Source
r/Peptides•
LUClEN

[Question] TB-500 is shown to be immensely useful for helping generate new soft tissue and is used by athletes for this purpose. Is there a time limit on this effectiveness? How long after an injury can one expect it to be effective?

I had rhabdomyolysis and it has left was appears to be a lesion in my arm. My primary doctor thinks this is due to scarring and that it will not heal. Doing my own research and inquiry, I have learned that TB-500 can help, but I am about a year out from that injury, which makes me wonder: is it still worth buying?

Any insight is appreciated.

Posted Feb 16, 2019, 9:46 PM UTC

215
[deleted]•

Unrelated to the main point but look into proteolytic enzymes (Wobenzym) and red/near infrared light therapy, apparently helps with scar tissue.

3
unit1_nz•

Depends how bad the scaring us. If it is light scaring throughout the muscle, then some TB500 plus rehab (stretching and rolling) will help. But if it is serious scaring then you might need some surgery to remove the scare tissue.

2
LUClENOP•

swearing intensifies

Would you happen to know offhand whether the light therapy mentioned by the other poster can be used in place of surgery?

1
LilGrunties•

You may want to look into GHK-Cu if there is significant scar tissue. I have seen research showing it is capable of lessening even very old scar tissue (and regrowing hair, reforming collagen!)

As far as administration of GHK-Cu, I am not sure what it looks like. I've heard of people mixing it with moisturizer for surface scars.

However, proceed with caution as I have also seen mention that GHK-Cu can has an affect on the cell lifecycle. Definitely something you could look into though...good luck!

2
unit1_nz•

Sorry can't say. I have only had scar tissue removal surgery myself.

1
LUClENOP•

Would you mind sharing the process? I'd prefer not to go under the knife but if I have to it would be nice to know:

  1. What kind of doctors did you have see to get the procedure okayed?

  2. What was recovery like?

  3. Is it costly?

1
unit1_nz•

Mine was a different injury (partial thumb amputation) and following the initial reattachment the scar tisdue was preventing normal function. I then had scar tissue removal which immediately after was really good, but progressively got worse again as the scar tissue re-formed. But overall there was a slight improvement compaeed to original. But I blame the phyiso afterwards as they should have been more aggessive with movement.

2
WiseyThaNinja•

Can anyone actually afford tb-500 much less find a real source

2
joek84•

It doesn't seem to be too expensive? Unless where I'm seeing is fake and the real stuff is more expensive?

1
WiseyThaNinja•

It’s like 50 dollars a day and supposedly faked everywhere.

2
LUClENOP•

There are a lot of peptide sources providing it for roughly half that

1
WiseyThaNinja•

Ok well even 25 dollars a day makes by far the most expensive peptide. Combine that with the fact that it’s widely faked and it’s just a pain in the ass.

3
otakumuscle•

can you provide some research for 'immensely useful' for anything regarding tb500?

1