Please don't delete. Not soliciting official medical advice or anything. I don't have anybody else to talk to or ask and if there's a solution I trust the knowledge base of this forum.
My past AAS use isn't the issue. Did big blasts and long cruises many years back. Then just TRT for the past 5-6 years. Stopped TRT when this started (just seemed prudent at the time, given the details)
Back in March my symptoms started. Severe chills and sweats. Sore throat. Constant headache. Nausea. Joint pains. Passed out once. Not much of a cough at all.. SEVERE pulsing kidney pain.
Wasn't tested to confirm. There are no treatments so there was no point.
Things gradually got better. Kidney pain lasted the longest of my symptoms but it slowly got better.
This summer I started running and doing light workouts. Have been able to improve very slowly with running and pullups, pushups, lunges etc.
The past couple weeks I started getting heart palpitations and a mild gripping heart pain when they occur.. This has happened to me very rarely since childhood so I wasn't too concerned. I've been diagnosed with a benign murmur way back. But it has never been this frequent (multiple times a day now)
My kidneys are starting to hurt again..
I'd rather die than regularly be on dialysis. Not joking.. I don't want an infection diagnosis on my record. I've been trying to enlist in the military and I'm supposed to have an entrance physical soon. I'm starting to wonder if I should scrap the idea.
I've accepted that the long game is.. We're all going to catch this. Over and over. Decreased lifespans. Wars. Economic collapse. Civil wars. Dark times. I'm going to make each day really count and live to the fullest until I can't anymore.
Started back on TRT today. 20mg test per day. Mental fog is already gone and energy is coming back. I've lost a LOT of muscle this year (40+ lbs) from little appetite, no lifting, and no TRT. I read about a kidney condition caused by rapid muscle loss so I think I need to normalize that and try to gain a little or maintain.
But I need to heal my kidneys and get the heart palpitations to settle down. I've read that there is no progress to be made after any stage of kidney failure. But I have to try.
I've been taking:
Multivitamin
Vit C occasionally
D3
Fish Oil
Quercetin
Zinc
Anybody have any ideas? Otherwise it's hookers and blow until I pop.
My past AAS use isn't the issue. Did big blasts and long cruises many years back. Then just TRT for the past 5-6 years. Stopped TRT when this started (just seemed prudent at the time, given the details)
Back in March my symptoms started. Severe chills and sweats. Sore throat. Constant headache. Nausea. Joint pains. Passed out once. Not much of a cough at all.. SEVERE pulsing kidney pain.
Wasn't tested to confirm. There are no treatments so there was no point.
Things gradually got better. Kidney pain lasted the longest of my symptoms but it slowly got better.
This summer I started running and doing light workouts. Have been able to improve very slowly with running and pullups, pushups, lunges etc.
The past couple weeks I started getting heart palpitations and a mild gripping heart pain when they occur.. This has happened to me very rarely since childhood so I wasn't too concerned. I've been diagnosed with a benign murmur way back. But it has never been this frequent (multiple times a day now)
My kidneys are starting to hurt again..
I'd rather die than regularly be on dialysis. Not joking.. I don't want an infection diagnosis on my record. I've been trying to enlist in the military and I'm supposed to have an entrance physical soon. I'm starting to wonder if I should scrap the idea.
I've accepted that the long game is.. We're all going to catch this. Over and over. Decreased lifespans. Wars. Economic collapse. Civil wars. Dark times. I'm going to make each day really count and live to the fullest until I can't anymore.
Started back on TRT today. 20mg test per day. Mental fog is already gone and energy is coming back. I've lost a LOT of muscle this year (40+ lbs) from little appetite, no lifting, and no TRT. I read about a kidney condition caused by rapid muscle loss so I think I need to normalize that and try to gain a little or maintain.
But I need to heal my kidneys and get the heart palpitations to settle down. I've read that there is no progress to be made after any stage of kidney failure. But I have to try.
I've been taking:
Multivitamin
Vit C occasionally
D3
Fish Oil
Quercetin
Zinc
Anybody have any ideas? Otherwise it's hookers and blow until I pop.