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    PFS = Phuqed From Stress

    Guys, More proof it’s all about the stress. I had been 100% symptom free for a couple months and actually feeling well above 100% of my pre-Fin baseline for the last couple…I mean seriously kicking ass physically, mentally & sexually (well, tapping more than kicking ). Then a few weeks ago, I allowed myself to become highly stressed for an extended period of time (I’m talking the panicked, obsessing, mind-racing, pacing kind) over an extremely challenging personal issue. After nearly a week of this, my nuts suddenly started to ache again, my digestive system turned to shit (pun not intended, but highly accurate ) and I started having trouble sleeping (both falling & staying asleep). A couple days later, a number of my original crash symptoms came flooding back. Keep in mind, nothing else in my life/lifestyle had changed other than the stress. So, over the last week, I have gotten my stress levels back in check, have started to sleep again and everything else is falling back into place rather quickly (I imagine because I am in such a better place now than I was when I originally crashed). I will update on progress.

    The point of this post is simply this…I believe stress is a huge part of what allowed us to get fucked up, kept us fucked up and will keep fucking us up until we learn to control/eliminate it. Do some research on stress and the effect it has on your endocrine, nervous, digestive, immune, etc. systems. It fucks you up…hard! Were there some devastating hormonal issues caused by taking/quitting Fin?...Fuck yes! (and as I mentioned in my last post, I think these were exacerbated by the fact that our systems were already unbalanced from chronic stress), but I am certain now that the mental/emotional stress caused from the symptoms of that initial hormonal cluster fuck (understandably so) and the subsequent discovery of PH (and all its fucking horror stories), etc. was a key contributor to our PFS. Most of us seem to be higher stressed, obsessive, over-thinkers (just read the posts on this/other sites if you need proof of that) which, along with the other non-mental/emotional stressors (whether it be bad diets, intoxicant use, poor sleep habits, toxin/xenoestrogen exposure, over-work, over-training, all of the above, etc.), are honestly why I believe we crashed so hard to begin with, why we remain crashed for so long and why we re-crash. Even when we are not “panic stressing” about it all the time, the constant thinking, obsessing, analyzing, etc. of everything we do (or don’t do) within the context of PFS has a huge effect on our stress levels and keeps us operating in a sympathetic nervous mode which continues to challenge our bodies to find homeostasis.

    Believe what you want…my money is 100% on eliminating stress (in all its forms…mental, emotional, physical, etc.) as the only way to fully recover from PFS.
    Last edited by Damn; 06-09-2019 at 06:46 AM.

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