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Could my sudden sevre anxety be caused by Finasteride?
You know, I have to be honest I highly doubt that Finasteride caused what I'm going through. I would mostly just like to share what has happened because I don't know what else to do at this point. I have only been using Finasteride for four months by the way. 20 year old male
Some information to share before I go into exactly what has happened. I'm only going to check for mistakes once so I'm sure there will be a few typos.
1. For about a month before these events occurred I felt less emotionally stable, I would get upset or angry about anything. I had already begin to obsess over what could be wrong with me, at this point I thought it must be something neurological.
2. The day before day 1, I started taking Levequin for an ear infection. Leqvequin is an antibiotic which apparently can cause damage to someone's central nervous system. It's also important to know I got this medicine from my aunt, who is a doctor. I assume this isn't even aloud to happen, but yeah. I also took Levequin several months before for strep throat.
3. I have dealt with anxiety all my life, until now it has never caused me to have panic attacks or anything near as bad as this.
Day 1
9 days ago I had leg pain, which at the time made me think it could be a blood clot. I woke up my parents up my parents in a panic, apparently they could sense that this was just a panic attack, because they didn't seem too concerned. So I ended up in the living room with my mother as I sob for about 6 minutes, even after that I felt horrible for another 2 hours or so.
Day 2
Day 2 was completely normal, I wasn't concerned at all about anything.
Day 3
The day was normal, until that night. I was walking around listening to a podcast, and began to feel a chest pain, but it didn't panic me at all at first. I was a familar feeling, something I sometimes feel when I lay on my right side. I don't even know if it would also hurt if I laid in my left side because I never lay on my left side. I didn't think about it for a couple minutes, then I put some thought into it. I remember just the day before last I had that leg pain that I wrote off as a panic attack. Then I freaked out and thought the clot must have traveled to my lung and I as having a pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary Embolisms always scared me because someone I once knew died of one when he was 27. So I was in a total panic yet again, this time worse. I woke my parents up again and seriously considered going to the emergency room. I cried for even longer this time and It felt even worse than before. Eventually I began to feel rational again and assumed it must have been another panic attack.
Day 4
The rational side of me was short lived, the whole day I was an absolute mess. Constantly googling my symptoms, constantly going between being rational and thinking I was going to die. That night I couldn't hande it anymore and decided to go to the hospital. I admitted as soon as I arrived that I thought it was anxeity, but I was convinced I had blood clots. The doctor looked me over shortly and gave me one dose of Ativan and recommended I make an appointment with my family doctor if I wanted a regular prescription of something. My appointment isn't until December 28th sadly.
Day 5
Pretty much the same as day 4, except I didn't go to the hospital.
Day 6
Once again the same as day 4, but with another absuluetely horrible panic attack.
Day 7
Horrible day, but at least I didn't have a full blown panic attack.
Day 8
My step father is bipolar and his doctor once prescribed him a drug called Vistaril, but he had only taken a few and stopped. Vistaril is basically a sedative and it helps with anxeity. So I took one of them, and spent the next 6 hours passed out. It wasn't exactly pleasant because I spent the first 3 hours or so having a bunch of muscle twitches and weird dreams about some chick grabbing the back of my head talking to me. Those are pretty standard side effects of vistaril by the way.
Day 9
Well it's 6:10 AM and not much has changed, except typing this kind of distracts me. I have my iPad plugged into the wall in the kitchen and I go between typing on it and pacing around. Even during the parts where I pace around my mind once again begins to freak out about everything going on in my body
The following are the types of physical systems that I have been experiencing probably due to anxeity.
Heart Palpations- You know this part is just really difficult, I really can't decide if they are real or not. I sometimes do feel my heart and it is faster than normal, and sometimes I might be overly sensitive to what is gong on in my chest. I have probably had heart palpations in the past I just didn't think about it. Like for example, sometimes I would feel a sudden thump in my chest. It's just really hard to trust my mind right now. This mostly happens when I try to sleep, but like constantly.
Streaking/pulsating pain in stomach
Half of left eye numb- This actually isn't going in right now, but it was for a couple weeks last month. It seemed move from the left side to the right side and then it went away.
Weird spot in my foot that felt like it was vibrating on and off for a day
Nausea and lightheadedness usually accompanied by chills
This sudden strange feeling, a feeling you get when you get scared for a moment. This might be related to the heart Palpitauins.
Diarrhea as much as three or four times a day, might be paranoid but there does seem to be very small droplets of blood in it.
Random pains in my pains and sensations in my body, this is actually pretty normal for me when I get nervous.
Heartburn
Occasional throat soreness- This could be caused by the heartburn.
Dry mouth at times
Ringing ears- This could be because I still have that ear infection, although it's mostly happening in the ear that doesn't seem as bad. You see on and off for like 7 months now I have had this bump in my ear swell up and get really bad and then go back down. I was finally trying to get rid if it with the Levequin and Cirprodex.
