How are people from back then here doing now?

[RebelWithACause]

Just curious. Did you get your life back? Is your life better. Or is it the same as before PFS.

My health is much better. I think in 1 year I can call myself 100% healthy like a human is supposed to be. Not much changed to be fair - I still do a lot of things alone and my social life is not great. Kind of similar as before PFS. My libido is good now though and erections all good.

I am happy though I went full on health I don't know where I would be otherwise, probably some very crappy life quality. I did lose some time because of this as I had to really focus on it. But I think this exchange was worth it.

Anyone still talk to some of the old timers? Incl. some of the cdsnuts guys as well?

 

[MNK99]

Makes sense bro.. s,ae issues after Effexor Xr and new ones home same after pfs.
Fucking anxiety and really CPTSD AAND hEDS/HSD. But pretty fking good all things considering.

Rest im solving ketamine therapy a pet longer term relnships soon. Maybe 200-500 k yr soon too.
Shd be far higher and last yr 10-20 mn usd if not depressed and if I out stocks cash in solans then pocst and leverage a bit.

I realize this isnt what youre sup to do but diagnosed thst and ADHD and potential BPII and anxiety disorder myself FIRST, @Aflac94 .

 

[ruprmurdoch]

At least I had boner every night for two weeks. It was not obious for 15 yrs. So I'm getting better an it is measurable

 

[Aleksandr]

glad to hear people are doing good.


i was feeling good when the forum shut down in 2019 but kept doing HTMAs a couple of years, more and more irregular and then i stopped.
i recovered from the break up and got an awesome job, i've been at it over 5 years now.

i was feeling pretty good up until 2023 or so, since then i've been dealing with knee pain from what i think is knee cartilage issues.
had a small (but full thickness) tear in my left knee from playing tennis, but now MRI shows only partial thickness tear. but the pain is still there, and my other knee hurts now too.
Had an MRI on that one and it looks fine.

surgeon thinks the pain i have in my other knee isn't from the tear either, so hard to know what to make of it.

if i was to be a bit "woo woo" and intuitive i'm thinking perhaps its either something to do with where i'm living, like too much radiation or something (my work station is next to the electric power meter box for the house and i sit there all day, i work from home) potentially. I had another thought today completely randomly that brought me here, i thought, i wonder also if its because i havent done HTMA balancing in so many years and i simply don't have the right mineral balance to make my cartilage strong. I've just been doing basic supplements of collagen in orange juice for it.


I move at the end of the year, so that'll rule out if its the house or not. maybe i'll get a HTMA in the meantime.

 

[RebelWithACause]

Alright good to hear guys. Hopefully this year will make it even better for you and me.

 

[bruschi11]

glad to hear people are doing good.


i was feeling good when the forum shut down in 2019 but kept doing HTMAs a couple of years, more and more irregular and then i stopped.
i recovered from the break up and got an awesome job, i've been at it over 5 years now.

i was feeling pretty good up until 2023 or so, since then i've been dealing with knee pain from what i think is knee cartilage issues.
had a small (but full thickness) tear in my left knee from playing tennis, but now MRI shows only partial thickness tear. but the pain is still there, and my other knee hurts now too.
Had an MRI on that one and it looks fine.

surgeon thinks the pain i have in my other knee isn't from the tear either, so hard to know what to make of it.

if i was to be a bit "woo woo" and intuitive i'm thinking perhaps its either something to do with where i'm living, like too much radiation or something (my work station is next to the electric power meter box for the house and i sit there all day, i work from home) potentially. I had another thought today completely randomly that brought me here, i thought, i wonder also if its because i havent done HTMA balancing in so many years and i simply don't have the right mineral balance to make my cartilage strong. I've just been doing basic supplements of collagen in orange juice for it.


I move at the end of the year, so that'll rule out if its the house or not. maybe i'll get a HTMA in the meantime.

You liked calcium for a reason……

 

[MNK99]

460k usd from 25-30k cad and 5k usd soon and later a few mn dollar deals. then trades then stocks then crypto. then law also. @RebelWithACause doing better than all my haterz that's for sure.

hahahahaha.

to ev1 else i have no mny, and to haters
take it up with your mamas and the mirror.

 

[Aleksandr]

You liked calcium for a reason……

Just had a long rambling chat with chatgpt, will make a new thread / log for this

 

[Aflac94]

I have / had terrible pfs. Nightmare shit like most. Today I am a physician. I have a beautiful wife and son. I have a really good life. Financially security. I got all that stuff despite / after pfs. Health stabilization, but not full recovery. I still consider myself in PFS unfortunately. It’s like my body adapted and optimized in the PFS state rather than changed out of it.

