Nope. Muscle seems to be fine. Lifting every other day. Cardio twice/wk.
My main issue is sleep, 2.5 years after the crash, with little sustained improvement in that dept.
I found out that brain injuries has caused people erectile dysfunction. If pfs causes braindamage then maybe this braindamage can be reversed in time. Through ‘Daniels Plan’ the guy who does brain scans. Daniel Amen. Through extreme medItation and extreme diet and exercise over time to heal the brain slowly.
If the brain is stressed and depressed it won’t heal I don’t believe. Meditation could solve that. I practiced meditating for 3 hours today split through out the day. Studies show the brain changes after 8 weeks of this. 20 min a day. Im going overboard to beat my depression
I just had an MRI as well and was all clear.
MRI w/o contrast came back negative
Whatever is wrong with us MRIs must not detect unfortunately. Talk about a mystery. Pretty weird.
MRI of spinal cord might find something according to the Alex Miller Theory. Unfortunately, I doubt a neurologist would order that just because a patient wants one
May have to show him the Money… probably expensive
I think I’ll have an MRI done soon. I’m not sure if an MRI shows demylination. According to the Alex Miller theory, that’s what’s happening. I think he mentions a specific type of MRI to get in his write-up. I think you need to get the one that MS patients get. It’s different from a normal MRI, if my PFS memory serves me correctly.
Here we go… This is the type of MRI you’d really need to get in order to detect demylination.
Tesla 7 MRI Scanner
Here is a list of all the places in the world that currently have this scanner for those wishing to see if they have demyelination from Propecia.
I had an MRI done last week they found a 2cm tumor on my Pituitary gland.
MRI with negative findings…
I had a MRI too, they found a 6mm tumor on my pituitary. Besides, I also have high TSH and elevated prolactin.
Are you guys planning on doing anything about these? Maybe it would help to have them removed? A lot of the symptoms of a pituitary tumor are similar to the symptoms of pfs. Interestingly enough, a lot of the symptoms of an adrenal gland tumor are similar to the symptoms of pfs as well.
Anything over 1cm is serious is what my doctor said. I don’t know if they usually remove it. I understand, if prolactin is brought under control then usually the symptoms subside, don’t know if it does anything to the tumor. My doctor was like if he has to treat between the two, he would choose high TSH and see how it affects prolactin and the tumor and if it comes to it, then he might have thrown in more meds to take care of the high prolactin. At one he point, he was like even if dont do anything about the high prolactin it should be ok. On the side note, Urologist and endocrinologist both wanted me to repeat the MRI in 6 months then a year.
I’m waiting to get surgery. Should happen within the next 2 months.
Good luck Mark. I’m interested to hear if getting the tumor removed improves you condition.
Ahh ok. Well hopefully your doctors know what they are doing.
Do you think that the development of the tumor was a result of finasteride, or do you think it just happened naturally?
From what I’ve read on the internet, there are some 10%(I am not sure about this could be up or down, but certainly in the range) of people who never know about such a tumor in their lifetime even though its there.
However, finasteride triggers some sort of hormonal imbalance which probably causes additional cascading effect on other hormones and end up in a hormone imbalanced state. As widely discussed on the site, it also causes receptor issues.
I haven’t researched a lot but based on what i’ve read, this is just one pathway.
Finasteride reduces DHT, DHT differently modulates cortisol(someone has quoted a paper on this site) and i’ve read about a study online(I don’t have a reference to this), excess cortisol blocks conversion of t3 to t4 causing thyroid problems, in additional more stress means more cortisol driving the body in direction of adrenal fatigue… some affected in other ways high prolactin and low fsh and low low LH.In my case its high prolactin and high TSH, but FSH and LH is in normal range. So no one really understands how this drug affects the body. It affects different people in different ways.
It is quite likely that the tumor is caused in some way caused by finasteride.
I posted a link about clinics that do brain activity scans not MRI’s… the doctor who started the clinics spoke at TED and has reported great success. Now if only I could find that link…
I have no doubt that fin caused my tumor. The side effects associated with my tumor only happened shortly after I came off fin. Also before I used fin I had no health problems what soever.