@AaronF But if it lowered androgens surely i wouldve felt something slightly?
Maybe enough to were you still couldnāt feel the effect it took 2 years to start seeing symptoms which was fatigue
Going to update, had an appointment with my GP, to no surprise did he find my side-effects amusing and more of a psychosomatic matter, didnāt bother checking up on PFS but gave me a very short-cut hormone test on my T, E2 and T3/T4, regardless, Iām finding it unlikely that my symptoms are purely hormonal.
I still got sides lingering although they are improving/some arenāt, but i want to reach back to 100% if not more, Iāve been looking at CDnuts protocol and although the scepticism that exists on this page, Iāll be going through the journey with minor changes incorporated with updates on whether or not it has any effects.
My taste/smell are nearly back to pre-fin after 42 days, browsing through this page is devastating for the soul of whomever is suffering, and i wish thereād be a bigger emphasises on the ones who are recovering, and that a recovery IS possible in terms of all side-effects experienced. People donāt post recovery stories or brief recoveries just to lie about it, donāt be sceptical, and i know itās hard when youāre truly suffering. I remember the first week i went through posts with sides i experienced, and all i was left with was hopelessness.
Hey guys, just another update. I decided to keep track of my sides from day 1, these are the ones remaining:
Muscle wastage
Thin skinning x
Dry skin x
Water retention (skin indentures) x
Fiber neuropathy (MUCH BETTER)
Unable to taste
Smell alterations
Unable to feel temperatures
Unable to itch
Rubbery genitals
Balloon genitals
Stiff genitals
Numb genitals
Skin shrinkage x
Numb scalp
Muscle twitches
Numb prostate
Numb anus
Pelvic floor dysfunction
Impotence
0 libido
Tooth pain
Anhedonia
Suicidal thoughs
Emotional bluntness x
Depression x
24/7 Brain fog x
Insomnia x
Muscle numbess/bone numbness
Fatigue
No appetite
Dizziness
Vision decrease
Personality change x (Still not myself yet)
Lowered body temperature x
Abdominal pain (Much better)
Bloating
Gas x (still smells like sulfur)
Joint pain
Dark rings under eye
Loss of memory (Better)
Focus (Better)
Anxiety
Hot flushes
Cold flushes
Headaches x
Reduced penile sensitivity x
Vericose veins x (Entire body, guess this one is permanent unless surgery)
Brain/body disconnection (Itās still not how i used to feel pre-fin)
I was so scared i couldnāt sleep alone, this is luckily gone too.
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Penile sensitivity is back to 100% from rubber dick, feels good, hormonal cycle seems inconsistent and usually rockets during midnight, still got an inconsistency in size as it fluctuates throughout the day while flaccid.
A lot of mental sides are gone including depression, but brainfog definitely still the worst side and has been ongoing 24/7 for more than 3 months, although my derealisation has improved tremendously, i still feel off
Dry skin gone too, but left a few cracks on my face sadly and body
Maybe this is beatable
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Thanks for sharing, keep us updated man.
@Yusef Did you experience a crash or just consistent improvement? Glad to hear you are improving my friend
Only had my two crashes with a week inbetween, first one, then second one with mental sides (brain fog)
Do you know what triggered your crashes?
Well, fin obviously, literally 10-15 minutes after taking the cancerous pill i had a tingling in my genitals & anus, went away when i woke up. 2 days after i ate shit tons of pasta & ketchup and few hours later my body was literally shutting down accompanied by extreme heart pounding, felt like i was going in to cardiac arrest. My entire body was numb for a whole week, but was very gradually returning, 1 week after, the EXTREME brainfog was there after being awake for 40 hours, tried to sleep, got 30 minutes, boom, insomnia didnāt let me get some sleep, and boom, brainfog.
The first 7 days i didnāt eat anything, only juice & soup.
Iāve had a very slow and gradual recovery day by day after that, never thought iād recover, imagine being numbed in all your senses and food/smell, just everything being completely different, i couldnāt taste anything for shit, and everything smelled different, but those are luckily back to normal, which iād never have thought.
Any supplements that you took and got crashed on them? Actually I meant that in the first place 
I didnāt take any supplements the first month really, speaking of, i did a liver flush that made me regress tremendously, after experimenting with that it was certain most of my sides were due to gut being dysfunctional.
I am asking these questions as I am trying to understand how many guys here got worsen because of additional supplements and how many because of PFS itself, I am from the first group, selfmedicarion fucked me over
Derealisation/amnesia is gone, THANK GOOOOD
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(Nearly) all my sides are gone,
The very noticeable ones are terrible night vision, skin thinning/wrinkly skin, joy of life isnāt quite at 100% yet, and memory issues.
Sexually i have recovered to a point where Iād say im 95%.
Iām done guys, Iāll keep pursuing my mental state to a 100%, might take some time, but Iām sure weāll make it. Best of luck to all of you, and god bless us all. Only been 4 months, but feels like, much moreā¦
Thank God you only took 1 pill of finasteride.
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Doesnāt matter how many pills you takeā¦
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For clarity - agree with what youāre saying - many people here are highly damaged after only one pill and are stuck with the symptoms. This chap seems to have recovered - so itās just a good job he immediately stopped after one.
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Thanks man, although my mental state isnāt back to normal, maybe itās just a waiting game at this point. Iām glad i only took one pill, even though thatās all it takes, i believe the ones who are prone to develop sides, would endager themselves even more by being on finasteride for a longer durationā¦ Fuck fin, such a fucked up drug, i hope everyone gets better, and Iāll be back once i feel 100% to update, but for now just gotta move on with life.
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I donāt understand how you recovered and Iām still stuck in this condition from one pill and deteriorating it makes no sense.