[EddieF]

Story on news other night about Progesterone and TBI (brain injury).
"administered hrs after brain injury can block damage to brain tissue"
"thought as a female hormone, reality is its actually a neuro steroid"
"it's made in the brain, for the brain, by the brain"
Mortality rate was decreased 50% when given infusion hrs after inuury. wow?

This is name that was on bottle http://www.protectiii.com

I got excited over this cause i've been pushing my neuro for the estrogen estriol for months thinking its the one in pregnant women that help with MS remission but maybe its the combo of progesterone AND estriol?

news story http://www.wptv.com/mediacenter/local.aspx select medical breakthroughs.

[Mark in Idaho]

I posted about progesterone last December. There is a problem with it as a therapy. The doctor who did the research is trying to patent it. The name you mentioned is the name of the study. This is the third study. The first to be using double blind clinical study methods. The open study has shown very good results.
There is a generic version known as bio-identical progesterone. Hopefully, the FDA will not prevent it from being used as a brain injury therapy.

There needs to be action to get the FDA to prevent the over-charging for this therapy. The FDA and Big Pharma have already tried to get bio-identical hormones outlawed. With the incidence of brain injury in this country, any attempt to over-profitize this therapy should be fought.

[vini]

welcome Eddie f

thanks for the link, these after burn drugs are being used a lot more now , if only the doctors in A&E would prescribe as a matter of cause for all head injured people. or at least run a study. how many of you guys and gurls with PCS have had normal scan results ? then gone on to have problems, they run adds in the UK for prompt action with stroke,s so these type of drugs can be administered ASAP , there is an epidemic of head injury out there, in our bizzy world even the term complete bed rest has been dropped, at present that is the best treatment to limit the effect of after burn damage in MTBI

best practice for more serious injury is to remove large sections of the skull leaving someone disfigured for months even if it is only temporary the psychological damage to one,s image must be hard to recover from

we know more about the universe than we do the human brain

so we must all hope, that these doctors and researches are granted the genius , and inspiration to further understand the most complex thing we know of ??? ourselves