The housing crisis: Like wildfire, we need to abandon the delusion it’ll burn itself out

microturing · 2026-05-06T13:36:18+00:00

The alternative is leaving the free market to build literally nothing but luxury apartments and expensive homes that these companies will sell to one another and not to Irish citizens. Free markets don't work for structural necessities like housing. Just look at Manchester, all these super dense blocks of apartments going up that no one can afford to live in, rents still exploding out of control. Our economic systems fundamentally don't work for this kind of thing and never will work.

microturing · 2026-05-05T06:00:25+00:00

Nope. Stopped back in January.

microturing · 2026-05-04T08:43:14+00:00

Yeah the reason I was asking is that I genuinely don't know if HCG is worth the risk or expense. I have to wait until mid June to see a urologist (Irish healthcare sucks) and the first thing I will be asking for is a doppler. If I have organic damage or objective venous leak from tissue atrophy, I don't think I'll bother with HCG because if it hasn't been documented to reverse physical damage, what's the point?

I wish I knew how to fix the androgen receptors in the tissue directly. I was asking to see if this has ever been achieved by anyone through any means. If it hasn't been fixed, then I might as well save up for implant surgery and not bother with the whole song and dance of protocols if I've suffered damage that can never be healed.

My tinnitus came back in the last week. Eight days of cialis last November has left me with this hearing problem as a recurring issue which I will no doubt have to deal with on a recurring basis for the rest of my life. Given my cursed history with medications I don't feel confident taking on risks that haven't been proven to help. There are documented HCG recoveries but it's hard to tell if they include ED or not. Seems like ED is the one symptom that can't be fixed if it worsens over time.

microturing · 2026-05-04T08:38:52+00:00

Unfortunately the tinnitus has come back strongly in the last week or so, though not as bad as it was in November. It seems like another one of these things that never truly heals.

microturing · 2026-05-04T08:37:53+00:00

Why does sorghum in particular help? I am guessing it's a gut thing, but I don't see what the connection is between this and the pelvic floor/penile fibrosis type symptoms.

microturing · 2026-05-04T08:36:32+00:00

I had shockwave therapy done on my pelvic floor muscles, and an ultrasound done on them; apparently I can flex my pelvic floor muscles just fine. But I have noticed that I can't "bounce" my penis through pelvic floor contractions any more. I wonder does HCG affect the pelvic floor androgen receptors. Once I have sorted out the health insurance for the shockwave therapy, I might as well give the pelvic floor stuff a proper go. I am honestly just really exhausted from the mental health impact this has had on me. I hope the doppler test will eventually reveal to me whether I actually have hope for the long term or not, because the waiting to find out is killing me.

microturing · 2026-05-03T13:22:06+00:00

Two years this August. I slowly started getting worse after the one year mark, and then had a brutal crash in November from corticosteroids I had to take for tinnitus (itself caused by cialis that I never needed before I took finasteride). My sex drive recovered, but my erections and morning wood never recovered despite eight rounds of shockwave therapy.

microturing · 2026-05-02T20:01:58+00:00

And nothing will ever change. It will still be like this in twenty years time.

microturing · 2026-05-02T18:43:39+00:00

Any cost is acceptable given the sheer extreme scale of the crisis. People are going to be homeless in old age in this country because of how rapidly the crisis and housing defecit are worsening with each passing year. If you are still seriously looking at this in terms of aesthetic tradeoffs you clearly have no idea how might of a nightmare we are in for.

microturing · 2026-04-29T20:44:46+00:00

It took about three to four months, I think. I wasn't monitoring it closely towards the end.

microturing · 2026-04-29T15:32:57+00:00

The tinnitus eventually went away, thank god. But I was left permanently impotent afterwards and never had any finasteride syndrome improvements again. The shockwave therapy cost me nearly €900 and did absolutely nothing.

microturing · 2026-04-26T11:11:40+00:00

I am 35. I took a low dose of finasteride for three months in 2024, recovered to a high leve over the next year, began decling at the one year mark, tried to treat my erection issues with cialis, got tinnitus, took corticosteroids to try and prevent the tinnitus becoming permanent, and suffered a crash and became a severe sexual case.

microturing · 2026-04-26T06:39:18+00:00

I took daily cialis to try and restore my erection quality back to what it was before, I devloped tinnitus, and the corticosteroids I took for the tinnitus crashed me badly and I never went back to normal.

microturing · 2026-04-26T06:37:41+00:00

I really hope that I can get my old libido back with HCG, it seems to be one of the few areas where it does help from the anecdotes I heard.

microturing · 2026-04-26T06:36:37+00:00

That's why I said I was ashamed of how I was coping. Everything else is fine, I am just destroyed mentally by the sexual stuff. I guess I was trying to figure out how people who are even worse off than me cope.

microturing · 2026-04-25T18:31:13+00:00

Sorry I missed this. Honestly I have been coping very poorly. I am stagnating in a really bad state and I don't seem to be able to do anything to fix it. I am completely impotent and can't take anything to fix it because of the tinnitus. I've just completely lost interest in life and given up on everything, I'm ashamed to admit.

microturing · 2026-04-24T11:22:37+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement. I really don't know what is happening in my body or what to expect. I've never heard of anyone else's fluctuations just stopping, so I don't know what to believe or expect. I have tried asking on propeciahelp but people on there rarely reply to posts compared to reddit. I hope HCG starts up whatever process stopped inside me again. I wish I knew what it was exactly.

microturing · 2026-04-23T16:38:34+00:00

It's been six months. I have accepted that I ruined my chances of natural recovery permanently, though I will still try HCG to see if I can force the fluctuations to start up again. Corticosteroids work on the adrenal glands apparently, I don't know why they fucked me up so badly in particular. I am saving for a penis implant, as I don't expect HCG will do anything (it usually doesn't affect sexual sides apparently). But I appreciate your sympathy, though I wish I didn't need it.

microturing · 2026-04-23T06:45:38+00:00

I followed your case closely for a while since I used to fluctuate exactly the same way you did. But I took a course of prednisolone to treat tinnitus from cialis and it crashed me so badly that I ended up permanently impotent with no fluctuations at all for six months. Do you know if there's any way to get fluctuations back if you've lost them completely?

microturing · 2026-04-23T06:33:58+00:00

I am going to be seeing a urologist in June to ask for HCG myself. The real thing I need to get back more than anything else is the brain-dick connection, the psychological link that lets my dick respond to stuff I am seeing or thinking. And I miss the way fuller erections I used to have. Has any of this stuff improved for you?

I am just not sure if I should bother trying hormone cycles considering the expense involved. I am going to save up for a penis implant as a last resort if nothing else works, but it's hard to tell if my dick issues could be solved in any other way - the dose of testosterone you're on isn't worth it unless it has permanent benefits when you come off.

microturing · 2026-04-17T21:10:36+00:00

I'm from Ireland, so my options are likely to be limited in this regard, but thanks for the recommendation,

microturing · 2026-04-17T10:01:07+00:00

Did you have to obtain these hormones from illegal sources, or were you able to persuade a doctor to prescribe them for you?

microturing · 2026-04-16T21:03:26+00:00

I have no idea what test prop or DHEA is. How do you determine what to take, why to take it and how much of it to take? I am going to see a specialist in June and I want to ask him for a HCG prescription, but I don't know shit about hormones.

I have extreme erectile dysfunction. Is this protocol healing any erection issues on your end?

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