Sir Gilgamesh
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Hello Everybody.
Has anyone here taken dutasteride and experienced a combination of shortness of breath and chest discomfort? I would describe the chest discomfort as heart burn on the low end and a pounding at it’s worse that is very uncomfortable. I was on the dutasteride for about a month when I started experiencing mild gyno symptoms so went from taking it daily to several times per week (finasteride on the other days) which seemed to alleviate those previously mentioned symptoms.
Fast forward another month and I woke up in the middle of the night with what felt like a pounding heart and I ended up going to the ER since I wasn’t sure what was going on and my chest felt very uncomfortable. ECG, bloodwork, and X ray of my chest came back fine.
Ever since waking up in the middle of the night I’ve had continued chest discomfort and shortness of breath when laying on my back and sometimes even sitting. This has continued for over two months and within the last 3 weeks I’ve stopped taking dutasteride and the chest discomfort has slowly been getting less noticeable although still present. I mostly only have shortness of breath when laying down at night (I’ve had to elevate using pillows for the past 2 months or so).
I had additional tests done such as holter monitor, ultrasound of my heart, and a stress test all of which came back fine per the nurse that called me (follow-up is with the doctor today).
I’m not sure if this might just be a lung issue caused from the Dutasteride that results in the shortness of breath, if it might be some type of long haul symptoms from COVID-19 which I had in July of last year, or something else entirely.
So has anyone else experienced anything like this while on Dutasteride?
Has anyone here taken dutasteride and experienced a combination of shortness of breath and chest discomfort? I would describe the chest discomfort as heart burn on the low end and a pounding at it’s worse that is very uncomfortable. I was on the dutasteride for about a month when I started experiencing mild gyno symptoms so went from taking it daily to several times per week (finasteride on the other days) which seemed to alleviate those previously mentioned symptoms.
Fast forward another month and I woke up in the middle of the night with what felt like a pounding heart and I ended up going to the ER since I wasn’t sure what was going on and my chest felt very uncomfortable. ECG, bloodwork, and X ray of my chest came back fine.
Ever since waking up in the middle of the night I’ve had continued chest discomfort and shortness of breath when laying on my back and sometimes even sitting. This has continued for over two months and within the last 3 weeks I’ve stopped taking dutasteride and the chest discomfort has slowly been getting less noticeable although still present. I mostly only have shortness of breath when laying down at night (I’ve had to elevate using pillows for the past 2 months or so).
I had additional tests done such as holter monitor, ultrasound of my heart, and a stress test all of which came back fine per the nurse that called me (follow-up is with the doctor today).
I’m not sure if this might just be a lung issue caused from the Dutasteride that results in the shortness of breath, if it might be some type of long haul symptoms from COVID-19 which I had in July of last year, or something else entirely.
So has anyone else experienced anything like this while on Dutasteride?