How many of you still suffer with depression and thoughts of ending this?
What have you done to improve this mental side effects?
I’m on anti depressants but seem to have no affect!!!
Give it time. I know you maybe don’t want to hear this but time is the best healer for depressive sides. I was once in your shoes and feel ok now mentally.
Be brave and push through the next few months.
Dont take anti depressants they will mess you up even more.
Got no choice mate I’m on sertraline for past 5 days
Do as doctors says bit every day I wake I want to end my life
Luckfax
What helped you?
Any meds?
Try something that acts on the Gaba receptor. Like gabapentin and benzodiazipines. Psychomeds didnt work for me, but progesterone.
How do I get on them in a mental home?
Not sure if I asked they would give them to me.
They seem to have there own list of meds and stick with them
No meds helped me, no. Just time to come to terms with what happened and time for my mind and soul to somewhat heal itself.
It isn’t easy obviously, and you are still very much in the ‘eye of the storm’ phase of a very bad crash. But for those of us who have been there, I think we can all attest that it gets progressively ‘easier’ or rather more bearable, probably after a year or so but maybe longer. At some point you don’t feel so despairing every day, then that gradually becomes the norm.
You’re usually on this planet for at least seventy years so it is worth it to hold on for the better times ahead.
You should know by now that you cant trust doctors.
If you read this forum a great many number of us members have been there. It is going to be absolutely awful when it happens (for me it was by far my worst symptom) but slowly you’re going to come out of it. Unfortunately doctors will throw all sorts of mind bending drugs at you which may make you worse and at the very least will make it harder to recover.
It’s really gunna suck, and in my experience nothing really made any difference. The only thing I can tell you is to eliminate and triggers that you notice (ie; dairy, bad sleep, no exercise, boredom) and maximise things that make you feel better. You will recover.
I would stay away from antidepressants. At one point, a doctor prescribed me some and I saw right away that it was going to destroy the little that was left of me.
You should do intermittent fasting with a 4 to 6 hour eating window, and start immediately. I’ve been doing this for 8 months and have had the best improvements so far (will write about it in a couple of days). You’ll see results rapidly in terms of sleep, mental state and energy. You’ll even wake up with a boner every morning. Try to do some sports also, go to the gym if you can. Take Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar. This brand, not another one that will be filtered and pasteurized and will not do shit (I tried two other brands, so I know)
Don’t let them drug you and fuck you even more. Your body needs to find back his natural way of functioning. If you stay at the mental institute, at least try to get them to prescribe you Xyrem. As you may know, people reported having been cured by it.
There’s something that’s been very helpful for me going through this hell: ganoderma (reishi). It might be controversial because it’s supposed to be a bit of a 5a-reductase like finasteride, but it must be a light one because I still lose my hair when taking it. It won’t cure you, but if you take good ganoderma, it sure helps with sleep, energy, mental sides, and it helps with mood when you reach a breaking point. One night, I was in my bed and trying to sleep and I began to think about killing myself just because in the state of exhaustion I was in, I just couldn’t handle the suffering. I took a couple of capsules of ganoderma and immediately felt better.
You have to be wary of these moments of exhaustion. For instance, I always tried to have beer or some liquor in my place just in case. One time, I literally felt I was losing my mind and I know I would have killed myself if it hadn’t been for the whisky I gulped down. Suicide is really not an hazard for me anymore, but you’re still in the worst period and you have to be very careful. It’s just my opinion, but I’m really not sure the antidepressants will not do more harm than good in your situation.
With intermittent fasting, I could see a difference just after a week, so it’s really not something you need to do 6 months before knowing if it will change something. You should consider it. I’m sure your state of mind would be completely changed in a couple of weeks.
I was in a clinic. I was totally open about everything. They gave me gabapentin, which was a great reliefe. you may get it, if you describe your situation. Reason why it works -> wikipedia.
But short:
androgens converts to neurosteroids, neurosteroids work with gaba receptor,
Our situation: NO androgens, depleted neurosteroids, not enough stuff on gaba receptor, leads to depression.
If your doctors understand your situation and your condition they will help you.
Guys
Thanks for your replies
I’m having a real bad day today and seriously on the verge of giving up.
