Climbing out of the abyss
Hi all, I’m down in a hole, losing my soul every day. Not sure if I can be saved but I’m not going down without a fight. My life changed when a suv ran a red light pedal to the medal, clipped the rear end of my Honda Pilot sending it airborne, did a 180 in the air while traveling 10-20 yards and landed on its side. I escaped from the driver side window that shattered open and collapsed on the side of road, seeing two totaled cars as bystanders surrounded me, sirens flashed, helicopters hovering up above. I started hyperventilating, went into state of shock where I just stared down at the road, and felt extreme burning sensation through my extremities.
34 yr old male, 200lb 16% BF
MRI is clean but I have post concussion symptoms being brain fog, chronic tension headache, head pressure, post convergence insufficient(hard to track objects, draw eyes inward), sensitive to light and sound, low energy, inability to handle stressors, disturbed sleep.
I’ve been researching for the past 6 months the hormone connection with TBI. At times, my T levels were 204,340,and 540 over span of 4 months.
There is a book out by Dr Larry Komer, who I believe trained under Dr Mark Gordon, that T levels should be above 600 for TBI patients to optimally heal.
I also have chronic tense neck muscles with trigger points that refer pain to my head and mimics the tension headaches I experience. I’ve done physical therapy, lidocaine injections, facet injections, dry needling/trigger point massage 1xweek for over a year. Cervical mri was clean.
I’ve done ketogenic diet past 6 weeks but it made pain much worse, and I was taking 4 Lortab pills to function. I am now weening off them and down to 1day. I also take ambien to sleep as pain prevents me from getting to bed but still often wake up at 3am. My circadian ryythm got completely messed up after my 2nd child.
My primary dr is willing to do TRT. He’s open minded and has said he’s seen the research showing TRT can help with tbi.
I’m a bit lost when it times to GH. I know Dr Mark Gordon proton has to do with some type of hormone...progesterone possibly in conjunction with TRT. Problem is doing initial analysis with him cost $2500.
It seems most anti-aging Clinic are extremely expensive and I’ve already spent 5 figures on therapies that haven’t worked.
My plan was after I’ve been off pain pills for 2-3 months, to start TRT. And then if that doesn’t help with my neck muscles, I’d do BPC-157 and/or TB500.
All I do is research everyday; but this is not my area of experitse so seeking guidance on if my plan makes sense. I’ve seen the top neuro’s at Mayo Clinic, they are pretty much useless and dismissive saying I should be fine since MRI doesn’t show damage. Thank you for any input.