mmm your doctor might not be in bad faith. I talked about PTSD on this forum many times for many reasons, the main being the fact that once you discover that finasteride might have ruined the rest of your life, like the ones of others on this forum, you seriously freak out, and the attention goes straight to your genitals which then becomes the more affected area. Second, symptoms are very similar. Third, PTSD is not strictly a “psychological” disease (admitting this term still has any significance these days), but has effects on neurosteorids similar to those that we apparently have. Fourth, I took Fin for a couple years and I remember life was really unbearable, I also had to stop driving the car, everything affected me emotionally to an unimaginable extent. I couldn’t perform and had a lot of defeats in life that brought me to the emotional rock bottom. So I am sure Fin induced that state, however I was surely affected “emotionally” (2+ years are a lot) and memories do not go away after you eliminate the drug. Memories are the cause of PTSD.
My opinion is that, for non military people, PTSD might onset:
1-during Fin use because of the extreme induced “anxiety” (PTSD due to a prolonged stress situation with generalized body effects).
2-during fin withdrawal once you discover forums like PH and freak out (PTSD due to acute emotional stimulus, with focus on genitalia).
3-Both
PTSD is a serious disease and has symtoms completely comparable to those that we have.
If I were you, I would try to recall how things really happened in your timeline, and try to understand when you might have got really scared of something or particularly stressed for prolonged periods, and in your case, the battlefield might pbviously also be an important factor (as you surely know PTSD is typical of soldiers). The fact that you had LUTS before fin might not be an UTI and I would take that into consideration. I would also try to follow the therapies (only psychological, no drugs) they tell you. I think I know in the US PTSD therapies are financially sustained by your governement so maybe you are not going to spend a cent. I’m not well informed but if you have the opportunity to do them low cost or even free, then I’d seriously try that. Expecially “Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)”. I have been finding myself many times, with my eyes “rocking all around” and without being able to stop them and fix a point, this is also common in PTSD. I don’t know if it’s also your case, but EMDR was apparently the most effective therapy at the time I looked into this.
I wouldn’t fall into the trap to think that Fin is SURELY and TOTALLY the cause of your actual problems, even if it might seem so, and even if it might be so. I also would’t fall into the trap of thinking that a psychological event can’t trigger important physical symptoms. It can. Why do you think normal PTSD sufferers struggle in their lifes? they have important physical symptoms.
