Im pretty sure I have side effects from dutasteride (brain fog, fatigue and my flaccid feels like it has less circulation). These are only in mild forms but still. I started taking a multivitamin and it made me feel a lot better but it really did make me shed alot as crazy as it sounds. I know this because I've been on dutasteride for nearly a year and I've only had thickening of my hair, the only thing I changed that could have caused the shed was the multivitamin. Taking this made me feel alot sharper and I felt like I had much more circulation, but I can't pinpoint exactly what in the multivitamin helped me.
What Can I Take To Counter My Mild Side Effects From Dutasteride?
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ahmed wolf
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what is this multivitamin?
multivitamin, l-arginine (specifically if you're talking circulation of blood, as in what you're describing), DIM
I can swear by those, although i barely take the dim anymore, i noticed a HUGE increase in erection strength and semen volume when i started using arginine before my workouts. I take 1000mg every day before the gym, i used to be dosing morning and night but im still going strong with it once a day now and half the dose. I dont really know if these are ACTUALLY helping but i do know, the side effects i experienced in the first couple weeks/month are basically gone at this point.
I can swear by those, although i barely take the dim anymore, i noticed a HUGE increase in erection strength and semen volume when i started using arginine before my workouts. I take 1000mg every day before the gym, i used to be dosing morning and night but im still going strong with it once a day now and half the dose. I dont really know if these are ACTUALLY helping but i do know, the side effects i experienced in the first couple weeks/month are basically gone at this point.
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Were you trying to combat any other side effects not libido related ?
I think my main problem with propecia is fatigue, brain fog, cognitive function. My erection quality was affected a bit but then I started doing a bit of jelqing and kegels and surprisngly the erections got much better.
Is wonder if there's anything to do to combat the cognitive side effects.
As much as I think I don't have much sides from finasteride there is always that 1 or 2 days every 3-4 weeks where I feel like I may be suffering from some "brain fog". I casually asked some friends who aren't taking propecia if they notice that and they seem to do. So I can't directly blame it on finasteride.
But no initially I chose this stack to AVOID any sides whether it be mental, sexual or a combo of the 2.
I do know for a fact that 1mg ed does come with sides for me. But ever since I dropped some of my weight and take it 3-4x a week I've been fine.
Man I have to say, I notice a huge difference in my cognitive ability when I work out and when I don't. I always feel better for the rest of my day after a workout
Anyone?
Yeah I've tried it, I don't really notice a difference
Anything I can do?
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I think Stachu might be onto an answer. Perhaps the zinc and other ingredients in the multivitamin boosted testosterone production, perhaps even triggering some upregulation in your endocrine system, overwhelmed the dutasteride's level of 5-ar blocking, and all that extra testosterone gets immediately converted into DHT within your follicles which were just starting to get healthier and begin recovering from the first wave of dutasteride's initial benefits...only to get knocked back down from the fresh wave of DHT... all this forming a vicious f*****g cycle of doom with no happy compromise possible.
That's my theory of how this all works anyway.
Sucks because it made me feel so much better. I don't know if it was the other vitamins in it or the grape seed but anyway. What else can I do?
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You could try L-arginine + pycnogenol
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Did you notice any increase in shedding and itch/sebum when you're working out? Several guys I know who are on finasteride mentioned this to me.
Do these work well? And do you know of anything I could take for the brain fog?