Who here smokes weed?

[iris]

I'll tell you guys a crazy story, with all the "rainbows and unicorns" stories out there about pot being a cure all at volume 11, and the much more substantiated harms on mute.

Over the course of several years, my thumbnails started "squaring off". Top flat, sides pulling in. I figured I had somehow injured them, or it was aging.

Anyway, getting ready for a physical, I decided to look it up, in case I should ask for a referral to a dermatologist for a fix.

It's called "Fingernail clubbing", and the most common causes are lung cancer(!), a failing heart, or failing liver!

Docs are supposed to start diagnostics on all these things immediately to figure out the cause.

Long story short, it was none of these.

After seeing a number of specialists, one top guy who was on the ball with the latest research, determined it was from past, regular pot use. It causes some kind of localized, boosted growth factor in fingertips, changing the nail bed in a way that makes nails grow so fast and vigorously they end up clubbing like that.

Luckily this is a benign (but irreversible) condition, but imagine all the other effects it can potentially have on other, unseen parts of your body.

This is well rank.

So, on top of the permanent erection you told us about yesterday (with link) now you also say you look like Gollum.
Ghoul, the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[Ghoul]

This is well rank.

So, on top of the permanent erection you told us about yesterday (with link) now you also say you look like Gollum.
Ghoul, the gift that keeps on giving.

Thank god they're not "deformed" in a way anyone but I would notice, but it's never escaped my attention that as people get older they seem to get fucked up gnarly nails, especially on their toes. So I stay on top of nail health to prevent that from happening to me.

 

[laclark89]

Thank god they're not "deformed" in a way anyone but I would notice, but it's never escaped my attention that as people get older they seem to get fucked up gnarly nails, especially on their toes. So I stay on top of nail health to prevent that from happening to me.

My dad had it pretty bad. That anyone could notice he had wired ass fingers. He did smoke cannabis occasionally but also had liver and heart problend and was an alcoholic many variables , but I seriously doubt just cannabis could cause fingers to be that f’d up like the more serious examples. Not only he had the nails and finger tips light ball shaped he had the long creepy crooked fingers to go with it.sexy ant it?

 

[Ghoul]

My dad had it pretty bad. That anyone could notice he had wired ass fingers. He did smoke cannabis occasionally but also had liver and heart problend and was an alcoholic many variables , but I seriously doubt just cannabis could cause fingers to be that f’d up like the more serious examples. Not only he had the nails and finger tips light ball shaped he had the long creepy crooked fingers to go with it.View attachment 297051sexy ant it?

Holy crap mine was barely noticeable compared to that. A reminder to never blow off unexplained physical changes and show your doc. The pot connection to mine is a rare cause, and never worsened once I quit, but I'm sure as hell never going back on after seeing this!

 

[laclark89]

Holy crap mine was barely noticeable compared to that. A reminder to never blow off unexplained physical changes and show your doc. The pot connection to mine is a rare cause, and never worsened once I quit, but I'm sure as hell never going back on after seeing this!

You got me freaking out after than lol Mabe my marijuana paranoia lol. I started looking at my finger and toe nails and I think mine are starting too as well so u may be on to something. Ur right about with ur doc, i just get real uncomfortable talking about certain things with them.
I gota ask around the fam but if my dad has it and I’m getting it and one of my grandparents had it it’s 100% genetic also.

Ive posted about it before, I had a spinal injury and I was at rock bottom a while back and I got tired of it and I straight up asked my spine specialist and surgeon and they told me they talk about it In conferenced ect and hormones and peptides are not fully proven medically but it’s worth a shot and 1 told me he would try it personally.

 

[iris]

about it before, I had a spinal injury and I was at rock bottom a while back and I got tired of it and I straight up asked my spine specialist and surgeon and they told me they talk about it In conferenced ect and hormones and peptides are not fully proven medically but it’s worth a shot and 1 told me he would try it personally.

Would you say anything you have used after your spinal injury has been particularly beneficial, so there was a noticeable improvement in your condition?
Did you sustain the injury at work?
How long before you went back to training and/or moving well enough?

 

[Ghoul]

You got me freaking out after than lol Mabe my marijuana paranoia lol. I started looking at my finger and toe nails and I think mine are starting too as well so u may be on to something. Ur right about with ur doc, i just get real uncomfortable talking about certain things with them. View attachment 297055
I gota ask around the fam but if my dad has it and I’m getting it and one of my grandparents had it it’s 100% genetic also.

