I took fin for 20 years. No problem, no symptoms, it was the safe drugs they told me it was. Then I hit 45 and I began to have increasing insomnia, headaches, stomach ache, gastric reflux, anxiety, irritability etc…
In the last year, I knew something was poisoning me. I even had a root canal treated tooth removed thinking it was that dead tooth decaying in my mouth that was the cause.
Then I realized my hormones were changing, getting lower. I though what could be affected by my hormones ? And then it hit me. I googled fin and insomnia and found my poison. I stopped at that right moment and crashed a month later. (should have tapered down, but I didn’t know. Only found this forum after the crash when I was agonizing)
I believe the first 15 years, my hormonal composition made it possible for me to take fin with no symptom. I believe male andropause broke that balance and fin was no longer tolerable.
I will never know for sure.