Prior to my apparent crash from Finasteride I went through what I would consider a 6 month long mania/hypomania phase where I exhibited all the classic signs of someone with bipolar with this disorder. Waking up extra early feelings refreshed,nonstop energy,constantly loud talking ,delusions,hallucinations,personality changes,etc,etc. Despite making a unrepairable mess of my life during this period I was still productive and felt pretty great. This lasted about 6 months then suddenly as my elevated mood was wearing down I basically lost the ability to sleep and went 3 days of not sleeping at all. Which is what I would consider to be my finasteride “crash” so to speak.The more sleep I lost the stronger my anxiety and depression was. I was also was a very regular caffeine drinker no longer had any positive effect from caffeine at that point. Which is weird because I’ve been drinking coffee all my life. Stopped taking propecia about 3 months later after discovering this forum although none of my side effects lessened/change at all. All of this is weird and am just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences or shed some light on this?
Yes, I think my behavior starting becoming pretty erratic the last few months on it. So much so that I lost my job. When I look back at why I lost my job - I can’t believe some of the things I said to my boss. I mean, he was awful, yes. But I let NOTHING go and held NOTHING back. It was like I was bi-polar.
Yeah I lost my job as well during this hypomanic period. The thing is I felt great until the poor sleep/insomnia began…even after quitting the drug nothing changed . It’s hard to say if taking Propecia trigged this hypomanic state but I honestly don’t think so since I was on the drug 5 years prior to all of this. I do this hypomanic period what caused me to start experiencing the propecia related sides though unfortunately.