Originally Posted by
Winkers
Firstly, I have to say I really appreciate all of your help thus far you really got me out of a dark place. Reading all the other forums left me to be an anxious wreck and this was the only hope to get out of it. I took finasteride for about two months and got depression and brain fog and came off of it and had many sexual side effects and about two months of anxiety about those side effects the brain fog many other symptoms came back badly. I took the webbers natural ashwagandha to help me sleep 3 days in a row earlier in my journey when I was in a dark place, feeling insomnia and reading about how insomnia was going to kick in made me horribly anxious. Reading all the recoveries you had with your program really got me into a positive mindset and even helped my brain fog. I did an 8-day juice cleanse (675 calories a day) I was early into my struggles with sleep so I think all the positivity I was feeling and the juice cleanse really helped my sleep and went back to almost normal within a month. I was doing more of the natural stuff because I seem to be highly sensitive to some of the supplementation, bringing back brain fog. I was holding out on doing the herb rotation until I froze my sperm. I was feeling very good months into recovery, I was almost fully myself, my mental state was back, I was just a little fatigued. My libido was not back but I was getting morning wood pretty frequently. I attribute my psychological recovery to what English was saying about fully believing in recovery and staying really positive without stress. I then started trying to bring some of the herbs, pine pollen I could take fine, maca gave me brain fog for a day. I then went to try ashwagandha tincture because I had already tried it, so I thought I would be fine. To answer your question I took half a dose once that day and once at night. I had all my symptoms of brain fog back I was very anxious, almost immediately had symptoms of insomnia again. I thought I would recover fast because all other supplements that gave me brain fog I improved from. Nothing improved and everything has gotten way worse in the several weeks that came. Reading about ashwagandha some people get affected for a long time and I have a lot of their symptoms (which could possibly also be me reading about them and my anxiety bring them on or they are post finasteride syndrome symptoms that I am just attributing to ashwagandha, I don't know). I had horrible anxiety and several panic attacks after spiraling downhill from the ashwagandha thinking how am I now going to fight both post finasteride syndrome and this ashwagandha after effects. A lot of writing again, I am really sorry for all that I just feel so broken right now, I guess this can be considered my welcome post. I have insomnia now, no appetite and my stomach is starting to be affected which was not happening before. My questions would be, is the tincture that much more potent that it could affect me like this even though I tried it in the past (I was really messed up at this stage so if it did affect me that negatively I probably would not even know). If it is not the ashwagandha did I just completely screw myself over with having all this anxiety and panic attacks when before I was psychologically really good. Where should I go from here, should I do another juice cleanse, I have already lost several pounds from this I do not know if it is a good option right now. I totally saw light at the end of the tunnel and a way to get out, but now I am struggling to see it.