I disagree totally. The biggest problem most of us face is either breakdown from stress or supplements (either natural or hormonal etc) that help temporarily and stop reacting. Some of us face major crashes after either drinking or masturbation or working out too hard. College binge drinking cannot be good…especially not so many days in a row…
agreed… I believe a lot of us have associated our problems came after a night of drinking or something along those lines… Myself included, which is why I believe the liver may play a role our problems, because t3 is made in the liver…
Another odd note… On days after i drink a decent amount, I notice that my semen quality is much better (very white) but my sensitivity is very bad… Whereas usually my sensitivity is decent, but my sperm quality if kinda mucky/yellowy… but my quantity isn’t affected… I still have a huge quantity… shit makes no sense. FML LOL!
I believe the difference in appearance comes from the different locations of fluid. The yellow clumpy stuff is actually sperm while the white stuff is prostatic fluid. I could be wrong though, so please correct me if I am.
I will stop binge drinking from now on, to be fair I haven’t drank a drop since I posted this. My crash came after I went on a 5 day holiday where I was drinking at least the equivalent to 15 pints of beer a day. I will probably always wonder what that holiday did to me when my body must have been in a fragile state.
Luckfax, I’d prefer it if you stopped playing down my condition. I quit 7 months ago and things are WORSENING. I have got shrinkage, severe numbness, chronic sleeping problems and god knows what else I don’t know about. The best thing I can say about myself is - I’m not fully impotent.
I also feel better sexually after drink 3 or 4 beer. When i am mildly drunk i can get erect easily just thinking sexual things or looking a nice girl, altough i usually need to stimulate my penis with my hand to get erect when i am not drunk.
I surely have! Shit man, that was exactly what I was thinking the other day. This shit started after a night out drinking and going to work early the next morning. Something was already off when I was drinking, I have never been so drunk after so little drinking… my friend had to carry me home and that never happens. At work I was pretty normal (no huge hangover but I wasn’t drunk either) but when I came home, a huge hangover hit me all of a sudden. It lasted 2 days and it was the worst hangover ever. I even puked twice, and I puke very rarely. After that hangover (or during it actually) I started to notice the problems. I truly believe there’s something wrong with my liver, maybe a fatty liver or something but I have no clue what has caused it (well apart from fin of course) 'cause I don’t drink all that much.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyp3a4
Look at the inhibitor list. These are the stuff that can magnify the effect of finasteride. If taken in a big amout and 24h before finasteride.
I always got better erections following a day of drinking. Many here believe in the Allopregnalone theory and I am starting to as well. Turns out alcohol will significantly increase allopregnalone levels in the brain. Note the excerpt from the study below
" administered at intoxicating concentrations increases levels of allopregnanolone in the brain. They found that rats injected with an intoxicating dose of alcohol compared with control rats injected with saline exhibited ~700% increases of allopregnanolone in the cerebral cortex, a brain region important in the sedative and cognitive effects of alcohol. Alcohol-induced increases in allopregnanolone levels were observed beginning approximately 20 minutes after administration of alcohol and reached their maximum 40 to 80 minutes after alcohol injection."
Also, day after drinking, I’ll have a moment where my sinus congestion clears for a second and at the EXACT same time , I get a raging erection (post fin of course). Incredible this is all neurologically related
I stopped drinking alcohol for 2 months trying to become more healthy as I know alcohol should be avoided for impotence etc.
For two months my libido completely vanished. I didnt have sex for a long time.
A couple of days ago I went drinking for the first time again. The next day I felt very turned on and did have sex 3 times. My erection seemed to be normal. This was a huge suprise to me. My sex drive felt complely normal again.
Once the alcohol left my body I resumed to my old state.
On the other hand I noticed not getting drunk anymore after taking finasteride. Even when drinkin a lot, I don’t feel it.
For me its very clear that there is a relation between alcohol intake & the influence of finasteride.
Hope this can be of help for the people taking research on this.
I’ve had a few drinks since developing PFS. Haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary, although I haven’t gotten totally hammered to the extent of having a hangover the next day like many of you report in this thread. I’ve never been much of a drinker, so I usually draw the line at being pretty tipsy.