Congrats! It’s great that you’re doing better
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Yea i just hope it stays. Like i said not 100 percent but ive deff made improvements. People make comments about how i look from working out. Had sex the other night. Didn’t feel the best but it was also at like 11pm. I have sex weekly i have a good erection the whole time. For a while i would get soft in the middle of sex . It was so depressing. Morning woods are still not the same but I doo get aroused now and I diddnt at all before . Idk i just feel like things are better. I took it for 2 weeks last April so its been over a year with this. But for things to finally be getting better it makes me feel so much better
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You’re lucky and blessed, I hope this lasts for you. As it often stated here, try to avoid any major 5AR inhibitors, and I hope you continue to experience good health and improvements.
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What have you done that’s different recently like any drugs you’ve taken or changes in diet, lifestyle.
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Just working out consitantly everyweekbut also listening to my body when it says to stop. In the begining it was almost impossible but I kept at it. I had horiible burning pains all over my body for a while after this but I went from 165 lbs to almost 190 lbs. I take magnesium glycinate, omega 3, men’s multi vitamin creatine i avoid sugar as much as possible and i take st johns wort 2 times a day. 3 was to much for me … And honestly the st johns wort may be lowering my labido at this point because it can do that. It works the same way as an antidepressant and ive always reacted badly in that way to those . .But im too scared to get off it because im not depressed anymore lately like even my boss was like your on point lately . And on that note im an electrician so having brain fog and depression is dangerous . Ive been shocked so many times trough all this because of not being present. I try to get good sleeptoo.Ive never been a good sleeper tho. Some times I’ll take benedry for sleep and ill sleep the whole night and I feel 100 percent. I think lack of sleep makes this worse .I still sleep like shit I wake up at 1 then 3 every night lol. But for some reason lately it hasn’t been bothering me as bad . Think coffee may help with that Had sleep problems and anxiety before the hairloss meds tho. . I try not to watch as much porn. Honestly gives me anxiety because I focus on how hard I get anyway. I only get full erections from full sexual stimuli from a partner anyway. Noticed porn kinda bores me now. It was starting to do that before this also. But I also was like addicted to pron before and I heard that can give you ed. I started getting morming erections again. Still not the same but they are improving and sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night with erections. Woke up from a sex dream and i was fully hard last week. Had sex the week before that and it felt so good i could barley last long at all… usually thats embarrassing but when your dick was partially numb for over a year its a relief i was happy haha. I think the most important think is working out and staying in shape. Like people make comments about how I look and it makes me feel more sexualy charged if that makes sense. I guess confident is the right word. Lately I’ve also been able to enjoy things and feel happiness . I had complete loss of pleasure from everything for a while. Like i was actually jamming out to music on ky way to work and caught my self doing it . I was surprised at myself . But I didn’t focus on it to much . I just have not feel good for more then one day in a while and every day has been better . Still have normal emotions but they are better. And fatigue is gone . Worked outside wiring a pool today all day in 90 degree weather digging and pulling wire… very draining but still came home and worked put bis and back . Im just putting this all on here so it can give people hope. The side effects can be persistent but not permanent in my opinion. I think we all just need to focus on that inner man that we still have inside of us and release it. Because its still there . I will gladly go bald at this point by the way. This whole thing has changed my perspective on that. I used to obsess on balding so bad . It has not stopped either my temples keep going back but i look at it now and im like fuck it Oh and I have a full beard now . It was growing in kinda patchy for a while and very slow but that has also gotten way better … and sorry for bad spelling and if im all over the place with this… and one last thing my balls are finally not looking like skittles anymore they shrunk after taking this shit now they are feeling way more plump… i was scared for my boys . I thought they were messed up for good
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Nice, looks like you’ve had a complete turnaround.
For sleep, I recommend closing all your blinds and even covering them up so it’s pitch black, and turn the fan on. You sleep better and longer with a higher body termpature.
wouldn’t say complete turn around yet but definitely getting there. And I will try that thank you. Has anyone else here tried creatine? I’m kinda curious .
Yeah I’ve tried Creatine, didn’t really do much for me.
Do you think the St Johns wort played a role in your recovery?
Thanks for sharing your positive news!
I’m not sure what this means, but you know that some people find their way here through anti depressants, right? Just saying.
As for creatine there is a fair amount that has been written about it here:
https://forum.propeciahelp.com/search?context=topic&context_id=44686&q=Creatine&skip_context=true
I meant to say that sometimes antidepressants can cause sexual dysfunction. Ive been on alot of them in the past . St johns wort works the same wayas many major antidepressants. It can cause some of the same side effects . I was just saying maybe the st johns wort is not helping with the sexual stuff i have going on
When did you start St Johns and when did you start feeling better?
I started it about 5 months ago. Started seeing results about a month in. Was kinda a rocky road tho. I made sure I got perkia st johns wort. And update had a full morning wood this morning. Actually like fully hard . Not like partially cooked noodle hard
Thanks for taking the time to write this update - its very uplifting. I see a common thread of people who workout really hard and get improvements - I know its not the case for everyone but seems like it can certaintly help some people. I wonder how much a role St Johns Wort has played in your improvements considering others have had good results but of course everything we try carries risk. Also Magnesium glycinate maybe is helping you central nervous system calm down - not sure but it relaxes me when i take it. Anyways we need more posts like this - very encouraging. Do you do a low carb diet?
Yep, looks like there have been positive experiences with St John’s in the past.
@ibewrg, I would just continue everything you are doing right now and just enjoy life and put PFS to the side.
Im.not sure if the st johns work even helps that much it might tho. I think it does at least . I was still really up and down on it like I said i even lowered my does at one point to about 600 mg a day. Was taking 900. And no low carb.I eat whatever I want… but like I said still not 100 percent my self yet but I think that has to do with testoerone on the lower end. Came back at 299 total t. Feels like its going up tho.That was the only thing that came back abnormal on my panel. Going to see the endo the 22nd of this month for that. I have a really good feeling im good to go tho. I think that goes for all of us. This is possible to get past. And I think having a positive mindset about this and not thinking its the end of everything will help. I know thats hard tho. Because I had that negative thinking . Then one day I woke up and was like im going to do something about this. Im sure we have all been trough worse in life if we really think about it. Atleast I have .i was addicted to heroin for about 6 years i have been 6 years clean noe. I was thinking maybe the drugs messed my t up. Ive had some of these symptoms before the fin. Just not as bad. Im also 26 so t should not be that low i just find it odd i was abel to put on so much muscle
Someone in the thread warned that it’s also a 5AR inhibitor though.
But I know lots of PSSD victims recovered with St John’s wort
" Im sure we have all been trough worse in life if we really think about it."
haha no this is def the worst thing that has ever happened to me!
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I was only trying to be positive lol. I know this thing can suck really bad
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On the flip side, this isn’t even the closest thing to being the worst that’s happened to me! It’s definitely the worst thing that’s happened to my social life, what it’s done with my face, skin, emotions, etc. But when I was 15 I had two titanium rods and screws in my spine because of scoliosis for 16 months, and they caused sharp pain 24/7. It wasn’t just painful, but unhealthy, and it caused me to lose so much hair from stress it’s why I even got on these stupid meds in the first place.
ibewrg - lol i hear ya man