Regarding minimizing the impact on your health, nobody can give you any guarantees. You need to decide whether you want to stick to the lowest possible doses and relatively safer compounds, or accept some additional risks in exchange for potentially better results.
That has to be your decision. Once you've made up your mind, we'll have a much clearer idea of which direction to take.
And you know, side effects are always relative because ultimately, everything depends on how well you personally tolerate a particular compound.
As for competitions, I've always competed in events without doping tests. I believe there should be an element of fairness here. Let natural athletes compete against other natural athletes, and those using steroids compete against each other.
Regarding doping control, the situation is much more complicated than it might seem because everything depends on what they want to detect and how much money they're willing to spend. If we're talking about the technologies used by WADA, they've got some Elon Musk-level space technology that could probably create a wormhole, travel back in time, and spot you when you were still a sperm cell, let alone detect your drostanolone
