Scared to finally get off 5ar inhibitor

General Discussion
#1

I’ve taken astaxanthin for years on and off, though may have been lucky with it the previous times.

At most many years ago I would take eight mg a day for a solid year or so. During that I mainly had watery semen, some libido loss, and some heightened depression.

But I got off it and that all went away

Years later I am back on astaxanthin, for only my chronic dry eyes, and have been taking a very small dose of two mg per day for about a year now. Where I do know that it takes four mg for me to have sexual sides at all. But as of right now I’m ok in that I have had no sides at all during the entire time I’ve used it this time around for a year……

However now that I know about PFS I’m honestly afraid to stop it

I have a close friend who got PFS this year but it was from saw palmetto and he now has chronically no libido and h brain fog

I mean honestly at this point should I just remain on it and call it a day?

I wanted to move onto other options for my dry eyes that aren’t dht inhibitors but yeah…

#2

I got PFS because of astaxanthin, but that was because I was a dumbass (drank a lot of grapefruit juice along with it, took way more than recommended and took it right after I had a serious concussion).

The chance that you will get permanent side effects from just 2mg is probably less than 0.1% if any so I wouldn’t stress it.

I think that trying to taper off of it would be a good option but I’m not sure.

For now just try not to get into your head too much and keep calm.

#3

Oh my goodness I’m Oncreibly sorry that happened to you

How did such a thing happen though my friend? Meaning how much were you taking actually and how long?

I am a big water faster and will tell you this.

Water fasts for me when done long enough helped repair chronic problems I had

For example intermittent pain from a sprained ankle from when I was a kid. An eight day fast literally erased that forever.

I’ve read of people doing extended water fasts here with succes

For example some even noticed the return of their oily skin here and cognitive symptom relief from extended fasts here

Meaning some amount of healing took place (makes sense since autophagy and stem cell proliferation occurs with longer fasts)

If you ever find you wanna do one, I’ll do one with you.

At any rate yeah I have now been offf of astaxanthin for two days (but know the half life is mega long so it is still technically in my body)

Before getting off of it, I decided to go from two mg to one mg a day, and stayed at one mg for about ten days. Then for three more days when to 0.5 mg.

Then stopped it entirely

I guess I’m airing for the odd crash to appear so I hope I’ll be okay

For what it is worth, while taking astaxanthin this time I around, I had been using, glycine a few grams a day, and glycine strongly increases 5ar so I wondering if that would offset the shock of a 5ar inhibitor on the body further protecting me but heck I don’t know

#4

Thank you a lot for the support, I’m looking forward to a water fast in the future, but for now I am trying to bulk up as I have lost a lot of weight.

I took a lot of astaxanthin (16-24mg a day) for two weeks as an effort to help my brain recover for boxing post concussion, I also have took some saw palmetto two months prior, so that might have been a contributing factor for what happened.

It’s great that you decided to taper off, but I really doubt that 2mg of astaxanthin would trigger PFS.
Don’t stress it and overly worry about side effects because you will just give yourself unnecessary anxiety. As for the glycine - it’s probably pretty neutral.

You will be fine, I wish you the best of luck.