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Francis "Frank" Castle

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  1. Yup, one of the 1st things and I also went to the US to get tested as they have a test there that is supposed to be more accurate but every one came back negative. Same with RA, ALS and a bunch of other shit I can't even remember the names of. Weird fact is that my bloodwork specific to this is almost a dead ringer for Gulf War Syndrome and no one has a clue why that would be and it was I think the 5th or 6th specialist i saw that put me and that together for symptoms. Oh ya, was tested for Lupus too and Creutzfeldt-Jakob ....We have tried anti-virals up the wazoo as well, all to no effect
  2. Depending on where you are it usually doesn't take too long to get in to see an ortho specialist as there's a ton of them. They'l take some pics and figure it out but now that you mention the joint is noisy that may change things as to what it is, dunno. Let us know what the doc says!
  3. Sheesh, where to start lol. I have an autoimmune disease that has defied 100% diagnosis so the specialists all just hung Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis depending on which one of the many you talk to. Widespread pain, fatigue, brain fog, like having the flu and the worst moouth full of toothaches you could ever imagine 24/7! I have degenerative spine issues that include Stenosis, Degenerative Disc Disease, Chronic Inflammation/Radiculopathy involving the Sciatic Nerve, Lumbar/Sacrum herniation, basically from C to S there isn't anywhere left of my spine that is healthy. Some of it is operable with poor expectation for improvment and other parts not at all so the only real mitigation is strenghtening of the core muscles surrounding to bolster. I have 2 tumors at T4 that just showed up about 6 months ago I guess and we are watching them currently but they'l have to open me up to make sure they aren't cancerous in the not too distant future. Right now they are just in a stupid place putting presure and causing me no end of discomfort. Neuropathy, that although identified by one of the top people in the country, the origin is unknown although based on the parts of my body involved, I'm pretty sure it stems from my rather unpleasant childhood, The tests they use to identify this showed a 30% loss of neuro communication in my left arm and around 20 in my right. It manifests in pain and my hands just doing random shit like opening up while I'm holding things lol, I have a lot of platic cups that I drink out of now hehehehe. Severe arthritis in my hands/feet to top it off. The real kicker is that all of this manifested about 12 years ago, after the auto immune disease, and progressed frighteningly fast to the point where I was being tested for MS because there was a real fear thats what was happening. They still haven't ruled that out but they'll have to knock me the F out before they ever get me to co-operate for another spinal tap/puncture to test. My old Doc was staying on top of it with me, as best we can, meaning medication to knock down the pain and stims to help with the fatigue. Thank heavens lol that I am severely ADHD (entire life) so it was easy to get scripted and stay on the stim meds lol...When the wife and I moved 2 years ago I lost my doc and for 6 months had no doc and no meds which is when I found out exactly what life looks like without those things. I ended up in the hospital unable to walk, or even wipe my own arse! The hospital peeps worked like crazy to find me a doc that would take me on because of my issues and meds and thats where the road back to what i now consider normal started. That was like 18 months ago and I'm now about 2 or 3 months I think from being back to where I was before we moved. all things considered if everything is kept on top of as it worsens, life is pretty good excpet for mornings, lol...they truly suck after being stationary all night and pain meds wearing off the first hour of my day isn't very pleasant but after that not so bad, there are people worse off so i count my blessings! For some reason, if all of that wasn't enough, my hormones went all out of whack, likely due to the autoimmune disease and the meds I take effect them as well so that's how I ended up here, while in my search for answers on how to deal with that part of things myself after my new doc completely unexpectedly refused to continue my Test supplementation, and trying to see an Endo was going to take almost a year for the referral. Obviously I couldnt wait that long lol... Anyway, like I said, after being an ox all my life I was literally blindsided by all of this and it completely changed my world. Then after the move almost ended it. But I have an awesome woman, who is my rock, and between her and a ton of hard work/stubborness lol...I made it through....and this family here has been a huge part of it! Almost back to normal but again I have to say, like I do to myself every single day, there are those who are so much worse off so I need to be thankful for my blessings and the fact that life is as good as it is!
