Please post your results. I have great results with L-Dopa. It makes me calm, slightly euphoric, and motivated.
It can be addictive so it’s suggested to stop it 2 days a week.
I’m waiting for the pine pollen and L-Valine which should arrive in a few days.
Hi alteredlife.
What those aminos do to you ?
If you eat a steak and take digestive enzymes to make sure you break everything down to amino acids, take a look at what you get. How this compares to the dose in your bottle of essential aminos ?
(set it at 1 steak = 381 gr)
I think you get 10 times the aminos for 5 times cheaper, plus it’s natural. Just my opinion.
The proline and lysine are for my skin. If I don’t take them, I get bad bleeding cracks in my hands. As long as I take them, I don’t get the cracks.
As far as the steak, you just gave me a good reason to go buy one, lol. That made me hungry! I’ll give it a shot. The good thing about acids, your body will use what it needs and flush out any excess. I still haven’t taken the enzymes long enough to tell if they are going to help but I can say that I have not had near as bad of indigestion as I used to have. They are definitely helping with that.
Quick update on me. Probably not going to update anymore until I try some of the other aminos. Libido / “finishing” is really the main issue for me, so apologies this reply is going to include those kinds of details, lol
Long story short, haven’t taken anything since Tuesday.
Friday night sex was normal, no issues. Got the job done in a reasonable amount of time. Hadn’t done anything since Monday so not totally unexpected.
Woke up very ready to go again Saturday morning but couldn’t finish that time. Mornings seem to be an issue for me. Higher testosterone then maybe? I dunno.
Saturday night was all good, no issues with getting the job done
Sunday morning was another super ready to go but couldn’t finish. Not sure what it is about mornings lately.
Anyways. That’s all I got right now. I’m feeling pretty good, might just try for 3rd day in a row tonight.
I’ll update again if anything changes or I try the other stuff I listed earlier.
Any suggestions for super chapped lips? My hands also get so dry they burn now that it’s cold which is new for me.
Hey there, I’ve made a topic:
With winter upon us (Northern hemisphere), I’m sure a lot of people will be looking for ways to help dry skin. I just wanted to make sure this conversation was visible instead of within a topic labelled as being about something else.
Could I also suggest that if you’re going to run lots of different amino acid tests, it would be helpful if you created your own topic for it so other people could easily follow your progress and story. Thanks!
My problems are worse in the morning too.
Alteredlife is taking Proline and Lysine for his skin and it seems to help.
My lips has been burning for years ! I just put vaseline on them. Before it was 24/7, now I do it only before bedtime.
Also whenever I have sex in the morning, I can’t finish either. I don’t bother try anymore, even if I’m horny. I have to wait at least 5 hours after waking up. It’s been like that for a few years before I crashed, and now the sleeping pills are making it worst.
I’m waiting for L-Valine to see if i can fix sensibility issues. It’s embarrassing…
It’s so strange to me that we have the identical issue in that regard. I’ve learned to just get the job done for her quick then stop… that seems to be the best bet for things working later that day / night. If I keep on and on it just makes things more difficult later for whatever reason.
I have this as well, had for years even before my crash. Again like most of my symptoms during my 20’s I never attributed them to fin.
Wonder if it’s related to testosterone being higher in the morning? It almost seems like more test makes us worse in a lot of instances.
On a side note, I have been getting a ton of acne and more hair shedding the last week or so. I’m starting to wonder if that’s a good thing. It’s weird, I tried Proviron like a month ago and was expecting acne then but never had any issues. Now I’m not taking anything by tried a ton of amino acids last week and now I’m getting shedding and acne. I also had sex like 5-6 times in 4 days, so I guess there’s that positive too (though not all “successful”)
My nipples are also sore which makes me wonder if my estrogen is out of whack. I really wish I could get like weekly blood tests without having to pay for them so I could see what’s going on. I may break down and pay for one soon just to see where I’m at.
Ok, I’ve been extremely busy and haven’t been on here much lately. I was actually dreading getting on here as my symptoms started slowly coming back. Refractory period was getting longer, dry skin on hands started coming back, fat on torso started getting thicker again, gynecomastia started getting tender again, ect…
I did say on here that I was going to start taking digestive enzymes as these have enzymes called protease which helps in the conversion of amino acids in the gut. I took these for several weeks and although I did not notice any difference in my normal symptoms, it completely cured the indigestion that I have literally battled since the beginning of pfs. In fact, I’ve been off of these enzymes now for at least 2 weeks and those symptoms have not returned.
