PFS = Anxiety?

[myhairbegone]

I am debating getting on finasteride so I have been doing a lot of reading to make an informed decision.

It seems possible to me that a lot of these PFS people could be suffering from anxiety, has anyone else thought this?

Anxiety can do crazy things to your body. For the last 2 years I have had all sorts of weird symptoms :

- tightness/pain in chest and neck
- brain fog
- unable to concentrate
- blurry vision
- heart palpitations
- light headed / dizziness
- workout intolerance
- gain weight easier
- muscle twitches
- GI issues
- less pleasure from my tally whacker
- more I am probably forgetting

I have gone to ER 3-4 times (thought I was dying), many office visits, gotten MRI, workup from cardiologist (stress test), blood work done (3 or 4 times), chest and neck x-rays. Everything has been normal (except low vit. D and slightly anemic). My primary care concluded it must all be from stress/anxiety. Even though I don't 'feel' anxious. All my symptoms are physical. Mentally, I don't think I am an anxious person / have anxious thoughts (often). However I started to get a bit of mental anxiety from all the physical symptoms.

I am finally coming to terms (80% convinced) that it must be anxiety (all my test results are normal, no changes when all these symptoms started happening, no medication at the time). I started mediation and yoga which has helped a little bit. Actually coming to terms with : there is no explanation other than anxiety seems to have helped a bit too. Maybe because I am less worried about the symptoms when they occur. Anyway I digress...

Thank god I didn't start taking finasteride 2 years ago. I would have been 100% convinced that it caused all these symptoms and cursed its existence and been on here saying how it ruined my life. Reading through some of these PFS symptoms reminds me of what anxiety can do to the body. If PFS (or anything else) is blamed, rather than the underlying anxiety itself, maybe it will never get better?

Just wondering if anyone else has made this connection?

 

[tab531]

yes

 

[Digidako]

Sounds like textbook anxiety/depression to me

 

[jackakastones]

Not on/never have been on finasteride, so I won't draw conclusions for those suffering prolonged sides from it, BUT I do have mild anxiety that often gets a little more than mild and I experience A LOT of those symptoms you mentioned.

 

[jk1okay]

Depression abnd Anxiety can manifest itself in many ways. Stay strong brother.

 

[DDobler]

I am debating getting on finasteride so I have been doing a lot of reading to make an informed decision.

It seems possible to me that a lot of these PFS people could be suffering from anxiety, has anyone else thought this?

Anxiety can do crazy things to your body. For the last 2 years I have had all sorts of weird symptoms :

- tightness/pain in chest and neck
- brain fog
- unable to concentrate
- blurry vision
- heart palpitations
- light headed / dizziness
- workout intolerance
- gain weight easier
- muscle twitches
- GI issues
- less pleasure from my tally whacker
- more I am probably forgetting

I have gone to ER 3-4 times (thought I was dying), many office visits, gotten MRI, workup from cardiologist (stress test), blood work done (3 or 4 times), chest and neck x-rays. Everything has been normal (except low vit. D and slightly anemic). My primary care concluded it must all be from stress/anxiety. Even though I don't 'feel' anxious. All my symptoms are physical. Mentally, I don't think I am an anxious person / have anxious thoughts (often). However I started to get a bit of mental anxiety from all the physical symptoms.

I am finally coming to terms (80% convinced) that it must be anxiety (all my test results are normal, no changes when all these symptoms started happening, no medication at the time). I started mediation and yoga which has helped a little bit. Actually coming to terms with : there is no explanation other than anxiety seems to have helped a bit too. Maybe because I am less worried about the symptoms when they occur. Anyway I digress...

Thank god I didn't start taking finasteride 2 years ago. I would have been 100% convinced that it caused all these symptoms and cursed its existence and been on here saying how it ruined my life. Reading through some of these PFS symptoms reminds me of what anxiety can do to the body. If PFS (or anything else) is blamed, rather than the underlying anxiety itself, maybe it will never get better?

Just wondering if anyone else has made this connection?

It is exactly(!!!!) what happening to me for the past 2 years. I even went to ER few times and the Doctor himself assumed I suffered from Anxiety, and me - like you, I dont feel any depression, anxiety, but I do have some problems with myself since the beginning of my hairloss, and stuff. I guess there are some people with higher probablity to be attacked by anxiety, which is totally considered as a physical condition, due to all of these symptoms. I am also kinda hypochondriac, which doesn't make this thing easier. When I suffer from physical conditions\symptoms I usually think I am about to die\suffer a bad desease. It becomes a snowball which can lead to anxiety attacks... I wish I wasn't such a psychological person.

 

[Digidako]

0.5mg clonazepam not only abolished my anxiety, but it also got rid of that pain in the *** male pattern baldness itch too, who woulda thought ?

 

[myhairbegone]

Depression abnd Anxiety can manifest itself in many ways. Stay strong brother.

Thanks

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0.5mg clonazepam not only abolished my anxiety, but it also got rid of that pain in the *** male pattern baldness itch too, who woulda thought ?

Since most of my symptoms are physical, I got put on a beta blocker which has been helping a lot I think. I can't find much out there on PFS and anxiety but I wonder if this link has been pursued?