So yeah that's my insanely long post, if one person reads the whole thing I would be happy. I'm hoping I break some kind of record for "Longest post on any hair loss forum".
Some information to share before I go into exactly what has happened. I'm only going to check for mistakes once so I'm sure there will be a few typos.
1. For about a month before these events occurred I felt less emotionally stable, I would get upset or angry about anything. I had already begin to obsess over what could be wrong with me, at this point I thought it must be something neurological.
2. The day before day 1, I started taking Levequin for an ear infection. Leqvequin is an antibiotic which apparently can cause damage to someone's central nervous system. It's also important to know I got this medicine from my aunt, who is a doctor. I assume this isn't even aloud to happen, but yeah. I also took Levequin several months before for strep throat.
3. I have dealt with anxiety all my life, until now it has never caused me to have panic attacks or anything near as bad as this.
Day 1
9 days ago I had leg pain, which at the time made me think it could be a blood clot. I woke up my parents up my parents in a panic, apparently they could sense that this was just a panic attack, because they didn't seem too concerned. So I ended up in the living room with my mother as I sob for about 6 minutes, even after that I felt horrible for another 2 hours or so.
Day 2
Day 2 was completely normal, I wasn't concerned at all about anything.
Day 3
The day was normal, until that night. I was walking around listening to a podcast, and began to feel a chest pain, but it didn't panic me at all at first. I was a familar feeling, something I sometimes feel when I lay on my right side. I don't even know if it would also hurt if I laid in my left side because I never lay on my left side. I didn't think about it for a couple minutes, then I put some thought into it. I remember just the day before last I had that leg pain that I wrote off as a panic attack. Then I freaked out and thought the clot must have traveled to my lung and I as having a pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary Embolisms always scared me because someone I once knew died of one when he was 27. So I was in a total panic yet again, this time worse. I woke my parents up again and seriously considered going to the emergency room. I cried for even longer this time and It felt even worse than before. Eventually I began to feel rational again and assumed it must have been another panic attack.
Day 4
The rational side of me was short lived, the whole day I was an absolute mess. Constantly googling my symptoms, constantly going between being rational and thinking I was going to die. That night I couldn't hande it anymore and decided to go to the hospital. I admitted as soon as I arrived that I thought it was anxeity, but I was convinced I had blood clots. The doctor looked me over shortly and gave me one dose of Ativan and recommended I make an appointment with my family doctor if I wanted a regular prescription of something. My appointment isn't until December 28th sadly.
Day 5
Pretty much the same as day 4, except I didn't go to the hospital.
Day 6
Once again the same as day 4, but with another absuluetely horrible panic attack.
Day 7
Horrible day, but at least I didn't have a full blown panic attack.
Day 8
My step father is bipolar and his doctor once prescribed him a drug called Vistaril, but he had only taken a few and stopped. Vistaril is basically a sedative and it helps with anxeity. So I took one of them, and spent the next 6 hours passed out. It wasn't exactly pleasant because I spent the first 3 hours or so having a bunch of muscle twitches and weird dreams about some chick grabbing the back of my head talking to me. Those are pretty standard side effects of vistaril by the way.
Day 9
Well it's 6:10 AM and not much has changed, except typing this kind of distracts me. I have my iPad plugged into the wall in the kitchen and I go between typing on it and pacing around. Even during the parts where I pace around my mind once again begins to freak out about everything going on in my body
The following are the types of physical systems that I have been experiencing probably due to anxeity.
Heart Palpations- You know this part is just really difficult, I really can't decide if they are real or not. I sometimes do feel my heart and it is faster than normal, and sometimes I might be overly sensitive to what is gong on in my chest. I have probably had heart palpations in the past I just didn't think about it. Like for example, sometimes I would feel a sudden thump in my chest. It's just really hard to trust my mind right now. This mostly happens when I try to sleep, but like constantly.
Streaking/pulsating pain in stomach
Half of left eye numb- This actually isn't going in right now, but it was for a couple weeks last month. It seemed move from the left side to the right side and then it went away.
Weird spot in my foot that felt like it was vibrating on and off for a day
Nausea and lightheadedness usually accompanied by chills
This sudden strange feeling, a feeling you get when you get scared for a moment. This might be related to the heart Palpitauins.
Diarrhea as much as three or four times a day, might be paranoid but there does seem to be very small droplets of blood in it.
Random pains in my pains and sensations in my body, this is actually pretty normal for me when I get nervous.
Heartburn
Occasional throat soreness- This could be caused by the heartburn.
Dry mouth at times
Ringing ears- This could be because I still have that ear infection, although it's mostly happening in the ear that doesn't seem as bad. You see on and off for like 7 months now I have had this bump in my ear swell up and get really bad and then go back down. I was finally trying to get rid if it with the Levequin and Cirprodex.
So yeah that's my insanely long post, if one person reads the whole thing I would be happy. I'm hoping I break some kind of record for "Longest post on any hair loss forum".