There's a lot of ongoing research in orthopedics, neurodegenerative diseases, spinal cord injuries, other chronic conditions, etc...that are showing promising results. As with pretty much any kind of medicine, we don't know all the long term effects, but stem cell therapy has been a great tool with many applications.
Sorry to hear about your issues, I've had 13 operations (with more to go) and I deal with alot pain as well on a daily basis. I get some relief from peptides, it does help me recovering from surgery and during rehab a good amount. They are certainly worth trying, you can take a lot of them at once (KLOW) and wouldn't blame you for that. When you're in pain, you look for other solutions and I get it. BPC-157 would be the about the best start, I'm a slow responder and it takes 6 weeks for BPC to work for me. Try them one at time you can figure out what works and what doesn't. They don't work for all people and doing one at time and then adding some in later you can track them better that way and probably cheaper in the long run.
Thank you SO much for this. The video was great. His story is really similar to mine. I am going to go watch a few more, and look into PRP.
Don't do pRp without stem cell therapy, as it would be a waste of an opportunity.
Given her record I'd bet $100 she will have a reaction.
Lmao 🤣
💯. It has helped me tremendously with inflammation and hip pain.
Don't rush to fix herniated discs; don't rush to spinal surgery.
of course, one shouldn't rush to it. Only repair if circumstances mandate it, where either time or all other measures have failed. Also, it's true bulged discs dont always mean treatment needed, for a normal, strength-free life. But, sometimes, even healed discs can leave spots of weaknesses.
Absolutely. Surgery is honestly the last thing I want to do. Right now, my treatment plan is working with a physiotherapist and chiropractor 2x per week. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been very effective thus far.
This is why I hinted at the surgery. I myself refused surgery for my herniated disc but I fixed mine with stem cell and therapy.
I'm lucky as I've about had everything but my neck and back operated on at this point. Mind you, I've easily had over 100 shots of Cortisone and got a Lumbar Facet Ablation next week and a Cervical Facet Ablation next month so I'm working on it😕 It's rough and it's a slow burn with health care and specialists and trying to get relief can take along time. It doesn't always get better and it just comes down to managing it, with pills, therapy, peptides and rinse repeat. At what point am I just damaging myself needlessly and when should I slow down and try and preserve some quality of life. I don't have a high tolerance for pain, my expectations of what I need to do and can do have changed a lot the last couple years. Mowing grass, shoveling snow not really looking that cool anymore.
This is what I was afraid of.
It's not fun, old age doesn't scare me so much as what can I do at that age. I'm only mid fifties, but my physical therapist says my Rap sheet reads more like I'm 70. He's not getting X-mas card😉
Sorry, that's not what I meant. I just realized that I fvcked up in communicating. Earlier in the thread, we were discussing disc problems and how the earliest intervention was most optimal due to the debilitating nature inherent to spinal issues. Surgery was frowned upon, so your terrifying post elucidated the negative and calamitous eventualities one would have to face. You were talking about quality of life, and I concur totally. That must be the ultimate goal.
When you first mentioned your state, I was immediately reminded of Hulk Hogan.
It's all good brother, I knew what you were saying. I feel like Elicon, is worse off than me. I don't believe I have chronic pain everyday like Elicon, I have periods (days or a couple weeks) of chronic pain. Being bedridden is physically and mentally horrifying to me, that's why if I can get up and go to work I do. I don't even have FMLA, so I get up and go!
Just minus the Millions, fame and glory 😉
One can get hyperglycemia on the first day. The relative that was recently prescribed prednisone had to stop (titrating down aggressively) after day-one bloodwork showed a doubling of blood glucose, from 100 to 208.
I am thinking about reconning several vials of ARA at once since I will going through them quickly. Any experience or thougts on degradation/longevity?
