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.
what do you think of this brain damage.
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I started getting headaches that made me feel like my eyes were going to pop out and my entire field of vision was flipping upside down. They sent me in for an MRI and found that I had 7 lesions in the white matter of my brain that had formed in recent months. Basically parts of my brain were shutting themselves off from blood flow and dying which is where the numbness they thought was coming from lack of b12 was really coming from.
I haven’t really researched about this drug. But, there is this alternative theory about lot of things starting in your gut, the drugs(meds) can screw up your gut. There is good microbe and bad microbe in the gut. And when bad microbe population is more than good microbe, it begins to screw up your body. To heal it the only way is to reverse that proportion in favor of good microbe.
On this forum, “chi” mentioned this theory in the thread. “cdnuts” mentioned about staying away from gluten and eating only natural paleo and as far as possible organic type diet with no refined sugar or carbs, throw in exercise which “chi” mentions too. “Mitch” said the similar thing in his thread. “Justin777” talked about making progress(ED resolved for a brief period) with cdnuts protocol. Same thing with “english”.
Alternatively, there is book called “brain maker” by a neurologist Dr. Perlmutter. I have read that book, it also talked about the gut theory that “chi” mentioned about. This book just came out this year I believe. He has given plenty of examples of people affected with ADDH or something like that, alzheimer’s, dementia, people who have been having leaky gut/celiac disease and gluten intolerance and how it triggers auto-immune disease among other things and stories of people who got better after using remedies that he mentioned in the book. He also talked about enema which “chi” talked about and even fecal transplant in some cases to help have more good microbes in the gut. He also mentioned that aerobic exercises help in increasing good microbe population.
There is also a theory or pre-biotics(raw garlic, raw onions, raw asparagus) which good microbes feed on and multiply. I remember a story I also read on this very forum of a guy who claimed eating lots of garlic and onions helped him resolve his symptoms. I don’t remember his username.
There are also foods that are pro-biotics that many people on this forum have tried. These are the good mircobes itself that you are putting in your body or something like that.
In essence, the book links the brain helath to gut health and vice versa and it also talks about GABA and another brain chemical “NDF” if i am not wrong. I gave that book to a friend for unrelated problem, it will be back with me in a month. I can confirm the exact chemical at that point.
If you compare the recovery protocols of people who have recovered and that book, its very very ironical and but very very similar and it can’t be a coincidence that people have gotten better.
However, both the book and folks on this forum who have said that they recovered underline that one needs to follow the protocol for a sustained period of time to allow the body (others say gut) to heal. Once its healed and in that state for a while, at that point you are close to being healed.
It’s really really hard to follow(the diet), I haven’t been able to do it. But looks like that this is the only option. How can so many people get better by following the same thing(although for some people for years) to have permanent type improvement.
I am having high prolactin and high tsh issues( hashimoto’s thyroid - an auto-immune disorder). I haven’t been able to move the needle very much and I haven’t been able to stick to the regimen.
Thoughts?