Dutasteride usage is messing with my head!

[Guest]

Does anyone else feel wierd after taking Dutasteride. I feel fuzzy headed and disconnected from everything it seems and I worry it's from taking Dutasteride. There are other possibilities like I am suffering from a depression that seems to not have any cause accept for hair loss or the fact that I've smoked a lot of pot everyday for the last 10 years.

I'm very confused and worried but I keep taking Dutasteride because it's my only hope. I even upped my dosage from .25 mg/ day to 1 mg/ day. Things will have to get pretty bad side effect wise for me to stop Dutasteride.

Is anyone experiencing the same thing or is this all in my head?

 

[oni]

hmmmm why not just take 0.5mg a day and did you get the side effects with 0.25mg a day?

 

[Guest]

You might also consider not smoking every day.

 

[oni]

Try taking Melissa pills, about 700mg a day.

 

[oni]

http://www.vitacost.com/store/products/ ... 1&x=17&y=8

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2848143.stm

 

[Solo]

Dude, try the pot option.


I use to have mental fog, no sense of time, paranoiac thinking, anxiety and lazyness. Also, difficult concentration in one single thing.

I was smoking something between 3-10 joints a day,getting to bed quite late and waking up for 13pm or later.

I quit pot and started sleeping good.

Mental fog no more.

It didn´t dissapear overnigh

It took about two or three months, but then, one day you realize you are a new person and that life is much better without being stoned all day long.

I don´t want to be all preacher about the "right way" in life or "drugs are evil" or this, (I still smoke some from time to time) but it´s worth a try, mate.

Also, I got on finasteride about january, and no mental fog appeared. Still ok.

Don´t know about dutasteride effects, but I think that you should try quitting pot for a time if you really don´t want to deal with slow-motion, foggy brain.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Does anyone else feel wierd after taking Dutasteride. I feel fuzzy headed and disconnected from everything it seems and I worry it's from taking Dutasteride.

I experienced similar during the 2nd and 3rd months of taking dutasteride (0.5mg/day), the effect peaking about 2.5 to 3 hours after taking the drug, and then gradually subsiding. I remember that it felt somewhat like mild dehydration so, around the 3 month mark, I made an effort to drink more water. Whether or not this is what caused the light-headedness to subside over the next few weeks I can't be sure - the 3 month time-frame does tie in with how long it takes Dutasteride levels to build-up in your system (at my dosage), so perhaps this is somehow related.

How long on dutasteride, when did this feeling begin, and is it constant or occurring a set time after medicating?

Slarti

 

[oni]

Slarti I never got that problem but I do take it before I go to sleep so this may help?

 

[Slartibartfast]

Must be hard to take them without your co-pilot noticing.

Edit: Is it pure co-incidence that we both fall into the "reliable informant" category on these new rankings, or does Admin know something?

Slarti

 

[oni]

informant, reliable! lol! that's a good one!

 

[Guest]

I'm going to try and answer everyone who responded so bare with me....

Solo, great advice as I feel that is my problem but it is very hard for me to quit smoking weed for some reason. It would be a lot easier to quit smoking weed for 3 months than to stop Dutasteride so I don't have any other answer to my problem.

Slartbartfast, I have had very mild to no side effects (watery seamen) which I think was all in my head and was similar to the Finasteride side effects I experienced if any at all. But I started worrying about the depersonalization/ fuzzy headedness feeling about a week after taking .5 Mg from which I freaked out and lowered my dosage to .25Mg but never actually quit Dutasteride. I can't relate with the dehydrated feeling.

Oni, I will look into Melissa pills. Is this something you take for similar
reasons I should take them?

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As of now (a week later) I am still taking 1 mg a day and I actually feel better than when I wrote this post previously. I have done a lot of thinking and consoleing this last week and have come to some good conclusions. I am growing up and am going through some tough times. I highly dought Dutasteride usage is causing me any harm but I will never be 100% sure. I will continue with this dosage of 1 mg per day unless things get any worse than what they were.

 

[oni]

I don't have the problem you have, but I do find that it helps to sharpen things up a bit. so why not give it a try

 

[iamnaked]

Mate, it's definitely the pot. That stuff will rape your memory.