Where are you from (country)?
USA
How did you find this forum (Google search – if so, what search terms? Via link from a forum or website – if so, what page? Other?)
Someone on youtube refrenced this website on Moral Medicines channel.
What is your current age, height, weight?
26,5’10,195 lb.
What specific drug did you use (finasteride, dutasteride, saw palmetto, isotretinoin/Accutane, fluoxetine, sertraline, citalopram, leuprorelin, etc…)?
Finasteride
What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
1 mg daily
What condition was being treated with the drug?
MPB
For how long did you take the drug (weeks/months/years)?
3 months early 2024, again for 1 month in late 2024, and 35 days starting october 2025
Age when you quit?
25
How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
Cold Turkey
How long into your usage did you notice the onset of side effects?
3 days before cessation
What side effects did you experience that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
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Sexual
[✓ ] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive (Recovered)
[✓ ] Erectile Dysfunction (Recovered)
[✓ ] Complete Impotence (Recovered)
[✓ ] Loss of Morning Erections (Recovered)
[✓ ] Loss of Spontaneous Erections (Recovered)
[✓ ] Loss of Nocturnal Erections (Recovered)
[✓ ] Watery Ejaculate (Recovered)
[✓ ] Reduced Ejaculate (Recovered)
[✓ ] Inability or Difficulty to Ejaculate / Orgasm (Recovered)
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[✓ ] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat (Doing better)
[✓ ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[✓ ] Confusion (Doing better)
[✓ ] Memory Loss / Forgetfulness (Somewhat better)
[✓ ] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought (Somewhat better)
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[✓ ] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[✓ ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks (Recovered)
[✓ ] Severe Depression / Melancholy (Mostly gone)
[✓ ] Suicidal Thoughts (Recovered)
Physical
[✓ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[✓ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[✓ ] Testicular Pain (1x-2x a month now)
[✓ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[✓ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease (Recovered)
[✓ ] Weight Gain ( Lost 30 lb during crash and have gained 70 lb shortly after)
[✓ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts) (Getting worse)
[ ✓ ] Muscle Wastage (Improving)
[ ✓ ] Muscle Weakness
[✓ ] Joint Pain
[✓ ] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes (Recovered)
Misc
[ ] Prostate pain
[✓ ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion (Slightly better from crash)
[✓ ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems (10 days of no bowel movements)
[✓ ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets” (Pellets and light red blood)
[ ] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[✓ ] Tinnitus (ringing or high pitched sound in ears) ( Almost Recovered)
[ ] Hearing loss
[ ] Increased hair loss
[✓ ] Frequent urination (Recovered)
[✓ ] Lowered body temperature (Recovered)
[ ] Other (please explain)
What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
Supplements only
If you have pre or post-drug blood tests, what hormonal changes have you encountered since discontinuing the drug (please post your test results in the “Blood Tests” section and link to them in your post)?
NA
Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience?
Additional symptoms
1. My beard exploded during the crash I can easily grow a full beard now albeit with strange white hairs
2. Body Odor has changed to a smell resembling ammonia
3. Developed Painful sores in my mouth during the crash
4.Lost taste and smell during the crash
5.Skin went pale during the crash
6. Hair barely falls out anymore… yay?
Tell us your story, in your own words, about your usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
At 24 I noticed while on vaction that I was losing loads of hair volume, upon returning to the states I went through telehealth and was easily able to get a perscription. I took the medication for about three months with my only symptom at the time being blurry vision upon waking up which I did not attribute to Fin. I went on and off the medication several times afterwards but October of 2025 is when I noticed I had become impotent overnight (this would last for 3 months). Complete system shutdown. It quickly dawned on me that finasteride was the likely culprit so I decided to cold turkey. I was not aware of this syndrome whatseover. The day after stopping upon going to bed I experienced a horrible panic attack, somehow though I was able to sleep but after an hour another panic attack. This happened hourly all night. Gradually I got better over the course of a month but then crashed again 10x worse.
This time I had pretty much every symptom listed above and was fighting hard just to make it through those days. Little by little I have been improving (not linearly) since those days. My worst remaining sysptoms are the fatigue, brain fog, and sleep which at times fully recovers and then got to pot again. I am hoping to put this horrible chapter of my life behind me soon and am grateful to recover sexually everything expect for having hard flaccid and narrowage which only present during flaccid state.
To conclude:It saddens me that I was not aware of this horrible and totally preventable situation, I am confident I would never have consented to these risks had they been presented to me.