Hi everyone,
I would like to share my “strange” story with finasteride because I think it could contribute with some interesting information. I will try to summarize it.
I was taking the 1mg doses for baldness during two years with no sides effects, suddenly I started having such strong erections which lasted for hours (sometimes more than 3 even If I masturbated several times). They were especially strong and sensitive overnight not allowing me to sleep every night. I had hypersensitivity in my penis and get erected with the minimum contact with anything. Also my pubic hair started growing faster and thicker than ever. I never though this could be related to finasteride but just in case I stopped taking it, but nothing changed.
After one year an urologist said it could be recurrent priapism and prescribed me 5mg per day temporally to reduce my libido. I did it and after aprox 35 pills suddenly I lost my erections, the sensitivity of the penis (now it’s numbness) and the majority of my pubic hair, also my beard started growing much slower and thinner than before, and I have not had a limp during this last year.
It has been more than a year that I lost my sexuality. Nowadays I “think” I could have an special sensitivity to finasteride, first at all it produced an “overreaction” to androgens when I took the 1mg doses, maybe to compensate the lack of DHT? (I have found other people with this strange reaction to finasteride, for example user “Woody” in this forum). And then I lost the sensitivity to the androgens with the 5mg doses (the usual adverse side effect of the drug). My hormonal profile is normal before and after the treatment.
The special consideration is that the first time it leaded me to overreact to androgens, so I think the AR (or whatever) can be modified in the positive way, I mean, if it happened once it is possible¡¡¡.