But I sleep from 5-8 or 9 hours depending on night. It’s good but not perfect like before . I can do most recreational exercise like hike skiing , etc. normally . high intensity stuff still seems to not agree with my pfs state still like ice hockey or weight lifting. I have zero mental health issues , never did just depression about getting pfs and not sleeping well that time healed. I never had ED. Still have lower libido but not terrible and have a kid so. Still skin isn’t as nice as before but not too bad either and I am almost 10 years older into pfs.

Overall it’s good because I feel good but bad because I feel too good now to try things to recover that have too much risk. So probably stuck trying safer things if I go back to trying stuff. Haven’t done trials in a long time. Just living life.

Although I do think I’m healthier than when I originally was trying stuff in early pfs so if I have swings or set backs they are shorter , so if I ever crash again from trying stuff I think shorter recovery and I’ve seen that with random crashes; for example I think fapping makes me crash still so I’m like no fap; once a year maybe. Did it once in past 6 months and crashed but quick bounce back. Probably screwed up dopamine still from pfs.

Also example of improvement I could never get buzzed/ drunk early in pfs. Now I can just doesn’t last as long as pre pfs or feel as strong. I recently read that PMNT or adrenaline or something is involved in feeling of alcohol intoxication. And I have problems with that. Not the same adrenaline as before takes more stimulus to get my adrenaline going soo there’s something wrong there

 

[RebelWithACause]

I have / had terrible pfs. Nightmare shit like most. Today I am a physician. I have a beautiful wife and son. I have a really good life. Financially security. I got all that stuff despite / after pfs. Health stabilization, but not full recovery. I still consider myself in PFS unfortunately. It’s like my body adapted and optimized in the PFS state rather than changed out of it.

But I sleep from 5-8 or 9 hours depending on night. It’s good but not perfect like before . I can do most recreational exercise like hike skiing , etc. normally . high intensity stuff still seems to not agree with my pfs state still like ice hockey or weight lifting. I have zero mental health issues , never did just depression about getting pfs and not sleeping well that time healed. I never had ED. Still have lower libido but not terrible and have a kid so. Still skin isn’t as nice as before but not too bad either and I am almost 10 years older into pfs.

Overall it’s good because I feel good but bad because I feel too good now to try things to recover that have too much risk. So probably stuck trying safer things if I go back to trying stuff. Haven’t done trials in a long time. Just living life.

Although I do think I’m healthier than when I originally was trying stuff in early pfs so if I have swings or set backs they are shorter , so if I ever crash again from trying stuff I think shorter recovery and I’ve seen that with random crashes; for example I think fapping makes me crash still so I’m like no fap; once a year maybe. Did it once in past 6 months and crashed but quick bounce back. Probably screwed up dopamine still from pfs.

Also example of improvement I could never get buzzed/ drunk early in pfs. Now I can just doesn’t last as long as pre pfs or feel as strong. I recently read that PMNT or adrenaline or something is involved in feeling of alcohol intoxication. And I have problems with that. Not the same adrenaline as before takes more stimulus to get my adrenaline going soo there’s something wrong there

Interesting how you still feel you have PFS. I clearly don't feel PFS anymore. I remember there was a switch 1 day where I didn't feel PFS anymore after doing a bunch of stuff but still had other issues which were similar but different. Mostly how my brain operated in PFS was different. I was cut off from emotions, my personality, ability to enjoy things incl sex, social stuff, hobbies, etc. Just a robot. Kind of how I was on finasteride after 1 year and it never left until that day.

But the day I felt out of PFS I also notice my metabolic rate dropping faster. I had a feeling finasteride was still affecting/in my system until that day. And fin can keep your metabolic rate up by lowering calcium retaining hormones. So now fin was metabolized out and boom my body slowed down with it as well. Probably why I was a fast oxidizer on TEI which was wrong. I was an extreme slow oxidizer I think underneath it.

Reminds me of the guys who's hairloss stopped no matter what they did. They still had finasteride in their bodies. I am sure. Those guys must have insane slow metabolism for finasteride not to be metabolised out.

I feel like in PFS I was more emotionally volatile on top of my health issues. Like I have smaller health issues now but they don't bother me mentally. Back then anything bothered me and made me depressed. Now I don't care I just move on. Completely different realities.

Anyways good to hear you are doing good. In life you are doing better than me at least and you deal with bad PFS too so good job dude.

