Today for the first time I had a new experience in sides. My brain felt clear, and I felt like my old self, however I noticed a soreness in my lower spine and soreness in my right hip ball joint. I also noticed penile numbness for the first time. I’ve heard other guys talk about this, but never knew what they were talking about. Now I do.
I’ve been trying to piece together the puzzle of what is happening to my body by being very carefully attuned to what feelings I’m getting where and why.
As we know, propecia prevents the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) by the type II isoenzyme. After stopping propecia, something happens. We don’t know exactly what. But to me, it seems that there is a build up of neurochemicals in the brain, that the brain can no longer process. Maybe an area of the brain was destroyed that allows for processing of these chemicals.
Anyway, it seems that the same (once safe) neurochemicals, that are generated by our glands, are continuing to get transported to our brain as normal. However, once they arrive at the brain, they cannot be processed. They are building up in the brain (resulting in sides like brain fog). These built up, unprocessed neurochemicals are polluting our brains, and clogging up our neurotransmitters. The brain recognizes that it cannot function properly with these built up chemicals, so it’s purging them to other areas of the body so it can continue to function.
Therefore the brain relocates theses chemicals to other areas of the body, through the spinal fluid. Hence the soreness in the lower back, hip ball joint and the onset of penile numbness. Numbness seems to be at the “bulb” of the penis which is directly in line with the spinal chord, where gravity would naturally take these chemicals if they were disposed of through the end of the spinal column.
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That’s why I’m siding with the idea of a drug that can stop the neurotransmitters from being produced that the brain can’t process. Something like hydrocortisone might help stop the production of these chemicals so our brains can continue to function. If areas of our brains that process these chemicals have truly been broken, then PFS may be similar to diabetes in a way. We may not be able to cure our disease. We may need a drug that is similar to insulin for diabetes that can be injected and process the chemicals that our brains can’t process on their own.
In order to create such a drug, we’d need to first figure out which chemicals our brains can’t process, first of all. Then see if a drug can be created that can process these chemicals.
For the time being, perhaps a cortisol-like drug that inhibits the production of a lot of these neurochemicals can help, so that there’s not such a large build up of these chemicals in the body.