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Where are you from (country)? Australia
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How did you find this forum (Google search – if so, what search terms? Via link from a forum or website – if so, what page? Other?) Google
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What is your current age, height, weight? 22 - 6’3 - 72kg
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Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? Not at the moments, light walking
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What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)? No specific diet
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Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)? Hairloss
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For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)? 6 Months
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How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride? 21 - March 2012
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How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit? 21 - September 2012
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How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)? Cold Turkey
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What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic? Propecia
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What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)? 1mg
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How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? probably in the last month
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What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
Put an X beside all that apply:
Sexual
[x ] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[x ] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[x ] Loss of Morning Erections
[x] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[x ] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[x ] Watery Ejaculate
[ x] Reduced Ejaculate
[x ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[x ] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[x ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[x ] Confusion
[x ] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[ ] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[x ] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[x ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[x ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[x ] Suicidal Thoughts
Physical
[x ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[x ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] Testicular Pain
[x ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[x ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[x ] Weight Gain
[x ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[x ] Muscle Wastage
[x ] Muscle Weakness
[x ] Joint Pain
[x ] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[ ] Prostate pain
[x ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[x ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[x ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[x ] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ ] Increased hair loss
[ ] Frequent urination
[x ] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
Teeth loosing density
- What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
Testogel, Primoteston
- If you have pre or post-Finasteride bloodtests, what hormonal changes have you encountered since discontinuing the drug (pls post your test results in the “Blood Tests” section and link to them in your post)?
Blood values below-
Total Testosterone
11 nmol/l (scale 5-30) Before treatment
33 nmol/l (scale 5-30) On Primoteston
22 nmol/l (scale 5-30) On Primoteston
15 nmol/l (scale 5-30) 7th day of Primoteston
15 (scale 5-30) Off Primoteston, however 1 week of abstaining before blood draw
- Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
I remember when i was living out of home and i think i had either just come off propecia or was in the last days of using it, and I was having trouble sleeping i felt almost like i had asthma and my skin was incredibly dry - extremely lethargic. I was sleeping right next to my window almost holding my head outside trying to breathe in fresh air. I thought my room was incredibly dusty for some reason, i never attributed it to propecia. Anyways i had noticed my dick had become really dry and i lost some sensitivity it took me ages a cum and when i did it was watery. The next night i couldn’t get my dick up at all and had pain in my testicles. Then i started googling about propecia and found this website, i immediately stopped taking the drug and everything seemed to come back, after a week i decided to start taking it again, straight away i got testicular pain and i knew it was from the propecia. I was really depressed and remember waking up and thinking i wished i was dead, i had never had any of those types of thoughts before, to be honest i had always loved myself lol. And then yeah the rest is history still havent recovered after 1 year
- Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.