How does this guy manage to dress himself?
Given all that family and friends dished out on him, I'm surprised that: (a) he hadn't been institutionalized; and (b) his revenge was so weak...poison ivy/oak for most folks, a few days of prednisone will handle that.

I met an Armenian girl who was, is, a friend of one of my daughters; petite little girl, long curly black hair, eyes so black they hypnotize. She's just lovely; all perky and saucy. She'll be my next heroine. I showed her this story and she was furious! She wanted to know what was going to happen to poor Poncho and Lefty.
The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold, so the story ends we're told. Poncho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too. He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old. (They played it on the radio...)
You guys are going to be sorry when Poncho's gone and you didn't give him one measly tip of the hat. That's thoughtless indifference to a national institution.
The story's still pretty good in a silly sort of way, but shouldn't the sun be up by now? There's going to be a lot of commuter traffic, and I bet a lot of people are double parked. Can't remember the name of the island in the Arctic where they think the last Mammoths lived. Save that damn pachyderm; I heard some nefarious Zambians were out to get his tusks.
These things should all be getting fives; for balls if nothing else. (Elephants have big balls)
Oh, oh I just felt a rush of blood to the head! The damn Prednisone is kicking in. By for now...

Three Nice things

The story flowed reasonably well. You did a bunch of transitions but not recalling your other stories, this one was intelligible.
I liked the interaction between the mom and the son. A nice bit of characterization.
The scene about her butt was a nice complement to the story. You could have been a bit more subtle there, but it put a coda on what was happening.
Three Critique/Questions
Why do you hate pronouns (I, you, he she)? I would buy it if one character spoke this way. Not everyone speaks that way.
Why, if you constantly get critiques about too many names, do you feel it necessary to name every single person in the story? Trevor, Annie, Carter and the drug overdose people...none of them needed names.

If I could offer a suggestion, if someone isn't in at least two scenes, I would think twice about naming them unless (as I think you were trying here) you are trying to make them a sympathetic element.

So...I am supposed to believe that the Doctor and Ulysses both decided on the exact same medicine to give to him? Anabolic steroids? And what exactly were the janitors supposed to do? A felony for $25?

I'm really, really sorry but the two other comments with quibbles are just the tip of the iceberg. Honestly, did you even do a modicum of research into how genetic recombinant re-writing might ever be possible? First off, no lab would have not have researched what their method of transmission would be. Cloning does not include the type of infection platforms necessary to rewrite existing DNA. Cloning is accomplished with stem cells carefully nurtured from a host organism, then implanted in a recipient womb. Dolly the sheep was not grown in a lab, she was grown in a uterus similar to invitro fertilization.
In order to change an existing DNA strand, the lab in question would have to develop an auto-immune virus to carry the genetic material into the body, where it would insert itself into cells and begin its damage to the genetic structure. The likely result would be similar to cancer, only with an effect other than death. The process would take weeks, if not months to accomplish. Doing so overnight would take so much of the body's available anabolic potential that the person afflicted would probably suffer severe catabolic reactions in other locations (muscle gets broken down into fuel to be used for the growth project). More to the point, the lab would have carefully crafted the method of transmission because accidents like the one Amy suffered could release a global pandemic if biologic research facilities were as lazy as this one seems to be.
Anyway, my suggestion would be to avoid any more forays into science during the story because it's obvious you have no clue what lab procedures or gene research entail.