I took finasteride for about one year and have been off them for about one year. Besides the brainfog, the most disturbing sideeffect is the one related to the vision.
I have earlier experienced floaters, prior to finasteride intake, for exampled when I looked up to a clear sky and “relaxed” my eyes/vision. It looked like small transparent worms, floating around. But those werent present in the vision otherwise.
Now I have floaters all the time and they are more clustered so that they appear like shadows in my vision. It is extremely difficult to read black text on white paper, which unfortunately is basically the only form you read text in…, because these floaters disturb the reading extremely and makes reading almost inpossible.
In very bright and up-lit rooms, when I move my focus from one side to another in my vision frame and without blinking, I experience a jelly-fish like cluster that moves with what i focus on but with a short delay
Besides the floaters, I also have another vision related side effect that also is most obvious when I read but also where there is strong contrasts (again black text on white paper makes good contrast). I experience that the edges of the contrast is pulsating. The first 6 months after I stopped taking finasteride this pulsating in my vision was extremely difficult to cope with and it often resulted in headaches frequently in forms of migraines. But nowadays I don’t get much headaches and the pulsating around contrast edges varies and are sometimes decreased in intensity.
I too have been to the eye doctor, two actually, and they both have established the diagnose that my vision is perfect. I feel like I am crazy. I experience these side effects and nobody seems to believe me…god damn it is frustrating and it gets you depressed. Additionally I have brainfog from the finasteride. I have felt symptom free at two occasions, sporadically I am sorry two say. And they lasted maybe a half an hour each time and I have tried to find out what I did/ate/ etc too get a clue how to beat these symptoms. I you guys ever find any relife from this please tell me.