Hey andras, your post gave me a lot of hope today. Still suffering here after 1.5 years because of saw palmetto. Good to see the shrinkage is reversible.
Go enjoy your life!
Hey andras, your post gave me a lot of hope today. Still suffering here after 1.5 years because of saw palmetto. Good to see the shrinkage is reversible.
Go enjoy your life!
Did you get any treatment or spontaneous recovery? I see you mentioned working with a endocrinologist in one of your post.
I’m glad you recovered so well!
I did and will always do
I managed to overcome worst (mental) times by going for long walks. I would recommend people here to spend less time on this forum analysing others suffer and concentrate on your own recovery
Good to see your recovering!
Congrats man! That’s awesome!
Hi bro,
It is great to hear that you are 90% recovered now, it really give hopes, enjoy your life again you deserve it. I even feel a little bit jealous haha. I quit fin for 10 months and still have a way to go, hope that after several months at your time point I can make the same progress as you.
Best wishes.
Hey man,
Thanks, we are all different but im sure we have great chance to improve
Heads up and go forward!
Hey Andras, thanks a lot for sharing your story. Although I’m already 16 months into this mess and took 20 pills of 1mg, this gives me hope.
Did you also experience severe emotional flatness? And a total loss of feeling emotional interaction with other people? I feel like a robot.
I’m not feeling good emotions, nor bad emotions, just super flat. I don’t “feel” depressed.
It seems like our symptoms are almost exactly similar, if you also experienced the emotional flatness and loss of emotional interaction.
What was your intermittent fasting regimen like?
I have a “healthy” varied diet but do eat meat 2-3 times a week, and do have sugar/sweet stuff still. I will cut this out.
Did you do no exercising at all? I run ±2-3 times a week.
Did you ever have a blood test?
By the way, I’m still on hCG 150IU eod because my low testosterone levels seemed to give me chronic fatigue (testosteron 9nmol/L, normal for my age is ±22nmol/L).
Hey man!
I not only felt emotional flat, but even suicidal for a long time. But it improved gradually. I dont have emotional flatness anymore, because i enjoy to do certain things again ,and beginning to look forward going out to meet some friends again.
What i still suffer of in terms of emotions, i cant become positivey super excited about things i used to (for example cant get happy excitement to start a day or when i see hot girls) But im sure with time I’ll regain that emotional vibe too.
My intermit fasting is simply skipping breakfast, so i dont snack anything between 6pm and 12 am next day. (18/6)
I recently returned weight lifting, it feels great. Just had 3rd excersize day in a row.
Yea i had plenty of blood tests. Read this threads previous posts.
Good luck with your HCG. I have still low T levels too with 13 nmol/l, i try tribulus again.
Its been a while I havent updated my health status. I thought I do so to motivate new sufferers, because i’ve improved worlds ,im really on recovery road.
I might have to try HCG in a few months or years if my glans dont reach hard state during erections and my testicles dont regrow. But other than these, I’d say i’m like pre-fin finally again
Congratulations on leaving this hell.I envy you so much!Have you ever experienced penis pain and inflammation?My pale penis makes me despair.
Not inflammation but my penis seemed to have darker skin and was shriveled up for most of time after crash, for over a year.
Nowadays it just severely shrunken before stools, however my erection quality still not 100% what i still have is soft glans syndrome, but im sure time may heal that (or HCG in long run)
Happy for you brother
For me i was doing good but now i’m down again and my libido 0 again
Keep your head up! If you’ve been good before, eventually you’ll recover constlantly
I just read through this entire thread and noticed your IGF1 and also that you do intermittent fasting.
It’s kind of insane you had this high IGF1 as IF will decrease it.
Did you only do this test once or so you know if you had it long term?
I had horrible diet at the time
Hi Andras,
You mentioned that you do a no sugar diet, is this no refined sugars? Or no sugars of any kind (fruit, etc.)?
Have you yet regained your ability to be super excited about things?
Congratulations on your recovery, I can only hope that I can achieve what you have. I’m in the thick of it currently at 4+ months out and have recently had lost all hope as my anhedonia and emotional flatness has come in the last month, but your story has encouraged me. Thank you for sharing.
Hey man, refined sugar and any other natural sugars that are highly concentrated. Having said that, I do avoid fruit too. Your main goal is to not let your glucose levels to spike which causes inflammation and lowered insulin sensitivity which we all know how bad is on top of PFS.
Thanks, thought its not complete recovery. I have the drive for life again, but for example have still no spontaneous erections or libido as it was prefin. I still suffer from testicular shrinkage, lower ejacuation volume, and hands which are dry and lost subcutaneous fat under finger’s skin.
I’m working on to recover completely, this is a long journey, brace yourself for that , but you will improve continously if you do the right things
Thanks Andras. I see also that you had assistance from what appears to be a very good doctor. Did you do any medical interventions to assist your recover, or how did they help you?
I am currently on Carnivore diet which seems essentially what you were doing. I owe Starting this to the assistance of Ozeph as well. I saw great initial improvements but those has somewhat waned over past weeks. I will try to incorporate intermittent fasting now as well. It’s hard for me to stay on this diet though as I don’t enjoy eating this way and I have no way to know if it’s working. However seeing your success story also makes me want to stick with it some more. Any tips to make the diet more palatable? Eating all the fat and salt is wearing on me already.