hi there,
I’ve been on finasteride 1mg for soem years and i think i really wan to quit. I was in a bad psdychological state in my early 20s, actually due to disappointments with realtionships and girls. Couldnt cope with losing my hair as well! anyway, when i was young me and my girlfriend thought she’s pregnant, which wouldve been a catatstrophe! since then, i’m still really really nervous before having sex, feeling like a total blackout in my head, totally nervous, which results in loss of erection. after that it happened a couple of times & i’m now even more nervous feeling under pressure. now, I still don’t know if that’s psychological or from finasteride. I know I can get an erection, unfortunately it seems to only really work for long when i’m on my own, also I don’t know really what would be normal, or really how to judge it all. Although I think it’s better anyway to stop taking propecia, i was wondering of there is a way to find out if i really suffer from physiological ED, or just a psychological fuckup? My psychological problems about sex started shortly before I started taking fin, but I don’t really remember what it was like before. If I’d known Finasteride doesnt cause the problem, i would maybe continue taking it (not very popular to say here, i know). Anyways, as i said, i actually think it’s better to stop… but any advice on that would be helpful.
Read FAQ at top of site, get bloodwork, get off drug. If you still have problems 3 months from now, get bloodwork retested.
Without quitting you’ll never know if the drug is the cause but I can 99% guarantee it probably is.
hey muddy, your story sounds eerily similar to a recent period for me, pregnancy scare and all.
You know, it doesn’t even matter what you think could be attributed to propecia. Just stop taking it. Now.
Don’t rationalize it, just throw those pills away right now. The only “good” to come from them is keeping your hair a little longer, and trust me, that means absolutely nothing if you come to realize that Propecia did more than you bargained for.