There are.
I keep them in my bookmarks when I need reassurance. Some of them are controversial but I don’t care.
I should note these aren’t all strictly recoveries, many are though, but some are vast improvements with messages of hope. Whatever. It helps me cope.
This was supposed to be posted on the recovery stories section, but for some reason I am not able to post anything there. English is not my first languangue, so there maybe some incorrect terms in the following text.
Well, I started using propecia in 2006 and had to leave it in 2012. At first, the low libido came but it just lasted about three weeks, then everyhing was normal until 2012. I used the original propecia the first year (which was very expensive by the time), so I have maybe the bad …
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This website is insane for me to navigate so I hope this post actually appears.
I’m writing this because I was one of the several people who experienced dramatically compromising side effects after taking finasteride in the form of Propecia. Said side effects included an essential collapse of my sexual system (no libido, impotence), brain fog, anxiety issues, depression, ‘emotional blunting,’ and fatigue.
It took me 11 years and several doctors, but I fina…
Where are you from (country)? New Zealand
How did you find this forum Google
What is your current age, height, weight?
26, 74 kg, 6 feet
(3) Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
Little
What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
Healthy balanced diet, little sugar.
Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
prevent hair loss.
For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
4 months.
…
Hello,
I haven´t got much time to explain this recovery case. Just let you know that there´s a spanish forum where a guy, after 3 years, has recovered almost completely from his secondary effects.
These effects included total loss of libido, erectyle disfunction, decreased size of penis, and a weird feeling on his right chest.
He says that he still has some periods of feeling his libido low, but he also says that his libido is now at 85% (and when he experienced the side effects, it was 0%!!…
thank you brother.
I had penile atrophy, however it was on/off meaning some days it would be really shrunken while on other days it would be more of its normal size (without being erect). Nowadays it gets back to its full size when rock hard and is its normal size when flaccid.
libido is up for sure
I would if I could, but I dont think i can convince my doctor to do such a test. Since they do not believe in these horrible side effects, I payed for the hormonal tests myself early on…
Hello everybody,
Most of you know me by know, I have been suffering from side effects since february 2005. If anybody wants to know more about me, please just read all my posts from the past.
I can say Im almost 100% cured by now.
Since I have been sure about my adrenal fatigue problem (two months ago) I have been making huge steps towards recovery.
The most important thing you must understand is that I have done nothing and taken nothing to regain my health. In fact, I stopped taking all th…
Hello Lads,
After some time off this forum I have returned with some promising progress in my therapeutic efforts.
I have mentioned this before and I think some other users have been aware of this phenomenon -> Summer Libido!? I always notice my libido increasing in the summer time, which has gotten stronger and stronger in the last two years. I regularly spend short periods of time in the sun, bare skin, no sunscreen. Natural Vitamin D has a profound impact on my wellbeing, one I could never …
+++ RECOVERED 90% ! +++
Hey guys, im happy to report that I went through miracle months since april. I gradually got back my sexual capacity, physical sides started to imrpove and now I can say, I’m very close to have recovered, or returned to almost pre-fin health (90% recovery I’d say)
Here are the sides I had since my crash in february 2020, and i commented where I am with them:
zero libido - I have now some libido again, feeling to flirt women in clubs and bars, won back some confidence …
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It was really bad. I had shrinkage, loss in girth, length, balls shrinkage, hour glass penis shape, the whole 9 yards. There’s hope.
As for bathmate I got the one with water in it. Its much more tolerable, and just start off easy with it.
Hi Guys.
Today I Recieved an email from a member asking me how I was doing and remembered about the forum! I’m happy to say I feel totally recovered.
I used 1 mg of generic fin for 5 years with no break.
Some of my sides on the drug were prostate pain, trouble urinating, became a recluse, had urges to harm people who came close to me in social situations, total impotence, lack of interest in women.
I after I quit I crashed, you can read in my previous posts. My tesicles wasted away to almost…
First let me start with my recovery. Sexually, I fluctuate between 90-100%. Penile tissue changes have also gotten better. Probably about 90% in that regard too.
I still suffer from some depression issues but that also has much improved. 2 months ago I was strongly considering anti-depressants. Sleep is still the biggest issue with me.
As far as my labs… well, have a look:
Prolactin 16.4 (4.0-15.2 ng/ml) H
Free T3 2.6 (2.2-4.2 pg/ml)
Free T4 1.33 (0.80 - 1.90 ng/dl)
Vitamin D 90 (30-…
Where are you from (country)? England
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What is your current age, height, weight? 38, 5ft 11, 75 kilos
Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? none anymore
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Hi everybody,
many of you may remember me. I have been a user of this forum for the past 7 or 8 years. The last 2 I have barely visited again this site, however.
