Have others experienced negative mental symptoms due to elevated testosterone after quitting Finasteride? This PFS feels very similar to chronic boron supplementation (anhedonia, loss of empathy, loss of emotion, short- and long-term memory impairment) which also elevated free testosterone. Recovery from that experience took a month or two but I was only taking boron for one month. Sublingual Fasoracetam, eating ketogenically, and fasting are what helped with recovery the most back then.
Given the similar negative adaptations by my brain during and following finasteride for 5 months, could this mean recovery might take 5 months as well? I wonder if there’s anything I can do to normalize those testosterone levels and why they might be resulting in the symptoms I’ve experienced? I think it might have something to do with a desensitization of the brain’s testosterone/dht receptors in response to chronically elevated testosterone (above baseline), so only after it comes back down and stays stable for a few months, will their sensitivity return to normal and thus the symptoms might improve.
Finasteride experience:
Introduction Post
STARTED ON: 03/15/20
QUIT ON: 08/15/2020
TREATMENT DURATION: 5 months
DOSE: 1mg oral Finasteride daily
Labs:
Abnormally elevated Testosterone without conversion to estrogen:
TESTOSTERONE ABNORMALLY HIGH ON: 09/09/20 (morning about a month later)
ZRT saliva test results:
Testosterone: 203 pg/mL
Normal range: 72-148 pg/mL (16-30 y/o)
Estradiol: 1.1 pg/ML
Normal range: 0.5-2.2 pg/mL
Progesterone: 52 pg/mL
Normal range: 12-100 pg/mL
hsCRP (blood spot): 0.3 mg/L
Normal range: <3 mg/L