I’m sure he will be on here posting in a few mins…
At the very least, its some new media which is always good. I am trying to get something working myself. But it involves a lot of my medical records and doing it all is taking sometime.
Can’t wait to see it. Way to go Kevin!!!
So, what happened?? any video aired already?? something on youtube??
Here’s a link to a clip I found regarding this interview, I believe.
youtube.com/watch?v=StREPlpn0cw
Some people are just complete assholes. I wish I could have had just a few more characters to set that little douche, DLloydisDFG, straight but I had to come off as balanced as I could so that I wouldn’t seem completely biased and therefore pigeonholed for being the victim that I am. The more people we have who speak evenly about this syndrome, the more people will believe in the afflictions we are currently dealing with. Sorry if I misrepresented us (I’m shiftshockwave) and I hope this is indeed the correct video. Great job again Kevin and thank you for being brave enough to put your face out there.
Nowadays I’m feeling more and more sure of myself for doing the same as your courage gives me (and I hope by extension, the rest of us) courage. I’m almost getting to the point where I don’t care so much about my image (probably a side effect of having dulled emotions) and feel like doing just about anything to make our situation better. But I really think I’d be a horrible candidate for an interview…because I’m far too playful in nature to take an interview seriously (even though it’s a hugely serious thing) and I would not be very convincing as I would rather smile and laugh then have to have a serious face during the interview even though my side effects are markedly grave in nature. But again SA, great job, and keep up the awesome work!
Yes thats the correct footage. The reason that people like Kevin and I are willing to come forward is because this whole thing has essentially ruined our lives. Both him and I are of the mind-set that we have nothing left to lose (essentially). For a period of time I was ready to end it all myself. I was strongly affected by the mental side effects and after rougly 14-17 months did somewhat recover from the self loathing state the drug put me in. Unfortunately the world around me didn’t “pause” during my mental recovery time, thus I came out of all this to a very different life than the one I had before. My GF left me and not 6 weeks later the government’s “hammer” came down on me and I was dealt with a severe demotion. On top of all that, I’m still not “recovered”… I just don’t feel like death every waking moment. I still have the sexual sides, I still have major physical issues, and I still don’t feel 100% right in my head… (some brainfog, lack of motivation). Of course my job tried to paint me off as some sort of lunatic (pretty sure I can still tell the difference between right and wrong).
But when you lose everything, when you really day in and day out feel like ending it all, what the hell does your image matter at that point? This stuff is still being sold and still messing people up and this isn’t something I can bare to live with forever. It needs to be fixed, it needs to be researched and Merck and the FDA need to pull this shit off the market and help us! The only way that is going to happen is if people like us cause a shitstorm. Outsiders think we are in this for the money. God’s honest truth is I only filed a lawsuit to get attention to the issue. I never wanted money, I just wanted to be myself again like most people here. Now do I think I should get money from Merck? After all its put me through now, yes of course… I lost a $105,000 a year job at 29 years old. My career is totally fucked up, I’ve lost two relationships now because of this shit and suffered horribily for years now. They owe me. If they had said oh shit and pulled this stuff from the Market right away and tried to help us it would be different, but they persist in doing nothing to help us and only try to hinder us. Justice must be done upon them.
But say god or some greater power came to me tommarrow and said you have two choices. Merck will give you $10 million dollars, or you can use this time machine right here and go back to before you ever used propecia and tell your past self not to touch it. I would take the later without a second thought… most of you would to I think.
EDIT: Even if I was offered $100 million I would still take the time machine.
way to go kevin,
solid
this is MAJOR
I 100 percent agree. There is no amount of money that would satisfy me more than a cure. I never would have in my entire lifetime considered anything to be more valuable to me than say $1 million but I know now, because of this drug, that I cherish my mental, emotional, physical, and sexual health far more than I could ever any dollar figure. I live most days a complete zombie, unaware of what the future will bring, completely fearing the worst (never being cured/treated to live a moderate lifestyle) but am hopeful for a brighter tomorrow. This drug hasn’t cost me my job yet thankfully (my newly developed horrible memory problems and inability to endure constant physicality being primary reasons for concern) but it has cost me a couple potential relationships and has hurt me financially and academically. I’m constantly attempting to better my health with very little improvements/gains to show for it but I’m hopeful that one day we’ll all come out of this on top. We owe it to ourselves to keep fighting. And not to sound all mushy gushy but I’m glad to say I have you guys–everyone here, even the seemingly always negative Oscar–to talk to about this and to collaborate with in hopes of a better tomorrow.
We’re getting there guys. Not too much longer from now we’ll be at that beautiful finish line; I just know it.
Health is invaluable.
Good job. Probably a good idea to download the video before it disappears.
Good on you for doing it, wish they gave you more of an opportunity to speak.
man the sadest part of all is not the money spend on this or that, i sometimes think, ok what would happen if for this period of my life i would have saved up everything, i would end up buying some small flat and get some rent off of it. Or invest it in some shop and get some few hundred euros in return per month. Big deal. The real thing is that we lost all our younghood, since 24 im in this mess now approaching 33 and i have lost innumerous opportunities to meet women, or i happened to met extraordinary nice ones and i couldn’t get it up, or they had to find some peculiar excuse of dumbing me. For real in the first two years post fin where my sexual ability was below 0, and i was downing the viagras and honey bottles i must have missed like 4-5 perfect women to hang around with and build a nice relationship go on vacation, share every day moments etc etc.
This is non refundable, who cares about the money if you loose 10 years of your life. Its not the same, i cannot go back and train in sports like i did in my mid twentys, i cannot finish my studies i cannot do anything because of that crap and all the other pills and treatments I had to follow in chance of getting back in track.
So no refund is enough, unless these mfos who designed it, marketed it and distributed false alarms about it are dropped in jail. This could be some sort of refund for me personally and maybe for some others here.
Money is like an aspirin.
Even if you win a million usd its useless what the fuck are you gonna do with it, if you can’t start and follow a proper relationship, or if you can’t concentrate on some work. This is a disaster for many, getting shot by some gangbanger would be better people would sympathize us more than this crap. Now still they believe we carry some sort of genetic defect or we are lunatics
And this last situation, being perceived as someone not “normal” in physical and mental terms is probably the worst
I would much prefer a brutal execution.
a brave man goes to cnn and thats all he gets??? 332 views?
Reading like this all makes me cry.
There is no justice.
if there is a fight, resulting in small bruise you will be in jail.
you steal small money and you will be in jail.
you do some insult and you will be in jail. I mean these are small crimes and will heal in few days or weeks but how badly we have been destroyed and our murderers are on the loose? Is this justice? They are free because they have big cash? they are free because they are more influential and small crimes are taken more seriously since they are committed by individuals ?
I don’t know where should I go?
I can not work may be never. My career is gone.My marital life has destroyed completely. My health is gone.Eighteen years of my education, effort, money have gone to sink.
My brain fog kills me. My poor health kills me, my muscles are weak, my bone and joints don’t let me do any thing. I can not even rest on bed, every side of my body aches ( The side that touches the mattress becomes numb in few minutes and I have to constantly rotate my body you can imagine the pain).My finger tips are dead. I have lost feelings there. Who the hell is responsible for this all? who will pay for these all?
Is it because I trusted the system? or my health department?