Name up to three things that have helped relieve your pfs symptons the most?

Therapeutic Efforts
#8

Good topic, can everyone who contributes put more detail than just a list though?

What is it?
How do you take it (frequency and dose)
What does it do for you?

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#9

Sildenafil allows me to have a sex life without it anything sexual would be non existent

Testosterone shots allow me to put weight on gain strength and feel much better within myself

Exercise really helps but it’s hard work when you have ankylosing spondylitis as the pain just drains you mentally and physically

Thinking positive even when the world is pushing you down, yeah it’s hard to stay positive in our situation but feeling down only makes it all worse . Ignorance is bliss

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#10
  1. keeping my TRT dose EXTREMELY stable and consistent, if there’s any devation, on the scale of 1mg, I will crash and develop severe symptoms such as gastroparesis, impotence, and muscular atrophy.
  2. exercise
  3. very good sleep

anything else has zero affect on my symptoms. and #2 and #3 i listed above, none of those help my symptoms honestly, they just make me feel healthier.

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#11

  1. Nutricost L-Carnitine Tartrate Powder (250 Grams) - 1 Gram per Serving, 250 Servings. Took 2mg on Thursday, 2mg Friday and 1mg Saturday. Everything down below went instantly back to normal size, possibly bigger. L-Carnitine is known to make the receptors, well, more receptive to the free t in your blood stream.

  2. Vitamin D, Vitamin E

  3. Protein powder that contains very VERY small amount of creatine in combination with 5 day heavy lift exercises to boost testosterone

For sleep: I had to use Marijuana for a little while as it was the only thing helping me get 8 hour sleep. Now that my sleep is back in order, I plan to discontinue smoking. Along with marijuana, I was supplementing on 5htp, gaba, melatonin and valerian root. All of which I will be cutting out within the next week.

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#12
  1. Beet Root powder - seems to give me a boost in terms of feeling down there
  2. Aromitaze inhibitor (Arimidex)… was taking Clomid initially but Estradiol didn’t come down so had to drop it
  3. TRT

By far, TRT has had the most significant impact. Like someone else mentioned, once I ran out of my first month batch and was off it for 3 weeks I felt horrible…libido died, etc. Just got a new monthly batch yesterday (I use the gel).

When I finally went to an endocrinologist (mine is actually a neuroendocrinologist), my hormones we were way off base. My estradiol was above the upper limit by quite a lot, and my testosterone was at the bottom of the lowest range. Estradiol is still high but now at least is on the charts, my goal is to get it to the middle level at least while, unfortunately I’ll have to do TRT probably for the rest of my life.

I should say that TRT, for me anyway, has so many great effects. I saw my belly fat get under control (had been doing pushups), having my muscles stay tighter than 15 minutes after a workout felt amazing (been working out my whole life but noticed that no matter what I did, the muscles never became “hard” anymore since my 50s). In fact, with TRT, I had far less reliance on viagra, etc and morning wood, etc was great (in fact, my first time taking it, I remember going to work on the train and had to force my mind to think of something else or I would have climaxed on the train…scary but great…don’t have that same high now with the 2nd month dose ).

I know TRT is probably not what most are looking for in terms of also negating hair loss… I did Procar because of prostate enlargement and trying to control that (though I had no symptoms and prostate has always been a bit large), and TRT may increase prostrate growth, but for now, it helps keep me sane. (should mention it also lifts your mood…again, though, I’m 56 years old so low T may not be a problem others have had).

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#13

5 posts were merged into an existing topic: My regimen, and it’s working

#14

Can you say why you opt for Andractim rather than a much less expensive form of DHT such as Mesterolone/Proviron? Just curious. I thought Andractim was for localized effect like in stopping gynecomastia. But we presumably want systemic effect.

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#15
  1. Gym in the morning
  2. Edging
  3. Meditation
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#16

1-ketogenic diet
2-Protein shakes
3-Exercise

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#17

1 – Water fasting
2 – Methylation supplements (6S-MTHF, B12, etc)
3 – Bodybuilding (heavy weight training + high calorie intake)

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#18

  1. Tongkat Ali - Without a doubt raises my testosterone but also estrogen. Am investing in an AI for the future.

  2. In the past, R Andro. Now it does not help me.

  3. Same with tribulus. In the past it helped, now its not as great.

#19

Please, please, please research aromatase inhibitors. We have had deaths here from those who have used them.

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#20

Researched and order cancelled. Not worth the risk.
@Greek

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#21
  1. Time
  2. Weight Lifting/Exercise
  3. Attitude/Acceptance (Adopt a warrior mindset. Make the decision to push through and it will get better, I promise)
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#22

ketogenic diet
Weight lifting
Tribulus

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#23

Well they wouldn’t cancel the order. jeez. oh well.

#24

Agree this is helped for me, but I have what some have termed as the “cognitive shift”, basically a visual/perceptual disconnect between brain and eyes. Like you’re on some hardcore drug 24/7. For that specific side effect nothing has helped :frowning:

#25

That was the most difficult thing to overcome but honestly time took care of that one for me. Started improving there after a couple of years. I try not to think about when it was at its worst. Hope you improve as well, hang in there.

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#26

Thank you that means a lot

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#27
  1. Sport
  2. Meditation
  3. meeting new people
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