unfortunately I think we are all grasping at straws because we cannot control the uncontrolable which is exactly what this syndrome seems to be.
VincentTV- you have had been able to manipulate how you feel but not sustained benefits which I think speaks to the fact that perhaps it is a receptor issue, in other words problems with signaling. I say this because this is what I have always thought change in the ration of prog/estorgen in the CNS which has litteraly screwed us all up and this is what the tests by the Italians revealed, higher levels of estradiol in our CNS. Again, I think when the fMRI’s are realeased I think we are going to see a certain excitibility in our brain, a change in our metabolism due to fin which has had a cascading affect that affects certain people in different ways. There seem to be people with normal to high testosterone and are just as bad as we are. We also cannot forget that clinically finasteride is suppose to raise testosterone levels up to 20% by supressing DHT. As a long time user of propecia with no noticeable side effects I can speak to this issue. I was muscular and as strong as ever on it.
Vincent you defintely raise good questions that need answering but this problem seems so incredible complex that we unfortunately don’t have the answers. In fact really the only common denominators on all the stories of recover are just two things: most people who have reported recovered or 90% or better had a very positive attitude from the beginning. Now obvious we can say that maybe they are just positive about their condition and perceive that they are actually doing much better. An alternative idea would be that since we already know that from the Italian studies dopamine levels were very low, perhaps feeling positive and boosting dopamine had some affect. The other common factor with the recovery stories has been time.