My treatment was actually more complicated than most, and they combined treatments over several days because of the distance I had to travel. I have lumbar stenosis as a result of degenerative disc disease pinching nerves into my legs, and both hips have osteoarthritis and labral tears. I had nineteen injections of PRP and platelet lysate into L3, L4, and L5. My back pain was lowest on my list of concerns, but that resolved almost instantly, improving I'd say 85%. Leg pain is mostly gone now, four weeks later.
The hips are a bit different story. Since my right hip was in worse shape, the doctor used every stem cell he could harvest (from both iliac crests) in that location, and also did a "bone augmentation" procedure where they drilled into the ball of the femur to deliver some of the stem cells inside the bone. I don't know how many total injections were done. The left hip he used a newer technique, of micronized adipose tissue from my butt cheek injected inside the joint. Two days later, I had another injection of PRP into the right hip.
The hips are slow, and the general consensus is the six-week mark is when you begin noticing solid improvement. I'm at four weeks now, and while I'm still hobbling around, things are noticeably better. One thing that complicates matters is I can't take any pain medication. Opiates cause serious hiccups that interfere with my breathing, and meloxicam causes ringing in my hears and muffled hearing. NSAIDs actually interfere with the healing process, anyway. But to have to tough this out without any pain medication causes me to dig deep, shall we say.
The doctor said it would be wise for me to have periodic PRP boosters, every six months to start, then annually.
Regenexx is the industry pioneer and leader here in the U.S. I wouldn't trust any other clinic to provide this technology.
You might try 3 and 5 day water fasts. They are painful but the human body has amazing survival adaptations built into it. After about 14 hours of not eating your body goes into Autophagy, where it starts scavaging cells that are dead or damaged, potentially even cancer cells. But, after about 24-36 hours (IIRC) your body starts producing stem cells in quantity. The longer you fast, the more cells your body creates. It does other things as well but these are the ones that address your specific situation.
If you go this route, the refeed is to eat a mostly protein food in a small quantity, say about half your normal meal portion. Then about 3-4 hours later another larger course of mostly protein with some carbs. After a couple hours you are back on whatever you want. Plenty of youtube videos on this.
How is that going for you? Is it helping? And do they inject it into the hips, or is it an IV?
My treatment was actually more complicated than most, and they combined treatments over several days because of the distance I had to travel. I have lumbar stenosis as a result of degenerative disc disease pinching nerves into my legs, and both hips have osteoarthritis and labral tears. I had nineteen injections of PRP and platelet lysate into L3, L4, and L5. My back pain was lowest on my list of concerns, but that resolved almost instantly, improving I'd say 85%. Leg pain is mostly gone now, four weeks later.
The hips are a bit different story. Since my right hip was in worse shape, the doctor used every stem cell he could harvest (from both iliac crests) in that location, and also did a "bone augmentation" procedure where they drilled into the ball of the femur to deliver some of the stem cells inside the bone. I don't know how many total injections were done. The left hip he used a newer technique, of micronized adipose tissue from my butt cheek injected inside the joint. Two days later, I had another injection of PRP into the right hip.
The hips are slow, and the general consensus is the six-week mark is when you begin noticing solid improvement. I'm at four weeks now, and while I'm still hobbling around, things are noticeably better. One thing that complicates matters is I can't take any pain medication. Opiates cause serious hiccups that interfere with my breathing, and meloxicam causes ringing in my hears and muffled hearing. NSAIDs actually interfere with the healing process, anyway. But to have to tough this out without any pain medication causes me to dig deep, shall we say.
The doctor said it would be wise for me to have periodic PRP boosters, every six months to start, then annually.
Regenexx is the industry pioneer and leader here in the U.S. I wouldn't trust any other clinic to provide this technology.
You might try 3 and 5 day water fasts. They are painful but the human body has amazing survival adaptations built into it. After about 14 hours of not eating your body goes into Autophagy, where it starts scavaging cells that are dead or damaged, potentially even cancer cells. But, after about 24-36 hours (IIRC) your body starts producing stem cells in quantity. The longer you fast, the more cells your body creates. It does other things as well but these are the ones that address your specific situation. If you go this route, the refeed is to eat a mostly protein food in a small quantity, say about half your normal meal portion. Then about 3-4 hours later another larger course of mostly protein with some carbs. After a couple hours you are back on whatever you want. Plenty of youtube videos on this.