Personality Changes

Symptoms Neurological
#1

I noticed a major major personality change after taking Dutasteride (I stopped six months ago)…

  1. I don’t want to have/can’t have “fun”.
  2. I used to get emotional over everything, now I have to try really hard just to laugh or cry.
  3. I used to be very sexual and now I’m completely asexual and unable to orgasm.
  4. I completely lost interest in things that 22 year olds are supposed to enjoy like socializing and hanging out with friends.
  5. I’m no longer an alcoholic (at least theres one plus to this disaster) because it just doesn’t do anything to me.
  6. I used to be a hopeless romantic, I’m now completely aromantic.
  7. I used to love everyone that was nice to me, and desperately want to be loved by everyone around me, and now I don’t care.
  8. I used to be passionately interested in things like world hunger, teaching, children, and computers, and now all the passion is gone. I also don’t get bored like I used to (everything except socializing and partying used to bore me) but nothing interests me.
  9. I have all the personality of a door-stop. I don’t see any point in making friends or sustaining friendships because a. it would be a pain in the ass to pretend to care, and b. it doesn’t produce any good feelings like it used to.
  10. I used to be terrified of dying and now I don’t really care.
  11. I used to have terrible social anxiety and now I’m indifferent to what people think of me.

All in all, I’m a completely different person. Does it get any better with hormone treatment? I need some glimmer of hope.

#2

Get the privat message that I sent to you. I also took dutasteride.

#3

Man, i couldn’t have expressed myself better. This is EXACTLY me, unfortunately. EXACTLY, before and after…

The only difference is that i was not an alchoolic, BUT i did drink every weekend, and the effect of alchool on my body was great relaxation… now, nothing…

#4

Yup, same here… execept with Finasteride, of course. Felt completely “numb” on the drug and experienced most of what you described, as if viewing life through a filter, full of melancholy, emotionally flat and dull.

After quitting much of these personality changes remain to this day, albeit not as severe 3 yrs later… but certainly I am a different person in that I have lost that “zest” for life that I once had, and am just basically unmotivated, no longer excited by life, do not care for music/hobbies, and am very complacent/passive.

I have a feeling this is tied to a hormonal and possibly neurotransmitter imbalance post-Finasteride.

#5

“I have a feeling this is tied to a hormonal and possibly neurotransmitter imbalance post-Finasteride.”

I suspect it is actually caused by brain damage. It causes nerve destruction in the penile nerves (as was evident by the intense penile pain/soreness/numbness that occurred as a result of taking Dutasteride) so it would not be surprising if it also caused nerve damage in the brain.

#6

I feel the same and it’s weird since at the beginning of all I kind of got used to the changes since it calmed me down and I was less emotional, but now I understand it not really me and my memories from before Propecia are much happier and full of life.

In my mind I would like to believe that it’s just a chemical inbalance that can be solved by other medications/time.

Lets all pray for that.

#7

paximperia: this is exactly what I’m thinking …

Same problem here;now i m a lot better and starting to feeling something like before but i still have problem down there and feel my nerves so damaged…this is what i’m feeling so strong in this period .

#8

“I feel the same and it’s weird since at the beginning of all I kind of got used to the changes since it calmed me down and I was less emotional, but now I understand it not really me and my memories from before Propecia are much happier and full of life.”

I felt exactly the same. I didn’t know what was happening, and looked at the side-effects for Propecia and it wasn’t listed, and I figured even if it was the Propecia then I could use something to make me less emotional because I was too emotional anyway. I thought the side effects would go away, which obviously they didn’t, and I just got used to it.