I have been following a CDNuts/gbol protocol for the last ~10 months and have seen great progress in the last few months, especially after experimenting with licorice root. I was one of the first guinea pigs on swolesource to talk about experimenting with lic root a few months ago after a member posted about recovery using it. The combination of Cd's protocol and things that I was already doing that gbold rec'd has definitely returned my body back to a normal homeostasis. Hair loss returned with a vengeance, body odor is back, oily skin, penis temp and everything else is pretty much back to normal. I don't have the same cortisol issues as before, I can live an active lifestyle all day and not crash myself, as long as diet and lifestyle stressors are managed (sleep, routine, etc,) although I'm still babying myself. Before It was hard to go a few hours of normal day without needing to check out and lie down. Happy to report sexual sides are subsiding aswell, but are not 100%, which is why this isn't in the recovery section quite yet.
My libido is returning day by day, especially after using hyst/cyst and following a similar protocol to what has been outlined for us in the zinc finger thread. my EQ is decent, and although I'm on 5mg cialis eod, which is practically nothing, it essentially makes me feel like I'm recovered and removes any mental component of ED.
I believe that most persistent sexual sides, i.e. those who return to pre-pfs but still experience sexual sides, in my case, if not most people's cases, are due to inflammation/scar tissue/venous leakage in our genitals that is caused by our hormonal/blood supply issues (and then there is one part that is mental/emotional, of course.) there's a lot of studies linking ED in young men to this kind of inflammation and it is commonly resolved by increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation to the genitals after identifying damage to the penis, which is why I would rec taking steps to lower overall inflammation and low dose cialis so strongly even though we would preferably avoid pharma. blood supply issues are commonly use it or lose it scenarios. you want as much blood flow as you can get down there, which will also stimulate libido. the longer your dick is out of commission, the more potential damage is going to happen. Anyways, that is for another post.
I'm doing very well and expect to improve more. I've waited to post this to see if I get any other snapbacks or crashes, but I've experimented with eating like shit and stressing out my body and I seem to have the old stress response back where I can feel like a normal human and not some fucking vegetable anymore, at least for the last few months. l appreciate all the work being done here. As everyone knows, this is a holistic issue, it will never be as simple as take this or that, I am using resources from our collective knowledge and it's amazing to see that we can be free of this bullshit even though it's really hard to believe that at times. I believe our recovery is impeded by our modern lifestyles and habits, our emotional/mental issues coming out of this thing, physiological/mineral imbalances and possible sexual atrophy.
I think the only thing preventing me from being completely recovered is inflammation/atrophy that I'm going to get more closely looked at this upcoming month. I don't think this is a permanent issue and there should be some simple fixes for this as far as increasing blood supply and addressing venous leakage, inflammation and/or atrophy. There's a reason why sexual sides are last to resolve, especially in long term cases, and it's definitely linked to damage to the penis/pudendal nerve as other posters/studies have mentioned.
I feel like there's still much work that I can do to improve my overall health, as I don't believe anyone with PFS/PSSD/CFS have been in balance for quite some time, but for now I'm just happy to be back to a pre-pfs state. there is a lot that needs to go into feeling better, but as far as returning our bodies to pre-pfs, I think this forum is on the right path, and I hope to learn more here and improve other underlying imbalances that contributed to this disease state in the first place. just remember, we don't have all the answers yet, only pieces of the puzzle, so do your research and have faith that you will improve.
Feel free to ask any questions or whatever.
My libido is returning day by day, especially after using hyst/cyst and following a similar protocol to what has been outlined for us in the zinc finger thread. my EQ is decent, and although I'm on 5mg cialis eod, which is practically nothing, it essentially makes me feel like I'm recovered and removes any mental component of ED.
I believe that most persistent sexual sides, i.e. those who return to pre-pfs but still experience sexual sides, in my case, if not most people's cases, are due to inflammation/scar tissue/venous leakage in our genitals that is caused by our hormonal/blood supply issues (and then there is one part that is mental/emotional, of course.) there's a lot of studies linking ED in young men to this kind of inflammation and it is commonly resolved by increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation to the genitals after identifying damage to the penis, which is why I would rec taking steps to lower overall inflammation and low dose cialis so strongly even though we would preferably avoid pharma. blood supply issues are commonly use it or lose it scenarios. you want as much blood flow as you can get down there, which will also stimulate libido. the longer your dick is out of commission, the more potential damage is going to happen. Anyways, that is for another post.
I'm doing very well and expect to improve more. I've waited to post this to see if I get any other snapbacks or crashes, but I've experimented with eating like shit and stressing out my body and I seem to have the old stress response back where I can feel like a normal human and not some fucking vegetable anymore, at least for the last few months. l appreciate all the work being done here. As everyone knows, this is a holistic issue, it will never be as simple as take this or that, I am using resources from our collective knowledge and it's amazing to see that we can be free of this bullshit even though it's really hard to believe that at times. I believe our recovery is impeded by our modern lifestyles and habits, our emotional/mental issues coming out of this thing, physiological/mineral imbalances and possible sexual atrophy.
I think the only thing preventing me from being completely recovered is inflammation/atrophy that I'm going to get more closely looked at this upcoming month. I don't think this is a permanent issue and there should be some simple fixes for this as far as increasing blood supply and addressing venous leakage, inflammation and/or atrophy. There's a reason why sexual sides are last to resolve, especially in long term cases, and it's definitely linked to damage to the penis/pudendal nerve as other posters/studies have mentioned.
I feel like there's still much work that I can do to improve my overall health, as I don't believe anyone with PFS/PSSD/CFS have been in balance for quite some time, but for now I'm just happy to be back to a pre-pfs state. there is a lot that needs to go into feeling better, but as far as returning our bodies to pre-pfs, I think this forum is on the right path, and I hope to learn more here and improve other underlying imbalances that contributed to this disease state in the first place. just remember, we don't have all the answers yet, only pieces of the puzzle, so do your research and have faith that you will improve.
Feel free to ask any questions or whatever.
