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#1

Hello i’m 36yo and i used finasteride for many years, i never heard about Post finasteride syndrome but i just saw what happened to myself. I have to admit i didn’t had any benefit on hairs, and to be honest my hairs since i stopped aren’t even any worse. But the problem isn’t hairs now, when i stopped for the first 4 months i was almost unable to have a decent erection, and i feel different.

I don’t know even how to explain this, but i’m not myself anymore… my mind is changed alot and probably not even sure if i’ll come back again to what i was. As body i didn’t noticed many difference. and sexual drive got back maybe because i do lots of sport no idea but is back.

What really worry me is my mind my depression and my different way to see things. I know i sound stupid, but is the truth. When i noticed there was a syndrome for people that used Fina i was to understand that i’m not that crazy and my feeling are true.

Anyway i really hope to come back as the old me but i have no hopes at all.

Max

#2

No it doesn’t sound crazy. Many of us here have gone through it or are currently going through it.

It can alter nuerosteroid levels in the brain while your on it and what happens afterward is still up in the air kind of… But its generally accepted as fact especially around here that finasteride can devestate the human mind just as much the body.

All I know is it made me into a vastly different person. A person with no control over his emotions… and its taken me over a year to recover mentally…somewhat. Along the way I lost my girlfriend and my career.

#3

could you tell
1- how were you on fin. What cused you to stop?
2- did you stop because of sides? did they get worse after stopping or got better?

#4

Hello first of al thank you all.

I stopped fina because i saw no hair regrow at all and i didn’t wanted to go on taking a drug that does nothing. The sides came when i stopped, but i didn’t know that was possibile, to be honest at begin i though i was just depressed for no reason or maybe for my hair.

With the time i noticed that this was something different and stronger, and i started to feel " different" compared to the past. Is a thing i can not explain, but is like if i’m not myself anymore.

This is the part that i hate mostly of my sides. beause as is aid i recovered from phisical sides. I really hope that all people stop using fina, is better going bald than lose yourself… at least in my opinion