Brazilian 4 yrs story after quitting

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#10

Today i decided to give up on paleo diet. I concluded, based on a diary, that the effect was null. Had no improvement nor decrease on my overall condition. Had ups and downs like i had just months ago.

The decision of giving up on paleo diet is because i’m getting too thin and the lack of energy is not improving, but i’ll continue eating healthy, as i have done my entire life.

Again, it would be easier for me to live this syndrome if i had more energy. The sexual side effects are a lot better, but this fatigue is killing me!

Anyway, hoping for the best!

#11

Hey Brazil,

How bad were your mental sides when you first crashed? I’ve seen you’ve made some recovery on that front. I still have debilitating brain fog/loss of personality/emotional blunting one month off the drug. Any advice for me?

Best of luck.

#12

First two years for me were bad… I had brain fog, severe depression and anxiety. Those symptoms did improved on the past year. However, emotional bluntness is still present. No big tip for you, time will heal, but its slow. If you feel depressed, dont hesitate to take meds, they were the reason i didnt suicide. But, when you feel confident enough to take them out of your routine, do it. You will heal faster without strange substances in your body.

Try to think that all of this is just a period you’re going through. It will go away, as you can see many on this forum got completely cured.

If i did not have fatigue i would workout hard… Feels good and rockets your testosterone high sky
Eat healthy, rest everytime you can.

And, above all, take it easy!

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#13

Thanks for the tips, and good luck to you. It seems you’re definitely on the road to recovery, and that’s good to see for an early-off guy like myself.

#14

Here i am again.

Last 2 months were normal. I have, according to my diary, 4 types of days:

1 - great days 6,7%
2 - regular days 43,0 %
3 - bad days 33,0%
4 - awful days 17,3%

Comparing to post-crash it’s huge improvement, but comparing to last year, there is no noticeable news…
On my scale i tend to judge more a) energy b) joint pain c) mental clearness d) sexual sides, by this order.

Energy continues to be my main issue and influences the other aspects.

#15

Just to give an update:

No changes, still the same.

I noticed that when i do some kind of exercise i feel better for the following 2-3 days. But it’s really hard to get it started, since i have major fatigue and joint pain (when i do exercises, i have to bear up the pain). That’s all.

#16

So, this month i complete 5 years off.

I’m stable, still struggling with the persistent fatigue. Those studies are taking years… Are they finding something? Are they giving up?

#17

Wow… Fatigue and joint pain are killing me…
Im redoing bloodtests, but they are coming normal once again.
No doctors can explain this. I went to all specialists, no one could find anything :frowning:
Feeling depressed and hopeless

#18

Can you describe your fatigue? What time of the day? Is it with weakness in your body?

I am also suffering from fatigue but it’s not so bad anymore and i am making progress. At the moment i am doing T3, progesterone, canxida and paleo.

#19

Hi Jorden.

Fatigue is present the whole day with a peak when i wake up and at about 4:00 pm until i go to bed. It’s very debilitating and it worsens my pain in the joints.
I tried paleo and sorghum, but i refuse to use hormones to treat this as i know that hormones are fucking me.

#20

taking hormones to try and fix things can make your pfs much worse,same thing happened to me when trying progesterone cream,some sides got worse and I got some new ones aswell…

#21

Try raw diet for a few months…it has enough proof in here that it cured emotional blunting and most of all…brainfog and fatigue…

#22

Hi everyone,

nothing great to add to my story. In August, i completed 6 years without Propecia (24 years old now) and still struggling with fatigue and joint pain mainly.

Went to some doctors recently and one of them wants to try a treatment against hypothyroidism. As i have nothing to lose, i decided to give it a try for 3 months.

I returned to my workout routine this year and already put 9 kgs in muscles, which is great. My testosterone levels and other indicators, like SHBG are in best numbers than ever, but it doesn’t reflect on my libido, strenght and “masculinity” overall.

#23

Are you still taking antidepressants? If so you should know that depression drugs can cause PFS too dude. They might be making your symptoms worse.

#24

So you presently struggle with the following:

  1. persistent fatique
  2. lack of libido
  3. Reduced number of spontaneous erections
  4. reduced ejaculate
  5. Penile tissue changes
  6. emotional bluntness

Is that accurate?

6 years after discontinuation?

Thanks.

#25

I’m not taking antidepressants anymore. I’m “clean” for more than a year.

@pdvl, i’ll put in parentheses how i feel recovered compared to the first months of post-crash:

  1. persistent fatique (20% <- i have to decrease it compared to the previous evaluations, since it got worse)
  2. lack of libido (40%)
  3. Reduced number of spontaneous erections (not so much, when i have one i almost celebrate)
  4. reduced ejaculate (100%)
  5. Penile tissue changes (100%)
  6. emotional bluntness (30%, still not very emotional. Even with my family)
#26

Update: i have come up with bad gut problems, beside the other problems.

I think i can’t digest food properly. Like everytime i eat, i feel my intestines moving and producing a lot of gases. Sometimes at night i feel pain in my stomach.
Today i am going to a general doctor (don’t know what it’s called in english) to restart all the investigation again.

I also feel that when i eat something more industrialized, i get worse. Also, my poop is coming disform and watery, unlike years ago when it came normal.

#27

Do a stool test. High calprotectin? Dysbiosis in gut? Check for leaky gut and Morbus
Crohn. Best

#28

So… doctors thinking this is autoimmune. I am afraid that it’s anything like spondylitis. Anyway, blood tests for it became negative, but it can be a false negative. Think he’ll ask an MR of my sacroiliac to confirm.

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#29

HI Brazil,

I have the same symptoms like yours. I feel fatique at the morning. The most problem is the joint pain on knees. I went to doctor and took X rays in May. The doctor told me that there was no obvious problem from the X ray photo on my right knee. However, I feel my legs are weak and pain even walk. Then the doctor advised me to inject Hyaluronic acid to my right knee. I felt better after the injection. However, I felt my left knee become more worst after these months. I am very worry whether the pain disappear or not…