Do these mental sides ever fade?

Symptoms Neurological
#1

So I took fin twice, once for a few months off and on when I was 22 and then again recently when I was 27.

The first time I definitely noticed the anxiety and insomnia. However when I came off it, these sides quickly subsided.

This 2nd time however the mental sides are worse and are not apparently subsiding (nor are the sexual sides). Its been almost 6 weeks off, and my sleep is still terrible 2-5 hrs a night, waking up 2-4 times a night. Anxiety is becoming unbearable… I can’t stop thinking about the past and all the mistakes I’ve ever made in my teens and early twenties…

Depression, emotional bluntness and seemingly no desire to continue with life because I sense no happiness from my day to day life.

Is there any hope for this… what can I take? Melatonin is barely doing anything, I am thinking about getting some GABA, what else can I get?

I need to fix this as I can’t concentrait on my work, all I ever seem to think about is how much my situation sucks.

#2

Sleep is definately an issue with alot of us.

Tragic you took Fin again after dodging the bullet the first time. Hopefully you’ll be able to get better over time since you did the last time, although nothing is a given when you mess with 5AR blockers.

I’m not an expert at all here but maybe a starting point would be nerotransmitter testing.

Here is a site offering testing/supps - integrativepsychiatry.net/neurotransmitter_tests.html

Jacobs is strong on these sort of issues. They might be able to do a phone consult since you’re in Texas. Would be well worth the $$ to have him take a look at any testing you have done and review your history w/Fin.

#3

it took a while for this to subside some but unfortunately it hasn’t gone away for me in over 2.5 years. Melatonin will help with sleep. Don’t know what to tell you, I was in exactly this spot for a long time. Try to get moderate exercise and eat healthy, sleep enough, and don’t over masturbate, wait a while after you have the urge, at least 24-48 hours IMO.

#4

Your telling me, wish I had paid more attention to the sides when I took it the first time…

I thought the mild sides I was getting were due to other substances/stress.

My days are up and down now. I don’t know how I am going to live like this indefinitely.

#5

Ditto. We all found out the hard way that this drug is poison.

#6

That’s curiously similar to my case. I took fin twice before, when I was 22 and 23 with mild sides, and again when I was 26, and the consequences were much worse this time around, even though I only took half a pill for a couple a days, instead of months as was the case during my previous usages. I started having sleep problems which i never had before, and ED that didn’t go away when I stopped taking the drug. It has now been 10 months since i stopped taking this poison and my sleep is almost completely normal, except for the fact that I wake up in the middle of the night to pee 2-3 times a week. ED is still here, although like many others I’ve had periods when it seems to completely disappear, without me being able to figure out what triggered them.

#7

We all wonder that, even those who have been suffering for years. It sucks but its what we have to deal with “right now”. Hopefully a year or two from now will be a different story.

#8

Broken Pecker,

I do agree with Boston332. You should just take it one day at a time.

If it helps any. I am much better than I was a year ago. I had bad brain fog and difficulty thinking straight a year ago at this time.
I always thought the mental side effects were the worst. Try to stay positive. You can recover some over time.

#9

YES! They fade, I know how you feel and I was so freaked out for 10 months straight that I was going to stay like that forever. That’s the worst part of the anxiety…“Am I going to stay like this forever?”… Definitely get some gaba and start meditating and doing yoga. You most likely WILL NOT be like this forever so just get through it and don’t have anxiety about that because that’s a vicious cycle… Just take it one day at a time and your sides will slowly fade.