Anxiety

Symptoms Neurological
#1

Hi,

if you read my story you will find I was a couple of years on Finasteride and I quitted in 2004. I never thought all my symptoms could come from Propecia but today I’m 100% sure.
My LH, FSH, Testosterone (Total and Free) plummet and my prolactin rose. (average of 38 when it should be under 15).
I stayed in this situation for more than 5 years until I found this great Website and after researching and reading the best treatments possible for me and with the supervision of my endo (who sent me through lots of tests) I started taking Dostinex (cabergoline) after some months I could definetly say it has helped me A LOT. My prolactin has gone down to a low number (4 if I don’t remember bad now), my testosterone has gone up and so my lh and fsh.
I feel much better in all senses but one. I keep on having an extreme anxiety that has not ease since taking the drug. I’m taking Omega3 but no improvements seen.
My anxiety is making my life so hard, when I’m at work I start feeling nervous (I’d say it worsen around 11:30) for no reason, sometimes it makes me hard to even talk with my colleagues (who are nice people and I have nothing to worry about at all). Sometimes I might be having a cofee (decaf) and get the same sensation as I need to get out.

Do you think this anxiety /panic attacks came from Finasteride (I never have them before taking it but who knows). Any recomendation? Tests?

Thank you.

#2

Yes, it seems like a lot of people have this particular side effect very often. I know I have the same problem you describe above, and there is no other explanation why most of us have felt this change in our lives.

#3

Every day they at work, I feel nervous and cannot see well Peripherally.
After a few minutes looking at the screen I feel dizzy.
It’s already been 14 months since I’ve stopped taking the poison. Little improvement.

#4

Im afraid my anxiety will be here for life. If this isnt better within one to two years, i see little point in continuing to live. I will have to be drugged up on meds because i cannot take these panic attacks. This drug has fucked my whole world over. Im stuck in this perpetual nightmare. I cant believe it. I am dreading going to sleep tonight because i may wake up wih another anxiety attack. If i had to imagine hell this would be close.

#5

it WILL get better man, i am sorry you are struggling, but it will get better

#6

I believe you, it is hard but i am just holding on to hope for the future. And savoring days when i feel good. Man i used to take life for granted. If i get to even 80% better, ill be so thankful. If not, Merck has stolen my one chance at a happy life. I hate Merck.

#7

merck is going down

it will get better, and the reality is, that if we stick together and stay organized, the future is VERY bright for us

dont give up man, it will be worth the fight

#8

They should be tried as criminals, hell send them to guantanamo … theyve killed more innocent people than in any terrorist attack.

#9

Who can try zoloft and rivotril.??? for anxiety.

#10

My anxiety gets out of control when I eat a lot of processed foods, sugars, etc. I can get it under control by avoiding these foods and eating more leafy green vegetables (Spinach), broccoli, etc. Avoid McDonald’s, avoid canned and frozen foods, and eat clean. It helped me. I’ve had some vicious anxiety attacks after weekends of eating crap food and drinking alcohol. (Before Fin I could eat what I wanted and never deal with any significant/noticeable amount of anxiety).

Exercise works as well. (It feels awful in the beginning cause being out of shape with PFS symptoms is awful, but over time you’ll feel better from cardio and some weight/interval training in my opinion.)

Good luck.

#11

Exactly the same here. I’m trying to fight this as I already suffered anxiety before, but this one is far more tough. The worst part for me is the inability to concentrate or remember things.
I would discourage the usage of antidepressives.
Stay tuned anyhow, we’ll have news on this front. And I agree with Lennon: if we stick together, and if everybody tries giving a contribute, we can send this pfs to hell, where it deserves to be.

#12

U guys still have anxiety? I hope i wont have this for life. Its hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Im trying to tell myself its still early, but life seems impossible to live normally sometimes.

#13

Guys,
Everytime I have this EXTREME anxiety it normally gets better with testicular massage. This is something that I found out just recently. In my case, these events of extreme anxiety always come together with testicular shrinkage. I don’t know if there’s a correlation between them, but it looks like there is.

There are several videos on youtube teaching how to make the massage, it’s really not a big deal. I really wanted you guys to try it out and report back. We can learn from this experience if the massage works for you guys as well.

It makes miracles to me. It gets me out of the extreme anxiety in a matter of a few minutes.

#14
  • … comes together with testicular shrinkage AND baby penis.
#15

Let me try to explain the massage a little better. This is what I do: I try to pull my balls out of my body again and again, as if I was trying to “reverse” the shrinkage by brute force. In the end I always rub my testicle a little bit.

After the massage I get a warm feeling down there. I don’t know if this is blood flowing again or what. I what know is that the anxiety goes away.

Please try this out and report back.

#16

Sorry, I posted the same message by mistake.

#17

God bless you.

#18

This is not a joke, dude. If you don’t believe it, it’s Ok. I don’t give a shit. All I’m trying is to record my experiences, even if they look as dumb as your comment above.

If you really know everything, why is it that you don’t have a cure for us?

I’m not a doctor. Neither do I know if this makes sense or not. It can even be psychological - that’s why I asked everybody to report back.

What really matters is that I’m doing my best to help us out of this condition. Recording experiences, making regular donations, getting in contact with health agencies, media and the ministry. I’m doing my part, dude.

#19

our condition has nothing to do with Testicles.If it had, people would have recovered by using Clomid, HCG or TRT.Go back to very early pages and you will find many posts about clomid treatment with failure for example viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24&p=25&hilit=clomid#p25.

you may cause damage to your testicles and I am afraid will become primary hypoganadal too.
But these are my thoughts and advice.your balls are yours and you can do with them whatever you want to do.

#20

Ok, nevermind. Of course that I’m not hurting myself, it’s just a massage and there are several known techniques to do so. If you go to YouTube, you’ll see a lot of techniques recommended by doctors. It’s a good thing, not bad.

On top of that, I didn’t say that it’s a cure for us. It only alleviates the anxiety in my case.

My opinion is that the syndrome has got something to do with the testicles, otherwise people wouldn’t have the shrinkage. But again this is different from saying that the testicles are the root cause. A lot of guys here don’t have under range T levels, myself included.

Again, dude, nevermind. I just wanted to tell you guys my experiences.

Peace.