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We’ve all been there but I would encourage you to stay strong as things DO improve for many people with time. There are also medical professionals you can see for further assistance that are listed on this site.
I know this can be extremely hard to deal with, but I would also consider filing a class-action lawsuit and take action if you want to get this pulled from the market.
Suicide is not the way to go, and impacts far more people than just you in a negative way!! So don’t make it an option, stay strong and try and get help or take action against Merck in the courts.
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since when do suicides garner media attention
… Let’s not talk about taking our lives over something like this.
We should be progressive and optimistic–not trying to become martyrs for the “sexual dysfunction cause”.
I am also about to kill myself because this nightmare hasn’t and won’t ever end. This goes beyond sexual dysfunction, my face is fucked up and my brain doesnt function properly anymore due to this god damn poison. I can’t go outside, wake up with panic attacks every morning, had to drop out of school, have no more social life and am now ready to end it. I will leave a note along with all other documentation in the proper hands which prove this shit did this. There is no hope and no one can or wants to help.
Whoa, man… take a deep breath and DON’T do anything irrational!
First… have you been seeing a therapist? They can help quite a bit, especially with anxiety. Also–it sounds like if your anxiety is serious enough you should see a psychiatrist. They can really help you, because even though propecia has damaged your life, it’s not worth giving up.
You’re not alone either. Sometimes I get so fucking depressed I ask the same questions, but you CAN improve–maybe not to what you used to be, but you can learn to live with it. You’re around other guys going through similar or even the same things, if we can manage to live and go on–so can you…!
I hate to sound cheesey, but don’t let something you despise have this much power of you, man…
I agree with YaEatChickenSoWhat.
This is a very hard time for all of us. We’re stressed out because of sexual and physical problems, were getting more and more anti-social because of it, and doctors (and even friends and family) don’t believe our problems. It really takes its toll on you emotionally and I sometimes think about how this might never end.
You REALLY need to distract yourself by getting out and meeting new people or picking up new and exciting hobbies. Don’t just sit there and read this. DO IT NOW. Sign up for some sports league or hit up some yoga class and just GET OUT of your room. You will notice that when you are engaged in these activities, your attention will be taken away from your problems. At least it refreshes your mind and you can take a break from thinking about this 24/7.
We will get better. I know it.
We all know what u are talking about,it’s hard to find somebody helping you ,and it’s hard to stay alive in this situation,but going to doctors written here on this forum,you will find someone that can help you…if you don’t have anyother possibility,go to these docs, now!
Stay strong homie,this is the hell we have been in / we all are, but like it started,it will finish … someguys did it,and everyone on here will recover .
My opinion,from my experience,is that adrenals have a very important role,now I’m using med about it,and I can feel the different …
I think everybody in here, consciously or not, has wondered “what if” this never gets better, and what are real alternatives. I think a lot of this, or of actually considering killing yourself, comes from the pure resentment toward a negligent pharm company that all of us feel. I know some people don’t want to hear this advice, but you have to put that shit out of your mind and focus on getting better. Period. Worry about Merck & Co. later on.
One thing that people also need to understand is that, under these circumstances, you’re not making proper decisions. The days that I feel like stepping in front of a train are those when I feel really bleak and pessimistic about the future, and don’t feel like this will ever resolve itself. Your mindset will change drastically if you even get a hint that you might be on the way. It’s definitely happened to me on occasions, even though I am still now in the toilet with this.
First of all, if you have not seen a competent doctor like Crisler or Shippen, you are failing youself by taking the door out, without making every attempt to get better first. And for those who think that suicide will bring a shitstorm on Merck, think about the very real possibility that a big corp like that is armed every which way to discredit your claims, and then, guess what, you’re not around to answer back. A corpse can’t stand up in trial and describe the hell that his life has been for all this time. You can help yourself and everyone else by staying alive and making continous noise about it, and by getting on a course to treatment that will eventually help you and the next poor sucker who wanders into this bloody drug’s den. I have been a patient of Dr Crisler’s since April, and I wouldn’t have even heard of the guy if it wasn’t for the fact that others had seen him and taken the time to come in to places like this and post about it. I’m not there yet, but I know that I’m a million tmes better equipped to get there with a legit doc who lives and breathes this stuff. Fucksake, I always tell people that the reason nobody knows how to cure us is because most docs are in the Dark Ages with male hormones, because there has never been an urgency about this quarter of men’s health, because men traditionally wish to suffer in silence. You’e doing nobody a favor by being a cliche.
Trust me: Once you get on the way to recovery, even if you know it could be several months more away or whatever, you’ll be fucking relieved that you never took that final step.
Abefroman and phukedover, I don’t see any blood results for you guys in the hormone & blood section, which leads me to believe that you haven’t even begun to explore this stuff yet. Start getting at least some preliminary labs done using the outlined panels at the top of the forum, and then get to a doctor with them who knows this stuff. In the meantime you can post them in here and people can offer their thoughts, but realize that getting to a doctor who is KNOWN to be current with this area of medicine is the key step, for which web forums are not a substitute. They are, however, an indispensable (and fortunate) way to share experiences and point us in the right direction.
The posters at anabolicminds.com and also at Crisler’s forum know their stuff pretty well, too: