My problem is similar to that of proscarred. I do not feel anything. I do not feel pain etc. It feels like its actually numbed like when you go to the dentist and get a local anesthetic before getting a tooth extraction etc. A urologist confirmed that my penis is numb by sticking a small needle into different parts of my glans - I didn’t respond to it. I did not feel any pain.
… well… the skin on your elbow… you can pinch it and it doesn’t hurt. It’s kind of like that for me on my penis… I can pinch pretty damn hard before I feel anything. Although I do have good days rarely where it feels more sensitive. I also noticed my penis is very cold throughout the day.
Also before fin, when I touched my penis… i would only feel the sense of touch on my penis… i had to focus to be able to feel the way my penis felt on my hand… Now when i touch it i can feel my hands nerves more than my penis’ if that makes any sense…
This makes sense. Doesn’t 5ar2 get converted in genital skin and 5ar1 does not? I thought I saw a chart showing that.
Hi All fin suffers
I have been off fin for 7 months now and from what i can tell i suffer from 2 issues, 1. loss of libido, 2 penis numbness.
Its the second one that bothers me most. Over 6 of the 7 months it has become more and more numb. This week it has gone so numb i cant feel a thing. It strange because i get night errections and morning ones to, but i have to check myself to see if one is there as i would not know otherwise.
What is strange is that this week i started taking 100mg of zinc and planned to do this for 2 weeks. The first few days i actually thaught this is great i can feel some sensativity coming back, but over night it has resulted in the loss of the litlte sensativoity i had plus the small gains i noticed. Anyone have a theory on this.
Also has anyone had a recovery with the sensatiity issues or is it case of once its gone its gone? I think i could live with low libidio, but complete numbness is so bad i need consulling to accpet something that has been there for 32 years has now gone.
I’ve recovered and lost and recovered and lost and been left with an overall unpleasant feeling most of the time. Overall it seems like a downhill slide but every time I’ve gotten to the point of losing all hope something happens to bring it back.
Its gotten worse over time with me in terms of numbness. I have the completeness numbness followed by a bounce back phase like Martin mentioned. I would not wait around before seeking treatment. That is just my take on it.
4 me the coldness started after the numbness, the numbness started after the ejaculatory anhedonia which i still have. i got rid of the coldness with five weeks of hrt but at the same time increased the numbness i had lost. watch out for ur glans n nuts they will probably shrink, its crazy i know. im with mew but i believe the prob is a AR gene mutation not an endocrine disorder. Way i c it, if u can orgasm u should be happy with that. The truth is the secret lies with us, millions of men use propecia problem free, for sum of us its psychological n for others i doubt were ever find out as all the men on here r very insecure n ashamed of their problem so just sit at home n post lil bits of info online n live impotent. not much u can do hormone levels cum bk as normal as far as da medics can c we are all mad.
Danny, most if not all of us seem to have this to some degree. Click on my posts and view the thread regarding a varicocele. It is one possible explanation to what happened to us in this capacity.
MartinM and/or proscarred you said “I’ve also had full function restored and a warm penis after years of this, so I don’t think this is permanent.” Did you have full sensativty back after years of nothing? If so for how long.
I am seeing some improvements i think (maybe too early to tell for sure as only used for 10 days) in sensativty of the mucle under the skin not the skin itself. I have been applying andractim gel - info here steroid.com/Andractim.php. Appearnce is better and colour is improving and it feels fuller and heavier than normal.
Andactrim is dht, right? I think italysideeffect tried this before and people here warned him of Hpta shutdown. I don’t remember the particulars.
i cycled it. used a tube (which lasted 2.5 weeks) then 2 weeks off. it definelty made the penis warmer, heavier and generally looking like before. Hasnt done anything for sensativty. at first i thaught it had but i had accupunture the same time and i belive this was the cause. I have sinse stopped the gel.
Been on tamixfen for 6 months also but Dr wont extend my prescription. So as of next month i will be off everything.
Might just give up on trying different things and allow body to heal by itself.
annon,
how did Tamoxifen work for you. Did you get better? If yes, by how much. Did you have a relapse or could you maintain it?
So how do you respond to direct sexual stimulation? You see, I also had someone stick a needle in my penis to check sensitivy, and while I smilarly to you could barely feel a thing (generally, something like that should be extremely painful), my penis actually responded by retracting. I also almost kicked a girl in the face with my knee when she gave me a blowjob a while back, and, supposedly, both my legs were extremely twitchy. It feels like my body responds perfectly fine to touching and other sexual stimulation, but that the signal just doesn’t make it all the way through.
As for details, boston332’s “feels cold, hard and fiberous” fits perfectly. My testicles are still sensitive, though.
I also think that the signal does not make it all the way through. When I am together with a girl there is still something.
However, opposite to you, I do not feel perfectly fine when I am touched by a girl etc. I definitely lack sensitivity. When I have sexual intercourse I do not feel it! It is a mechanical thing (usually I also use Cialis etc.). Before Finasteride I have felt when I penetrated a girl. Now I hardly feel it! It is such a loss. I am suffering for almost eight years by now.
My post was poorly phrased. Sorry. I don’t feel much when stimulated sexually either. Blowjobs are somewhat pleasurable, but it feels like having at least one condom on. Handjobs are completely pointless and I can feel penetration, but it’s not giving me any pleasure. It looks like my body, mechanically, is still able to register it (twitching, ejaculating, retracting), but I myself feel very little of it.
Sorry to hear about that. Wish you all the best.
Yes. I can combat it by going on a diet of only vegetables and fish for 2 or 3 days and it returns back to normal. However, I haven’t allowed it to get to the point of weeks at a time of being in that state. If I notice numbness, I will go on the diet right away. If it works for me, than it may work for you.
There’s clear triggers that cause it for me, stuff like gluten, dairy, sugar, etc. can give it the numb effect over time. Other things can can give it the effect right away. Exercise helps it a lot as well.
Bryce54, first you claim that Tim is making “outrageous claims” by outlining similarities between being on finasteride (inhibiting allopregnalone conversion along with other important neurosteroids) and MS (of which low levels of allopregnalone is associated), now you’re claiming that a fish and vegetable diet brings back feeling to your penis along with warmer temperatures - in 2 days?
I was surprised at some of the other junk you’ve posted but this seems downright BS.
smh… it bounces back after 2 or 3 days because I don’t let it go numb for more than a week. I also do 45 minutes bath and try to walk an hour everyday.
Look, I really don’t care if you think it’s BS or not, I’m just answering his question as to whether anyone was successful with removing numbness or not. It’s not a theory, it’s exactly what happens to me. So maybe I’m just some freak exception to everyone else even though I took Propecia and have sex drive issues as well. Interpret it as you want, but it’s my own experience. Maybe if other people gave it a try instead of trying to argue about why it’s wrong… they’d be in the same boat as me? But like I said, I can’t be sure since no one else has really tried what I’ve tried and just likes to try to shut me down for reasons that are beyond me.
I also wonder if there lessened sensitivity throughout my entire body. I can still feel touch just fine but I think I may have lost something. A massage would once put me into extacy and now I can take it or leave it.