I haven’t been to this site in a while and I am afraid I’m back again only to bear bad news of myself. I have been in denial about my vision loss for a while now but after switching from Levitra to Viagra, I’ve experienced sudden vision loss unlike the incremental loss I noticed with Levitra. I could make out things clearly from 30 feet away a few weeks ago, now things appear blurry from 15 feet away. I read mixed things about the causes of the side effect which seems to be permanent and is not labeled on any Viagra packaging. One article says its due to NAION, the other due to a gene, and another due to impotence to begin with. I’ve grown tired of all this. What am I to do now? I can barely fuck with an ed pill and now that pill is also giving some horrible permanent health issue. I have been living with PFS for 5 and a half years and nothing has really gotten better even with clean diet, exercise, and reduced night life. If I decide to end my life, I will try to spread the word of my condition in my last letter. My fear is that my family will keep my story quiet since they seem very passive about my condition and none of my friends know anything about my PFS as far as I know. I hope you guys can spread the word if that happens. Peace.
Youngbuck,
I’ve got lots problems from Propecia, so I can understand why you suspect propecia, but bad vision happens to lots of people. This could easily just be your vision going. Besides, vision is totally correctable. Hang in there.
Hang in there man. Lots of scientific progress is being made with vision and 2 big studies will be released for PFS this year.
Mate avoid all drugs. They are all dangerous are we are the 1% that get fucked by them.
Join the monk crew. Maybe try some herbal ED pills. meds are poison. Arimidex destroyed my life and i thought PFS was bad enough.
hang in there buddy
Don’t do anything stupid, there is lots you can do. Ever looked into fasting?
youngbuck - I’ve been following your posts for the past 5 years and have always admired your tough, rational approach to this awful problem we have been cursed with. Please hang in there. You have to believe in yourself and not let this define and end your life. Forget about sex for now. Hunker down in survival mode. Do whatever it takes to make it through one more day, every day. I think about my pfs every day. Every day I curse my bad luck. But I am better than I was in 2008 when I was totally falling apart. As someone else said give up all drugs for now. Hang in there. The studies are due out soon and will offer insight into what is wrong with us and what we can do to improve our health.
i had perfect vision all my life,even after my crash my vision wasn’t affected,until I tried progesterone cream and ended up with more sides,bad eyesight being one of them,it comes and goes,had my eyes checked out and they said they were fine???,at night when I drive towards a petrol station the prices are lit up in various coloured neon lights,the blue and green numbers I cant see atall until im right up to them but the red I can see clearly from quite a distance away,somedays I get headaches all day as my eyes are having trouble focusing,its like I can be looking at something close up and then look at something further away and my eyes take ages to focus or wont focus atall…
Thanks for the words guys, especially Badluck. I have been through some dark days lately. I will try to persevere as much as I can. I will be seeing an eye doctor soon and hope that contacts or glasses can correct this blurriness I have. Like robbo, I’ve had an eye doctor visit in the past which went perfectly yet I know somethings changed. Now its very noticeable. Even writing now on my computer I have to blink multiple times to focus my eyes. It has become a problem at work for me too.
I want to believe that modern medicine will eventually find us a cure but with all the secrecy behind potential natural or cheap cures for other diseases, my outlook isn’t very positive. What I am intrigued by is the fact that most of our modern medicine comes from plants and animals from the amazon rain forest. I’ve posted many times here about psychedelics and shaman medicines. I wish to try them but fear from my last adventure with them that I might lose my mind. Shrooms are known to increase vision.
Here is something interesting I came across. The world’s worst pain known to man is the bullet ant sting. If you have netflix check out ep1 of se1 of wildest latin america at 28:15 onward. One sting is said to hurt as much as a bullet shot and this tribe endures thousands of stings on their hands for 10min 20 times in their lives. Could this tribe have survived white man’s diseases which killed most of the amazonian tribes in the 1500s with this ritual taught through the spirit realm of shamanism? Here is a pretty tough white guy whose attempted it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEWmynRcEEQ. Here is another one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0V7xv9qu0. Would I ever do this? Not a chance. I couldn’t do frog poison even when I was in the amazon with suspect shamans advising me. I got too scared by it and among other things. But I ponder if we must go through some intense toxin ritual to cure us of such a violently destructive disease.
Ayahuasca is no joke my friend. I think you should face your fears and do it in south america with a good shaman. This medicine is incredible. It heals you on all levels. Ayahuasca has its own intelligence and heals everyone individually.
If i was physically able i would be in the Amazon right now. I have smoked freebase DMT and it was very insane but i would prefer to be with a shaman.
In the west we have lost our connection to the soul.