Slurred speech/tripping over words/loss of wit for one liners

Symptoms Physical
#21

Mew said it doesn’t matter how long one has taken finasteride. His contention was that if one took finasteride once, that would have the same side effect possibility as someone who took finasteride for 10 years.

It seems logical that someone who took finasteride longer would have to wait longer for side effects to wane, but his argument seems to make sense on a chemical level.

Well I hope thats correct for me cuz I would like to think I can recover within 6 months to a year. I dont understand why the side effects stay around so long, obviously we all dont know. I mean for example if you take an anti depressant for 1 year compared to 5 years the side effects that you get from withdrawls are probably the same in time length. Well at least close in time length. However this is something totally different from what propecia does to us, so I really cant compare a Anti-depressant to Propecia.

#22

Yeah I dont have any sexual sides now either. Mine are all mental sides really. The sexual sides improved pretty quickly for me. I know you were saying Kirrabeach is possible pyschological, but for me I have been improving alot in my symptoms ever since I came off Propecia. I was pretty much numb and personality was gone while I was on it and things are getting better but at a slow rate. I have tried many anti depressants when i was on propecia and didnt know what was going on. Maybe now the anti would make me feel more normal but they usually affect a persons feelings in a numb way which aint cool. My main problems are the fatigue/brain fog/concentration/depression/anxiety. But they come and go. One minute Im fine the next its symptoms. Its confusing for me cause I am hypothyroid which could also be messing with me if synthroid isnt doing the job.

#23

I’ve been off Propecia for four and a half months now, going on five come Xmas. I feel like in the last six weeks more or less I’ve been speaking considerably better. Some times I am close to my former self again, but sometimes I"m not. I’m guessing it’s wearing off slowly but surely. Perhaps by February I’ll feel much better.

On another note, I never had any sexual side effects. Even while on propecia, I woke up many a morning with morning wood.

#24

I also feel like that something that holds me back from being truly smooth and eloquent in speaking is still there but not as strong as before. Even a month or two off of Propecia I had good periods of speaking but nowhere near the frequency I’m having now, which is still not yet at the frequency of pre Propecia.

#25

Good for you man. Im glad things are getting better for you. Hopefully you will be back to normal within the next couple months.

#26

That’s what I’m hoping for. I used to think I had bad days with a ray of good every so often. Now I feel like that good moment while speaking is becoming more common, like the sun rising in the morning. Nothing in my liefstyle has changed either. There has got to be a reason why I feel like I’m feeling better i.e. I am getting better.

Also, I recently contacted my prescribing dermatologist for the first time since I was prescribed Propecia back on May 8 (still remember that day vividly and taking that first pill – thought I was doing something good for myself at the time but damn what I’d give to go back in time with what I know now…okay ranting aside) to let her know how my progress was going/if Propecia was working for my hair. I never told her I had any side effects during this whole period b/c I wanted to see if they’d subside on their own. Well, I let her know about the side effects I’ve experienced, namely slurred speech, brain fog/feeling of dissociation, mental cognitive impairment, etc., and interestingly she mentioned that while it seems to be “rare” (is it really rare?), she’s heard about it in post-consumer reports. Could have used this info. six months ago, ay?

One last note here – there was that study in the finasteride studies section that said the half life for finasteride unbinding to the 5AR enzyme was ABOUT 30 days. I’ve been thinking, what if Propecia blocked 90 percent of our DHT instead of the purported 70%? That means after five months (where I’ll be come Xmas) you’d still have 3% of the enzyme blocked, and 3% of these enzymes could be a lot! Conversely, the half life could mean the time it takes for finasteride to halfway unbind from the enzyme. If that’s the case, then maybe finasteride is still bound a bit to 90% of the enzymes.