1)I have never craved chocolate in my life the way i do post-finasteride. Why could this be? I get cravings constantly for sweet things, mainly chocolate.
I tend to get very dizzy and want to stop jogging when i attempt to jog a lot of the time. I never use to have this. I used to be a star runner (im only 23 and have jogged 3-7 days a week my whole life). Some days i tend to get super dizzy and a little disorientated even after good nutritious meals. I took a phsycial step test to get into a program i’m in and my heart rate sky rocketed too fast so he stopped me before i was even tired. I found this odd as i should have an extremely healthy cardiovascular system,
3)While i was on proscar my eyebrows turned rusty orange. This has since disapeared (7 months off).
But just the other month i took a close look at my eyelashes and this ornage tinge was still there. I clipped it off with scissors and it has grown back to black( the way it used to be before fin) I relaize i should have kept this hair to get it analyzed and compared to my new growing hair… Luckily my scrotum hair is all white and odd so i can get that tested hopefully still.
Questions questions questions… lol what is going on!?
Chocolate is a libido food, there are similar chemicals in it that are experienced during sexual activity. There’s lots on the net about this.
I got dizzy while on fin and a while after stopping. If smooth muscles become weak, and blood vessels are smooth muscles, it could be that improper blood flow is the cause of the problem, similar to when someone just has low blood pressure. I had the same problem with skyrocketing heart rate.
Depending on your hair color this could or could not be related. DHT is responsible for the darkening color of body hair. I personally have lost a lot of body hair as well as gotten lighter hair on my entire body, it’s kind of clear now, not even white, and thinner. I would advise however focusing on symptoms that we can all understand and agree on like white pubic hair. That is definitely related to fin.
Hey buddy, yeah my athletic life was pretty much shot after propecia because of increased heart rate. My heart rate tends to go up after any work out, any sugar intake, or any glass of beer. This problem is not so uncommon in aging males (who never took propecia) and the reason is 99.9% of the cases hormonal. So, don’t worry, because most likely your heart is physically fine. In my case, after a recent exam (saliva x4), it turned out to be due to too high cortisol – and too low pregnenolone. This was also causing insomnia and anxiety.
I started taking pregnenolone which fixed the anxiety (due to its positive effects on neurotransmitters) but not the high heart rate – it fixed it for just 5 days. Only after adding T3, did my heart rate drop. T3 works together with cortisol to increase metabolism, so you want to ensure to have both in the high range. Also, dosing T3 is super hard and takes weeks/months of experimentation.
Your case is probably different from mine, because you crave chocolate, which spells low cortisol (not high). This would be confirmed if, beside the increased high heart rate, you also have anxiety feelings, sleepiness, or fatigue. But a saliva test is the best means to diagnose what is going on. Pregnenolone supplementation should help, but 1) you may want to do it under the supervision of a doctor and 2) you may want to take a saliva x 4 test to check your free cortisol level first.
Chocolate contains theobromine, an inhibitor of the of the same 5 alpha reductase enzyme that finasteride is designed to inhibit. There has been a study on twins regarding this.
Maybe your body craves more fin, and chocolate gives you that feeling. I would quit chocolate of If were you.
If this was true (and the 5ARI effects of chocolate were dangerous), there would be a website chocolatehelp.com reporting horrendous and permanent side effects from it. Let’s keep in touch with reality, please.
