Hello,
I have been using Finasteride for about 10 years now. I’m 34 years old and starting losing hair when I was around 16 years old. I live in Costa Rica (so English is not my mother tongue so please forgive me for any grammatical mistake) so access to Finasteride was not as easy as it is today, so that’s why I started taking Finasteride until I turned 24 years old, by taking Proscar (1/4 tablet) every day.
I can say that Finasteride worked excellent on me, plus the help of Minoxidil 5%, and I’m pretty sure that if it wasn’t for those two drugs, I would be bald today.
But some years ago I started noticing that my brain capabilities were declining. I have been a Software Engineer working in one of the most important international firms in the world, so my work demands a lot of mental energy and challenging tasks, and troubleshooting skills, so I started getting worried that sometimes I didn’t feel “smart” enough in my day to day activities, but I never suspected that Finasteride could be a contributing factor on this, until about 2 months ago that I read an article regarding Mental Fog side’s effect from Finasteride and stopped taking it immediately.
I’m not sure if it might be for some Placebo effect, but after almost 3 months I feel a lot better today, I’m not feeling “stupid” as sometimes I did and some people describe, I feel a lot more capable and stable, I can deal better with my challenging tasks and I don’t feel so mental tired at the end of the week.
So basically this is my case, and that’s why I joined this forum to learn more about it, and it has been surprising to me to see that a lot of people (not only me) were facing similar symptoms.
So thanks to all people here that have been sharing their experiences 