Remember That MRI I Was Getting? Got the Results.

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HGH for the fucking win

 

[musclemom]

HGH ain't any cheaper than the PRP would be. How many vials of that shit at what, about a grand a pop, would I need? And it's not without some (potential) side effects (unlike PRP, which, at the worst, won't do anything but cost me some $$$) I'm sorry but an enlarged forehead or jawline won't fly on me.

All my fucking joints are going to hell, this is just the most painful, both my knees are fuk'd too, and I've had back and neck pain since I was in my teens. This is heading into "last resort" territory. Seriously. Fact is, physically it's all downhill from here ...

I'm not having anything cut unless I literally cannot move. In nearly a decade of transcription I can tell you how that flies. Surgery for soft tissue based, chronic degenerative joint conditions has an abysmal success rate (and all you medical/college people know I'm right). Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shit. And MORE than 50% of the time you go under the knife you're still gonna be on heavy duty chronic pain medication for the rest of your life, above and beyond the fact you usually end up fuk'd in some other new and exciting way. Even joint replacement surgery usually ends up failing or eventually needing a redo. My cartilage/bones/joints are strong and healthy, it's the tendons and ligaments that are shitty and that's just the sort of shit that creates the problems doctors CAN'T fix and surgery usually only makes worse. It's like trying to sew together wet paper towels. The shit just keeps disintegrating the more you screw with it.

This shoulder isn't something I blew out last week/month/year. This has been bothering me off and on for over two years and one morning I woke up and it was a real mess. Hadn't done a damned thing the day before.

See, my real downfall started with my selection of parents - crappy genetics.

But as you guys see, there's at least ONE person who had success with it, and by the gods I'm hanging onto that hope!

 

[ortiz34]

Best of luck MM, hope everything works out ok
speedy recovery my friend

 

[mrplunkey]

HGH ain't any cheaper than the PRP would be. How many vials of that shit at what, about a grand a pop, would I need? And it's not without some (potential) side effects (unlike PRP, which, at the worst, won't do anything but cost me some $$$) I'm sorry but an enlarged forehead or jawline won't fly on me.

All my fucking joints are going to hell, this is just the most painful, both my knees are fuk'd too, and I've had back and neck pain since I was in my teens. This is heading into "last resort" territory. Seriously. Fact is, physically it's all downhill from here ...

I'm not having anything cut unless I literally cannot move. In nearly a decade of transcription I can tell you how that flies. Surgery for soft tissue based, chronic degenerative joint conditions has an abysmal success rate (and all you medical/college people know I'm right). Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shit. And MORE than 50% of the time you go under the knife you're still gonna be on heavy duty chronic pain medication for the rest of your life, above and beyond the fact you usually end up fuk'd in some other new and exciting way. Even joint replacement surgery usually ends up failing or eventually needing a redo. My cartilage/bones/joints are strong and healthy, it's the tendons and ligaments that are shitty and that's just the sort of shit that creates the problems doctors CAN'T fix and surgery usually only makes worse. It's like trying to sew together wet paper towels. The shit just keeps disintegrating the more you screw with it.

This shoulder isn't something I blew out last week/month/year. This has been bothering me off and on for over two years and one morning I woke up and it was a real mess. Hadn't done a damned thing the day before.

See, my real downfall started with my selection of parents - crappy genetics.

But as you guys see, there's at least ONE person who had success with it, and by the gods I'm hanging onto that hope!

1) Acromegaly takes ridiculously high doses of HGH.

2) The way you describe your tendons and ligaments is actually a huge argument for HGH .

3) HGH alone won't repair tears themselves, but will strengthen the tissue that is left.

Probably the optimal approach would be to start HGH immediately and get surgery to repair the shoulder. The obvious problem there is it's both the highest cost and most surgically-intense solution. And I do understand why you don't want to do that.

 

[musclemom]

1) Acromegaly takes ridiculously high doses of HGH.

