bigdaddyandfriends
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Sample size of 1 here...This might be a dumb question...but I have 3 herniated discs....IGF would possibly help?
Completely blew out my L4-5 disc many years ago, full extrusion into the central canal on MR. I didn't have any motor symptoms so said no to recommended surgery. Had intermittent low back pain and occasional sciatica symptoms for years after. I sometimes couldn't even get into/out my car (admittedly not the easiest to get into/out of) without a lot of pain.
Since a few months after starting GH I have had zero back pain/symptoms. I started androgens prior to GH, and that alone did not help although I suspect the combination is syngeristic. GH started at 2.5iu per day, I had very annoying carpal tunnel symptoms and had to slowly increase / back off dosing, but ultimately worked up to 7.5iu per days. Now that gives me only a minimal tingle in the fingers a few hours after injection. GH has been from TP (Meditrope), K4L, Opti, SSA, QSC... all tested well and seem equally good in practice.
Being symptom free I never bothered getting the MR repeated, figure whatever is there doesn't matter as it won't change what I do. Very thankful I didn't opt for surgery!

