Thread: Healing Peptides, do they help? Lets find out!

Day 11


Other than overdoing it shopping with the wife at Home Depot and Target, things have been going good. I am having a lot of trouble sleeping due to the neck brace, but that comes off on Thursday morning. It stabs into the back of my head and chokes me no matter what angle I sleep at. Other than the lack of sleep and associated issues that brings, I feel great and am looking forward to moving up to 10 pounds weight lifting on Thursday.

I hit the gym today for the first time in weeks. I have always been cleared to do any kind of leg exercises, provided they do not impact the back at all, so no squats or such. I did some pretty heavy leg work, used isolation machines to work my triceps and biceps without moving the shoulders or back, and even did 20 minutes on the elliptical, keeping the heart rate to about 125bpm. I have been told I can do light cardio and so I kept it light. They want me to keep increasing my time and speed that I do cardio, slowly of course.


I feel the most alive I have felt in a long time. I did not realize just how much I enjoyed working out! It had started to become a routine, and maybe a little bit of drudgery too. Not any more, this has shown me that I really DO LOVE working out and that it makes me feel truly alive.


I cannot wait to be fully cleared to start slowly ramping up my weights again. In 2 days the neck brace comes off and I will be cleared for 10 pounds of lifting. Not too long after that I should be cleared for unlimited lifting, based on listening to my body. EVERYONE in our lifestyle (who is not an idiot) already listens to their body. Sure, sometimes we ignore it, but we listen. I plan on not ignoring it, too much at stake. But the future looks bright and promising. In another year I will be all but unrecognizable, that is how much I am going to change my body. 3J (from 3J's Nutrition), my trainer and dietician, will keep me on the straight and narrow and prevent me from being stupid with it, of course, and together we will turn me into someone women half my age look at with desire.

5-8-16


This past Thursday they removed my neck brace. I slept most of Thursday away...the sleep in the neck brace was terrible. The neck brace would both cut into the back of my head AND choke me from the front. They did a brief cardio assessment on me while I was there, to see how much cardio they would release me to do. They said my rapid recovery at the hospital is why they were doing the test and that they usually do not even think about clearing someone for full cardio after only two weeks. I had been following their self PT recommendations of adding 5 minutes a day to my walk...to a point. Once I reached an hour a day, twice a day, of a brisk walk I did not want to make it any longer! I did treadmill work for them - not pushing too terribly hard, but not being light about it either. When I hit 6 mph they told me not to go any faster. My heart rate rose to 140bpm and I was not in any pain, so they told me to drop to a slow walk to cool down and within a minute my heart rate was down to 115bpm. They cleared me for full cardio.


I also asked if I was cleared for full weight isolation exercises - any exercise where the muscle is isolated by a machine and my back is not in use at all, such as a tricep or bicep machine. They said yes, provided I start light and listen to my body. I have been doing full body workouts, with cardio, since Friday and slowly raising my weights in the ones I do. So far, so good!


Here is the MRI view that showed them I had bone spurs which were the root of my issues. The surgeon's viewer was in full color and supremely amazing, my viewer sucks but at least it works. His actually showed the trauma (via color changes) to the spinal cord that the bone spur was causing.





I received my care package from PSL. As I said earlier, they knew of my plight and sent me some stuff to help out with it, specifically a 3 month run of TB500! I took one shot so far and my next one is later on today. Doing the 2mg each shot, twice a week regimen. Along with the TB500, they sent me some Eurogil HCG, PT141, and Cialis. I will be testing those items out separately and put up posts on them.


A pic of the TB500 for you all!





I will update as I go along.

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great post cybrsage.

I have very similar symptoms to the ones you had- stiff neck, radiating pain from shoulder to finger tips, pins and needles in forearm and fingers and almost 50% loss of power in bicep on my right arm. I have narrowing of the C5 and C6 nerve exit on the right hand side of my spine. The issues are framial stenosis, osteophytes (spurs like yours) and some arthritis. Its all from a couple of hard hits to the head when I was younger. Something has flared up an inflammation of the nerve causing my symptoms. I find voltaren helps reduce the pain but the weakness persists.

I'm off to the neurosurgeon in a couple of weeks to see what they recommend and I'm thinking of running a similar peptide stack to you before taking any surgical steps. I am wondering if the peptides could improve the situation for me without surgery, any thoughts on this?

Originally Posted by Abraxis

great post cybrsage.

I have very similar symptoms to the ones you had- stiff neck, radiating pain from shoulder to finger tips, pins and needles in forearm and fingers and almost 50% loss of power in bicep on my right arm. I have narrowing of the C5 and C6 nerve exit on the right hand side of my spine. The issues are framial stenosis, osteophytes (spurs like yours) and some arthritis. Its all from a couple of hard hits to the head when I was younger. Something has flared up an inflammation of the nerve causing my symptoms. I find voltaren helps reduce the pain but the weakness persists.

I'm off to the neurosurgeon in a couple of weeks to see what they recommend and I'm thinking of running a similar peptide stack to you before taking any surgical steps. I am wondering if the peptides could improve the situation for me without surgery, any thoughts on this?

It is unlikely since you have bone spurs. They alone can cause everything you are experiencing and the only way to fix it is to remove the bone. Just grinding down the spurs is of no help since they only grow back.

Saw my surgeon today and he said I am recovering very quickly. He is still going to follow the standard rules about weights and such, he told me, since the neck is important.

My fingers are still numb - pins and needles type of thing when I use them, but far less than before the surgery. My right wrist hurts like the dickens when I move the thumb in certain angles. Doc told me this is all due to swelling and it would take an additional 3 to 4 months for it to go away. A long time, but now I have a measure against which to check the healing power of the peptides. If the pain is gone in 2 months, then they drastically increased the healing time.

We will see, stay tuned!

One thing I CAN say is that pinning three times a day, every day, is getting a bit old. Sure, it is SubQ baby pins, but still...

cheers mate, hopefully the neuro has some good ideas.

05-24-16

The two big things I am using to gauge my recovery is the pain and my right tricep strength, both being caused by swelling at this point (and the vertebrae still fusing together, muscles healing too, but mostly swelling). The pain is slowly going down and I can sit longer and longer without feeling like I am going to die. The big thing is my right tricep strength. Before the surgery I could only move 40 pounds with it. Another over that might as well have been 500 pounds. By that I mean the muscle simply would not engage at all...would not ever attempt to move the weight, a very odd sensation. A month after surgery and I could move 50 pounds, but no more, same results with muscle turning off. Today, I tricep curled (on an isolation machine, I am still limited to 10 pounds for anything involving the spine or neck) 55 pounds 5 times. That is a major gain in my opinion. I hope this is the beginning of the rapid release of inflammation and a return to normal.

As I said before, the surgeon said it should take 3 to 4 more months for the swelling to go away. I am hoping for 2 months and then I will be certain the healing peptides did their job. We will see, but I will give updates along the way.

Hope you continue to heal! that much TB500 has me drooling lol