Describe "Rush of DHT"

General Discussion
#1

Hi guys. I have heard people mention a “rush of dht” returning to the body, and I wanted to get other peoples perspectives, as I can totally relate to this “rush”.

After quitting finasteride due to the horrible side effects I suffered, my body began going back to normal (for a very short period of time). The whole process began with me waking up from a sex dream, after having literally no sex dreams since using finasteride, something which was very common before I touched finasteride. I could literally feel it in my brain that morning. It was amazing. About seven days passed of my body feeling like it was going to recover, when I got the “rush” of what I believe to be dht in my body. All my life I have been very sensitive to DHT, and I could feel it working in my genital area, and my prostate especially was very sensitive to it.

About seven days after that sex dream, I was sitting at home, when all of a sudden, literally out of nowhere, I felt this massive euphoria come over me. My prostate and testicular area, amongst other areas of my body, began THROBBING with what I believe was DHT. This was a feeling I had my whole life prior to finasteride use, however this was far, far more intense. It felt amazing, but it was also very, very powerful. It lasted about a minute, and grew more and more intense… the very best way I can describe this would be to imagine you are wearing a pair of head phones, and you slowly turn the volume higher, and higher, and higher, and HIGHER, until something explodes and you go completely deaf, all over the course of about one minute. The experience was very intense, and very “loud”, if you will.

I have heard some people mention they too had a “rush of dht”, and I have heard others say they never had anything of the sort. I am wondering, for those of you who can relate to the experience of a “rush of dht”, can you please give me your perspective of it. I have always been curious to know what other people had to say about this.

Thank you very much.

#2

I had it…

About 7-10 days after coming off. initially I felt pretty bad coming off… my anxiety and depression grew more and more.

Then one day I felt slightly better and decided to go to the gym. Well whatever happened at the gym seemed to kick it all into high gear because I started sweating like crazy (literally was drenched) I began to break out in acne on the back of my neck like before. And of course I felt mentally amazing… nothing seemed to bother me at this point. After coming home from the gym I felt so good I thought that everything would be fine and that I was finally recovering from whatever the propecia had done to me.

Went to bed that night still feeling pretty good… woke up 3:30 am in full crash, literally in a few hours my biology completely rearranged itself. Thats when I found this website.

#3

about 8-10 days after that poison…my dick went bigger, I had wonderfull dreams, I never feelt so good in my life I was so happy everthing was wonderfulll… 14 Days later, after I took it and in a very relaxed situtation, my nigthmare started. Panikattaks…schrunken dick…from that moment on I was the walking dead.

#4

Lennon and Brainbug, I had exactly the same experience!!! The only thing I will add is that my scalp had an incredible itch. I was loosing so much hair in that brief time period. I remember thinking I will be totally bald within the month. Not that it matter, but the DHT must of been surging. I believe this to be the problem why we are suffering. Something must of happened where our body kicked in a defense mechanism. I always wondered if I had tappered off Fin would this have been more controlled and more gradual the return of DHT. Instead I quit cold turkey and thats what happened. Did you guys quit cold turkey or gradually tapper down?

#5

yes, during this week or so where my system was coming back to proper working order, my hair literally was pouring out like never before … it truly does seem my response to dht etc. during this recovery period was EXTREMELY heightened, and it does seem my body decided it was just too much, and shut me down completely… to this day, i literally have not felt the effects of dht etc., whatsoever. not since that one, final moment where it surged to an unreal level

#6

My experience was a bit different. I never got the DHT surge following the next 7-10 days. I am fairly certain this was because I was a daily user of marijuana. I was using mj already before finasteride, then during finasteride, and after quitting finasteride. The crash came during the use of finasteride.
I quit in september of 2011 after 18 days on finasteride. Then in June this year I had my first break in marijuana use. Varying on the person it takes around 2-3 weeks for marijuana to leave your system.
After around two weeks off the mj, I had what u call the DHT surge. It was exactly as all of you described it. I felt amazing, energy was good, libido was thru the roof, dick was back to its original size etc. I thought I was cured. I even made a post regarding it in the summer (can be found in my member story). For over a week I felt normal. Sadly it did not last, and as with all of you, the crash came. Back to zero libido, ed, small dick and so forth…

What is intresting is how the mj inhibited/suppressed the return of DHT for as long as I was using it, until I finally had a break in the use. Someone smarter than me could maybe explain as to why this was.

I have later tried to replicate this by being without mj for longer periods of time, but I haven’t been able to get the dht surge again.

#7

This “defense mechanism” that you refer to is exactly the cause of our problems… and it is what the researchers are currently trying to pin down.

#8

When on finasteride i woke up one morning disorientated and dizzy. I suspected the Propecia, so i quit. To this day i have not had a rush of DHT or any resolution of side effects.

#9

@Tim1911

I have heard others say they have not had this “rush”, or any period where their body appeared to be resetting itself to its pre finasteride functioning. Very odd.

I wonder why some do, and some do not.

#10

Does it make a difference if you suddenly stop or tapper down the dose, say every other day taking the pill when stopping???

#11

@fina13

i wish i knew the answer to that, but i do not.

i recall a study being posted that says finasteride has a “flat dose rate”. in other words, you could realistically chop 1mg of finasteride into 4 pieces and take one piece per week, and it will inhibit dht etc. to the same effect as taking the suggested 1mg daily. perhaps i stand to be corrected on this, but i just do not know.

#12

Yep, I experienced the same thing. Few days after I stopped fin I started waking up with raging erections, penis grew a whole lot, flaccid state was much bigger, seminal fluid what white and thick, and I was having sexual dreams again. This lasted about a week or so and then I crashed. Stayed in that crashed state for a few months before I tried a SERM restart. SERM brought me back to post fin/pre crash state again but it was even more powerful. I was actually having wet dreams. I recall being able to get an erection within literally seconds of thinking about a girl. That lasted about 2 or 3 days and then I crashed again but since then nothing has brought me back. I’ve even supplemented with Masteron, injectable DHT. It’s like our bodies just stopped responding to sex hormones. I believe the fin triggered some kind of androgen resistance syndrome. I really hope one day researchers find a way to reverse all of this.