New finasteride victim, advice needed

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Hi guys, this is my first post on this forum so if this is in the wrong section then I apologize.


So I'm 18 years old and have been dealing with hair loss for the past year. Visited a dermatologist last month who gave me Fin like it was candy. I foolishly bought the "only 2% get sides" thing, and am now paying the price.


After taking two doses of generic finasteride, 0.625mg each, I felt the sexual side effects. Stopped immediately and expected things to resolve within a few days/weeks at most.


Four days after discontinuing I might have had a small "crash", not sure. I got extremely, soul crushingly tired at 6pm, and had to go to bed at 8. Slept for 13 hours and still felt tired. Looking back, I can remember my sleep being really terrible and not refreshing at all.


The sexual side effects still persisted at this point, plus over the next couple of days I developed heavy brain fog and difficulty concentrating. This went away after about a week.


My libido and spontaneous erections bounced back about three weeks after stopping the finasteride, but at the same time my brain fog came back. It was weird, the sexual sides went away but the mental sides came back. During this time I noticed that I had lost noticeable muscle mass, however I'm not sure if this is due to the finasteride or the fact that I hadn't been working out at all since my initial crash, and also just couldn't get myself to eat properly. My appetite was gone. Also my joints have started to feel weak and make a lot of clicking noises.


However, in the past four days, my libido has lowered again and on top of that I've been having some intense suicidal thoughts. I'm not depressed at all (possibly due to being emotionally blunted by the finasteride), but I just get urges to end my life everyday now. Obviously I won't do it as I know it's not the "real" me thinking these thoughts. Also I've been breaking down crying for no reason at all every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Obviously my hormones are all over the place.


As of today I'm 4 weeks off the drug.


I discovered this website after reading hairlosstalk and seeing posts by Maxout777. I've read CD's website and his protocol multiple times now, and am considering starting it. I worked out 4-6x a week before this whole finasteride mess and have never had difficulty sticking to diets or regimes, so I feel like I'm not ready to give up just yet.


However, I'm wondering whether or not I should keep waiting for a couple of weeks to see if my state returns to normal on it's own? As I said I'm four weeks off the drug at this point. Or should I just start the protocol right away?


Thanks guys.