Ok, on to the new theory. My theory has turned to my body not properly synthesizing the essential acids, or the ones we get from the food we eat. So, I ordered a bottle of the essential 9 on Amazon. I started taking it last Friday. Within 1 day I noticed a difference. Now, although this may help for a while and quit, my symptoms have started improving again. My hands are almost completely healed, sex drive is doing very well again with improved refractory period, fat seems to be depleting again, gynecomastia is dormant again.
Here is one I didn’t even know was due to pfs. I have had very tender legs below the knees for as long as I can remember. My wife has always laughed at me for not wanting anyone to put pressure on my legs due to that. The other day, my 4 year old stood on my leg with both feet and it did not hurt at all. I was pretty shocked.
As far as my current regimen, that’s it. I’m not taking any non essentials or anything else right now. Oh, and @Scott.H, this has histidine in it.
Happy to hear from you alteredlife. Looks to me like you should do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.
I’m waiting to receive some of those enzymes as well. I’ll tell you how I feel with it. I fixed my digestive issues with the diet I’m on, with bone broth and the controversial collagen.
As you know, I have been experimenting quite a lot on a bunch of individual aminos acids, essentials or not. I’m currently on a break and it’s not feeling so great. It’s been only two days and Mood is bad, motivation is low, I’m slightly depressed and got anxiety. All of that only by reducing the doses and variety of aminos I’m taking.
It seems like I can be well if I take a bunch of specific aminos at specific times during the day, and if I stop, reduce or change the timing, I lose the gains.
I’ll confirm that tomorrow. I have a long day at the factory and I cannot afford to be anxious, demotivated and lack confidence, I will have to take my normal amino acids right from the morning and all day long. When I take them, I’m all the contrary. I feel strong, motivated, confident and happy.
Confirmed.
yesterday I took 5-HTP 100mg, L-Tyrosine 500mg and L-Dopa 350mg upon waking up at 6:30am and later Theanine 200mg with my morning coffee.
I took 5-HTP 100mg, L-Tyrosine 500mg and L-Dopa 350mg again at 12:30pm before lunch and I had a great day, and a good night of sleep in the evening.
I haven’t tried 5-HTP, guess I need to give that a shot!
@Ozeph So get this, when I take the essential acids, my symptoms improve greatly for a while and then it’s like they reach a plateau, and then just kind of fizzle off. When I quit taking them, my symptoms improve for a while and then it wears off. My wife and I both thought this was weird so she suggested that I take them every other day instead of every day and see what happens. I’ve been doing that for a week now and it actually seems to be better for me. Sex drive stays strong, all other symptoms seem to stay away. If this starts wearing off, I’m going to maybe try every three days and see what happens, but right now this is working great. Also, the essential 9 doesn’t cover all essentials. Arginine is an essential and glutamine is essential and non essential. So I’m going to order these and add to the mix.
That’s great, your moving forward !
Keep posting your progress !
On my side, I’m improving my protocol and I’m getting closer to zero symptoms… You can check this out on Amino Acid For neurological symptoms
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Update: Just had sex with my wife and I masturbated 2 days ago. I can confirm that vitamin A 25000 IU made a huge change in sensitivity. In both cases I could finish in 3-4 minutes (and I did!) or control it longer if I wanted. The change was sudden, I took vitamin A for only 5 days.
This didn’t happen in the last 6 months. In those 6 months, I couldn’t finish when I masturbated (so I stopped doing it) and sometimes when having sex it would take 30 minutes before I could finish or it would never happen.
I can connect vitamin A in large doses with increased sensitivity. Still be careful, too much vitamin A can be toxic. I will reduce to 10000 IU as soon as I find the pills (the 25000 IU I have are gel caps, so I can’t split them)
Hi @Ozeph, thanks for sharing this interesting response. The admins view is this makes sense (retinoids are vitamers of vitamin A) and we would recommend caution in using this if you suffer from PAS, PFS or the possibly connected conditions, in addition to any health concerns for the general population in its use, particularly if you’re a severe case.
I agree. Vitamin A is one of the few vitamins that is toxic in high doses. It can even kill you.
The only Vitamin A pills I could find here in Thailand are 25000 IU. This is the maximum safe dose. I don’t even know why they sell it in this format. It was cheap (like 2$) and I will receive 10000 IU pills from the US in a few days. So I decided to take them anyway, while waiting for the safer, more realistic dose.
But I got this unexpected result of increased sensitivity !
Because it’s a topic that was discussed a lot before and it seems everyone (including myself) was taking it for granted there was nothing that can be done about it and only time would improve this symptom, I wanted to share this result.
I don’t intent to keep taking this dose when I’ll receive the lower dose pills. I’ll post the result. It will be like the penis version of Flowers for Algernon I guess.