Did you crash on Finasteride or when getting off

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I crashed while on finasteride after going through stressful period. But also important to know is I took a break before from finasteride for a week or two weeks. In this two week period my shedding came back probably twice as hard so I jumped back on.

This was long before the crash. So theoretically this was the second time I was on finasteride.

Crash was: higher anxiety and anxiety attacks, bloated stomach, pelvic floor tension, depression, bad vision, no libido, ED, no emotion.
 
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RebelWithACause said:
I crashed while on finasteride after going through stressful period. But also important to know is I took a break before from finasteride for a week or two weeks. This was long before the crash. So theoretically this was the second time I was on finasteride.

Crash was: higher anxiety and anxiety attacks, bloated stomach, pelvic floor tension, depression, bad vision, no libido, ED, no emotion.
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ok, and what happend when you came off. if was no difference right? just the same crash?
 
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Crashed while on it for one month. Immediately stopped taking it and eventually felt better for a week or so, then hypersexual for a week. I then got a bad fever and as the fever broke... PFS.
 
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Helen said:
ok, and what happend when you came off. if was no difference right? just the same crash?
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Yes. I did not feel different. I felt exactly the same when I would take finasteride while crashed.

So I could take finasteride in that period but I would not feel much different. So I dropped it completely.

Maybe the anxiety got a bit higher after a while after quitting it but it could also be because I was stressed out and did not know what happened.
 
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Boris said:
Bad sides while on. Crashed even worse a few weeks after stopping fin completely. The crash was triggered right after taking too many stimulants. Once crashed had even worse sides and more sides then while on fin.
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but you did not crash on fin , right. Bad sides like what? sexual , or crash physical
 
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Helen said:
but you did not crash on fin , right. Bad sides like what? sexual , or crash physical
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No crash on fin just sides. Same sides while on fin I got when crashing just much more severe. Fatigue, allergies, immune system, severe insomnia, anxiety etc was the worst after crashing. Sides while on fin we're mainly just sexual and some minor brain fog.
 
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Ok. did you guys test your DHT levels before taking fin. or you just took fin randomly?
 
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Helen said:
Ok. did you guys test your DHT levels before taking fin. or you just took fin randomly?
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No I just started taking it after founding the xRedStaRx finasteride thread on bodybuilder forum and the reddit tressless. I had a crazy itch all over my scalp. Like maddening. It would bother me a lot. Especially if I would eat junkfood like McDonalds or drink beer. The itch would be more intense and more hair shedding. And I read this was the DHT itch and so I thought I had high DHT. Never measured anything.

BTW: finasteride fixed the itch and stopped the shedding. It gave me low libido, depression, anxiety, brainfog while on finasteride.
 
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I had side effects after like a week of using the drug or so, started noticing my libido was gone and then brainfog started to appear. Unfortunately I persisted through it for like 3 months thinking the side effects would subside, but it was dumb of me. So eventually I said enough is enough and quit, and the side effects persisted. So I guess the "crash" for me was just a continuation of the side effects, and Initially were probably even worse than I was on the drug.
I had no hormone tests prior to taking fin, doctor just was like "you have mpb" and prescribed fin, fucking big pharma medical institutions are beyond corrupt :/
 
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Went downhill on Saw Palmetto, had other things going so was a slow decline. Got off, started feeling a little better, crashed hard.
 
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Anxiety and Lower libido on it. And fatigue.

These subsided after 2 weeks from stopping.

3 weeks after stopping I went into panic attack that could not be stopped without prescription drug. Ugliest saliva cortisol chart ever where it spikes extremely high at noon and then crashes low rest of day.

Severe cfs, anxiety, depression with pfs. Stopped testosterone a couple months later and low libido, no erections turned to major impotence.
 
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I crashed at week 2. First week was super horny l, followed by watery sperm and no erections. Still had hair loss too.
 
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Boris said:
No crash on fin just sides. Same sides while on fin I got when crashing just much more severe. Fatigue, allergies, immune system, severe insomnia, anxiety etc was the worst after crashing. Sides while on fin we're mainly just sexual and some minor brain fog.
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I was the same as boris. But while on fin I just had sexual sides. Crashed everything else after stop
 
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Sawsides said:
I took Saw palmetto for 10 days, 1st week no prob may be a little more horny. lost morning wood like on day 10 and then ED that night so stopped... then the nightmare started, severe insomnia, night sweats, numb genital with pain, massive brain fog. blurry vision etc.
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Had a very similar experience.
 
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