Been down for a full week.
Anybody know whats going on there?
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Been down for a full week.
Anybody know whats going on there?
Been wondering the same!
Check the discord. Tubzy said:
“We decided not to renew domain and server, was costing me $1K every year to maintain servers and SSL and all the other shit. I have the SQL files that the site was backed up on so if you want any of the content from the forum info I can send to you”
I would have no issue running it if we got a few guys to cover costs with me. I definitely have 3-4 guys so far I know who would be willing to do so.
I think a lot of people would be happy to donate towards the hosting. If you setup an anonymous donations page (via PayPal or something?) I think it would more than cover the costs. Would be a shame to lose it as it was a great community on there.
Really good of Tubzy & whoever else was financially backing it to have done so for so long!
Thank god I found this. We could easy cover the thousand for a year or can we have Helen come somewhere else ?
Is there another forum?
How do we get the SQL files he talks about?
What is the discord?
Pas forum is still active! Could always re-direct hackstasis to this then everyone will register before long?!
Uses the same forum template so pretty familiar to anyone who was on HS
Post Accutane Syndrome (PAS)
Don’t blame Tubzy for not renewing. That’s a lot of money to pay for that. Hope all of you who don’t post here frequently are well.
Sorry to see this. There were times where I had a rough time justifying keeping this forum alive - hosting, registration, etc. just the backup subscription to ensure the contents of the forum are never lost (daily backups) is like $100/mo. I spend between $2500 and $3000 a year keeping the forum alive.
So, I totally get it! lot of people think it's really cheap and they don't understand how the fees just add up.
This is a pretty crucial place for people recovering from this condition, if it ever comes to a point to in the future where it becomes too much let us know and we could surely figure out a way to cover some of the costs. For now I just use the links which hopefully helps.
Much respect
Yea wondered why the forum was gone.
I am recovered from PFS thanks to a lot of information from Hackstasis and Helen. But also from here (prohormones for me mostly). Hope you guys are doing well. Also thanks TubZy for financing this whole thing.
Would be cool to stay in touch through some way.
I try not to post too much to not get it messy because the healing journy is what's most important. I'm jumping back on the protocol slowly because I overdid it with the drugs & alcohol during lockdowns. drove me loco. Hopefully now can stay on a positive track. Got toxic af.
Do yourself a favor and drop the party drugs. That’s always going to be a downhill spiral. My vice is alcohol. It’s bad enough for life in its own way, but at least it isn’t wrecking systems nearly as bad in moderation as those other compounds man. Trust me, you’ll be happier in the long run.
Things that helped the most:
- Proviron cycle (6 weeks)
- AndroHard cycles
- HCG cycle (3 weeks)
- TEI (mineral hair testing), similarly to the point below minerals had a good effect on me but to me it seemed like it did not fix some of the underlying issues for some reason. But it did give the initial push in the right direction. I did this for 1,5 years.
- Fucking around with minerals and electrolytes - this is dangerous though and I would not do it again. I also fucked around with potassium and loaded it up for very high amounts. This can be dangerous. Would not recommened but I do think it helped me.
- Running 5K-7K everyday for 3 months and after that on and off, cardio in general was helpful in PFS. It was very stressful though, not sure if it is good for everybody.
- Weightlifting most days of the week
- Low carb with carb loading days
- Go to sleep early
- No alcohol, drugs, gluten, dairy. Dairy was not too bad but I just cut it out. I also did NoFap and did not have too much sex in this period but I think this is not as important.
- Cold showers daily, this was good for mentality
- Meat was helpful in my recovery. I always felt better with meat in the diet. No vegetarian diets.
- A good mindset. I became a warrior doing this. Laser focus. I was very stubborn and not easy to be with in real life. But I do think it helped me. I became a bit crazy and overdid it at the end of PFS. But I think there is nothing wrong with becoming egotistical and intense while fighting this.
Things that helped but were smaller contributors
- Some of the herbs also recommened here. I think these could of been beneficial in my recovery. But I was stubborn and had my own ideas. So I only experimented with them for shorter cycles.
- Ella cycle (start of PFS I tried this), honestly forgot about it, I don't think it is important
I did so many things and probably missing some crucial info. If I remember it again I will post it.
My advice: I would follow cdsnuts protocol if you want to not stress about it. Experimentation might get you there quicker but it can also put you in states that are worse. The question is how much of that extra stress do you want to burden yourself with. For some people it is better not to. For others maybe they are like that and can handle it OK.
Some of the physical things I did (running a shitload, training a shitload) is questionable. It could be good or bad depending on your situation.
Good luck man. You can do it.
