Why would you think that? You said in another post that you don’t have physical symptoms and mine are mostly physical.
Fair enough but then who knows with this wonderful condition
Reached a new milestone yesterday. I can no longer walk on my right leg without mechanical assistance. No fall, no trauma. Knee just wore itself the fuck out after four years and turned into a painful bowl of Rice Krispies.
Here’s something interesting. I have two sets of crutches…one from my pre-pfs 2007 ACL surgery and the other from my 2023 surgery. They have height indicators and the 2007 crutches are set at 5’ 10". The 2023 crutches were set at 5’ 9" and I had to shorten them to 5’ 8" to use them today.
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Going to share my diet in case it’s helpful to anyone.
I’m not saying this will cure everyone but I’ve seen significant declines in both muscle mass and penis size following this protocol:
This morning I had two eggs, spinach, ham, and Colby jack on a buttered bagel.
And a small serving of crunchy bunches of oats with almonds.
For lunch I’ll have roast beef on a slice of bread with cheddar.
Pop that in the microwave for a nice melt.
I’ll also probably have a baked chicken leg and a few forkfuls of macaroni salad.
Maybe a cookie…pepperidge farm mint chocolate Milano is what I have on hand.
I have some banana pudding, might dig into that. I add my own nilla wafers because the store never puts enough.
For dinner I have some imitation crab-stuffed salmon and a bone in seasoned pork chop.
Probably another cookie and another spoon of the pudding.
Couple forkfuls of mac salad.
Later on maybe another chicken leg and another roast beef half sandwich.
A bunch of low salt Lays potato chips.
Then a Hershey’s nugget dark chocolate with almonds.
Oh almost forgot, I have a heat 'n eat chicken fettucini alfredo.
I’ll triage my dinner options by expiration date.
Again not meant to be a miracle cure, just some foods that I’ve found to have no positive impact whatsoever.
@mstone Unrelated to this but do you still use Ativan? Was thinking of taking this every other day. I’m fully aware of the risks that come with doing this.
Hey, no longer use ativan. I do occasionally take diazepam, between 5 and 7mg alongside my ambien for an extra knockout kick but I don’t really need it.
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Had an EMG for my weak/popping left wrist yesterday that came up negative. That’s the torture test where they stick electrodes and needles on your pressure points and monitor nerve activity. Also have right knee surgery scheduled in December for mystery meniscus tear. Left knee is starting to fail but I haven’t reported it yet. Wonder if they’ll ever connect the dots…jk, of course they will not.
Interesting. Im 35 and had my right meniscus removed. Left one needs surgery as well because my knee sometimes catches and gets locked. Very strange to have meniscus injuries in both knees so young.
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Yeah particularly if it doesn’t run in your family and comes on without trauma. I should be thankful to have good insurance…I know people with chronic pain denied MRIs because they can’t link it to a specific injury event.
My bones/joints crack all the time. I can’t imagine this being good long term for someone who’s only 26 (or really any age). Something I noticed after crashing off finasteride is my depth perspective felt off. What I mean is I feel shorter. @mstone Have you measured your height? I haven’t because I know that will just piss me off even more.
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I haven’t measured it precisely but I seem to have shortened. I posted upthread about my height relative to my crutches.
Just came from the orthopedist, MRI showed a ligament tear in the back of the wrist that would require surgery with a poor prognosis to fix. I mentioned to the doc that I’m already scheduled for knee surgery and asked if she’d ever seen two concurrent non-injury related tears and she said no. And this is one of the biggest orthopedic outfits in western US.
I might end up cancelling the knee surgery, my left knee has just about the same level of pain now as the right and I haven’t even reported it yet. It’s hard to motivate for surgery knowing you’ll come out of it with nothing to look forward to but more surgery that you’ll come out of needing more surgery that by then you’ll probably come out of needing more surgery.
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Hooray I have a new symptom. Well not brand new but finally realized it. Cloudy vision in right eye. For the last few months I’ve been obsessively cleaning the right lens on my glasses thinking it was fogged up. Today I suspected it might not be the glasses and did the alternating hand over the eye test. Sure enough it’s my eye, not the glasses. Even as I sit and type, the text is black on white in my left eye and gray on white in my right.
Can’t be cataracts since I’ve already had cataract surgery in both eyes so probably macular degeneration. Which sounds pretty consistent with the rest of this crap. Guess I should go to the ophthalmologist and get it on paper.
bro its so over for us, holy shiit
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Mods please remove if links are not allowed but I found the following revealing below. The more I read about 5 alpha reductase, the more I question how the hell a drug could be released that blocks this.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/2765649
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with enough grease (money) anything is possible…
Yeah over in one sense, never ending in another.
We get sick of the symptoms, but the symptoms don’t get sick of us
The good news is it’s not macular degeneration. It’s a complication from the cataract surgery called Posterior Capsular Opacification and is correctable with a laser treatment called YAG.
It would have been really helpful if they told me about this possibility when I had the surgery so I’d know to go back and get it fixed. Instead I’ve been walking around like this for a year, slowly losing vision in one eye and thinking it was dirty glasses. And it sounds like they’re booked up so I won’t be able to get in for the procedure until January.
It’s too bad the rest of my symptoms can’t be lasered away, wouldn’t that be nice.
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