10 years of finasteride

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#16

While CK can be used to test for heart attacks, elevated levels also can signify muscle damage.

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Considering Finasteride has a structural affinity to corticosteroids, has been linked to muscle myopathy (muscle weakness/damage) similar to that of glucocorticoid-induced myopathy, and elevated CK levels usually go hand in hand with such things, AND considering you took the drug for 10 years… seems plausible there may be a link there.

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The good news is: you’re no longer taking the medication, so things should improve with time. Relax, get some excercise, eat healthy, take omega 3 fish oils, and enjoy yourself as much as possible.

#17

Wow, thanks a lot for the information. Ill tell everything to the cardiologist.

I hope and guess that this is reversible…

#18

I’m back.
Because of job, I had to move to another city. I had some personal problems. I was afraid of becominb bald. So I started taking de pill again.

But now I have quit definetively. I dont care a shit about baldness any more. In fact I have already cropped my hair. It must be about 2 months without the drug.
Ill keep telling changes that i feel. Right now I’ ve felt the same changes as the last try to give up the drug and that I explained in my first message in this post. And its even better because Im not suffering from palpitations of my heart as the other time.

Hi everyone. After 11 years with the drug it was enough

#19

Why did you go back on after your experience and all you’ve read here?!

#20

Some people just don’t feel the side effects or don’t care. I think these are the older people. The teenagers taking this pill suffer the most.

#21

Atreyu - it is unwise to go on and off of the drug, if you had some effects from going off once, they can be multiplied from going on and off. furthermore, this is not a place for people to post if they are using the drug - or for people who care about there hair - if you cycle back on, do not post again.

#22

Well, I didnt experience all the second size effects. And the ones I felt, were not as intense as some people describe them here. Or at least I wont be able to evaluate it until I eliminate the drug of my body so that I can compare. I always thought that some of the things that I experienced were just normal, part of me. It wasnt until 1 o 2 years ago that I started reading about these effects that I realised that maybe some of the things that I felt or suffered were because of Finasteride. I didnt know nothing at all. My derm just adviced me about the loss of libido, but I have never experienced it.
In these months that I started taking the pill again I didnt do it just everyday. Maybe it was one week taking it and 10 days without it. After drug relapse, second size effects were not so strong as they used to. I guess that it was because as I said, I didnt take the pill everyday. In fact, I’ ve been losing hair all this last year.

Second size effects were not multiplied in my case. It is not a sin to cycle back on, and I think that my testimony can be quite profitable after 11 years with the drug. I guess Im one of the most veterans. There is no need to be so radical.

#23

Atreyu,

I believe what Golf, said has a lot of validity to it. There seems to be a ton of men on this website that quit the drug at least one time and resumed taking it. What this could do to this male endocrine system we don’t know, but there certainly seems to be some evidence that it makes it worse in the number of men on this website that have done this. I am included in this group.

You should recover slowly over time, stay away from the poison.

#24

That’ s for sure. This is the definitive one. I will never ever take the drug again. It is now about 2 months and a half that I dont take it. Im wishing to see what happens after 6 months, when the drug is eliminated from my body.

Maybe during these last months that I started taking it again, as I didnt do it as a routine, daily, that is why second size effects were not important. I dont Know

#25

I have elevated CK, but my ediot DR sys all is in my head. I wonder how long will take for medical community to realise that 5 AR inhibitors are poisons.

#26

Yes mate, I went to 5 urologist and 2 derms, and only one of these seven doctors advised me to give up the drug.

Its 2 months and a half now, and what I´m enjoying the most is that brainfog is not so strong. I can concentrate much more and talk to people more easily . I hardly slurr words or lose the point of my speech or conversation now.

In the other hand, I have experienced an decrease of my…I dont know how to say it in english. When I do sport, I get tired sooner. But anyway I dont care much about this because I understand I was doped all this time. Recently, a professional player of soccer here in spain was suspended 2 years for doping. Do you guess what did he argued? What pills was he taken?

My last orgasms are not so good as they used to, even when I was taking the pill. And after ejaculating, I feel a burning sensation when I do pee. After ejaculating this sensation of needing to pee and not being able to, excepting the first time, last for about 45-60 minutes. I understand this can be due to an infection. I’m going to doctor next week.

At least spontaenous erections came back. Just yesterday had one in the office. Embarassing situation hehe

#27

Feeling better. I dont know if this is the correcto english word, I feel more “attached to may past life, to my remembers”. Braing fog is going away.

#28

Hi again after 2 years.

I left Finasteride in May 2010, after 11 years taking the drug.

I would say i have recovered completely in sex and the other staff excepting Brain Fog and sadness. I mean, sometimes my mind just go to somewhere else and I still didnt recover my own and happy personality, as it used to be. But I wont blame Finasteride, it could be because I´m having serious sentimental problems with my girl.
So, I would only blame Finasteride because of the brain fog. I isnt as strong as when I was taking the pill but still remains a little bit, maybe 30% lets say.

About my “sorrow feelings” lets wait until my relatinoship problems solve and then if i recover happiness.

#29

But let me tell you guys, you who currently are experiencing serious problems, serious second side-effects, that recovery is really possible.

For me, the best thing about leaving the drug was to be again in this world. And before having these relatinoship problems i really felt happiness. And if now im sad is not because any reason as when i was taking the drug, to see days goes by, it is because love problems and that is ok too, because im feeling, the question is to feel, to be in this world.

About my baldness im balder than ever :laughing: but I dont care a shit.

#30

Atreyu very encouraging. Why did you stop fin? you did not have any shrinkage and most of the physical problems we have.

#31

Yes i had shrinkage, and problems to keep erection while having sexual relations and watery sperm. But what was worst for me was the disconection feeling between my body and my penis, as if it was a dead piece of meat tied to me.

Also brain fog, slurring words and sorrow feelings.

#32

So your junk came back to normal size? it will be very interesting if you say yes. Most of us have small penis and shrunken balls.
Have you got any blood test recently? what hormones have improved?
what do you think what helped you recover? is it just natural?

#33

Yes, it came back to normal size. Of course depending on how excited i am. I can remember some sexual relationships when I started my new job one year ago, that were not that good because my erection was not 100%. But i blame stress because it was just during a 2-3 weeks. And of course I’m 34 now, it just cant be as when i was 20.
This week Ill have a blood test and Ill tell you. The last one that I had was one year ago and everything was fine excepting one parameter related to kidney, but I cant remember which one was (I know, how can i forget that?). So ill have results next week i guess.

For my recovery i did nothing. I didnt take anything. Just regular sport, 2-3 days per week as i`ve been doing these last years.

#34

I am also a “veteran” - 14 years on the drug.

I would very much like to know what happened when you went back on the drug after such a long time. Did any of your side-effects get better when you restarted?

#35

No, as i went back on the drug just for a few weeks. I only noticed pain in my left nipple