how do I get prescribed HGH and insurance coverage

[football47]

I pinched my nerve in my should back in october, but stop lifting because of another injury in August. I can't feel most of my bicep, and my 3 deltoid muscles are literally gone. I can't even hold up my cell phone for 5seconds without extreme fatigue. I use to weight 175lbs, around 8% body fat, now im 155lbs and i feel like a skeleton because I can't lift. There is severe atrophy on my pinched nerve shoulder. I play college football and i know how long it takes to build muscle. Im done with footballl if I can't get HGH or some other supplement to help me. I know this for a fact. Any advise? will a doctor prescribe me HGH or something else? I can not lift right now anyways but this is a question for when i regain arms normal functions. Everyone who has answered this question for me, never understands what im trying to say. I know HGH will not heal my arm, I want to use it when my arms healed to bring back the muscle. Im trying to stress this! Ive been lifting since i was 14 years old, and now im 19. I know how long it takes to build muscle, I know all the lifts, etc. My doctor told me there is no surgery for my arm, and hes a pretty well known doctor in the Syracuse area, however I never thought to ask him about the HGH. I want the HGH to get my muscle back in my shoulder when it heals, and it would be nice so I can get back on track! Please help me out!

[Big Steve]

not many doctors will prescribe you gh to build muscle.. injuries are a setback, all athletes get them. when ur injury heals it wont take long until your muscle builds up again with the right natural supplements. u just have to be patient

[BBC3]

Football, I am guessing that you pinched a nerve in the C5 neck area. I have done this from coughing with my head turned sideways. I have been to your picnic. The punch sucks, I know. Waking up in the morning and cant even lift your arm to shave your face without tears from the pain. If C5, you will also notice that you bench related tricept is atrophying along with your upper interior right peck. This always seems to affect right side. You should also be numb in your right thumb, pointer, and middle finger tips. OR at least feel it there. OK, if I am on track then I can tell you that since my injury I can not tell you how many middle aged men I have polled that this has happend to.. IT WILL HAUNT YOU THE REST OF YOUR DAYS. Eight years later I still feel slight numbness in my fingertips, and the affected muscles will atrophe at a faster rate if I do not train. Now for the positive. I am assuming you were smart enough to see an orthopedic. If not get there not. If you have visual atrophe, you may even get lucky and get an MRI for this. Your doc was at least smart enough to tell you there is not surgery for this. This is true in that once you have a back surgery you are truely fucked. Regardless on the C section, the piched nerve is inflaming the muscles adjacent and making them contract. This is a viscous cycle that worsenes its self. You have to control this inflamation and muscles contracting causing problems to worsen. He may have given you a non-anabolic corti-steroid Z type pack to reduce inflamation. This will help to a small degres but will not stop the issue. You have to now relax the muscles with a muscle relaxant. Flexeril worked for me. This stopped the pain in a few days. You can soon then get onto rehabing it. Also I had a chiropractor and got lucky. he helped as well. But most importantly I learned how to pop my neck and keep it loose so that this does not happen again. Carefull with those guys as some could hurt you!

You did not give enought info. So if your injury was very traumatic and you have already had an MRI confirming a disk compression or rupture then you have a different ballgame. Unfortunately the only help for you is to go on living the best you can and try to put off a surgery as long as you can. Remember that if you have a surgery where they separate to vertebra by freezing two vertibra in place with a bone implant or plate. What happens then is that the disks on both sides start to feel the straign of the frozen one between them and it begins to destroy thye next two disks on both sides. And then so on. This is why surgery is best avoided. In that condition I have ALWAYS said that I would try growth hormone to fix. I would get some IGF-1 ( whick is a more effective subset of GH), and spend many hours a day (if not all night) on an inversion table trying to create space in that area for the disk to grow back. Thats just my theory on how I would handle that situation. Again, take me with a large grain of salt as well. Thats the first rule at these forums.

Give us some more info. Am I even close to the money? Read everything again and get to an ortho if you have not. I would not wish this pain on anyone and my thoughts are with you.

[football47]

Well this is much more than a setback, a set back is a broken bone, or fracture bone, my arm could be like this up to 18months while my arm is continuously losing muscle, holding my arm up gives me great great fatigue, so don't tell me this is a setback you make it seem like its a minor thing.