2) The way you describe your tendons and ligaments is actually a huge argument for HGH .

3) HGH alone won't repair tears themselves, but will strengthen the tissue that is left.

Probably the optimal approach would be to start HGH immediately and get surgery to repair the shoulder. The obvious problem there is it's both the highest cost and most surgically-intense solution. And I do understand why you don't want to do that.

I suspect you're right about the HGH. The best I feel is when I'm capable of weightraining regularly, which is the only thing I've found that increases natural HGH levels. I've tried nutritional shit but I've never found any supplements that do it.

I just don't have the money for HGH (as it is the PRP is going on a credit card). There is no way on earth I can afford $1,000 or more a month. Nor do I see there ever being the possibility of approval for off label use in anti-aging. I actually probably could get it, legally, my husband's HRT doc is pretty liberal minded.

One bright note, my parents gave me every other shitty health problem they have and they both died in their 60s. At least I'm not staring at potentially 40 years of slow decay.

 

[mrplunkey]

I suspect you're right about the HGH. The best I feel is when I'm capable of weightraining regularly, which is the only thing I've found that increases natural HGH levels. I've tried nutritional shit but I've never found any supplements that do it.

I just don't have the money for HGH (as it is the PRP is going on a credit card). There is no way on earth I can afford $1,000 or more a month. Nor do I see there ever being the possibility of approval for off label use in anti-aging. I actually probably could get it, legally, my husband's HRT doc is pretty liberal minded.

One bright note, my parents gave me every other shitty health problem they have and they both died in their 60s. At least I'm not staring at potentially 40 years of slow decay.

Don't look at it that way. If you know you've got a few genetic challenges, just try to balance-out the key factors including eating well (which I suspect you do), caloric restriction, stress management, vigorous exercise and good sleep.

I wouldn't take the "I'm falling apart" approach.

 

[musclemom]

Don't look at it that way. If you know you've got a few genetic challenges, just try to balance-out the key factors including eating well (which I suspect you do), caloric restriction, stress management, vigorous exercise and good sleep.

I wouldn't take the "I'm falling apart" approach.

I appreciate your positive attitude, honestly, considering some of the battles we've had but the truth is, I've been in pain since my teens. However, since I hit my mid 30s things have been ramping up. The weight training used to keep things at bay but I can't do that now (the one thing I never got for my home gym was a heavy duty leg machine). And my knees are going, too, the right one actually hurt with every step the other day when I went for a walk. So that's next.

It's just very hard to not think you're falling apart when going downstairs to the kitchen or brushing your teeth hurts. Which, in turn, makes you depressed.

God it sounds so fucking pathetic.

 

[mrplunkey]

I appreciate your positive attitude, honestly, considering some of the battles we've had but the truth is, I've been in pain since my teens. However, since I hit my mid 30s things have been ramping up. The weight training used to keep things at bay but I can't do that now (the one thing I never got for my home gym was a heavy duty leg machine). And my knees are going, too, the right one actually hurt with every step the other day when I went for a walk. So that's next.

It's just very hard to not think you're falling apart when going downstairs to the kitchen or brushing your teeth hurts. Which, in turn, makes you depressed.

God it sounds so fucking pathetic.

I can appreciate the falling-apart feeling. Professional stress can do that for me. I'll push through it, but it leaves me with flu-like symptoms -- it's really similar to the "test flu" side effect.

But I've discovered a really interesting tool for the highest stress times -- caloric restriction. It makes no sense, but if I've got 2-3 days of complete hell coming, I just simply shut my calories down. The first 6-8 hours are rough, but after that you run on cruise control.

 

[PICK3]

I can appreciate the falling-apart feeling.

All of my systems are quickly deteriorating, butt oddly my o-ring is still in pristine condition.

just sayin'

 

[mrplunkey]

All of my systems are quickly deteriorating, butt oddly my o-ring is still in pristine condition.

just sayin'

It's a testament to the immense amount of exercise you give it on a daily basis.