Compression of the median nerve occurs either due to the swelling of the nerve itself or the surrounding tissues, or due to their thickening.
Tunnel Syndrome with Growth Hormone Use
Growth hormone (through IGF-1) remarkably stimulates the growth of connective tissue, meaning that with excessively high concentrations in the blood over a long period, tendon thickening surrounding the median nerve can occur.
Studies show that CTS usually occurs in two out of three regular users of exogenous growth hormone. It doesn't matter whether you take breaks between injections—the total duration of the "course" and the injection volume are important.
With a dose not exceeding 15 IU of growth hormone per week (assuming a high-quality product), the risk of developing tunnel syndrome will be minimal, if any.
A dosage exceeding 30 IU per week practically guarantees the development of CTS.
However, sudden numbness in the middle finger (and often the entire hand, which is most commonly observed during sleep) sometimes begins to bother you literally from the first injections of growth hormone.
In this case, tunnel syndrome is exclusively caused by swelling of either the median nerve itself or the tissues surrounding it.
Most often, this is a reaction to foreign proteins, which, I remind you, can be found in abundance in unpurified somatropin, and the body may perceive somatrem itself as a foreign protein. Usually, it completely disappears or significantly weakens after discontinuation of injections.
Thus, rapidly occurring tunnel syndrome can be considered indirect confirmation that you have most likely received a product of blatantly low quality.
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