Muscular dystrophy, Advice for muscle gaining

[jeffreygev]

Hi everyone!

I've been diagnosed with a mild form of muscular dystrophy. This means that my upper legs and my lower back are weaker than they should be. This is a slowly but progressive condition, that makes it difficult to walk stairs, run and to squat. I've been using tb-500 for a while now and it really helped me to feel more fit and stronger during walks and other activities. Doctors don't give a lot of advice, since they just know about medication to regulate pain. This doesn't apply to me.

I would like to know if anyone has advice on using peptides, steroids or anything else. I'm considering using Follistatin 344 or 315 and/or HGH. I'm not familiar with using other things than tb500 and bpc 187. So I would really appreciate it if someone has some experience/information to share.

I also need to know how to cycle peptides with HGH or other substances, and how it works with checking your blood values.

Thanks for reading,

Jeffrey

 

[17Alpha]

Follistatin 344 maybe not a good idea. HGH is barely anabolic. Trenbolone has the strongest binding affinity for the glucocorticoid receptor but this seems not viable in the long term. What about prednisone? It seems like a standard in DMD

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32671599/

 

[janoshik]

Do not use anabolic steroids or HGH!!
Do not do heavy lifting with muscular dystrophy!!

Man, half the muscular dystrophies have all sorts of fucked up heart issues that you will only accelerate by using AAS, GH and related.

Heavy exercise will only promote irreversible muscle breakdown for you.

If you exercise with intensity making you unable to handle a conversation during exercise, you are fucking up yourself in middle and long run badly.

Brisk 10-20 minute walks are the way for you.

None of the compounds you have mentioned has any real potential to help dystrophy.


What DOES help:
1. mild exercise and very mild stretching
2. actively keeping good posture
3. immunosupression can slow down the progress, but comes with a myriad of its own issues
4. having your heart checked regularly in case your specific typo of dystrophy is associated with heart damage. and having it checked even if it isn't.

 

[17Alpha]

Maybe more on in the direction of training method: BFR. But in general the knowledge you require is very specific and not the themes of this board imo

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655283/