 

[bruschi11]

I have / had terrible pfs. Nightmare shit like most. Today I am a physician. I have a beautiful wife and son. I have a really good life. Financially security. I got all that stuff despite / after pfs. Health stabilization, but not full recovery. I still consider myself in PFS unfortunately. It’s like my body adapted and optimized in the PFS state rather than changed out of it.

But I sleep from 5-8 or 9 hours depending on night. It’s good but not perfect like before . I can do most recreational exercise like hike skiing , etc. normally . high intensity stuff still seems to not agree with my pfs state still like ice hockey or weight lifting. I have zero mental health issues , never did just depression about getting pfs and not sleeping well that time healed. I never had ED. Still have lower libido but not terrible and have a kid so. Still skin isn’t as nice as before but not too bad either and I am almost 10 years older into pfs.

Overall it’s good because I feel good but bad because I feel too good now to try things to recover that have too much risk. So probably stuck trying safer things if I go back to trying stuff. Haven’t done trials in a long time. Just living life.

Although I do think I’m healthier than when I originally was trying stuff in early pfs so if I have swings or set backs they are shorter , so if I ever crash again from trying stuff I think shorter recovery and I’ve seen that with random crashes; for example I think fapping makes me crash still so I’m like no fap; once a year maybe. Did it once in past 6 months and crashed but quick bounce back. Probably screwed up dopamine still from pfs.

Also example of improvement I could never get buzzed/ drunk early in pfs. Now I can just doesn’t last as long as pre pfs or feel as strong. I recently read that PMNT or adrenaline or something is involved in feeling of alcohol intoxication. And I have problems with that. Not the same adrenaline as before takes more stimulus to get my adrenaline going soo there’s something wrong there

Proud of you bro

 

[MNK99]

not really my thread but i swear when i get 2-3 weeks off ill spend 10-20hrs if i get a chance well i mean 1 week off rather...
ill shorten my main thread down like 20-40pages however, surely techies here can do that instantly w/ a script and it'd take me like ages.
but yeah ppl ask me for clear instrns and i do have them...its just my computers and ev got screwed/ my last aptmt flooded and i ran out of like subs of MS office. but ill find a short list. for pfs and pssd.

second log had em. Helen said go get laid. i did. it solved some things not nearly as m as ppl beleive lol.

cannot shorten my sig here either but it may be VPN and some lag/ my internet provider. want a succinct one line sig reminding me of work and study stuff. fk.

 

[Aflac94]

Interesting how you still feel you have PFS. I clearly don't feel PFS anymore. I remember there was a switch 1 day where I didn't feel PFS anymore after doing a bunch of stuff but still had other issues which were similar but different. Mostly how my brain operated in PFS was different. I was cut off from emotions, my personality, ability to enjoy things incl sex, social stuff, hobbies, etc. Just a robot. Kind of how I was on finasteride after 1 year and it never left until that day.

But the day I felt out of PFS I also notice my metabolic rate dropping faster. I had a feeling finasteride was still affecting/in my system until that day. And fin can keep your metabolic rate up by lowering calcium retaining hormones. So now fin was metabolized out and boom my body slowed down with it as well. Probably why I was a fast oxidizer on TEI which was wrong. I was an extreme slow oxidizer I think underneath it.

Reminds me of the guys who's hairloss stopped no matter what they did. They still had finasteride in their bodies. I am sure. Those guys must have insane slow metabolism for finasteride not to be metabolised out.

I feel like in PFS I was more emotionally volatile on top of my health issues. Like I have smaller health issues now but they don't bother me mentally. Back then anything bothered me and made me depressed. Now I don't care I just move on. Completely different realities.

Anyways good to hear you are doing good. In life you are doing better than me at least and you deal with bad PFS too so good job dude.

I’ve heard that theory about finasteride still in the system, but I only ever took one pill so I don’t think for me it’s likely but who knows.

Like gbold said most were not right before finasteride. I was messed up in the sense of could never stay awake, always sleepy ina bad way. Then after fin I was opposite. Could never sleep in a bad way always awake

That’s awesome you got out of PFS and felt a switch. I felt the switch when I got into it, but unfortunately never got out or felt the switch of getting out. Still hoping for that one day

 

[RebelWithACause]

Would you say you were less emotionally stable pre-PFS than post-PFS?

For me while I was feeling like absolute crap 24/7 with much lower libido in PFS I was more mentally stable ironically. Then once the "switch" happened I was back to my old self: short fuse, emotionally less stable, horny, etc. Not good either but it shows you that PFS was masking my original body chemistry.

Could be I am wrong ofc. But for me like I said after the switch I did notice my metabolism dropping with it as well. It was pronounced.