Recent content by paximperia

I had major skin changes, rashes and itchiness but only AFTER quitting Dutasteride. It subsided in several weeks.

" If you experience side effects and ignore them, you are not being a responsible consumer. If you have side effects, stop taking it. Simple." Normally I would agree with you, except that the mental side effects occurred more or less right away but I didn't make the connection with the drug...

"my problem however, is the fact that i have exams in two months, and the damned brainfog just simple wont let me study. from the moment i wake up, i have this pressure on my eyes that in turn is what i believe causing a foggy mind.. i can concentrate on reading ..and i forget what i've read...

It's very funny until it happens to you.

Curious, I got the mental effects immediately but didn't put 2 and 2 together. I kept looking at the official FDA side effects and figured I just had brain damage from something (a stupid assertion looking back on it) so I continued taking the drug for almost two years. The sexual...

Yea, I also got a weak bladder, shooting pains in uretha, and some other weird urine related symptoms.

It is much much worse than that. I experienced severe penile tissue changes, penile fibrosis, complete loss of prostatic fluid, wrinkled numb scrotum and penis, skin changes, facial tissue changes, weight gain, breast tissue growth, emotional flatness, depression, apathy, and a laundry list of...

Wow. I'm in the exact same boat... I was on Avodart for 2 1/2 months with very strong side-effects, including the increase in muscle mass, zero libido, shedding, etc. As for the testosterone, it will decrease proportionally to the increase in dht. I switched from dutasteride back to finasteride the next...

The descriptions are so similar! I thought I might have had a stroke (I was going to get an MRI-- I'm dead serious, I still have the prescription), then I thought I might be going schizophrenic, or have dissociative personality disorder, or chronic fatigue syndrome, etc, etc-- I never thought...

GlaxoSmithKline doesn't need to release the results. If it is shown that there were a very high number of users with side effects (as I would guess is the case for younger men) and that it isn't likely to be approved, then they may choose not to release the results because it would look bad...

I still have a significant amount of dutasteride in my system. If it is the DHT inhibitors that are causing it I'm afraid it might take a lot longer. I only stopped two weeks ago.

I have no idea if this is a result of finasteride or not, as I'm also taking Adderall which can cause similar symptoms, however over the past several years I have felt dissociated from reality (detached), tired all the time, I have trouble focusing or making interpersonal connections, I get exhausted at...

It's been about two weeks and things seem to (slowly but surely be getting better). I started sweating under my arms again (which had completely disappeared with dutasteride), and sex drive is a little bit better. However this whole thing has made me second guess what I've been doing with finasteride. I...

For those of you that have permanent side effects, did it get even a little better? How long were you on it? How long were you off it? and...Are you still taking Finasteride?

Yeah. At this point I'm really hoping these sides (all of them) go away... Damn dutasteride.