ContinuousHeal
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- Dec 31, 2016
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I have a long saga with Finasteride use, including approximately 7 years of what I would call successful use, and a nearly 5 year battle with the damage the drug ultimately caused.
I've made a lot of progress, but one thing always sticks with me is how great I felt for the bulk of the first 7 years. It was from more than just an attitude perspective, but even hormonally. I was energized, positive, sexual, and had excellent gains at the gym. All better than I was prior to taking the drug. For me this continued almost constantly, until my career began to get more stressful, and the earliest signs were a pounding heart and irrational nervousness heading into meetings, however still feeling relatively good.
The turning point was making a career change into a new company and an extremely stressful role. Within weeks I noticed sores forming on my scalp, and a rapid elevation of the anxiety like symptoms. Months later I developed a dull pain in one of my testicles (which also began to constantly sag), and my doctor had nothing to tell me. That dull pain continued for 6-9 months, while my libido and general health plummeted. My bones felt weak, my energy levels were shot, and I began to experience the early signs of impotence and loss of libido.
From here the story becomes more typical. By the time I decided to stop the drug, I was losing hair regardless of it, and knew something was clearly wrong. Stopping the drug, quitting my job and spending a year in a nearly paralyzed state of anxiety and low energy, and long slow climb back to some form of normalcy. My first big breakthrough was supplementing phosphatidylserine, which seemed to return nerve activity to the scrotum, and significantly improve my sleep quality. My success here began my online research into allopregnenalone, and ultimately to this website.
Long story short, I know fin has been likened to a form of preg, but how was it that I felt so good? Was this a delicate balance of feeling what a special type of pregnenalone supplement (one that maybe was more effective at boosting androgens?) at the expense of a reduced stress tolerance, which only became an issue when my life got chronically more stressful?
I know no easy answers here, but I wanted to get my story out.
I've made a lot of progress, but one thing always sticks with me is how great I felt for the bulk of the first 7 years. It was from more than just an attitude perspective, but even hormonally. I was energized, positive, sexual, and had excellent gains at the gym. All better than I was prior to taking the drug. For me this continued almost constantly, until my career began to get more stressful, and the earliest signs were a pounding heart and irrational nervousness heading into meetings, however still feeling relatively good.
The turning point was making a career change into a new company and an extremely stressful role. Within weeks I noticed sores forming on my scalp, and a rapid elevation of the anxiety like symptoms. Months later I developed a dull pain in one of my testicles (which also began to constantly sag), and my doctor had nothing to tell me. That dull pain continued for 6-9 months, while my libido and general health plummeted. My bones felt weak, my energy levels were shot, and I began to experience the early signs of impotence and loss of libido.
From here the story becomes more typical. By the time I decided to stop the drug, I was losing hair regardless of it, and knew something was clearly wrong. Stopping the drug, quitting my job and spending a year in a nearly paralyzed state of anxiety and low energy, and long slow climb back to some form of normalcy. My first big breakthrough was supplementing phosphatidylserine, which seemed to return nerve activity to the scrotum, and significantly improve my sleep quality. My success here began my online research into allopregnenalone, and ultimately to this website.
Long story short, I know fin has been likened to a form of preg, but how was it that I felt so good? Was this a delicate balance of feeling what a special type of pregnenalone supplement (one that maybe was more effective at boosting androgens?) at the expense of a reduced stress tolerance, which only became an issue when my life got chronically more stressful?
I know no easy answers here, but I wanted to get my story out.