OK, so I started on propecia when I was 18. Not a smart move. I am now 31. About a year ago, I started having sexual side effects. I wasn’t having sex with anyone at the time, so I thought it was just me being bored with masturbation. It was so bad at certain points that I completely lost my weak erection and ejaculated while completely limp. I stopped the pills in February after I started dating someone and was unable to maintain an erection. It was impossible to have sex and I had no libido at all. There was no desire to have sex. Kissing, seeing a beautiful naked woman…it did nothing at all for me. I tried viagra one night and still couldn’t hold my erection (which was devastating for my girlfriend). The urologist and endocronologist said all of the hormonal stuff was fine, but I don’t think they understand the effect of propecia. I had my testosterone levels tested around the time I was quitting propecia and then a month later in March. It went from 950 to 450, so obviously the drug was having a huge roller coaster effect on my body. The only thing that could give me semi-erections was manual stimulation from handjobs and blowjobs. Morning wood was gone, pre-cum was gone, all desire for sex, my penis had almost no feeling, and it felt disconnected from my body.
But now some good news! I started taking some Vitamin E and Magnesium/Zinc supplements. Between that and time, there has been some serious progress. I still don’t think I can have sex yet, but my girlfriend is saying things like, “you feel so good” and “you feel so much better.” I still have watery semen and low flow when I urinate, but morning wood is returning, I’m getting some random erections, some pre-cum, and I started to get hard just seeing her naked the other day. The disconnected feeling is gone. The problem is, the sex drive is still not all the way back – I’m not horny, just more of a feeling that I need to unload or drain it. Physically, it’s starting to get more hard but the head of the penis still seems to be limp, and I just don’t feel like it’s a strong erection. Those real erections felt like they would never go away, but these feel more like they could go limp at any time.
So my question is, what can I do to get over the hump? How can I get to the point where I’m able to have sex like a normal man? I’ve read a lot of the other posts, but I still just don’t know what to do.