Why does it have to be a cure right now? Why cant it bring some relief and hope to us all, to know we are building on the right track. maybe a cure will never happen in our lifetime, but the direction we are going in is positive.@inadmin has a point, can we really conclude **anything** from one single person who got her T subjectively softened (by 75%)?
We do not even know if she got the real deal or a placebo. We all know T can be quite whimsical. Furthermore, there's spontaneous recovery and worsening over time. Thus I think it's way too early for us to celebrate anything here, let alone rewarding someone with the Nobel prize, which I think should be exclusively reserved for a **genuine cure**.
Drugs in general are just a short-term fix, taking them long-term can have severe side effects (see Benzos and ADs).
Worse, let's assume this meds just lowers T and you took them for years, chances are that if your T gets mild enough by popping those pills you hab to this low T. However, as soon as you tapper off T comes back at full force; subjectively fiercer than ever.
I saw it with my dad, he had dysfunctional kidneys and took meds for many years only to get a brain aneurysm and be completely disabled and bedridden. That's one reason I'm not a fan of long-term drugs.
So until there is more conclusive data I'll take this news with a grain of salt. Call me a pessimist if you wish, but I'm just a reasonable realist.
No offense, your are a pessimist, and maybe rightly so because how much i read youa re suffering, but i am surprised you cant see the positivity in this news. At least things are moving in the right direction. yes you are right, no drug is perfect. I have taken an Ad most of my adult life and without them I would not be here, they have saved my life on more than one occassion. I certainly understand your suffering, not with T because mine is not as bad as yours, but with crippliing depression that got at my very soul. I will take some measure of happiness in this news, I wish you would as well because as many have expressed to you.=this is a SUPPORT forum. I will agree with all those who preach it and the therapy i have been in -healing starts when you try to look and build on the POSITIVE things in your life, not easy but its a start. I hope for your sake you start to see that.