[football47]

the numbness pertains only to my 3 deltoids, I pinched it on my second play of one of my game for my second tackle. If my arms stressed to much it will kill just to slightly move it for several days. I thought it was just a stinger, but ive seen several doctors like ive said, specialists. I've got an MRI, and nerve conduction test on October 13th, I am hoping it will show my deltoids are working better now, but the thing is i need HGH to build the muscle back in time for football. Im not lazy, and I know how to lift, theres just to much muscle loss in my deltoids to do this naturally and I really don't want to take steriods. My shoulder is just bone now, there is literally nothing to it, I hate people telling me to build it back naturally. I thought HGH would be a better alternative. I know steriods when taken properly aren't as bad for you, but I don't really feel safe taking them still. I don't want to resort to steriods if I can't get HGH with insurance covering it because it will be to expensive for me.

[BBC3]

OK, a couple of things. Sounds like you had surgery to repair bone. There are two scenarios. Either the broken bone has severed a nerve, or you doc did while cutting in. Did it already feel numb prior to surgey? OR your doc put a plate over the nerve. Either way if your doc did it he will never admit and you will need to see another orthopedic. The first scenerio is probably not repairable. If he would admit to you that there is a chance he put a plate on top of the nerve then this is a start.

Regarding your question I apologize I went so far off skey. Will growth hormone regrow the muscle. The most likely answer in no, due to the fact that it sounds like you have a severed or compressed nerve and without a signal to tell the muscle to work, it will not grow back. Steroids nor growth hormone will simple cause muscle to grow. You have to be able to summons it for that. Sorry for the negative answer. Now Personally I would give the GH a try to see if it could repair the nerve. Or even create of rerout of signal with intensive therapy/training. Maybe that it is just a plate on top of the nerve. If the doc cut it with his scaple it would be bad and dont stop until the finest neurosurgeon has told you he cant help. Some prople, especially extraordinary atheletes, have MANY nerves as well as nerves that are not in the "normal" areas and this can lead to a doc severing one. I hope I am odd off the money again.

[Need2Grow]

Hey dude, I feel sorry for you bro, football used to be my life as well.....but like most college athletes, that dream usually comes to an end one way or another.

No doctor is going to prescribe you HGH (or steroids for that matter) to rebuild yourself so that you can go play football again. That's illegal, and unless they are willing to risk their medical license and 10 years of med school for your college football carrer, you can save the trip to your M.D. They may give you small, theraputical amounts to help your natural recovery, but that's about it.

I know this first hand after seeking help from my doctor for steroid related issues. All I needed was a box of Nolvadex (not steroids) to prevent gynocomastia, and he wouldn't even do that. They want you to wait and let your body compensate and recover naturally, because this is what they are taught in med school. The problem is, athletes aren't normal people, they take their physical limits to the extremes to compete.

Best advise I can give you if you are dead set on it is to save your money, do a hell of a lot of research, plan your cycle AND recovery, and find a reputable supplier on your own.

[football47]

I have not had surgery, and nothings going to keep me from playing football, and I mean nothing. I need HGH to just be able to function in my normal life, reguardless of wether I was playing football or not. I obviously wouldn't mention football for a reason to get HGH because then it sounds like im doing it only for football. I have never taken steriods, or HGH, ive always gone the natural way, but to much muscle loss and the natural way won't cut it. I think it would be unfair not to give HGH to me given my unique situation, and how much ive lost, Ive lost years and years of progress and muscle development. I also want to state that HGH is not a steriod.

[bigrobbie]

Originally Posted by football47

I have not had surgery, and nothings going to keep me from playing football, and I mean nothing. I need HGH to just be able to function in my normal life, reguardless of wether I was playing football or not. I obviously wouldn't mention football for a reason to get HGH because then it sounds like im doing it only for football. I have never taken steriods, or HGH, ive always gone the natural way, but to much muscle loss and the natural way won't cut it. I think it would be unfair not to give HGH to me given my unique situation, and how much ive lost, Ive lost years and years of progress and muscle development. I also want to state that HGH is not a steriod.

HGH alone will not do the trick, you are more likely to get a doctor to give you Testosterone

than HGH. Jumping into HGH is not the answer. Test is given for severe injuries including

burns, AIDS (to prevent muscle wasting), and accidents or injuries that cause muscle loss.

Why are you so against doctor prescribed Testosterone?

[football47]

Im not agianst it, if he offered me something I would take it, I know that HGH isn't going to work until my arm is healed, which ive been says forever but you guys don't listen well enough. My doctors aware of muscle loss in my arm, hes seen it like 3 times and said theres nothing he can do about it. I already know that the muscles going to waste away no matter what I do, but when my nerve heals in my arm thats when im going to need something to help build the muscle back, but I don't wanna do anything thats too unhealthy.