Yeah i think i had to go through this route before realizing it was all about my gut. The water fasting i did should have made me realize it before the TRT trial.
Anyways, only thing i have to do is to find a proper protocol for my issue.
Although my Zonulin levels showed healthy ranges i believe i have leaky gut too. My dybiosis index was 15 out of 30, 30 being worse and two main bacterias for intestinal mucosa\ barrier, Akkermansia and Prevotella was very low!
I think this is my issue: SIBO+ Leaky Gut= Auto Immune Response and+ or inflammation on nearby organs.
This caused pelvic floor dysfunction and prostate inflammation. This is why i still have high libido with numb genitals. This explains it all…
Now, the hardest part is to fix it, i have an another PAS friend who told me he had complete reversal of his similar sexual issues on his 5th water fast! But then regressed back to numb state after the fast, breaking it with proper foods.
Also, on my first and only 14 day water fast last winter, i also had bigger scrotum bloodflow and better sensitivity although the sensitivity part was very minimal. Went from %5 to %30 out of 100% being healthy normal i would say.
After breaking the fast i ate gluten free diet with Akkermansia and Prevotella increasing foods, like berries and such. I also took special leaky gut supplements to heal my barrier.
I took really good stuff on high doses along with the pre- biotics my naturopath gave it to me. So pro and pre biotics with lots of good gut health supplements for like 2 months…
However i didn’t experience benefits that much… Scrotum fullness stayed a bit and then disappeared. Sensitivity was still bad\ same. This was almost a year ago. Now this experience makes me scared a bit because how hard it seems to heal the gut but maybe that was because i didn’t include a sibo treatment along with it. I didn’t know i had sibo back then…
I also tried Rifaximin only (Usually Neomycin or Flagyl is taken together to beat Methane SIBO, i didn’t have those in the pharmacy.) for 2 weeks before getting the sibo test, and i had die off symptoms, my issues worsened as well as insomnia and obsessive thoughts were more present!
I have a feeling that i will fix all of my issues, including my acne problem and my PAS once i heal my gut.
But i lack scientific knowledge on auto immune diseases. Can Accutane caused a direct effect on my auto immune health, therefore causing my gut issues? Or is it vice versa you’d say? @lordgains
Accutane damaging something in my gut and thus causing auto immune response is more likely to me…
Anyways, is there any info you can share with me so i can use it in order to recover?
I am thinking about doing a second 10 day water fast for a clean start. And then doing a special diet for SIBO. (Maybe Flagyl+ Rifaximin combo again if this fails, a guy on Reddit (lastround360) recovered with this combo, he had similar issues from Anti Depressant drugs.)
No anti- biotics, no pro- pre biotics! Just diet. (Maybe that’s why my first water fast trial was a failure.)
Because a Dr. guy in our telegram group explained how probiotics and anti- biotics can worsen the SIBO and it is best to stick with diet only. Is this true?
One more thing, i can test some auto immune antibodies like ANA, ENA etc. in a hospital as seeing some other members in my group showed positive results for other antibodies like muscarinic receptor antibodies or something…
But i find that test couldn’t provide me anything useful? I mean only way to treat auto immune issues is IVIG, Plasmapheresis etc. which costs a fortune!!! I better try to fix the root cause manually, i guess rather than focusing on auto immune antibody tests and treatments? (You guys can search: ‘‘PSSD Auto Immune results’’ on Reddit for a reference.)
Thanks for everything guys, especially to @lordgains, over the years (wow!) you helped me a lot in this journey. Thank you for your time, i hope someday i can help you with something else.
I am finally confident about my findings. I just need a very good plan to beat this. Anyone who can share his opinions or knowledge, please do.
One last question, @lordgains can auto immune issues exist locally, like in my case? I don’t have general auto immune symptoms, my issues locate only on lower half of my body. Gut, prostate, bladder, genitals and that’s it. Is this possible or auto immune issues are always systemic?
So maybe i have inflammatory type of issues rather than auto immune maybe? But can this explain my numbness issues?