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Just want to revisit this to see if there are any new anecdotes of temporary recoveries, and what may have caused them.

I'm still so confused as to why I had a week long recovery when I went through a week believing that it was mentally induced. I'm curious to hear of others' temp recoveries.

Also, how do these temp recoveries fit into the theory of altered genetics?

I too believe this problem is mostly mental. I have had several semi-recoveries and my head is the most clear during those stretches. When I overdid weed one night, my anxiety came back full force and my penis was the smallest I have seen it, period. Depression and anxiety don't account for everything, but a very large part I believe. I think the brain dictates a lot more of this than we realize. Quite honestly, it's scary. I really wonder if there are anti-depressants I could be taking that would help me out.

I believe it has to do with the anti-bodies. As soon as your body is recovering, probably producing DHT it senses it and then shoots off anti-bodies to combat it and that is why you go back to PFS. We are stuck in an endless negative loop.

And if you read a lot of the stories in this thread you see that many people feel a brief recovery after a stressful situation. Thus, stress increases cortisol probably gets the DHT and test going, so a little brief recovery and then it can not maintain it or for some reason anti-bodies come out and back to PFS.