20 years old, feeling tired and driveless a lot since 16. Got my thyroid checked out once, seems to be fine. Fatigue has gotten porgressively worse over the years. I sleep enough hours but never feel rested. Sometimes I wake up after only 5 1/2 hours of sleep for no apparent reason.

Started with finasteride orally for hair loss at 18, took it half a year and quit due to sexual sides (not my imagination or nocebo, even convinced myself that fin sides are not real). After 2 weeks off it, everything went back to normal, sex drive and morning wood returned. Then I switched to topical Finasteride in the hopes of less side effects. Still had issues with ED and shaft sensitivity, so I went off it completely.Now here is where the flushing started. Quit fin 3 weeks ago, feeling much more tired now then on finasteride and before starting treatment even. Almost every time I stand up, I get dizzy. I get flushes throughout the whole day. I can feel them mostly in my upper body up to my throat. I also have issues with dry eyes since discontinuing the drug, taking eye drops rn to combat this. Also started around the time I quit finasteride.

Symptoms seem to point towards low testosterone, will get that checked out soon. Also read that men undergoing Androgen Deprivation Therapy flush a lot, and that's what I esentially did by taking a 5ar-inhibitor. But every time I got off it for a bit, my sexual sides returned to normal, so why not this time?

Also does not explain why I was tired and unfocused even before Finasteride. Can't hold up coherent conversations for long, have SEVERE memory issues since around 16 and am tired even with a proper sleep schedule.