Chi's Member Story & Progress

OK, I think you guys are probably bored of me now, but anyway.

I have recovered 95%. Libido is back now too. Things have really stabilised the last 2-3 weeks and I feel fantastic! I’m not doing or taking anything at the moment and feel no gradual decline or anything. As it is probably clear from my thread, in my case I just kept attacking the illness, with whatever I could that logic and reading told me would be the right thing, but always keeping to certain principles - nature does know best. In the end the odds were just so heavily stacked against PFS, it crumbled and gave up! I guess I should write a monster post telling you all the things I did over the past 2 years etc etc, but I’ll probably wait a bit more until I am 100%. I could probably get back to 100% within a week if I wanted, but actually the feeling of being completely normal (mentally, physically and sexually) is not something that i’m ready to commit to fully yet. It’s hard for me to explain this, but the best thing I could say is that all that nervous, edgy, excess energy is quite hard to control actually. So, i’m biding my time with stepping into full normality. Hard to explain this one… but imagine going from being completely flat etc. etc. to wanting to do EVERYTHING, including shagging. It’s quite powerful, and as much as what happened in the beginning was completely life changing, so is this in a sense, so i’m easing into it gradually. I guess after 2 years living in one state, you kinda get used to it and now normality feels alien !

Feel brilliant though! Spent 1000s the past 2 years trying to get better, but ironically the things most powerful were often free or cheap and simple. Will never forget what I went through and what I did to get better - so many experiments, trial and error, but one breakthrough after another, particularly the past 1 year. First year was horrific!

I do have so much advice for you all. So much. Unfortunately, I don’t see many around this forum getting REALLY serious about their recovery. Seems the focus has shifted to awareness, merck, research etc. and if you’re honest with your selves - it’s not going to make you better any time soon. Sorry to hit out - but the only one that will make you better is you. Not research, not merck, not some magic pill, not some ground breaking finding about the androgen receptor. This is just you and your body, and you seriously need to start figuring it out, otherwise I can see how some suffer many many years. It took 2 of mine! Could have been more had I not got my arse into gear, away from the forum and into my own world of recovery. Problem is, like many of you, it always seems hopeless, but you need to keep bolting things on, dropping things or adding things, when you fall down try again, and again and again. My whole world centred around it in the end, from the way I thought about sleep, waking up, going to work, work, after work, before bed, things I ate, sports i did, experiments tried. What a journey. As I said though, could write some monster thread and probably will, but I wonder how many actually listen and will take it seriously and do it themselves, stick at it. Every little thing in my life was constantly being optimised in the end, and you would not believe the discoveries I made along the way about things to do and not to do. Sometimes contrary to what Doctors told me or things I believed in my whole life, turned out to be wrong. I learned so much, and almost always from the past and not modern medicine or theories about the human body.

Anyway, i’m talking too much, it’s probably boring for you. However, i’m trying to send you a clear message here. I was a bad sufferer, yes ball/penile shrinkage, thin wrists/fingers, upper arms, mild gyno, blunt emotions, no zest for life. The lot. I am now recovered - give or take the final 5% that i’m biding my time with :smiley:

Cheers
Chi

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Some guy was asking about penis curvature. Unbelievably, yes this has pretty much gone, including the twist at the base. Not completely, but looks like it will completely go too. This is great because i had actually resigned myself to the fact the banana penis would stay with me! Thought it was scarring or a knackered prostate… turns out not the case.

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Never understood why people ask recovery questions via PM. Congrats chi, I’m looking forward to your monster post.

Great to hear your recovered Chi. We need more HOPE on this forum.

What is the thing (any drugs, diet, exercise etc.) that gave you the best improvements about sexual function, particularly e.d.?

Congratulations, Chi. Very happy for you. And I’d really encourage you to write that monster post. I know I – and I’m sure many others here – wouldn’t be bored at all by it. In fact, we’d love to read about all that helped you get to where you are. Until then, enjoy getting back to living your life!

Chi, its great that you are feeling better. Below was your post just a few months ago on May 19. 2012. You are telling us in just 6-7 months, this has COMPLETELY reversed itself, even the body Feminization and widening of the hips? If so that is quite fantastic news. It seems as though, these symptoms can turn on a dime.

“At the moment, I would say the 2 major problems I am facing with PFS are sexual (testicular shrinkage which is bad right now, zero random erections and never horny) and also muscle loss coupled with body feminization (widening hips, more fat and loss of body hair, thinner wrists). So, I clearly have significant worsening issues still and the recent body changes are really quite scary. I completely feel the loss of androgen in my body right now, every bit of it.”

