I’m so sick of this…
It’s been an entire year without emotions. I don’t feel real and everything is just falling apart. All my relationships with friends/ girlfriend left me… I just can’t seem to feel connections to people.
I’m really starting to debate suicide because this is pointless!
The emotions will come back during the recovery periods, so this is reversible. There is definitely a correlation between sleep and how you feel because when I can achieve REM sleep I will have a day of very few PFS symptoms
Joetz, do you not usually experience REM sleep then, or dream?
It’s funny because i often have lots of intense dreams
Yeah i have been flat lined too. The only thing that keeps me going is i have an absoulutly brilliant g/f, pde5i, guitar and dope. Asides from that i am bored/cant be bothered with it, which is a shame because pre fin i would find fun in most things.
In regards to them(emotions) coming back, it just hasnt happened, and its well over a year off this crap(propecia) for me.
Not only can I not achieve REM sleep and have dreams, but I struggle DAYdreaming too. My mind just feels very empty and devoid of thought, kind of hard to explain.
On the days I have been able to achieve some recovery, my imagination is very active.
This has been getting worse and worse for me beginning sometime in the last 2 years. No connection, no emotion, just dead inside. I get no positive feelings much at all except for a few brief flashes. it’s like the pleasant feeling from having my penis touched by a woman, it’s just gone, replaced by either deadness or a feeling like someone scratching their nails on a chalkboard. Even the increasingly fewer times when I can get some physical sexual reaction there’s no emotional or mental connection to it nor positive feelings.
I don’t have really any recovery peroids… I have positive emotions rarely and do not feel them as I used to…
I do definitely feel depths of sadness I have not felt ever. This drug has cost me everything.
Even my anger is greatly subdued…
Yeah mine have come back.
Try L-dopa for mood and L-carnitine for brain function.
, alot of people have recovered in this area i think, far more than with sexual function.
I would say mentally i’m much stronger than in any other area. Not that i don’t sympathise though, god knows i was suicidal for long enough.
Strange thing is that mine have come back randomly a few times while taking no supplements, and a few times while on very high dose trt. Several times I tried using triple and quadruple patches of androderm and emotions came back in full force about 12-24 hours later each time, only for a few hours though.
Also want to mention that it’s been a few years since this has happened randomly, and regular doctor-prescribed TRT doses didn’t seem to help much with emotions.
The fact that high dose trt helped leads me to believe that this is just a matter of having an imbalance of, or insensitivity to androgens.
I often experience the “nails against chalkboard feeling”. It makes you want to jump out of your skin. Its horrifying. I never felt like that pre-accutane. I understand how one could be suicidal if this was intense or persistent enough. I felt that way at least once a day for a couple months after quitting bromocriptine. Much better now.
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