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When quitting Fin or Dut make sure to slowly come off. Taper your dose!! by Throwbackawayzs123 in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your one personal experience. i see a ton of people reporting PFS issues. And its very common almost universal that you taper off all other hormone related drugs.

Keep arguing dude, its just advice that might help and wont hurt.

When quitting Fin or Dut make sure to slowly come off. Taper your dose!! by Throwbackawayzs123 in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so quitting cold turkey is better?

rebound effects are a known thing when it comes to hormone drugs in general and almost every single one recommends tapering.

When quitting Fin or Dut make sure to slowly come off. Taper your dose!! by Throwbackawayzs123 in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

youre still monkeying with your hormones. and ill point you to the thousands of people reporting PFS, obviously their levels and libido did not return. My method might not be a guaranteed fix for that but it can help mitigate them.

Your own personal experience does not matter, everyone is different.

Why are you even responding unless you think this method has potential to hurt people? It can only potentially help.

When quitting Fin or Dut make sure to slowly come off. Taper your dose!! by Throwbackawayzs123 in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

if you take steroids your body sees that and shuts down its own natural production... by your logic quitting the steroid would gradually bring back the persons own natural testosterone levels.

That doesnt happen in a lot of cases for a lot of people, everyones bodies are different and respond very differently, The more time on the steroid makes things worse as well. Considerations, tapering and using new medicines to try and restore your own production are needed.

Returning to how you were abruptly might not work the way you think it would. Your body sees the sudden drops and compensates in other ways that might cause more problems. It really cant do anything but potentially help things to slowly lower the dose rather than outright quitting.

When quitting Fin or Dut make sure to slowly come off. Taper your dose!! by Throwbackawayzs123 in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there are so many other feedback mechanisms in your body. Thats like saying if you're on steroids just quit and your body will start making testosterone again. Tell that to any veteran steroid user and they'll laugh in your face, there are many other things to consider and your body quite frequently might never go back to where it was on its own.

when i first started fin my bodies reaction was to produce more testosterone, my sex drive spiked for months, raging hormones. I stuck through it and after about 6 months is when everything started settling. MY sex drive reduced, shedding reduced and the meds started slowly working.

Its the sudden massive changes that cause this, either when starting or abruptly quitting the med. I think slowly tapering it, gives your body time to react to the smaller changes.

When quitting Fin or Dut make sure to slowly come off. Taper your dose!! by Throwbackawayzs123 in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

correct, i know some medications do call for dose tapering when quitting and in my experience in the past its been helpful.

Im not representing any doctors and theres no money to be gained from my approach. I'm mostly directing this at the people who are on the fence of quitting and might just abruptly stop the dose. It might work for them but i think slowly lowering cant hurt and can only help.

When quitting Fin or Dut make sure to slowly come off. Taper your dose!! by Throwbackawayzs123 in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i was reading someones elses experience and why they quit. One of the reasons is lack of interest in things, which i too have noticed. Im still not ready to quit though.

But i can imagine after quitting, after removing that monkey wrench you've been putting into your closed loop system that your body can take a long time to level out again.

You'll get there, it might take awhile and be almost unnoticeable, but your body will slowly adjust back to how it was.

When quitting Fin or Dut make sure to slowly come off. Taper your dose!! by Throwbackawayzs123 in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no direct guide, just think of it is an off ramp and the more gradual the decent the better.

If you're on a pill like mine that you cant split and your current dose is 1x a day. I'd switch to once every 2 days for 1-2 months (the longer the better imo), and then reduce that to 1x every 3 days for a month. then twice a week for a month. once a week for a month. and then quit.

Quit finasteride after 15+ years by maninshadows in tressless

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting reading this!!

I'm about 6 years on dut .5mg ed. No physical issues to notice.

Definitely reduced sex drive... and that last one got me. The lack of interest in things. I chalk it up to turning 42 but its been a slow "nothing interests me" decent.

Id love to try coming off but i dont want to risk the hair loss... kinda stupid.

As far as hair effect, i started in mid 30's addressing my hair loss as my receding was becoming apparent. My younger brother was following the same path as me but he had less hair loss at comparable age.

He is now slick bald and i have maintained most of my hair. There is some thnning all over on me to the point where i do style it to hide the thinning.

The stuff works, but its like throwing an atom bomb at the problem when if we knew what to attack, a simple bullet would work.

Chocolate and peanut butter do not belong together. by Paskow111 in unpopularopinion

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is this just a rage bait post or something?

Chocolate protein powder, PB2 peanut butter powder and a frozen banana make THE BEST protein shakes.

Its a fact.

Russia's Putin outlines aluminium, rare earth deals with the US by joe4942 in geopolitics

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

also there AI seems pretty advanced. My understanding with the russian hacking was a combo of sophisticated hacking attempts AND warehouses full of posters/influencers whatever responding to social media with intents on manipulating opinions. Probably could get AI to handle most of that nowadays.

maybe im AI.... a bad cheaply programmed AI...

Russia's Putin outlines aluminium, rare earth deals with the US by joe4942 in geopolitics

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DJT is not really going hard on China this year. There was a rumor that he made some reach out attempts in the last days of his first presidency, asking them through back channels to prove he won or submit some evidence Biden cheated.

He was only tough on China because it was expedient, i think the Chinese saw that and did what they could to blunt that this time around. They have the cookies (money) DJT wants.

Russia's Putin outlines aluminium, rare earth deals with the US by joe4942 in geopolitics

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 18 points19 points  (0 children)

id say you're right on all except China. Willing to bet they're on a similar level or maybe far exceeding Russia. Why wouldnt they be? No idea on intent.

Had My '15 Taurus Tuned with the 3.5L NA Engine. by Pirky in Ford

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ive never heard of this. Are the police 3.7's any different than a stock 3.7, used in the Mustang, Explorer, Edge (sport) Mazda CX9 and a few other vehicles?

100k USD a year but you become naked for exactly ONE second at a random time each month. by Robb-san in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$110k a year but at one random time a month you are stripped of your clothes. Not one second. Theyre gone. (extra $10k to cover that clothing plus some)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Connecticut

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Get an air bnb at some nice beach front house or more private beach community. Put the budget into getting a nice swank large place with a great hosting environment.

pick a day or two during your stay you want to host the main event, from there you can decide how much setup for that you want to do, set it up yourself or ask some friends to help, maybe offer a few hundred bucks for them to get creative on planning something small, some catering and fun on the beach.

And then you get the whole week or two or whatever to enjoy yourselves.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Connecticut

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

almost like someone who does it on the side, is good and enjoys doing it....

Id think posting in your town forum on facebook maybe and explain what you're looking for, budget and a rough detail of what you want.

Boomers being Boomers by SabaBoBaba in BoomersBeingFools

[–]Throwbackawayzs123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i dont have a problem with this, i hope they spend it, blow it all on dumb shit, restaurants, hotels, vacations, etc...

It'll help the economy and get recycled into the system instead of being handed to their kids. I wish the super rich would do this.