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Definitely nobody is bored! Please write your Monster Post!

i am very happy for you chi

still, media awareness and research are absolutely crucial without any doubt

i am happy for you, and i truly hope it lasts you a lifetime

congratulations.
Please write your monster post

Thanks guys, I will write a monster post at some point, in the recovery section! I think you will be quite shocked the amount of things I did.

Regarding that post 6/7 months ago, yes it was scary and true, but I learned the line between PFS and recovery was fine, although difficult to achieve. I needed to keep putting myself across the line, somehow, some way. All the time learning ways to help me get across the fine line between chronic PFS and recovery. It was tough, because it kept coming back and sometimes I couldn’t find the way out. However, over time, i learned of more ways to help, combining many of them, and gradually forcing the condition to simply die off. At least that’s how it felt. One thing i am now looking forward to most, is learning more things. A language, i might also do a Masters. Next year i’m already signed up for a triathlon! My body is ready, it’s really lean now. All the fitness and nutrition has made my body very fit. All those fat lumps that accumulated on my inner thighs is gone, the outer pecs is still there a bit but not hard lumps any more. It’s dying off.

Amazing that in my time living with PFS, i didn’t see one new recovery go into that recovery section - that’s 2 years without an admins approved recovery post. Let’s give it a month and I’ll come back and write my recovery post. I hope this only serves to inspire those that have also followed and believed in threads such as Reason, Ithappens, Paulwalters and mlevyholden. These threads inspired me more than anything else on this forum. My process of recovery was also much alike theirs.

See you in a month!

Chi

way to go chi! and please bro, post your stuff out. while there is a good majority of people that like to troll the forum with awareness stuff which is important, there’s many people that are actively doing many things with the natural knows best slogan including me, vison, toadstool, a few others. we would greatly appreciate any direction or input that you followed. again, good for you man… wishing you luck in that triathlon… do work son.

Well done, my friend. Hope you have glad tidings for us next month.

chi, just wondering…

since you seem to be feeling good and most of us our struggling mightily, perhaps you might give us some friendly tips sooner rather than making us wait a month?

i am pretty desperate and i would like to try something

any advice would be very much appreciated

thank you man, i am very happy for you

i think chi is doing the safe thing here. as you take a look around the forum… there are “treatments” that can get you better… onyl to cause a worse crash. milk thistle comes to mind.

i tried milk thistle myself and did not have anything negative come from it, so to each his own

chi, i am curious as to the natural things you have tried/ have been doing to get better … i have tried to clean up my diet and i feel it does help etc. , things like this can be really useful just for day to day life with this fucking syndrome, so any friendly advice you may have i would greatly appreciate

Hi Lennon,

Fear not, I have started my recovery post for you, but it’s not finished and now i need to hit the sack after typing for a couple of hours! I’ve been out drinking twice this week, Wednesday I had my works do and last night out with mates. First time in 2 years i turn up to the pub without a) having to do shit loads of exercise before and b) feeling normal ! I’ve been hitting it pretty hard with alcohol the last week considering i only just recovered. That said, feel great… feel normal! Just now, i’m tired and ready for sleep. Hang in there - the post is overloaded with all the things I did to get better, it’s all there. I have a feeling admin might not approve it yet because usually needs to be a few months before the official post is allowed, but we’ll see. If you want something to try now - stop eating meat from the supermarket, replace it with free-range pasture-fed meats from specialist butchers or internet companies. Always eat Meat/Fish + Plenty of vegetables. Exclude carbs from everything. Eat any meat fat and skins as well as the lean meat parts, you need it.

Cheers
Chi

Chi, I’m not really sure new threads are even allowed in the recovery section. It doesn’t matter where it is though, we just want to see it!

I’d like to know the reason behind this. Please can you find out for me?

thanks chi

whenever you can post your tips is cool, i really appreciate it man

i think you are spot on about the meats … i started using organic, no antibiotics and grass fed, all of that stuff, as well as organic vegetables and all of that, and i am a huge fan of fermented foods … i never used to feel any different if i ate “junk”, but these days i absolutely can feel the effect of junk food, but i never have anything bad happen when eating organic and natural foods, so i just avoid all processed crap now and i do feel it has helped.

take it easy on the drinking man!!! have a little red wine or whatever, but seriously man, it is sooooooooooo not worth the risk, just give it time

thanks man, and i do truly believe being very nutritious can make us feel somewhat better, at least in my case

im happy for you bro, i hope it lasts you forever