How a simple thing before training can stop you getting a whole lot of problems ...

[Weaves]

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I just read the first post on this topic, and I have to say it sounds what you went through was horrific!

However, I did laugh when you mentioned that the side effects of one of the drugs was spontaneous achilles tendon rupture. I can just imagine people sitting around, relaxing, when PING! they have no achilles left.

Sorry

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Thanks for your empathy

Well, this is a good reason to research any pharmeceutical drugs you may be given by your GP.Luckily, this was never preascribed to me. Unluckily, they failed to give me ANY antibiotic in sufficient time to limit the damage of the infection. Hence the reason i am now suing the GP's involved

I was given this anti-biotic though :/ after a few days I requested to be taken off it.

How has this worked out for you if you don't mind me asking?

[hailtotheking]

The case collaped due to the cruddy no-win-no-fee firm i used screwing up the paperwork, not listening / reading properly what i had told them,. and therefore making all the wrong accusations. You get what you pay for ...

EDIT: Just realised i had said all this a few posts back. Duh ..

[Weaves]

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I just read the first post on this topic, and I have to say it sounds what you went through was horrific!

However, I did laugh when you mentioned that the side effects of one of the drugs was spontaneous achilles tendon rupture. I can just imagine people sitting around, relaxing, when PING! they have no achilles left.

Sorry

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Thanks for your empathy

Well, this is a good reason to research any pharmeceutical drugs you may be given by your GP.Luckily, this was never preascribed to me. Unluckily, they failed to give me ANY antibiotic in sufficient time to limit the damage of the infection. Hence the reason i am now suing the GP's involved

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The case collaped due to the cruddy no-win-no-fee firm i used screwing up the paperwork, not listening / reading properly what i had told them,. and therefore making all the wrong accusations. You get what you pay for ...

EDIT: Just realised i had said all this a few posts back. Duh ..

I meant in terms of your recovery

[hailtotheking]

Well, i wont sugar coat it - one of my testicles is permanently atrophied and pretty much vestigial, and it seems to have had a very detrimetnal knock on effect on my sperm count and quality. Its a pretty slim chance I will be producing kids, but i never really wanted to bring kids into this world anyway. Still, a choice would have been nice. I also had searing groin pains at random intervals for about 5 months, but they seem to have gone now. I also think the whole thing has had an effect on my sex and corticosteroid hormones, as i lost alot of muscle, strength, and suffered poor training recovery and alot of water retention in the ensuing months. The doc offered to do a panel of hormone tests on me, but i hated my GP and his team so much at the time if i was even in the same room at them i think i would have lost it and been done for assault.

As i mentioned elsewhere in this thread, i did a salivary hormone tests with Eric Talmant that showed pretty messed up cortisol patterns and depressed androgenic hormones. I used a proprietary adrenal / herbal / amino acid extract to nourish the adrenals, along with progesterone, pregnenelone, and DHEA in the morning, and melatonin in the evening for a number of months, gradually tapering off, until now i just use the melatonin. I feel and look significantly better now than i did then and have put on much more muscle and lost the bloat. Strength returned a bit, but its still not what it used to be.

I was pretty pee'd off about the whole thing for a number of months, but you gotta get your head together, be thankful for what you've got, get on with it and never give up.