Its been 5.5 months off for me. Should the depression have already gone by now? I do go out and drink with friends like 2-3 times a week. I dont know if its the alcohol doing it or just sides from propecia. I dont see to many people talking about it. Just wondering.
Do you see a therapist?
Do you take any other medications?
Try running and taking Omega 3s…
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Yes, the depression clears up substantially, if your hormones are getting back on track… give yourself time and get bloodwork to see what’s up.
No therapist. Have seen in the past when I had a bunch of symptoms but felt I was normal.
Yes I am hypothyroid which can cause all sorts of problems. Im on synthroid and cytomel.
Is anyone dealing with this or just me? Here I am again getting hit with a terrible depression and tiredness with a mild head pressure up in the middle it feels like.
Mew did you get this at all?
I have nothing really to be down about at all. I think I have a great life etc. Looking forward to improvement… thats my mind set. But I get hit with this overall sad feeling like a crying inside feeling. Definitely like a suffering type feeling. I dont think people who are depressed feel this bad especially with no reason. I dont want to feel depressed I hate it. I have no reason… I cant figure it out. Fucking sucks. Anyone get this or is it just me?
I was depressed early days off propecia.
Ive been depressed pre propecia too so i guess i was prone. Weird thing is propecia actually helped my depression, whilst i was on it, go figure.
Maybe it took my mind of the hair or maybe it raised my T and that lifted my depression i dont know.
Depression sux i know 1st hand. But depression is also a very wide spread term these days. Are u feeling low or are you really depressed? for instance can you laugh about stuff or do you feel like ppl around you are finding things really funny whilst you are having a hard time even smiling? can you laugh watching a funny tv show or something by yourself?
About your headpressure, i had that too in my prepropecia depression. Felt like my head was slow and heavy, almost like it had fallen asleep like your leg does, i would have shaken it alive again if i wasent depresses and dident give a damn lol. Seriously if you have a deppresion you should go c a therapist even if it doesent help, just go do it!
1 thing thats tough but for me helped 10x more than any therapy ever would is EXCERSICE. You need to get some things moving in your body to break free. I could talk about things for hours and feel slightly better after my sessions with a therapist but nothign beats a good cardio workout! At first it will feel very tough and give you nothing back in return for your efforts. But if you push through, it will reward you 10fold. Try something you use to think was fun and do it again. Or just start with a short walk/run anything to get things moving.
Biking is great cause even if your not fit you can keep it up long enough to get things happening instead of trying running for 5 minutes only to give up. Combine it with therapy and i think you will find the depression will feel better, in fact i would be very suprised if it dident!!
A good thing is that you are atleast aware that you are depressed and say that you hate it and wonder about it. When i was at bottom i just dident care if i were depressed or not. Good to catch it early! help yourself and get out and move that body cause sitting around thinking when you are depressed can make a tivoly into a funeral. Your just not thinking straight when your depressed i know that all too well.
You say you are on thyroid meds so i assume you have a hormone panel done. Good that you are on top of that department.
You can definetly be depressed because of hormonal issues but even if you have those issues (not saying that you do at all, mearly covering all bases) i feel you can beat depression or atleast lift it and get the ball rolling with EXERCISE and therapy. I was about as depressed as you get and i felt started working as a bikemessenger completely resolved my depression within a few months.
Try to get a friend into the working out part if you can cause letting down yourself when your depressed is easy, letting down a good friend is atleast abit harder even when depressed.
Best wishes !