I have had the same sexual effects as all of you. During many years I took proscar, then duta, and then even Spironolactone, until one day, my system colapsed.
And it has taken me 7 years to recover naturally. The hardest part has been to overcome my anxiety, since when I felt relaxed and slept enough, my sexual desire always increas…
I wanted to share my story as this forum was helpful to me in my recovering/recovery.
I took Saw Palmetto to inhibit my DHT to improve my skin quality, i.e. reduce acne, and oil production. I took 160mg twice daily for 21 days. On the morning of day 22, I had some ED and knew something was off so I quit cold turkey. For two weeks I felt a bit discombobulated but still able to function with daily activities and with moderate difficulty during sex. I took Maca to make up the difference of the …
Aloha. First a bit about me:
My profile:
https://forum.propeciahelp.com/t/took-f-for-17-yrs/9215
ABOUT ME: In summary, I’m a 50yo retired-for-now lawyer. I religiously took 1mg FIN daily from 1999-2014. I started losing the ability to sleep in June 2014 and had no clue it was related to FIN. By Dec I had stopped sleeping ENTIRELY and discontinued FIN. 10 days later post-finasteride exploded my brain!
The fantastic news is that I VERY FORTUNATELY recovered 100% from total loss of libido (aft…
Yes both types of shrinkage, it was horrible. I think it’s a blood flow issue for sure, a NO issue
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I used Nettle root extract
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Yes After nearly 4 years of suffering, I have finally & fully recovered from Post Finasteride Syndrome
All my symptoms have subsided and improved with this method which takes a while but I am fully functional
It’s H.C.G (HCG) dosed at 250IU Monday, Wednesday and Friday only. I did this for 6 months straight but at the 10th week or so, the improvements were weekly.
That is 250IU, not a typo… so you’ll mix your 5000iu HCG with 5CC water and take 1/4 CC intramuscular three times a week using an …
EDIT BY ADMINS – considering the controversy regarding this user’s posts, thread has been locked until further notice. Reference: propeciahelp.com/forum/viewtopic … 60#p107021
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I haven’t been on this site in quite some time, and that’s how I like it. But I still get the odd email here or there for topics I’ve subbed into all those years ago, and that is what prompted me to write this short message. I’m not going to go into minutia because my methods are very well plastered all over this…
I have already spoken with a few on here. I have been what I would consider “recovered” for well over a year - closer to two. I am not a scammer of any sort. I am not selling anything. I do not want any glory or recognition - in fact I want to remain as anonymous as possible.
I have already interacted a little on a thread late last week. In the last year I have done very little reading on the forum, so my knowledge of the state of things on this forum has been null. I have done some reading thi…
Hello all, I hope everyone is doing well, at least as well as they can with this god awful disease.
I just want to report that I have made full sexual recovery. All that is remaining is residual brain fog, which is improving monthly. If all continues at this rate, I should be mentally recovered by June/July. Also, I have been fully sexually recovered since October give or take, and I have been med/supp free. Given the many false recoveries, I have decided to wait these 4 months, because we all …
PLEASE do not post this under my story, I WANT THIS TO BE READ.
Poor sufferers of this horrific condition, I crashed in the fall of this year, and entered hell, I was in torment and anguish like all of you until this summer. Total impotence, rubber penis, tinnitus, muscle spasms, I was no longer a mammal, but an insect. My total testosterone fell to only 140 (200-1000) and estradiol was low too. I took a single shot of TRIPOTRELIN in April, and my Testosterone has stayed at 1050 and my estradio…
hey guys i took this drug for six months and had terrible sides…(gynecomastia, e.d, brain fog, twitching, lowered body temp…etc.) i guess you all know what the sides are. it’s been three years now and there was zero recovery then a couple of months ago everything started going back to normal. My sex drive came back, the gyno cleared up in a couple of weeks and my mind is clear again. i didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. i didnt even see a doctor about this. i was too afraid he’d screw me up…
I don’t have PFS anymore. I am healthy and doing fine. No issues that i had in the past. They are all gone. I still mantain a healthy lifestyle: eating, sleeping and no stress.
yo guys, this is going to be long, but be patient plz, today im 29 and ive started to take fin in 2012 till 2013 for 1 year. after a few months ive started to have some weird stuff going on like brain fogs, constant cold, libido reduction and reduce in semen volume… i managed to have sex but i felt very sick, after a year ive sopped cold turkey, 2-3 days later i felt like me penis is totaly numb, like a dead piece of meat… i could make it hard at all ,2 year later my low libido and penis numbne…
Dear Men,
I come back on this blog to share my story. It is an optimistic one. I hope that it will help you.
