HGH & FMS Experiment

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Thumper tries HGH for Fibromyalgia symptoms... film at 11

Fibromyalgia is Latin for "Holy Frijole, everything on me freaking hurts." Or something like that...

Still...there are no whiners here.

Imagine...

...having a Charlie horse--all over your body.

...having the flu--all the time.

...feeling like you've been backed over by a tractor...every single day.

...waking up and being afraid to step out of bed because you know--without a doubt--that when your foot hits the floor, a knife will cut through your body, and the feeling won't stop.

...not being able to sleep.

...fatigue seeping from every pore of your body, running in thick rivers that pool at your feet like concrete shoes.

...feeling like every muscle in your body is on fire, and nothing will put it out.

...feeling like you're about to come apart at the seams--and your doctor tells you it's "All In Your Head."

Just Imagine.

©1997,2005 K.A. Thompson

One of the theories about Fibromyalgia Syndrome is that there may be an endocrinological base--that the pain associated with FMS may exist because of a lack of, or the body's inability to use existing supplies of, Growth Hormone.

On June 26, 2002, I had a tumor removed from my pituitary gland; this tumor left me with diabetes insipidus, premature menopuase, and as discovered recently, a lack of Growth Hormone.

The problem is, no one knows how long the tumor was there, and no one knows whether or not I was deficient in Growth Hormone prior to developing the tumor.

Because of some of the studies regarding Fibromyalgia--something I have lived with since January 1997--and Human Growth Hormone, I have opted to give HGH replacement a try. It may be a way to work past the pain of FMS, a way to build lean muscle mass, lose body fat, and hopefully, offer measureable hope to recovery.

This blog will chronicle my progress, or lack of it. I will include details of how it makes me feel, the exercise routines I will use to help speed up loss of body fat, dietary changes, and any changes in body shape and pain reduction.

FMS Links

Dr. Devin Starlanyl
American Fibromyalgia Association
FMS Network
Chronic Syndrome Support Association
Living With FMS

3/13/2004

My instruction on how to inject myself with HGH came from the Spouse Thingy; I could have gone to a how-to clinic at the base hospital, but was never pressured to, presumably because he could show me what to do, where to do it, etc.

One thing he mentioned was to pull back on the syringe after injecting it and look for blood; you don’t want blood, you’re not supposed to inject HGH into the blood stream.

So I did that…every time, for nearly a year. The other day I finally pulled back and the syringe filled with blood…and it occurred to me, I’d never asked what to do if that happened. Pull it out and move it? Toss the whole thing out and start over? Inject it anyway? He wasn’t home to ask, and I wasn’t about to get on the phone to the Nurse’s Hotline with a needle hanging out of my arm.

I pulled it out and moved it over half an inch and injected it anyway, figuring that’s my own blood, so no harm, no foul. And one screwup was probably not the end of the world.

I asked him a couple of days later; I did the right thing. Lesson learned: when presented with “you don’t want this to happen,” find out what to do if it does happen.

I can hear you all from here…“well…duh!”

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