Welcome to our community. Please fill in the following template as a way of introducing yourself, and helping others to understand your background and situation.
Where are you from (country)?
Spain
How did you find this forum (Google search – if so, what search terms? Via link from a forum or website – if so, what page? Other?)
Google
What is your current age, height, weight?
26, 176cm, 62kg? (i was 67 1 month and half ago)
What specific drug did you use (finasteride, dutasteride, saw palmetto, isotretinoin/Accutane, fluoxetine, sertraline, citalopram, leuprorelin, etc…)?
Dutasteride
What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
3 pills of dutasteride. 1 each 48 hours.
What condition was being treated with the drug?
Baldness
For how long did you take the drug (weeks/months/years)?
3 pills 1 week
Date when you started the drug?
21/12/2022
Date when you quit the drug?
27/12/2022
Age when you quit?
26
How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
Cold turkey
How long into your usage did you notice the onset of side effects?
Inmmediately after third donde.
What side effects did you experience that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
Nothing
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Sexual
[ ] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[ ] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[ X] Loss of Morning Erections
[ X] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[ X] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[X ] Watery Ejaculate
[ X] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability or Difficulty to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[ X] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[X ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ X] Confusion
[ Zx] Memory Loss / Forgetfulness
[X ] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[X ] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[ X] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts
Physical
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[X ] Muscle Wastage
[ X] Muscle Weakness
[ ] Joint Pain
[ X] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[ ] Prostate pain
[ ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[ X] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[ ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[ ] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ ] Tinnitus (ringing or high pitched sound in ears)
[ ] Hearing loss
[ ] Increased hair loss
[ XX] Frequent urination
[ X] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
-Changed metabolism. From mid/high rest heart and normal Blood pressure (120/80) to bradycardia (42 bpm) for two weeks ore more and now a little bit higher rest heart rate but low pressure (100/64).
-when asleep i wake Up gaspering for Air and almost fainting almost everyday.
-Since yesterday I watch TV and i dont understand anything. I read and i forget what i read.
-Ammonia smell in my brain
What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
I used alprazolam (0.5mg) to sleep during 1 week, then they changed me to bromazepam (2 weeks) then changed to lorazepam. Right now im quitting every benzos.
If you have pre or post-drug blood tests, what hormonal changes have you encountered since discontinuing the drug (please post your test results in the “Blood Tests” section and link to them in your post)?
Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience?
Tell us your story, in your own words, about your usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug
I took first pill and i felt Heart palpitations at night, that night i couldnt sleep, but that not was the first time I experienced that, it also happened to me pre-dutas when i was anxious. So i kept taking it. When i took the third dosage few hours lster i started to feel anxious, i had panick attacks and had blurry vision and dizzyness, felt my scalp vibrating. Went to ER. Everything was “ok”. I calmed that day and i could sleep. I wake Next day almost recovered, went to the computer to play and started feeling again that blurry vision. Later, when It was time to go to sleep i couldnt, when i was about to fell sleep i had like a heart spam that didnt let me, happened every day
Since i couldnt fell asleep and i was not sleeping i went to ER after three days. Diagnosis: Extreme anxiety. Medicstion? Alprazolam
I could sleep and rest again.
After a week/2 weeks Went to Psychiatrist (i was aware thanks to this forum that i couldnt take antidepressants/antipsychotics) because i wanted to have a control and didnt want to get addicted to benzos. I told her that i couldnt concentrate during the day, that i had like a vision lag and that i couldnt concentrate reading (but i could watch TV and understand everything). She changed me to bromazepam and i had a planning to tapper off the drug.
I felt decent for the time I was under bromazepam, i could read, blurry vision was way better, etc.
Then i started to experience changes with my resting heart rate (low heart rate pulse). Also started to feel some numbness in my limbs. First in my legs. Also had again problems sleeping (bromazepam was not effective against Nocturnal panick attacks). Went to ER, they prescribed me lorazepam. Could sleep again.
As i said above, i started to experience new weird symptoms. I started to feeling numbness in my limbs. I had weakness in my right hand them in my left. Then subsided.
I thought that at lesst my cognition was recovering, but after tappering benzos i noticed that im in so bad cognition condition. Started to feel worse cognition, benzos were masking my problema .
I think i had something like a second Crash 3 days ago, while sleeping i wake Up almost fainting, thinking i was about to die. The Next day when i went to sleep felt anxious and was so scared, thinked it was my last day on earth. Told my family that i LOVE her and went to bed. Im bed Started to feel Burning sensation around my body and heart palpitations. I calmed and slept.
After that everything went worse… I can tolerate muscle wastage, even problems with heart, urination, and other physical symptoms. But since yesterday i have something that worries me.
Yesterdat, When i was watching the TV and watching series with my mother i couldnt Focus/have problems with short term memory, i was forgetting all dialogues, i didnt understand what was happening. I used to read this forum and i could read everything without problems, now i forget what i read. I see news on TV and i dont get what is happening
Now I fear waking Up and dont remember anything. I dont have problems right now with long term memory
Other symptoms that i have: i’ve had problems with my stools, they smell so chemically and were yellowish every day. I tried eating low fodmap and kéfir/yougurt without lactose
I also have big urination frequency. I drink and i inmmediately go to WC. The urine dont have smell.
I also have since my first Crash ammonia smell (phantosmia).
At least im Happy. I have the BEST family of the world and kept a lot of time with them. I Will fight. Im scared as shit but im not depressive.
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