I will login here once in a while.
Yes...there is a whole website dedicated to this, all laid out for you. You're relatively new, so it's gonna be rough in the beginning. The last thing you want to do is mix and match different pieces from different protocols. That tends to get you no where fast. You have to pick one, and stick with it. That's how you're gonna heal your sexual sides.
Thanks man. Your posts and attitude inspired me. Same for guys like Maxout, bizzbee and some other guys who recovered on here. Also Chi was a big inspiration to get this shit over with and push to the limits. Plus the guys on Hackstasis forums gave me inspiration too. They are all good guys. We were bitching sometimes to each other but most people on Hackstasis are/were top notch dudes, you can tell. But just struggling with this shit. I see the same here. Bunch of good dudes but sometimes PFS fucks with your head when you are in it.
And also I cannot thank gbol/Helen enough. I saw some people criticising him on other forums. But in my opinion he is on a next level. Harder to understand but when you do, even if it is a % you will see that he has some genius insights. Would be cool to talk to him once in a while. But I get it if he is doing other stuff. He was busy AFAIK.
I can post an official post on here if you want but I have posted two posts now about recovery. I think I do not have much more info left to give to PFS guys. Plus I have not followed your protocol to a T. So I am not sure if you want my story in that section. Although of course a lot of overlaps and I definitely used things from your protocol. If you want me to I will do it.
I'm really pumped for you man. You kept on going. That's what I said from the start- my first novel I wrote there in October 2017 lol.
I'm pretty bummed out that forum is gone. Like, we were novices to the health game for a long time there and certainly are still students. We all are in the health world. But now sometimes recently, if I want to search for something in the hackstasis search engine- I'll find something Helen wrote and now I understand it. Back then, I'd be clueless but here we are 3-4 years later and suddenly most of what he writes makes sense to me.
Its shocking to me that I can read it now. Because back then I was completely lost... WHILE his stuff was helping me incredibly. I just had no idea why, what, where, how. Now looking back I understand it.
Recently, just his emphasis on NAPDH has helped me so much. Focusing on that cycle has helped me piece a bit together about whats going on with me. I've known that NADPH oxidase has been upregulated the last several months and really dating back to mid 2020 when I fell apart again. The last month it got psychotic. Come to find out I just received mold testing back... crazy elevation of gliotoxin in my urine which upregulates NADPH.
It's looking like antibiotic damage in 2019 combined with girlfriend's old moldy apartment led to this. But huge finding as it seems pretty easy to treat, already feeling a bit better a day into treating it.
I really hope Tubzy can give us access to that forum. You gotta understand. I wrote there 4 years straight every single week just like you @Rebel. It feels like our whole stories we told as we've battled is freaking lost just gone. No proof of it anywhere.
I always wanted to be like Cdsnuts and be able to have that journal somewhere to read when I get better. I always thought it must be so cool being CD, being chi, maxout, english, amongst others who can go back and read their experience. AND be like "I'M THAT FUCKING DUDE. I DID THAT. YA THATS ME." And I felt that way in 2018 when I was nearly recovered. Just going back and reading my log in from late 2017 through mid 2018 made me feel proud when I was doing so well.
I hope we can get hackstasis back up somehow, someway. I know we have people that are willing to donate- me being one of them.
Tubzy, I'm here whenever you wanna talk man where ever you are. Also, at very least would like to get the file of the site back up so I can at least get some stuff out of there that I'd like to have.
That is all!
True. Personaliy I dont care too much about the journal I wrote a lot of BS in there LOL. But I understand your point. I am willing to donate as well, just for showing some gratitude.
Are you close to getting better bruschi? I hope you will get there soon. You deserve it. Personally I went too far sometimes with the supps. Make sure you dont go/fall into that shithole. It took me a while to realise.
I wonder where doomgirl, mbax44 and supernature went haha. If one of you read this I love you no hard feelings.
Recovery from PFS is a damn ride for sure. Insane how bad life can get. Like going through hell. But you know what now I look back at it as a battle worth fighting. It really is.
BTW anyone know what happened to Nina? Did she survive the cancer?
She survived as far as we last heard from her. Just living with low quality of life as she has for years. Never got to the bottom of her issues like many have not.
Am I getting close to better? Man I'm lucky to be alive right now the way things have gone the last month or so heck the last 15 months really. But at least it seems I'm finally getting another firm diagnosis like I did for mycoplasma in 2017. I think this could be the turning point I really need- I just got testing back showing severe elevation of mold mycotoxin called gliotoxin in my urine. Like 6x the range.
