- Where are you from (country)?
Australia - 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?)
google finasteride anxiety - What is your current age, height, weight?
22 84kg 6’1 - Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
go to the gym 3/4 times a week and play basketball 3/4 times a week - What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
meat eater but a range - Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
prevent hair loss - For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
about a month - How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride?
22 probably around the start of march - How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit?
22 the start of april - How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
cold turkey - What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?
finasteride 1mg - What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
1mg day - How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
2 weeks - What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
anxiety insomnia and iregular heartbeat, twitching
Put an X beside all that apply:
Sexual
[ ] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[ ] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[ ] Loss of Morning Erections
[ ] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[ ] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[ ] Watery Ejaculate
[ ] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[ ] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[ ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ ] Confusion
[ ] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[ ] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[ ] 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
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ ] Muscle Wastage
[ ] Muscle Weakness
[ ] Joint Pain
[ ] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[ ] Prostate pain
[ ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[ ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[ ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[ ] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ ] Increased hair loss
[ ] Frequent urination
[ ] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
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What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
None, someitmes taken .5mg xanax for the anxiety and sleep -
If you have pre or post-Finasteride bloodtests, what hormonal changes have you encountered since discontinuing the drug (pls post your test results in the “Blood Tests” section and link to them in your post)?
none -
Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
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Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
Okay so i thought my hairline has been receeding so i went to my doctor and he told me to take finasteride 1mg every day. after a couple of weeks i started to feel down and anxious for no reason. this progressed and got worse untill i eventually had a panick attack and had to go home to my mum who lives a couple of hours away. it was my mum who proposed that the finasteride could have been the cause which i had never thought of as all i intially found was that sexual side effects were basically all that could go wrong. The next morning i did my research and found a bunch of people having the same problem as me. after my panick attack it took me 9 days to fully recover… 2 days later i decided to try again and took a quarter of a tablet to see if it really was the finasteride causing me anxiety. The next morning all these feeling had come back and i almost had another panick attack. It has now been 6 days since having that 1/4 tablet and im still feeling quite anxious and worrying about a lot of things. my heartbeat feels like it is always beating really hard and irregular and i am constantly having muscle twitching in the muscles in my back which have never really happened too frequently before. Now i know the drug is definately causing this i AM NEVER EVER TAKING THIS TABLET AGAIN. i have never ever felt like this in my entire life and i honestly feel horrible. My question is, do you expect me to feel back to normal in a few days like i did the first time? what exactly is causing me to feel like this? what does the drug do to my hormones other then stopping DHT that is making me feel so bad? and do you have any methods in making me feel better in the mean time? thank you so much for reading and for any help you can provide me! just knowing will put me at peace with this whole dilemma.