I tought about this while coming back to my flat, in Montreal, last night. It was snowing lightly.
The main problems with our affliction, is that 1) we dont really understand how finas affects tissues and hormones and. We know the consequences, as symptoms and fucked up hormonal systems, but not really the process. We don’t really have data about the transformation occuring while on the drug. 2) we dont have a good population of subject to try new cures\or more dangerous cures, that we dont want for ourselves. (What we could try on rats).
Here is the idea : (and I told you it is crazy!)
We are about 2000 on this forum. I dont wanna tell you this obvious, but we are the size of a small town of people suffering of the same problem. Plus, we are probably 20x more in the world; people that haven’t made a link beetween finas and all their symptoms, or that have mild\light symptoms, or that are too old the use the web, ect.
Most of us would give a lot, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, to get back their sex life, their body, and all they lost with that shit.
If the damage arent irreversible, the answers will come from the science. From research. But never the industry will do these research of “adverse affects of finas” on body… seriously… The only people that would be interested in doing this, are us… the victims… And we are a lot, and we have money. (You see where I am going, right ?)
Here are the details :
If to find a cure, we need to explore the effect of the drugs on body, then I think we’ll have to make our own research. Find a laboratory (ideally in a university) ; find a lead researcher (endocrinologist, or some pharmacobiologist). Design with him a research protocol (that fits our needs, and not his). Evaluate the financial needs (The uni might want to finance a part of that research as this may lead to the publication of articles in medecine journals \ the other part is on us)
An example : we’ll feed rats with finas. Make analyse of their tissus\homones pre\during\after finas. Male rats get sexually mature within 5 weeks. Then we put then on finas for 6 months ? With luck, will get a pattern of affliction, and a lot of “afflicted” rat, to try cures.
Three problems :
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This may cost a lot. Lets say half a million. Witch is not that much, if 1000 members put 500$ (Personnaly, I would give a leg to get cured… dont you ?)
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We may not find a cure… we may understand it better, but perfhaps it is irreversible… (be I find exploring is worth the try)
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Well, rats are not human… There may be a factor that have eluded us, and that is the key to understand why some people get the PFS and some dont. This might be stress, or something psychological, that rats dont really have…
To conclude my exposé This may also lead to more recognition by the medical community (which is right now a huge problem for diagnostis and getting to good tests done).
So !
What sat you !?! (With Aragorn voice !)