I feel like shit. My penis continues to shrink and I’m unable to get an erection for 3 months now.
My penis is lifeless, cold, wrinkled, and numb.
I have vision problems, blurriness, memory problems, constant muscle twitches all over my body from the second I wake, dry skin down sides of my nose and on my hands. I have muscle and weight loss, depression with suicidal thoughts daily, anxiety and panic attacks, insomnia requiring sleeping pills nightly for 3 months now,pain in my anus/prostate, excessive dribbling of urine after I just finished urinating, lowered body temperature, cannot concentrate on anything including tv, have no stamina for excercise, zero libido, feeling of been in a bubble and nothing is real anymore. Complete lack of affection.
Every day is a struggle and I can’t am take this anymore. I am numb all over with no emotions at all.
I only look forward to hours of darkness as I know it’s time I can pass away in my sleep and I’m not awake.
My only way out seems to be ending my life.
I use to enjoy having a beer but now I don’t even think about it and prior to ending up in the mental home, alcohol began to have no euphoria affect, it did nothing for me. My taste and sense of smell is non existent too!!!
I see no alternative or improvement as time goes by, thank you for taking the time to read this. The meds I’m taking in this mental home are not helping.
I spend all day in my room looking for hope and inprovement but get non, by night my penis is even worse for size, shape and colour. It changes shape during bowel movements too. I have days of bad stomach pains too and pain in my penis.
Living daily life like this is not acceptable and I’m sure nobody else would be able to cope either.
If I had a pet that was going through the same suffering I would do the humane thing and put it out of its misery. Everything I have described is all down to my use of propecia. I never took any other medication prior to my illness and symptoms presenting themselves.
I was in this exact state years ago. A lot of the people you see around here have gone through the state you speak of. Everyone is different, but most go through hell before they start getting a lot of their life back on track. Find the most supportive people in your life and reach out to them. You will start feeling better than you are feeling now. Believe that you will.
thetigershull- you didnt listen to anything I told you?
A look at how my life was so different before propecia.
I write my thoughts on here in hope or realisation of how my life may turn out.
Hope that I feel better and realisation that one day soon my life might be all over.
If it is to be the end soon, then my posts on here can be used by my family and perhaps my friends to act as my journal.
Just 4 months ago I was at work, working 40 hour weeks earning good money and supporting my children.
My kids would stay over at my place twice a week and the rest of my free time would be spent watching sport on the tv, having friends round, having a few beers and if course spending quality time with my new girlfriend of 4 months. My life was sweet.
Four months on, flipped on its head, I gave up on the relationship because not only could I no longer perform sexually, I was also retarded to a walking zombie.
Sent into a mental home where I have spent the past 5 weeks, not sleeping, resorting to all kinds of medications just to pull me through
I’ll say again, just 4 months ago, I would not even take a pill for a headache, now propecia has taken my life.
Thank you
I have been through the same shit man… There’s different levels of Pfs for sure and the depression is the scariest of all… Especially when you really feel literally nothing, I would have panic attacks couldn’t look ppl in the eye, it was bad. Among other things… Really really scary
You really need to change your diet to 100 percent organic foods to start… This is not a cure, but it will help, trust me it will. Next look into taking magnesium everyday and vitamin d everyday, these both have helped me a lot. Be drinking a ton of water, I also like to buy different organic juices at whole foods when I’m there to sip on everyday. This will sound weird, but buy castor oil and put it on your face at night and of your eye lids… It will help you sleep and you wake up feeling better for whatever reason.
Those r the safest things I know that will generally help… Other things are ore experimental and you really need to research stuff out. Start there and then do lots lots of research. Trust me man… These really help.
TigerHull? I’ve read about your story and the one silver lining or blessing is you have is your children? That’s more than enough reason to live. Unlike myself, and others that likelihood may never ever be.
Yes Danny, I’m blessed with having 4 beautiful healthy children but at my lowest point two years ago, nothing was enough to keep me away from the suicidal thoughts/acts and pure mental inability to be able to function enough to cope daily, hence how and why I ended up in the mental home for 3 months. now I’m much better but still nowhere near my normal life before this shit poisonous drug!!!