Dknighten's Journey to Normalcy
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:40 pm
Hi friends,
I have been a Post Finasteride Syndrome suffererer since I took just a single 1mg pill of Finasteride back in October 2018. It gave me bad cognitive and physical issues. I had the structure and skin on my genitals change, but my orgasm intensity, erections, and libido still remained intact. Diminished some, but I was ok in that department. Over the past 3 years, i've implemented healthy changes to my lifestyle and did not take anymore medications. I was eventually able to build some muscle back, some strength, and just be in a better place. I still had cognitive impairment, perception/visual issues, chronic anxiety, frequent urination, inability to build muscle/strength/size like pre-fin.
In April of this year, I got into a particularly toxic breakup with a girl whom I cared a lot for. Due to my already compromised state, I handled it poorly and made the second worst decision of my life thus far - I took Lexapro. 5mg for about 4 days. That's all it took for my mouth to be completely dry, my genitals to burn significantly, and within a few days it was a lifeless, shrunken, numb mess. I stopped taking the Lexapro obviously but the damage had been done. Over the next couple of months and up to this point, I've had a full-blown second crash, with worsening of my PFS symptoms, and adding total ahedonia, blunted orgasms, numb and shrunken genitals (with thinning weird skin). PFS symptoms that had been gone for 2 years came back (numb, tingling hands and feet, hollow-breath feeling, extreme and rapid muscle wastage, joint pain, loss of deep, refreshing sleep, worsening disconnection and cognitive impairment, stretchy, elastic & thin skin over my entire body, there's many)
I am in a rough spot. After over 3.5 years of PFS, I had hopes that I was on the way out of it. I knew better than to take an SSRI, especially with PFS. Is anyone here able to tell me atleast what not to take or do during this time?
I hope you all are doing the best, given the circumstances.
I have been a Post Finasteride Syndrome suffererer since I took just a single 1mg pill of Finasteride back in October 2018. It gave me bad cognitive and physical issues. I had the structure and skin on my genitals change, but my orgasm intensity, erections, and libido still remained intact. Diminished some, but I was ok in that department. Over the past 3 years, i've implemented healthy changes to my lifestyle and did not take anymore medications. I was eventually able to build some muscle back, some strength, and just be in a better place. I still had cognitive impairment, perception/visual issues, chronic anxiety, frequent urination, inability to build muscle/strength/size like pre-fin.
In April of this year, I got into a particularly toxic breakup with a girl whom I cared a lot for. Due to my already compromised state, I handled it poorly and made the second worst decision of my life thus far - I took Lexapro. 5mg for about 4 days. That's all it took for my mouth to be completely dry, my genitals to burn significantly, and within a few days it was a lifeless, shrunken, numb mess. I stopped taking the Lexapro obviously but the damage had been done. Over the next couple of months and up to this point, I've had a full-blown second crash, with worsening of my PFS symptoms, and adding total ahedonia, blunted orgasms, numb and shrunken genitals (with thinning weird skin). PFS symptoms that had been gone for 2 years came back (numb, tingling hands and feet, hollow-breath feeling, extreme and rapid muscle wastage, joint pain, loss of deep, refreshing sleep, worsening disconnection and cognitive impairment, stretchy, elastic & thin skin over my entire body, there's many)
I am in a rough spot. After over 3.5 years of PFS, I had hopes that I was on the way out of it. I knew better than to take an SSRI, especially with PFS. Is anyone here able to tell me atleast what not to take or do during this time?
I hope you all are doing the best, given the circumstances.