Everything adds up as its removed via sulphation, zinc also helps prevents its biosynthesis. Focusing on sulphation (b2/molybdenum) were very helpful for a bit and I saw really good signs when I started a zinc/manganese/copper supp in low doses a month ago. Was finally capable of taking b1 again which has worked wonders when I can tolerate since this began. But did ozone a few times this last month- went from reacting well to the first to horrible the last one. I'm still recovering from it two weeks later.
Lyme antibiotic in early 2019 was the big fuck up for me. May have destroyed my life forever if I don't come back from this. Killed my immune system, then spent a lot of time at girlfriends moldy apartment for the next 15 months until I got her to move out and we got a new place. Nutritional balancing was helping a lot- I just didn't know what the underlying issue was after Lyme. Then I crashed pretty severely late Spring of 2020. Made progress that Fall 2020 w/ fasting/nutritional balancing, fell apart again over Winter, made progress this past Spring/early Summer, fell apart again this past Month.
If you do all the math.. it looks like something was certainly holding me back the last 2.5 years. And it appears we may have found the culprit. Just isn't fair all the time I've lost. I was really incredible the first Lyme/PFS recovery I made. As athletic, lean, happy, relaxed, witty, cool, calm, collected you name it. Sexually I was fine. Not perfect. But fine. Very minor cfs issues if I overdid it with physical activity, drinking back then.
What sucks is this new diagnosis just isn't that simple. Its not like mycoplasma where a round of antibiotics, herbals/coffee enemas/liverflushing, fasting can save me. Luckily I've been basically treating mold the last 6 weeks now and have an understanding of the binders, nutrition, treatments to utilize. But I'm now in a weird form of fast oxidaiton, zinc deficient. Just isn't a place where I can fast right now either which just sucks.
We will see. I was all bummed out when I got mycoplasma diagnosis in 2017. Then within 2-3 months I really started living my life again. 6 months later I was lean and waking up with crazy boners every morning. So I'm trying to perk up a bit. I think I can do this.
Will say, my libido is mostly recovered. I was a guy with shrunken up balls stuck to my body, tiny dick, complete asexuality prior to my first recovery. Its nice to get that out of the way. But life is an incredible thing and I've been missing out on it for a long time now. I need it back so bad.
How did you recover the first time Brushii?
Mold is awful. I was/am recovered from PFS but unknowingly slept on a moldy mattress for a month and a half and it gave me full blown neuro lyme symptoms. I thought I got covid at first and then thought I was developing MS. Had no idea I was breathing poison every night. I also went to school in a moldy building like ten years ago which may have primed my immune system to react so harshly.
What binders are you taking for the mold? Cholestyramine seems to be the gold standard but i probably won’t be able to get it where I live as there’s no Shoemaker trained docs in Europe. Lots of really depressing stories in the mold exposure communities so I try to avoid them.
I’m gonna start a water fast next week to hopefully get the poison out of my body. Gonna go for as long as I can. I’m hoping a long fast will cure this mold stuff, I’ve basically felt like I have a severe flu for over a month straight. If the cause of these symptoms is the build up of mold toxins in the body then in theory a long water fast should resolve it. Hopefully I’m not being too naive. We will see.
I highly recommend going the more Dr. Brewer/ Dr. Nathan route rather than Shoemaker. I saw a Shoemaker doctor for awhile- wasn't exactly for mold, I had cyanobacteria in my gut so was treating that. But still we were looking for mold and we didn't have any indications of it.
Finally got second opinion from a doctor that follows more Nathan/ Brewer and doesn't really like Shoemaker. This is how we found this crazy elevation of gliotoxin amongst minor elevations in 3 other mycotoxins.
I recommend the Realtime mycotoxins test. Its hefty the first time you did it nearly $400 but retests are $250. Pretty sure you can do this test without a doctor as well which is nice. With this test you can really weight in on the exact mycotoxin, type of mold you have. My mycotoxins basically say NO cholestyramine. I'm using s. boullardi, NAC, ecklonia cava (for glyphosate), and will be adding bentonite clay and propolmannan pretty soon.
I'm just pissed at myself. I knew I was exposed in as early as March 2019. Been chasing my tail for 2.5 years now. Nutritional balancing, fasting etc etc.. I had some decent time periods where I've moved forward. But specifically this last month (post ozone) I thought I was dying at times. I literally think I just got saved by a diagnosis for second time in my life (Lyme in 2017.)
I've learned a lot this week. This seems beatable.