Troubledfin user,
Greatly appreciate your help. Heres the situation… my depression isnt like oh im sad cause of this or that. I couldnt even talk to a therapist and tell whats wrong. I would just say I dont feel well with fatigue or my thyroid is not imbalance making me frustrated that I can get my life back. I laugh all the time and kid around. I just went out tonight with my friends bar hopping. im social etc. Sound like depression? Not really. But I feel terrible inside for no damn reason thats the thing. On top of that I have had days where im completely normal clear headed and feel good like okay cool im almost back to normal. A month goes by and its like damn I feel terrible and have this head pressure and fatigue at the same time as the depression. The thing is people with depression dont usually complain about it right? It just happens and they play it off like there fine and dont care. I guess mine comes from me not being able to be myself from thyroid or propecia and my life just passing me by. I cant even be in a relationship with someone cause I dont feel like im stable with all my symptoms. However I have had days where I think everything is fixing and I feel more clear headed and myself. I sometimes feel hopeless like now but only when I get hit with this feeling. I dont get it man. So confusing and its been 5 years. 5 years of my life deteriorating cause no one can help me. I think doctors have just gave up cause they think im normal. I dont want to have symptoms and complain. fucking frustrating. Im positive as anyone can be… I just cant believe this is how I am living my life. Everyday is thinking of a way to feel better… and finding the cause to correct.
Now today after I drank last night it makes me feel more normal. Not that much fatigue and my mind is pretty clear along with a better mood. Alcohol always does this to me… makes me feel better the next day.
i feel the same way man you explained it off for 2 yrs
Despite my sides, I am not depressed anymore. I imagine I should be, with my current sexual status, but I am not. After my fast and subsequent clean diet the depression lifted and the sun came out so to speak. I know this sounds all hallelujah and what not, but it’s true. I used to have this crushing depression that made me want to just medicate myself into oblivion with drugs and alcohol. That just makes it worse in the long run.
That’s the closest to actual depression I’ve been during this epidose: simply frustrated that I’m not dating, not going out w/ anyone because these symptoms take away what I would need to do that… energy, libido, erections etc. I don’t want to put myself out there as damaged goods, I want to be out there as myself.
Also, even if not sad about anything in particular, I can echo your sense of inner despair, something quiet and subconscious, from not having accomplished anything in a while. It will pass once you stabilize your health, but for now just focus on doing healthy stuff to improve your mood/health.
Thanks for all your help. Im debating on jumping on an SSRI just to try and be myself. I dont know if its propecia, thyroid not balanced even tho it shows it is, or side effects from the thyroid drug. Im gonna run a full male horomone panel and see whats going on there. Thanks again.
as showed SSRI can give u sides sexual too…so I wanted to use them too,but now I’m looking at 5TPH it seems to boost serotonin but no sides…
True… I dont know which way to turn. Dont really want to take anything just return to normal. If I knew 100% that propecia was the cause of this symptom and would pass with time I would be happy. I could deal with the depression.
I would try amino acids If I were in your shoes. They are as close to natural as you can get.
I have had been depressed for the last three years since I stopped taking propecia. A lot of things are going well in my life, but I feel like shit.
I’m not positive whether my depression is causing ED and my other problems (lowered libido, fatigue, loss of motivation) or whether my ED and problems are causing my depression. I strongly believe my ED and other problems are causing my depression. Or maybe, my hormones are causing all of the problems.
If anyone wants to talk about this please send me a private message. None of my friends/family can relate to my problem.
Josh
In my inner friend circle two people suffered from depressions. I actually tried to help them out of their misery by helping them seeing their therapists and their doctors, taking their medicine, talking to them or more listening to them, going out with them to get their minds on other topics than just their depressions and I do not know exactly why, but after one of those friends committed suicide by jumping in front of a train I kind of got lost on my way and got depressive by myself, because I did everything to help this friend out of his misery. First it did not show very obvious that I was suffering from depressions and bad thoughts and anxiety and even the thought of maybe ending my life by myself because it seemed, at that point, the best resolution for the loss and the pain.
The other friend, that I tried to helped through her depression now was there for me, I would have never asked for help, because I am kind of too pride asking for help, but she just offered it and it kind of helped a little, but actually only a little and I came to understand how it felt for this friend who had the depression and committed suicide, that he, though I was there for him, still was alone, with all those bad thoughts and the fear in mind and the voices inside telling him that life is bad and not worth an ounce.
doesnt cytomel increase sex drive???
i heard cytomel could be the solution