Ive posted about it before, I had a spinal injury and I was at rock bottom a while back and I got tired of it and I straight up asked my spine specialist and surgeon and they told me they talk about it In conferenced ect and hormones and peptides are not fully proven medically but it’s worth a shot and 1 told me he would try it personally.

Spine problems can be life destroyers. Outdated, but common treatments can often make things worse.

I went on a multi year journey to not only recover from a severe injury, but barely escaped a life sentence from the most common (fusion) "cure".

It made me to become my own medical researcher, and desperate enough to force my way into accessing the top echelons of leading edge medical science.

If I might ask. Does it involve discs?

 

[laclark89]

Would you say anything you have used after your spinal injury has been particularly beneficial, so there was a noticeable improvement in your condition?
Did you sustain the injury at work?
How long before you

Would you say anything you have used after your spinal injury has been particularly beneficial,

Yea imo, I tryed to throw everything but the kitchen sink at it. just a small amount of test no more that 250mg, gh 4iu, 2 oral prednisone cycles, then a small amount of nandrolone and Anavar once I started being able to train a little better.
But the muscle relaxers and pain pills helped get me through the hard part but I was smart and kicked them quick. I took a bit of Valium for a bit also. And every collagen peptide joint supplements and vitamins I could find.
also got a bunch or hot and cold packs traction devices, massagers and a bad ass massaging shower head to relax, I went all in lol.

so there was a noticeable improvement in your condition?

Huge I couldn’t pick up a 5 pound dumbell above shoulder height. I literally had to buy a womans dumbell set 3 5 8 10 and 12 I worked my way up. Like they say start with a Soup can lol I literally did. Now I can curl 50 pound dumbells for a bunch or reps.

We will see how Permanent it is it could go out again anytime.

Did you sustain the injury at work?

It was from work and a combination of other things, life style sleeping with 2 pillows. I had already had multiple pinched nerves in the same area from football I was a heavy hitter and loved to try an use the top of my helmet like a battery ram.

How long before you went back to training and/or moving well enough?

I think around 3 months before I could start using my cute pink dumbbells. It took me at least 1 month to feel up to taking walks.
At around the 1 year mark I got most of my strength back. My arms and 1 leg and 1 lat fully atrophied, I look normal now thank god.

 

[laclark89]

Spine problems can be life destroyers. Outdated, but common treatments can often make things worse.

100 percent , they wanted to operate on me and I still was not having it and asked for a referral to Stanford medical center and I got hooked up with a bad ass surgeon and told me I was the last person he would want to operate on don’t listen to the other surgeon and specialists.

I went on a multi year journey to not only recover from a severe injury, but barely escaped a life sentence from the most common (fusion) "cure".

Same, they told me I could get the fusion or disc replacement. With the fusion later the disc above and below will start to collapse. And the replacement is still kind of new and has its own negatives as well.

It made me to become my own medical researcher, and desperate enough to force my way into accessing the top echelons of leading edge medical science.

Same! Only I’m a in the lower echelons lol

If I might ask. Does it involve discs?

Exactly, c5-c6 fully herniated in a bad way it slipped directly into my spinal canal and bruised my cord and pinched off some other nerves that control my arm.

 

[Ateam2023]

Spine problems can be life destroyers. Outdated, but common treatments can often make things worse.

I went on a multi year journey to not only recover from a severe injury, but barely escaped a life sentence from the most common (fusion) "cure".

It made me to become my own medical researcher, and desperate enough to force my way into accessing the top echelons of leading edge medical science.

If I might ask. Does it involve discs?

my dr has wanted to fuse my neck as well as lower back for years,,, I feel like once they "fix" one set of fusions then it'll just kreep "up or down" from original site,, Ive seen it with my dad as well as several other people with " fused" backs nothing but trouble ,,,, So i suffer on ,,,, a silent death if you will ,,,,,, lmao spinal cord and back fractures are no joke ime ughhhh

 

[Ghoul]

100 percent , they wanted to operate on me and I still was not having it and asked for a referral to Stanford medical center and I got hooked up with a bad ass surgeon and told me I was the last person he would want to operate on don’t listen to the other surgeon and specialists.

Same, they told me I could get the fusion or disc replacement. With the fusion later the disc above and below will start to collapse. And the replacement is still kind of new and has its own negatives as well.

