Something I’ve been thinking about lately as a way to get the attention and funding we need to get a cure involves castration. I am sick and tired of being sick and being tired - and I think that while we have had some positive attention to our plight in the past year - what we really need is a Magic Johnson moment. Most experts believe that when he contracted AIDS he “legitimized” the disease and brought it out of the shadows. I am crossing my fingers that someone famous will suffer from PFS - but another option to bring PFS out of the shadows would be if a small group of us were to tell our stories, get castrated over a period of time - have John Peige run the stories and we have video documentation of our procedure which can also be leaked to media outlets. This can all be done anonymously with facial blurring, etc.
I’ve thought a lot about it over the past few months - and while castration is a drastic procedure - the truth is that our testicles are essentially useless to us at this point. If you are concerned about children in the future - then just have some of your sperm frozen before hand. Once a cure for PFS is found then HRT will supply us the hormones we need.
Maybe I am crazy - but I don’t want to be in this chemically castrated state for the rest of my life - and ironically, an actual castration might help us get the attention we need to cure this thing.
The surgery itself is painless - so if anyone would consider doing this with me - it might help us in our search for a cure.
Feel free to put holes in my idea - its something I’ve been thinking about for the past few months - but I don’t think it will have any power to draw publicity if its an isolated one person event. A small group of us doing this should draw attention to our situation and might help us get the funding we need.
why are posts like this even allowed ???
Lennon -
What good are my testicles? I can’t feel my penis - I am likely infertile and will probably have to be on some sort of HRT for the rest of my life…this is a pleasant disease - it won’t take a pleasant solution. Like I said - I am willing to do something along these lines if it would help draw attention to our cause.
Add to the discussion - but don’t dismiss each other. We are ALL in the same boat - and I would think ALL ideas to try and help find a cure should be considered.
Sorry if my post offends - but NO ONE outside of this forum knows and/or cares about our condition - we need a “Magic Johnson”
not to encourage but maybe after removing testicles, TRT will work better.Some here believe testes are producing more estrogen.
c’mon guys. really? research is being done and progress is being made. let’s not get crazy. just keep holding strong my friends.
i agree with this …
jorbie, leave your nuts on, trust me on this one pal … we do not even know what exactly is going on yet … instead of spending the money to get castrated, how about a small donation to the pfs foundation? they have a lot to offer us and it can only get better with our full support
focus on the big picture, and do net get desperate, because it will not help you one bit
feel better
Lennon -
I am not close to cutting anything off…believe me - once this thing is cured I can’t WAIT to use my testicles. Those boys will be overworked for the first couple of weeks:)…once the cure comes.
And yes - I start back at my job in August after taking a LOA to work on this stuff - and I do plan to donate monthly to the PFS Foundation.
I was just thinking outside the box - not crazy - and I will hang in there until more info is known. You do the same and hope we get good news sooner rather than later.
I am in favor of this guy cutting his nuts off! Do it!!
Please remember the fact, that third person read this … and behave like this. If you cut your nuts off, you will loose them forever. Hopefully PFS is not forever.
I do not think its a good idea. It could actually be bad press because “only a crazy person would cut their dick off” and the PropeciaHelp victims are already thought of as a “weird, crazy, deranged group of liars” in many places…