Taking Finasteride
I took Finasteride for a couple of weeks in 2015. Right at the beginning, I was unsure about the idea of medication operating on the endocrine system to prevent hair loss. But I thought that if I have undesirable side effects, I would simply stop. I took it, I had side effects, I stopped and the side effects stopped.
This could have been the end of the story if, at …
Chi
Just checking if you have any updates and can post in the recovery section
Thanks!
Hey guys just to update everyone on English he posted on a bodybuilding website that has some PFS guys on it that he is fully recovered. Apparently he changed his password on here and forgot it and asked someone post his recovery on here. The guys on the bodybuilding website don’t really like PFS guys “taking over” their board so out of respect for them I’m not going to post a link but these are English’s exact words.
"Hi all,
I am aware that a load of people from PH read this thread. I’m happ…
It has been 3 years since I crashed and stopped that poison and things started to improve after the worst 2.5 years of my life when I decided to take charge.
Relaxing my pelvic floor helped me for a few days sexually but the improvements faded away after a while. I have been struggling a lot with brain fog, severe fatigue, headaches, muscle pain, dead dick, and shrunken balls. After some basic research, I understood that Pelvic floor muscles were not only tight but also weak. It happens because…
It’s been almost one year to the day that I stopped using Finasteride (4.11.2019). I thought I would give an update on my situation, in the hopes it will reassure those who are new to the forum.
After taking Finasteride for 7 months, I developed ED, decreased sensation, and flaccid penis shrinkage. After discovering this site, I decided to quit cold turkey. I improved greatly for about three weeks, but then my improvement seemed to plateau, or even reverse a little. Since then it has basically …
I am so happy that i will first jump to the solution. I will brief my story of having side effects from Finastride for last 4 years after I document my regime and would want other members to try and post your experience (believe me it is ZERO cost and I think it is working for me). Please excuse my English as I come from eastern part of the world.
COVID-19 has been seen as an overall dark cloud over the world. However, it has been a blessing in disguise for me. I will be happy if this helps at-…
I would like to say that over this summer I have made a full recovery and my improvements have been steadfast. After 15 months of suffering, with temporary improvements which were always offset with further crashes down the line, I finally feel like my old self again.
Just to get it out the way I should say that I don’t have any answers and don’t want to put my recovery down to any specific thing that I did. Overall, I believe that it was purely down to luck. I did engage in some piecemeal reco…
I was on the old forum that existed 2015/2016. Here is my basic story and I am writing this to give hope to others.
Going back further, to 2009, I was 39 and I first took finasteride for about a year and half. I did not take every dose, but I was good on average 6 times a week. I had absolutely no side effects. At that point in my life, I had what I and my best friends would consider an insane sex drive. I had such a high sex drive, I had to spank it 3 times a day on average just for a release.…
Its been awhile everyone. I spewed irrational bullshit all over the place here. I would like to apologies for things I said when I was very anxiety written, depressed, scared, and confused. I was not acting like myself and I was only focused on negative things under the circumstances. Thankfully I met some individuals here that happened to be very resourceful, positive, and helpful. I credit that with surviving this nightmare.
Anyone can debate what does or doesn’t work and at this point I hav…
Just an update on my progress. I suffered from all the side effects accept muscle wasting, weight gain. I had suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, brain fog, insomnia etc. All the mental sides. Complete impotence, no sensitivity, shrunken genitals, no ejaculate, etc. All the sexual sides. Sexually, I’ve recovered to about 80%. I would say higher but my morning wood is always in flux. My EQ is about 80% as well. My ejaculate became watery, then dried up, then increased in volume but was very stick…
Hello guys! It been 10 months since my initial crush ( i had many small crash after) , my initial symptoms : sex drive loss , penis shrinkage, muscle waste , change in my face, skin problems , brain fog insomnia… so far worse year of my life.
Now after 10 months :
Sex drive : little better ( i can get hard when i watch porn).
Penis shrinkage: lately my penis got bigger like 90% of my old days+ my ejaculation and orgasme like before
Muscule waste : no change so far.
Brain fog : got lot bett…
Guys, I came back to post and give you hope, my total testosterone level initially was in low 300 in 2012, recently my last blood work this year 2021 came back in 600, My sexual performant is perfectly good, I am no even think about PSF anymore, Lost in Austin, a member of this forum text me yesterday and came back just for curiosity.
Like a month ago, studently I have a panicky attack that last for more than a week. but after it passed, I came back even better of what I was. I think that mos…