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Finasteride Exterminated My Soul

Age: 26–35  ·  Duration of use: Less than 1 month  ·  Current status: No, have stopped
Symptoms: Brain zaps, emotional blunting, sexual dysfunction, cognitive impairment, insomnia, depersonalization/derealization, suicidal ideation, tinnitus, neuropathy, muscle/joint pain, anhedonia, genital changes and shrinkage, loss of libido, crippling anhedonia, genital burning, beard no longer grows properly

I took 4 pills and have been suffering for 4.5 years. I was told the medication was safe.

My life has been utterly destroyed. My cognition, my energy, my body, my engagement with life—all of it. Without research and a cure, this is a death sentence for me.

Every day is a matter of survival and holding on to hope for a better future without this disease. We deserve better.

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