  4. Cool. I'm not much older than you at 54 and in this day and age we are expected to keep up for a few years yet lol so it's important to stay on top of this stuff. Let us know how you make out man :{)=
  5. I don't think its a rotator cuff tear as thats gonna hurt no matter what/how you are lifting. Sounds more like Bursitis or Tendonitis but you need to see an ortho specialist regardless. Do anti-inflammatries ease the pain at all? Hot compresses or ice any effect? If NSAID and either ice or hot make it feel better that's gonna point to the Bursitis or Tendonitis more than the cuff but again at 3 months and no improvement, you need to get it looked at.
  6. Hey, I just re-read my post and I didn't want to come off sounding as harsh as it did, despite this being important! From my standpoint, as someone whose health has plagued them for a while now, after being a literal ox all my life, I just want you to fully understand how valuable your health is and how far wrong these things can go without a medical expert at least covering your ass at the beginning. Your health is a horrible thing to lose and the fight back for me has been long and hard and is still ongoing. I would spare anyone that if I could. Cheers.
  7. I think Primo is what, roughly 88/50 on the anabolic/androgenic scale? So that would put you at the eq of roughly 225mg of Test as an androgen and a little higher as an anabolic so not a big dose at all so given 0 estrogenic and hepatox you could run that dose indefinitely pretty much I would think. I can personally attest to the immune boosting after 6 weeks now of adding some Primo into my daily. Health issues have caused my immune system to crash somewhat which means every little nick and scratch turns into an infectiuon to some extent, any bug that finds its way to me is unnavoidable etc but I am now healing faster and seeing less redness around cuts etc, and fingers crossed I haven't been even mildly sick with any sort of bug and given my wife works retail she's always dragging something home. The real tell will be getting through the winter not being sick but so far so good. Hell, if it wasn't for the cost I think everyone would be running nothing but Primo lol.
  8. Me too until I started mixing it in with my Test 250, in the same syringe for pinning, and then no more PIP. The trick was finding the right ratio. I'm sure it will vary person to person but for me 75mg Primo with as little as 20mg Test E smoothed it right out.
  9. I know you said that it's hard to get access to a doc where you are but you relly need to get in to see one. There are a ton of different things that can mimic hormonal imbalance and cause symptoms that the internet will tell you are low T. That may well be it but there are many other things too that could be at the root. At this point you have 0 idea what is going on and you could even be making things worse despite feeling a bit better in the meantime. Our bodies are really good about telling us when things are wrong and the sickness you are feeling may well have something to do with it. Not getting in to see a doc at this point is Russian Roulette IMHO. You need to get those bloods done, and should have before you ever pinned your first shot. it would have been another story, at least temporarilly, had you said you were feeling top notch before starting your cycle but you weren't and getting to the root cause of your malaise should have been your first step especially considering how easy it is to identify the levels to start with.
  10. That would be something you need to contact them directly about! But that being said, this is the sort of thing that is constantly changing in many cases so it's completely not out of the ordinary that their payments have changed and the editing on the website just hasn't caught up. Still, contact them directly for verification.
  11. Oh indeed brother, I hear ya. Just couldn't stop myself from having a wee bit o' fun at the expense of the "5 minutes time to panic" lot lolol :{)=....
  12. Thanks for taking the time to let everyone know brother. The not knowing, and resulting panic, must have been absolutely unbearable. lol....:{)= All the best.
  13. Dosing info for TB-500 is all over the place depending on where you read. However regardles of where you read, taking the amount you suggest is way too much by far. The range as mentioned on many different sites is from 4mg - 10-mg twice per week for roughly 6 weeks to allow your body to adjust/get used to it. I have also seen it mentioned that a calc based on body weight, ie 35-40 micrograms/lb of body weight injected 2X/week. There is a max saturation dose with most of these after which it will either be of no extra benefit or you might cause negative impact but you always have to remember that most of this stuff is not available as pharma and few of them have any major studies to go by. Erring on the side of caution is always the best bet, at least until you see how you react and then titration within the anecdotally related dosing range as needed.
