Despite the post-fin sides, including crippling brain fog and lack of motivation, I have managed to graduate from college from a difficult 3 year program.
I won’t let persisting side effects from post-finasteride dictate my life.
Good man Marquis! That’s the spirit! Well done.
Yes, I’m proud of myself too. I graduated from medical school (I failed because of Propecia) in 2003. I have managed to become a good Emergency doctor. I passed my Emergency exams. (TRT helped).
To be honest, the mere fact that I’m alive today is testament to the amount of fight I’ve given this. I’ve not stopped fighting. I never will stop fighting. I’ve been on a rollercoaster from hell and I’m not giving up. TRT helps, but it’s the fighting spirit that counts.
Keep going, we’ll get there.
JN
Congrats Bro!
It’s really important to keep doing the things that challenge us and make us happy, it can be difficult i know but pushing through it is what it’s all about.
Every day we get closer to to figuring this thing out so we all need to stay strong.
Respect.
Medical school. That must have been hard with brain fog. good job sufferer 2001.
I’m slowing starting to accept my new state as being the way I’ll stay.
As time goes by, I’m starting to forget how I used to be. Full of energy, motivated, high sex drive, ambitious.
Now I am not interested in sex anymore. I’m passive in everyday life.
There’s days where I say, “k, it’s enough. Time to get motivated again. Maybe finasteride didn’t do this to me and I just need to get back in shape.” Sort of denial.
But reality always sinks in.
I wish I could be how I used to be before taking finasteride. I don’'t know if that’s possible.
How i used to be is starting to fade in my memory. I’m starting to accept my current state. I don’t like my current state.
There’s nothing I can do. It seems no one can help me. Can’t even sue merck. Or charge merck. Or get them to admit they did something wrong. Can’t even get a doctor to see that finasteride did this to me. So getting help is out of the question. The only doctors that know what Fin can do will cost me more money than I have. And so far, they do not even know how to cure this.
I’ve hit rock bottom.
I feel like shit.
I went from being superhuman to being an 90 year old man in the lapse of a couple of weeks cuz of Fin.
God, help me.
Marquisd,
Please hang in there. I can relate to your post . I was on FIN 2006/2007 and this year the fatigue/brainfog/LossOfMotivation is really subsiding quite a bit. Am I my pre-fin self. no i am not, and i do have some serious phisical penis/testical problems that i may be dealing with for ever. but the mental emotiional drain is way down…and i have heard this from others…that eventully some of this fades (alltough I have not heard alot of credible info regarding the reversal of the sexual sides …not yet anyway.)
SO where does that leave me now? When i was in brainfog & fatigue hell, I would have gladly traded away sexual function to get my mind back to normal. Perhaps, I am no longer to be the narrisistic guy who so fancied himself such a cassanova, that he was willing to alter his own endrochronolgy, to have cool hair and be “sexual for the ladies”.
Life on lifes terms. maybe, now, a less self absorbed version of myself, will concetrate on the things in life that really mean something. not sure where i am going here.but the point is: the rock bottom state does not go on indefinitly. so hang in there.
Been there. Sucks. There is some light though, check out the recent thyroid threads and jn’s recovery.
I was planning on being an engineer and have currently finished my third year of study… I am currently placed at an engineering firm and have been placed at 2 others before for internships. I never enjoyed what I was doing… ever… found the work to be ever so boring. Fin made me re-evaluate my life and now I am not going to sell out for the money and do soemthing that I truly love to do, and am going to go to teacher’s college. I am actually excited about my career. 3 months vacation time here I come.
Fuck you Fin, I win… minus the side effects of course.
I am suffering for 7 years now. I am also very frustrated but you should not give up.
I can still remember how good life was before taking Finasterid.
to add my voice to the chorus…
i quit in feb (after 1.5 yrs on) and simply want to thank whoever made the simple recommendations to go to the gym (every day), watch what you eat, and have a multivitamin and fish oil each day. and to think about this as a process. I’ve endured many of the symptoms that you read and are saddened by each time you log on - the anxiety, the brain fog, the shaking, the itching/burning, the droopy face, the fatigue. I still shake some, I still itch some, and I’m often tired. but going to the gym and taking these basic supplements has done worlds of good. most importantly, my thinking has cleared up enormously.
I empathize with everyone reading this, thank all for the support, and urge everyone to maintain hope.
WHAT YOU FEEL TODAY WILL GO AWAY.
I pray that you are right.