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.
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, Iā 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.
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 donāt 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.
Thatā 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
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.
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 IĀ“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 myā¦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. Iām going to doctor next week.
At least spontaenous erections came back. Just yesterday had one in the office. Embarassing situation hehe
Feeling better. I dont know if this is the correcto english word, I feel more āattached to may past life, to my remembersā. Braing fog is going away.
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 IĀ“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 āsorrow feelingsā lets wait until my relatinoship problems solve and then if i recover happiness.
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 
but I dont care a shit.
Atreyu very encouraging. Why did you stop fin? you did not have any shrinkage and most of the physical problems we have.
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.
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?
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 Iām 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.
I am also a āveteranā - 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?
No, as i went back on the drug just for a few weeks. I only noticed pain in my left nipple
Hi guys
Im back and from now I will try to remain on this fĆ³rum and try to help people.
I took the drug from september 1999 to May 2009. So, after 4 four years withouth the drug I want to inform about how its going on, and Im very sorry to say that some side effects persist. If you read my previous messages on this post, you will see that I was feeling very nice, and happy, and maybe because of this, my optimism made me say I was fully recovered, but unfortunately, its not true.
Next monday Im going to the doctor, I want to test my hormones, what I hadnt done before.
About, 9 months ago I started a new relationship and having a more intense sexual life, and then I realized that I have erectile problems. I just cant get a 100% erection. Maybe for some seconds. And I must be stimulating my penis continuosly, if I stop, erection comes down. Penetration is possible, but as my penis its not as hard as it should be, she cant really feel what she should be feeling. Its really sad for me, because Im really in love with this girl, and everything will to to hell.
I will tell you about my hormone test and what the doctor says to me.
My erection problems didnt start inmediatly.
Definitely, the origin of all my problems was the fact that I havent had a serious relationship until I was 28 (9 years taking the drug), so with my one, two nights, or 3 weeks relationships I wasnt able to realise that I had a problem. Masturbation is not a problem, I can do it 3 times per day, but not getting a 100% erections. It is quite different from having to have regular sexual relationships with a sexually āactiveā woman. In this situation, I have problems as I can not have a 100% erection. Penetration is possible, but as the penis is not as hard as it should be, she really doesnt feel what she should be feeling because the penis, not being hard enought, does not do enough pressure.
And the rest of my symptons, I thought they were normal, that it was my personality, I just never imagined that they could be related to the drug (depression, not feeling connected to people, slurring wordsā¦).
I started taking the pill in september 1999. In 2003 I can remember spending summer in some kind of camp, where we shared room, were there was no privacy, so that I coud not masturbate. I can remember having continuous erections, even having night pollutions. So I can say that 4 years after taking the pill I had no ED or loss of libido.
In 2008 I had several sexual relationships with a girl, and I had problems to ejaculate. By the same time, I had started to feel a total disconnection between my brain and my penis, as if it was dead meat. Then I remembered my derm telling me, in 1999, that Finasteride could have libido side effects. But as I have always desired women and I have always been horny I just thought my libido wasnt affected. I never knew about blocking the conversion of Testosterone to DHT, I never knew about the physiological changes. I started looking for information in the internet and I found this fĆ³rum. I started a serious relationship and my problems to ejaculate continued so I decided to give up. There is where I had palpitation and sleeping problems. I made a big mistake and started to take the pill again but not dayly. Finaly, by may or june of 2009 I gave it up defintively, and this second time I didnt have any heart or sleeping problem.
SincĆ© I gave up my problems to ejaculate disappeared, no more watery sperm, not slurring words so much, etcā¦ everything got better.I have never had loss of libido, even now, I truly desire women.
The fact is that I took the pill since I was 21 until I was 31. For me, its realy hard to remember how I was before, its hard to determinate what was caused by Finasteride or not, but I think that if I had and have the same symptons than everyone here, they must have been caused by Finasteride.
Im really in love with this woman, this week Im going to the specialist to see if he can help me. I want to check my hormones, what I have never done.
If I loose her because sexual problems, I ll be able to say that this fucking drug ruined my life.
I feel like going to the derm who prescribed me finasteride for 10 years and have a chat with her.
Ill post my hormone test here when I have it.
I have got my testosterone test. I still havent been to the doctor, so I dont know if they are normal or not. I hope you can help me guys.
Age: 35
Total Testosterone: 5,83 mg/ml = 583 mg/dl
Free Testosterone: 9,05 pg/ml
According to the information that you can find in this link:
artofmanliness.com/2013/01/1 ā¦ ne-levels/
My testosterone levels belongs to people with 45-55
I hope there is a solution for this.
The doctor told me these values are ok.
I asked him if they were right for may age. He said yes, and he recommend me to take Levitra the next month in order to improve my self-confidenceā¦and thatās all.
10 years taking the drug (1999-2010)
12 years withouth the drug (2010-2022)
I can say i recovered from all the physical side effects but, sadly, not from neurologial ones. I mean, emotional blunting
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