Welcome to our community. Please fill in the following template as a way of introducing yourself, and helping others to understand your background and situation.
Where are you from (country)?
Italy
How did you find this forum (Google search – if so, what search terms? Via link from a forum or website – if so, what page? Other?)
Trough research
What is your current age, height, weight?
25,166 cm, 49 kg
What specific drug did you use (finasteride, dutasteride, saw palmetto, isotretinoin/Accutane, fluoxetine, sertraline, citalopram, leuprorelin, etc…)?
Minoxydil,Paroxetine
What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
Twenty drops daily for mynoxdil (I really don’t remember) and 10 mg for paroxetine
What condition was being treated with the drug?
Minoxydil for hair loss (in reality it was only stress)
and paroxetine for generalized anxiety
For how long did you take the drug (weeks/months/years)?
Three months of mynoxidil during 2016 (without any consequences) and only nine days of paroxetine during December 2018
How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start the drug?
22 Minoxydil and 24 Paroxetine
How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit?
How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
Cold turkey
How long into your usage did you notice the onset of side effects?
Eight days then the brutal crash a day after
What side effects did you experience that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
All besides a brief full recovery after two weeks of ssri discontinuation
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Sexual
[x] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[x] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[x] Loss of Morning Erections
[x] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[x] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[X] Watery Ejaculate
[x] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability or Difficulty to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[X] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[x] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[x] Confusion
[x] Memory Loss / Forgetfulness
[x] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[x] Slurring of Speech
[x] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[X] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts
Physical
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[x] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[X] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ ] Muscle Wastage
[X] Muscle Weakness
[x] Joint Pain
[x] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[x] Prostate pain
[XX] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[X] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[ ] Constipation / “Poo Pelletsâ€
[X] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[X] Tinnitus (ringing or high pitched sound in ears)
[ ] Hearing loss
[ ] Increased hair loss
[X] Frequent urination
[X] Lowered body temperature
[X] Other (please explain)
Very dry skin,insomnia,prostatitis,taste loss,insensitivity of the skin trough half the body (sx),feeling of my brain “splitted” in two (it’s hard to explain),cyclical cutaneous eruptions when libido comes back.
What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
If you have pre or post-drug blood tests, what hormonal changes have you encountered since discontinuing the drug (please post your test results in the “Blood Tests†section and link to them in your post)?
I’ve done a plenty of them since this crap even gone under an MRI, and also visual evocates wich show an optical neuritis behind my left eye (probably caused from the second crash).
Hormones panel show some abnormalities with high estrogen and high estradiol (i will scan them later)
Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience?
Tell us your story, in your own words, about your usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug
(First of all sorry guys for my eventually messy English)
Well… Actually i’m a mess, so i will try to stay brief as possible.
After some very bad events occurring in my life i’ve started to suffer from anxiety and panic attacks ,for two months I started to take some benzos and even if i benefits from a strong relief of panick attacks at the time i was scared from the terrible story of benzo withdrawal, so after some suggestions and in accordance with my specialist i’ve switched to ssri saying to myself that if i was facing some sort of side effects i will immediately discontinued them and nothing serious will happen… Guess what happened?
Started to low dose after only nine days i crashed harder then i thought it was even possible for a substances,the solely description of what i’ve gone trough under paroxetine ,is the truly pity of hell… Immediately started to seek help i’ve discovered trough Wikipedia Italian page’s of PSSD and PFS ,subscribed to pssdforum
Some users comes in my help suggesting me to slowly reduce my absunction of ssri to small doses in the following days and incredibly it worked! But after only two weeks of complete remission of every symptoms since discontinuation (in wich i was started to believe i was very fortunate considering every side effects possible and considering my brief intake) i’ve crashed even harder with all the previous side effect but trough the following months they started to stabilize to a lesser extent… Than in april 2018 new sides started to merge: chronic fatigue and then in may 2018 it worsened to extreme extent that persist even today… Surprisingly libido and sexual functions generally got better since the fatigue but actually i’m bedbound, with the consequences of the impossibility to me to end my university degree or work partime. This distress me even more than pssd or “PEDS” wich i hope as suggested will be the future terminology of this condition.
P.S. I wonder if minoxydil started for me the condition and then the ssri exacerbated to the extreme extent that now i’m facing
Hugs from Italy wish the best for every suffer.
Dryed