So you are saying that your anhedonia and depression got better overnight?
My brain fog and memory did
My anhedonia is still here, I’ve just learned to cope by staying busy
Anhedonia and libido are the worst symptoms for me. It did not improve at all?
Yes i hated that. And i think it is one of main causes of my ed.
Modafinil and Methylphenidate really helped with it before them it was a life like only with grey scale colors.
One other thing worked was aromatase inhibitors with them i completely feel like a man.
I am in edge of anhedonia as soon as i feel like dull, i run to gym and do heavy cardio until hit by runners high.
Also, I am on strict keto diet (testing histone deacetlyation inhibition of beta hydroxy butyrate). It causes enhanced feeling of positive emotions after ketone levels increases with fasting, exercise, MCT oil or bulletproof coffee, may be it is placebo effect of accomplishment but i still have almost zero libido if it was really placebo i would expect at least some restoration of libido.
So are you still taking those drugs? How would you rate your anhedonia now?
Yes i am on mph i did a break for 3 months in COVID’s first months. Did not do any good I lost some friends, I attended funerals felt nothing. Then I restarted mph pain hit hard… but I also started to feel joy from life. Also like I wrote cardio plus keto diet helps a lot, I mean really a lot! If you can get runners high from it. I basically crying out of happiness after 30 mins of mid level aerobic exercise… I wish I could get this enjoyment from sex too …
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the thing is i have no libido issues. just lost my morning erections mostly (still have them once in a while)
and no improvement in anhedonia for me, my experimentations with 5-htp made it way worse
and then i took castor oil for digestion help and it made me worse also temporarily. but thats about it.
some folks have gotten better though. everyones different as you can see
Anhedonia is different than depression high serotonin usually makes people anhedonic and emotionally flat. In these situations dopamine or noradrenaline usually fixes this problem. I also think that because I recovered right after modafinil prescription and got better when I taken off from Vortioxetine.
Try some ginseng or dopaminergic supplements for anhedonia.
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Thing is, even anhedonia in us isn’t that simple
There is a guy that is taking Zoloft and recovered most of his emotions
The same medicine made people worse
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Hey,
Anyone had any improvements in Anhedonia/less emotions? Im 3 months off and I can’t live like this for another year or two ;(
Yes, please read my previous replies to you on this. I remember thinking what you’ve just written, that to live that way for years would be too difficult. Things improved, pretty much spontaneously, around 6.5 months in.
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Like every good thing must come to an end also, bad things will come to an end, no emotion or emotionless will persists we have to be patient. Trick is stability.
Mental health is very delicate and our problem lies in fields of urology, neurology, endocrinology and psychiatry. I do not know what this shitty substance triggers in body but most people will recover in time i have been suffering almost a decade but i am hopeful because i have some medication restores me even for short period of time.
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do you still use glutathione? and what do you mean by ‘poor dosing’ lead to crash?
thanks
Since taking Buspirone and Lexapro with PFS, I have complete ahedonia on top of worsened physical PFS symptoms. It is like the effects of serotonin, epinephrine, and dopamine are completely gone from my brain. I can’t become startled, excited, sad, anything. It’s like my brain is just empty and everything is completely flat. My cognitive symptoms also worsened, with a “shiny” texture to my vision now.
I’m so sorry to hear that. I have the same persisting symptoms from just a few pills of Lexapro which I took last year.
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you have had physical issues as well? I was nearly physical recovered from PFS before I took Lexapro and Buspar man. I’ve been fighting this battle for 3.5 years and I can’t do another 3.
Yeah, I have fatigue, muscle wastage and premature aging of the skin.
do you have time to talk today? on the phone.
Really? Like how much recovered and in what way?
Hard to put a percentage on it. My skin was still screwed up (lacked texture and was elastic, thin, crazy body hairs), but I was able to put back on 75% of my muscle on my upper body and get strong muscle pumps again. Strength was going up as well, skin was able to tan again. It all happened within less than a year, lifting weights frequently and going for walks outside in the sun. I didn’t realize how far I had come physically until my crash from Lexapro, looking at my body while its wasting and my skin and stuff is getting worse again. It wasn’t far from being back how it was before I ever took Finasteride. I still had screwed up visual acuity, really bad anxiety and depression. But my drive and motivation, sleep and energy were all better. Instead of coming home after class and just staying inside trying to distract myself, I had much more drive and motivation to go for walks outside, to be around people (i’ve always been very introverted), and to lift weights.
I can say for the muscle and strength issues, Before they got better, exercising and lifting weights seemed really pointless and made me feel fucking terrible. I started noticing It wasn’t as difficult or made me as sick after the first 15-20 minutes once I warmed up some, but I would be super shaky and have crazy high cortisol symptoms afterwards and in the evenings. This would improve with eating a meal and calming down. It was gradually getting better with less crazy reactions to stress and working out. All until I got involved with a toxic relationship that put me in a super bad place, and then I took Lexapro and Buspar. Now i’m back at square one and worse.
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