Same! Only I’m a in the lower echelons lol

Exactly, c5-c6 fully herniated in a bad way it slipped directly into my spinal canal and bruised my cord and pinched off some other nerves that control my arm.

That's almost identical to my situation. I was facing a pound of hardware rebuilding my cervical spine, guaranteeing disability and pain for life. My fingers were paralyzed by that point. Much longer and it would've been permanent.

I found a paper describing two level vertical disc replacement.

I had one of the first two level cervical disc replacements in the US, prior to FDA approval, by kicking down the door of the lead researcher on the project and convincing him to do the procedure on me.

30 neurosurgeons in the operating theater when I had it done. Went into surgery at 7AM. WALKED out into Manhatttan for pizza at 1pm.

100% back to normal, been more physically active than ever in the decade since. Surgeon made it clear, there were ZERO restrictions on activity.

Saved my quality of life.

 

[Ghoul]

@laclark89 @Ateam2023

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May 19, 2024

Stem Cells? I'd love to learn more.......

In my case multiple discs had been destroyed by my neck being twisted, pressing them into my spinal cord partially paralyzing my right arm.

The conventional surgery would have fused multiple vertebrae in my neck with a metal "cage" of bars and screws, permanently eliminating the ability of my spine to flex. Think no tilting your head back to look up, limited left and right motion, for life, along with putting pressure on the rest of the spine leading to it's inevitable degradation requiring more surgery.

This procedure installed...

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[heikokallbachtherealone]

Is tb500 helpful for destroyed discs

 

[Ghoul]

Is tb500 helpful for destroyed discs

Discs don't heal. Eventually all the gel gets squeezed out and if you're lucky what's left is no longer touching your spinal cord causing pain. Enough time after that and the vertebrae may fuse together in a way that doesn't cause pain, and in a geometry that doesn't result in adjacent discs getting destroyed.

Or you may end up crippled in one way or another with few options after they fuse.

Really better long term outcome by getting it dealt with by the best surgeon you can access, with the least invasive procedure, avoiding surgical fusion.

 

[ve79]

I know in Canada it legal like alcohol and said above alcohol isn't the best vice for keeping fit or well on cycle

I hear weed can increase estrogen. I'm not sure if that's true

 

[Ateam2023]

I hear weed can increase estrogen. I'm not sure if that's true

Research remains inconclusive, with conflicting findings on its impact on male hormonal balance and reproductive health,,,,

 

[bigboy420]

I used to cry how i love my dog when i got too high.

Might be connected

 

[Ghoul]

Objectively, endocrinology hasn't dived deeply enough into this, but pot is loaded with phytoestrogens and flooding the endocannabinoid receptor system certainly impacts hormones.

Subjectively, pot is a feminizing drug.

The high rate of gyno in men who are long term pot users isn't likely a coincidence.

It certainly shifts you deeper into "feelings".

Personally, having spent too much time drenched in THC at various points in my life, and going through the hell of digging out, I've come to the conclusion I prefer the relaxation afforded by confidence, being competent and in control than getting stoned and not giving a shit.

 

[ve79]

Objectively, endocrinology hasn't dived deeply enough into this, but pot is loaded with phytoestrogens and flooding the endocannabinoid receptor system certainly impacts hormones.

Subjectively, pot is a feminizing drug.

The high rate of gyno in men who are long term pot users isn't likely a coincidence.

It certainly shifts you deeper into "feelings".

Personally, having spent too much time drenched in THC at various points in my life, and going through the hell of digging out, I've come to the conclusion I prefer the relaxation afforded by confidence, being competent and in control than getting stoned and not giving a shit.

I agree . I have noticed I'm not the same when I go to the gym the next day from the night before of smoking. My aggression is lower so I'm sure positive weed has something to do hormonally

 

[laclark89]

Research remains inconclusive, with conflicting findings on its impact on male hormonal balance and reproductive health,,,,

True that. I’ve been around tons and tons of weed smokers. I’ve only smoked here and there and I have 1 boy 1 girl.
My dad smoked his whole life and had 5 girls and 3 boys. I have a good friend he’s the only boy with 7 sisters, his dad smoked his whole life, I have never more examples, and only marijuana.

Then I watched a think big podcast with skip hill and Justen Harris both known for loading pre contest and carb cycling. I trust all the years they have put in, they say there’s a ridiculous amount of gear users who have only had female children.

In my little brain and experience. There is some type of correlation.