What does 75% emotional blunting feel like? I have no idea if we’d score it the same.
My point is we should be asking “do you feel happy/sad/something else when…”
I just think if we’re going to ask each other questions, then percentage point answers don’t really give us the detail.
If we’re going to talk about this stuff, let’s make the most of each other.
I want to know how effective something is at bringing people back to normal. Sorry man I don’t agree with you, but you are more than welcome to ask the type of questions you feel are more important
UPDATE (Day 205)
fuuuuck…this is hard
Mental Clarity - 3/10
Libido - 3/10
Energy - 3/10
Mood - 3/10
Erection Quality - 5/10
No morning, nocturnal or spontaneous erections and sensitivity is lacking
Orgasm Quality - 5/10
Sleep Quality - 4/10
Sleeping only 3-4 hours at a time, always light sleep, not refreshing.
TESTOSTERONE - 458 ng/dL
TESTOSTERONE, FREE - 8.70 ng/dL
thanks for this update. based on your previous posts, i would’ve thought you were closer to recovering fully (symptom wise).
this makes things way more clear to me, even if its not completely accurate. im currently taking prep medication and it’s helped my emotional blunting by about 10-15% from where it was. hoping to see increased benefits over time, as other users have reported.
UPDATE (Day 213)
Quick update, for about 1 week now I have not been feeling completely screwed up cognitively. I have been feeling like my old self, but just a weaker more fatigued version, like an 80 year old man. I was taking St. Johns Wort for the past three weeks and it seems to have brought most if not all systems back online. For example, I can now take stimulants and get an effect. It feels like something changed neurologically.
Everything seems to be working like normal but just barely, where as two months ago, most things were not working at all. If this rate of recovery continues, I think I can be fully recovered in another 6 months to 1 year.
Also, I should mention I have been eating very healthy (raw food) and walking everyday for at least 1 hour since this fiasco started.
Thank you Lakehouse, I will look into prep. I just did mushrooms again a one week ago, and it seems to have greatly helped with my mental clarity and emotions. I stopped doing them for a while because it seemed like my system was completely shut down for a while and taking mushrooms or any supplement was like putting gas into a car with no engine. Recently it feels like mushrooms are working again like they should be, so I will continue taking them weekly. I am aiming to do 4 grams every 1 week.
Also there have been times I was more mentally clear, but I was still completely detached from my emotions and with zero libido or good feelings or personality, that may be why you thought I was closer to recovering. It was not until recently where it seems like most of my functionality has returned but not at full strength. I am feeling more like a normal person, but just a very weak normal person. Hope that makes sense to anyone reading.
Mentally clear while feeling like a robot zombie vs Mentally clear while feeling like a normal healthy person.
Before you take prep get tested. A company called nurx does that in the states. If you don’t have that option then try to get the tests from a regular doctor.
Good luck, thanks for the update, and keep me updated
UPDATE (Day 344)
Mental Clarity - 7/10
If I get 8 hours of sleep, even though they are broken, I feel mentally clear throughout the day. I can think through problems basically as good as anyone else. I have not felt the brain fog feeling in about two months.
Energy - 7/10
Sleep Quality - 7/10
I am getting 8 hours of sleep per night, but it isn’t as deep as it use to be and I wake up usually 2-3 times, usually at the 3 - 4 hour marks.
Body - 5/10
I have noticed several body changes through this. I gained 40 pounds, lost a lot of body hair, lost body odor, lost oily skin, and had skin numbness. So far my skin is becoming a little more oily again, my body hair is regrowing, and my skin is not as numb.
Mood - 7/10
I would not say I am clinically depressed anymore or completely anhedonic. I have more emotions and can tear up when watching a movie. Some days are worse then others but overall I am no longer a zombie.
Erection Quality - 7/10
I can maintain an erection through manual stimulation
Orgasm Quality - 7/10
Orgasm quality has been consistently quite good.
Libido - 5/10
I am thinking about sex more because my orgasm and erection quality are consistently well, however I am still struggling to be aroused visually and be aroused by sexual thoughts. Visual and mental arousal does work but is very weak, it has gotten better. I believe that sleep and libido are related. When I get deeper sleep, I have a better libido and vice versa.
What have I been doing?
-Walking 1 hour 4x per week
-Swimming (sprints) 40 minutes 6x per week
-Eating mainly fruits, nuts, seeds
-Cycling between herbs and a DHT prohormone.
1 month of herbs (Forskolin, Cordyceps, Butea Superba, Tongkat Ali, Tribulus, Shilajit, Rhodiola Rosea), then 1 month of the DHT prohormone (Super R-Andro).
I also noted that I was taking St. Johns Wort a while ago and this did help bring back my mind from a very dark, unstable place, but when my mental health became consistently adequate, I stopped taking it as I did not notice any more benefit.
Outlook
My outlook on the future is getting brighter, this mess did leave me in a financial mess, heavily in debt and without work for a year but since it appears I am recovering slowly I am just counting my blessings. I will continue my daily habits as noted above and I hope to be at 85% in another 6 months. My main concerns right now are sleep and libido. These seemed to be the most delicate and probably took the most damage. They also seem to take the longest to regenerate.
Any updates mate? I hope you’re still making positive progress.
Hey, could you update your story?
I saw you have an improvement with sjw, did the effects of it remain after stopping?
I think his real improvements comes from the Super-R Andro. That stuff recovered many people. (On another forum.) An update would be good yeah.
Whats the protocol for r-andro?
Hi all,
I dont have any big updates to report. I haven’t made much progress since my last post. I think that’s mainly because the situation I recently been in these past 11 months with my finances. I have made some compromises with my health out of necessity, compromises that I think set my recovery back. I hope to update my story with a larger update in a few months, but right now i have nothing really big to report.
Good luck to all of you, thanks for your company through these times. I still have hope for all of us.
I was following CDsnuts protocol for the R-Andro, you can read about that on the swole source propeciahelp forum