They won’t find anything because there is nothing TO find.
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Do you know something we don’t, Mew?
Hi Mew,
You and Awor have alluted to knowing some advances in research… So do you KNOW what it is? If you don’t, then your comment is in fact speculation, but you delivered it as fact.
If you do in fact know something that the rest of us dont, then transparency would be greatly appreciated.
It’s been repeated over and over where the potential problem lies. Nothing has been confirmed 100% yet, but we’re in the right direction. iwontgiveup, I thought you were closest to getting to the problem when you suggested PFS was an aquired case of Kennedy’s disease. PFS is not Kennedy’s disease, but the similarities are too remarkable to ignore. PFS is almost certainly a disease of the AR.
Transperancy isn’t possible at this point. The scientists working on the problem are looking to get their names published, disclosing too much info could jeopardize this, and thus the relationship the PFS community has with the scientists.
The scientists seem to know they are on to something big here, from what I gather. I think this research has a lot of scientific and POLITICAL implications.
No. A disease of the AR cannot possibly explain the high percentage of prostatitis in PFS sufferers, bloody stools that many of us have, improvement with antifungals, worsening with immuno-suppressing corticosteroids such as dexamethasone (me, JG) etc ect. Utter and complete nonsense.
Guess who I’m trying to impersonate here
Is this awor?
And what the similarities, like everyone here has high out of range testosterone?
No, it’s me.
Similarities:
Gynecomastia: breast enlargement.
Impotence
Erectile dysfunction
Reduced fertility
Low sperm count
Testicular atrophy: Testicles become smaller and less functional.
Fasciculations: Twitching of muscles when at rest.
Cramps: Large muscle spasms.
Muscular atrophy: Loss of muscle bulk that occurs when the lower motor neurons do not stimulate the muscle adequately.
Differences: PFS cases seem to respond well to testosterone, but poorly to DHT. Reasons should be obvious.
Please enlighten us
Because our AR’s have become hypersensitive to DHT and not T. I thought you out of all people would know.
So you repeated the “symptom”, where is the explanation? Plus I dont understand how AR rendered hypersensitive to DHT, but not T, makes us more reactive to T vs DHT, did you mean the opposite?
huh?
So this would explain why everyone here has out of range high dht then?
Thank you for editing, and no, I did not repeat any symptoms. I listed them once here and they are available for anyone to see.
The other question is beyond my expertise, but I will give it a shot anyway.
When the DHT came flooding back, the AR gene got down regulated, making the AR unable to bind properly with DHT.
so then i would refer back to the “anonymous” comments posted some time ago from the guy explaining how to reregulate the AR
Second, why not, but another fact is that 5ar is in fact POSITIVELY controlled by DHT and adrogens in general (no negative feedback - the usual thing happening in the HPTA for instance- but the opposite, more DHT actually induces MORE 5ar). This is why some of us (including me, JN, cytochrome…) tryed andractim/proviron to increase DHT. Its did work for JN for a while so I guess he was still sensitive enough to it? Anyway, bottom line, we dont know anything here and any theory is bound to be unscientific speculation based on hints of knowledge, and many of us react so differently to hormones that its impossible to create universal PFS clear-cut laws for everyone.
You mean the 5ar2 reduced DHT, So the problem should be only in 5ar2 areas, right, so everyone should be not experiencing hair loss post fin?
And if DHT cant bind to the receptor properly like T with kennedys patients shouldnt we have high levels of DHT in the blood, like T with kennedys patients?
Also i like others on this board crashed while on finasteride, never to make any sort of brief recovery, that hardly says dht hypersensitivity to me.
This is absolutely spot on.
I don’t know but high DHT has been reported by members on the forum.
edit-also most people’s bloodwork/dht level is taken coming off the drug, so their levels are still low. People who report high DHT might be the ones months/years off the drug. Mew’s DHT was nearly out of range high 19 months off.
mypropeciasideeffects.com/my-finasteride-hormones-comparison.html
Finally, right, you don’t know. So please stop writing stuff like you do know anything for sure, what is true and what is false.
That’s your interpretation of my posts, I never said I know for sure. I use proper qualifiers like “seems to be” “I think…” “probably”
Another out of range high DHT level 1 year off the drug:
Dihydrotesterone 205-990 pg/ml N/A 1627
Bold 1 year off, red, 1 week off.
Maybe we need to comb over the hormone section and see if we continue to find this pattern.
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Another high DHT (2 years off)
Dihydrotestosterone 4271 (HIGH) 860 - 3406 Pmol/L
Maybe a thread of its own is warranted.
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another one
DHT 6063 range Male: 860-3406 pmol/L
This is getting interesting…
finsucks
almost out of range high (7 years off)
DHT 433 ng/l (94-476)