  14. This thread is for reviews only. Please read the rules and stay on topic.
  15. Does anyone have any experience with putting Stenabolic SR9009 in oil for injection just like Test for example. I see that Mike Arnold is selling it already done but it's pricey and I'd like to have a go at doing it myself but I am in no way knowledgable enough in this field to experiment and just wing it. So I'm looking for a recipe, hopefully that is tested by someone so I don't just end upw asting a bunch of product. Thanks
  16. I agree...I've just now posted to that effect in the Syn Pharma thread. We, the staff, try to be very easy going/easy to get along with, but as has been mentioned we simply can't have people posting reviews that are completely void of any significant content. It does no one any good, especially the people that are requesting reviews and ends up doing nothing but causing the veracity of the review to come under serious scrutiny. Many have seen other forums where they post BS reviews all the time with no intent other than to run down good labs, one of which, I know, for example, is unquestionably top notch however according to what you would read in one rubbish forum you'd think they were the worst lab ever. We can't have that nonsense happening here, as @NorthernLifters has already clearly stated. It's too bad really that commons sense can't rule and thusly we could have fewer rules. Sigh.... Anyway, that was just my very long winded agreement to your sentiment @instagrande
  17. Guys if you are going to take the time to post reviews, either positive or negative, please add some substance to the review. If you're using their product for a year now then show us some product you are using. Otherwise you're just a new guy posting something that no one really is going to put any weight to and defeats the whole purpose of the review. For example @Igor you have 1 post, that's it. No offence but why would a review without anything to back it up be worth anything to anyone? As has been mentioned already by staff, we simply cannot have people posting any sort of review with nothing to back it up. We'll just end up removing them and banning the people who are doing it. Common sense dictates that if you want to make any reputable claims then you need to be able to back them up...Good or Bad! @Napalm
  18. So a specialist (dermatologist) prescribed this Metrocream aka Metronidazole stuff to my wife for occasional break-outs that are apparently rosacea. No mention of any medication contraindications or possible side effects. I thought I would try it out to see if it had any impact on a bit of acne I have gotten recently. It started drying it up in short order but then I started having these really weird what turned out to be side effects. I honestly thought that my blood pressure had shot up and at one point I thought I might even be having a mild cardiac event. Throbbing tighness in my neck and head, prickly itchiness, numbness in my left hand. Turns out these are all possible side effects from this shit. I stopped using it and apparently it takes 3 days to clear your system so things are lessening but still there to a minor extent. Apparently this stuff is absorbed through the skin and then processed by the liver and some people react this way. The derm mentioned absolutely nothing about these possible sides not to mention something else he gave her has a major contraindication with a med she takes and this after she told him clearly our coverage only covers generic and he writes a script for 2 name brand meds...sheesh! Normally I look up anything before I use it but christ, it's pimple cream for crying out loud...Will know better next time!
  19. From Payless everything I have received has been name brand no seconds or anything like that. I got exactly what i ordered and absolutely 0 complaints about the product. Except for the initial point of origin glitch I had with them no complaints at all. I'm sure whatever you ordered will be fine. Oh, I should mention that I have ordered from them again already and the order was perfect, no delay shipping this time either, even though last time it was only 1 day so hardly a real delay.
  20. PM @NorthernLifters directly for the code as was clearly stated in the instructions whe you signed up.
  21. Read the rules please. #19 covers why your post breaks the rules quite nicely. That info would be best sought out from the vendor/sponsor as well!
  22. Looks great...You need some more sun though man, all that time in the gym has you looking a little pale around the face :{)= Seriously though, very impressive, that's a lot of hard work and dedication showing! A great review for the BT gear as well. Keep us up to date please...
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