Mental alertness

Symptoms Neurological
#1

My mental alertness and fogginess is what bothering me the most, because I cannot experience fully the surroundings around me and “capture” everything in my mind.

When I travelled in China a few months ago, I didn’t enjoy fully because of the symptoms, and I remember one moment on a top of a hill - watching the panoramic view around me and couldn’t process all of the details literally.

It is also very exhausting for me to watch someting on a monitor without my head/body start thumping after a few minutes,
and I’m a person who enjoy his movies and my daytime job is programming so you can imagine the horror.

#2

You put that very well. I too had these problems in the beginning but now they are starting to get a bit better. It is a miserable existence living life through a filter. It almost feels fake, because you can’t actually “feel” what is going on. I know exactly what you are talking about. Now, for me, it feels like the “filter” is getting bigger and bigger holes in it, and real life is actually starting to seep through. I think that I will be well again, it’s just going to take time.

#3

How long did you take Propecia and when did you stop?
Also, what did you do to get better?

#4

I took the shit for almost five years. I have been off it now for 15 months.

I am not better by any means. I am better than I was when I first stopped, but I have some ways to go before I consider myself better. At first I could not bear to be in social situations because my fog and cognitive abilities were so impaired. The anxiety was absolute and crushing

I am in the process of using natural methods to heal myself as I feel taking more drugs will only take away the symptoms and not heal the problem. I don’t need to throw myself off balance any more than I already am. Currently I am in a facility in CA where I am undergoing a medically surpervised water only fast. I am 8 days into the 21 day fast. After that I will stay on a raw foods diet for six months and possibly longer. I have done this once before when I first stopped taking the propecia and it’s what I attribute to the permanent resolution of a majority of my symptoms. Unfortunately the diet is very difficult to maintain and I ended up falling off the wagon. So, here I am again, and I must say, I am noticing nice mental improvements thus far.

Here is where I am healthpromoting.com/index.htm

#5

“and I’m a person who enjoy his movies and my daytime job is programming so you can imagine the horror.”

I also used to be a brilliant programmer and person in general. I now have difficulty even passing as average, and work makes me exhausted and gives me headaches.