I was legit bedridden for 6 months, was in a mental institution for 2 weeks, ready to kill myself. Couldn't survive without a strong antidepressant in me for those first 6 months of 2017 when I crashed from PFS. Finally got a crazy elevated mycoplasma (Lyme co-infection) in June 2017. One 25 day round of antibiotics got me on my feet. Still stayed on antidepressant, but was able to stop it after a month of natural medicine. Treated mycoplasma, lyme, co-infections with electric medicine, herbals, a 2 week juice fast, sauna, tons of coffee enemas, started liver flushing, topped it all off with a 21 day water fast that November and I was in a really good place CFS/ Lyme wise.
Must mention exercise too. Once I really got on my feet that fall after that fast, I started running and lifting.
I lived a miracle that year and although things haven't gone well since a year later when I relapsed then had antibiotic damage/mold it seems... you never stop going after you live something like that.
I ended up really fixing most of my sexuality with an RU followed by progesterone cycle that December then followed that with electroltyes protocol/ zinc finger on hackstasis.
I really don't know if anyone in world history went from so bad to so good in such a short time period lol. Then I have a relapse with Lyme around now 2018. 3 years later I have massive issues. I made mistakes, didn't treat the right things these last 3 years, had antibiotic damage, mold, somehow ended up with cyanobacteria in my gut. I'm hoping I'm really getting my break right now with this diagnosis.
Thanks for the advice! Yeah I’ve went down the mold rabbit hole this past month and am familiar with Dr. Nathan’s stuff and also read his book ”Toxic”.
Wouldn’t a water fast be a quicker way to get rid of the stuff than taking these binders for months? I don’t see how mycotoxins are any different than any other toxins that fasting eliminates.
Definitely gonna give his stuff a go though if the water fast doesn’t get rid of the issues.
Think it really depends on your status of health. I follow nutritional balancing and really my own symptoms to judge if I’m ready for a fast or not.
I benefitted highly with 3 and 9 day fasts last fall. But they just didn’t hold up. Shit happened afterward, I also really needed to get to root issue.
Now I’m in a weird form of “fast oxidation” with high potassium, low end magnesium, calcium, sodium, zinc, copper. I need to build up in minerals a bit, get this toxicity out of my brain a bit before I decide to fast.
Think I will do so when I’m ready. Just don’t know when that will be.
Thanks man! Appreciate all the help.
Yeah I had just come off my last cycle when this shit started happening. Felt recovered from Pfs but started getting very strange symptoms after getting a new mattress, then after a month or so couldn’t walk straight, blurry vision, face went numb, severe muscle weakness and other really fucked up stuff. Also shortness of breath, throat tightness and chills. Thought I got covid at first but then started reading Lyme boards and realized Lyme and mold have pretty much identical symptoms.
The worst part is that my immune system seems to be hyper sensitized now as I can’t handle ANYTHING that was in the apartment with the mattress without getting a system wide inflammation response. Even though the mattress is gone. Seems like the hypersensitivity built up over the time I was sleeping on the mattress so I’m hoping it goes away after I fast, but who knows. I also get symptoms from things like scents now so seems to be a bit of multiple chemical sensitivity going on.
Helen/Gbold was working on a new protocol, for Prozac/Mirtazapine induced cases of PSSD with Alex_Mr. He had told me to wait, but the forum doesn't exist anymore. Does anybody have contact info of him? I really need that protocol, my life is literally dependent on this and I don't know what to do else.
I’m really sorry to say this man. But I just don’t think the PSSD is causing your severe illness.
I think the PSSD fucked up your immune system which allowed some sort of illness to take over. Such as Lyme, mold, or a heavy metal toxicity.
When things get as bad as your situation... it’s not just an imbalance or mineral insensitivity.
Your immune system got whacked. And something got in your body causing these issues.
This is where I completely disagreed with Gbold on. He hated me for it. But in so many cases when someone is really bad this is the case. And yes you can utilize fixing the terrain with nutritional balancing/ fasting to help defeat said toxicities.
But I think a toxicity needs to be identified in majority of these difficult cases. And unfortunately in this post pharma world, people forget they even exist.
It doesn't even matter, I'm open to all theories and suggestions . I just want to heal.
What would you recommend me to start at least? I already tried basic things like amoxicillin, probiotics, yeast, cinnamon, sodium acetate, garlic juice, ketogenic diet, wormwood etc. with no luck. It's just, there is no indication that I have ongoing infection in my body. "Also", I got my first symptom after 1 month on fluoxetine. I was still using the drug and it was only half the dose. So I think it's more probable that the problem is neurological (RXR, AR, allo, sigma, ht2c)
Though, I believe cytokines playing a role. My symptoms temporarily improve when I get flu. Some of the things managing cytokines are Sigma receptors and Retinoic acid metabolism.
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