Chapman
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Hello Lads,
I've been lurking around here now for a couple of months, commenting on a few threads and messaging a couple of people, Tubzy & MNK. Prior to that I lurked on Swole Source/Propeciahelp just trying to get a handle on this condition and understand what the fuck was going on.
I crashed in February 2017 after a second short bout of Finasteride, about 1 month. Previously I'd used Finasteride since I was 19 with few problems, got permanent tinnitus within 1 year of starting but put that down to too much loud music in clubs lol, I still have it now. I started to notice a few minor symptoms when I was 26 so came off it ( sort of tapered off), I didn't crash and didn't lose any hair, still haven't lost much to this day, also I didn't know about PFS at the time. Had a few problems during the next couple of years with increased anxiety/poor sleep/pain in head but put this down to the birth of my daughter (sleep deprivation/stress etc), no where near as bad as now. In January '17 time decided to go back on Finasteride as had noticed my hairline was starting to recede and I was losing more in the shower, plus found out it had now come off patent so was much cheaper... how fucking lucky - if it was still the original price about £90+ for 3 months worth I probably wouldn't of bought it! And here we are haha ...
I've always been active and have lifted regularly since my teens although have become more sedentary in recent years since becoming a dad. I'm 5 foot 6 and weigh about 144 pounds body fat is roughly 14-16%, used to be leaner but have put on about 7 pounds since the crash.
Symptoms
I'll list them off but know it's roughly the same for all of us:
Social anxiety, extremely reduced libido and weaker erections, I can still have sex fine but not prefin levels, chronic headache in frontal lobe area, definitely stress related as it gets worse, poor sleep quality wake everyday feeling like I'm hungover, poor short term memory and spatial awareness, poor digestion and poor stool quality, reflux I had helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection last year and had antibiotic eradication therapy for it, cleared the infection but I still have reflux/indigestion issues.
My sexual sides are bad but it's more the neurological/digestive issues that are the problem.
I'm on my 4th day of an Ella trial at the moment haven't felt much maybe slightly reduced anxiety. I've dabbled with the electrolytes a bit, I've found the Betaine may of made the reflux worse, I haven't taken any enzymes, but that's it so far.
Should I be looking for a snap back with Ella? Has anyone had any success with the Clomid protocol?
Any help or advice you guys could give would be great.
@TubZy @joekool @IHateFin @bruschi11
Update 28/06 Bloods added:
I've been lurking around here now for a couple of months, commenting on a few threads and messaging a couple of people, Tubzy & MNK. Prior to that I lurked on Swole Source/Propeciahelp just trying to get a handle on this condition and understand what the fuck was going on.
I crashed in February 2017 after a second short bout of Finasteride, about 1 month. Previously I'd used Finasteride since I was 19 with few problems, got permanent tinnitus within 1 year of starting but put that down to too much loud music in clubs lol, I still have it now. I started to notice a few minor symptoms when I was 26 so came off it ( sort of tapered off), I didn't crash and didn't lose any hair, still haven't lost much to this day, also I didn't know about PFS at the time. Had a few problems during the next couple of years with increased anxiety/poor sleep/pain in head but put this down to the birth of my daughter (sleep deprivation/stress etc), no where near as bad as now. In January '17 time decided to go back on Finasteride as had noticed my hairline was starting to recede and I was losing more in the shower, plus found out it had now come off patent so was much cheaper... how fucking lucky - if it was still the original price about £90+ for 3 months worth I probably wouldn't of bought it! And here we are haha ...
I've always been active and have lifted regularly since my teens although have become more sedentary in recent years since becoming a dad. I'm 5 foot 6 and weigh about 144 pounds body fat is roughly 14-16%, used to be leaner but have put on about 7 pounds since the crash.
Symptoms
I'll list them off but know it's roughly the same for all of us:
Social anxiety, extremely reduced libido and weaker erections, I can still have sex fine but not prefin levels, chronic headache in frontal lobe area, definitely stress related as it gets worse, poor sleep quality wake everyday feeling like I'm hungover, poor short term memory and spatial awareness, poor digestion and poor stool quality, reflux I had helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection last year and had antibiotic eradication therapy for it, cleared the infection but I still have reflux/indigestion issues.
My sexual sides are bad but it's more the neurological/digestive issues that are the problem.
I'm on my 4th day of an Ella trial at the moment haven't felt much maybe slightly reduced anxiety. I've dabbled with the electrolytes a bit, I've found the Betaine may of made the reflux worse, I haven't taken any enzymes, but that's it so far.
Should I be looking for a snap back with Ella? Has anyone had any success with the Clomid protocol?
Any help or advice you guys could give would be great.
@TubZy @joekool @IHateFin @bruschi11
Update 28/06 Bloods added:
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