Where are you from (country)? Spain
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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 search, with terms of Post finasterid Syndrome
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What is your current age, height, weight? 29 years - 1,74 cm - 65 Kg
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Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? Not really, I used to do a lot of things like snowboard, going to the gym just sometimes, climbing in summer… But since PFS I don’t feel like to do anything of that.
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What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)? I eat everything, meat eater, sometimes fast food as well… etc etc.
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Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)? Hair loss
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For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)? Between 3 and 4 years
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How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride? I don’t remember exactly but I started at the beggining of 2010 and I had 23.
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How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit? I had 29 and it was on november of 2014.
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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/day
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How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? never until I stopped (while I was taking it I just felt my eyaculation was wattery, and that was about 3 year since I start)
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What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation? Durin the drug I just had wattery eyaculation and now my eyaculation is normal. 6 months after quiting I started to have ED, and is almost 3 months ago already I noticed.
Put an X beside all that apply:
Sexual
[x] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[x] Erectile Dysfunction
[x] Complete Impotence
[x] Loss of Morning Erections
[x] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[x] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[x] Watery Ejaculate
[ ] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[ ] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[ ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ ] Confusion
[ ] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[ ] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[ ] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[ ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts
Physical
[x] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ ] Muscle Wastage
[ ] Muscle Weakness
[ ] Joint Pain
[ ] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[ ] Prostate pain
[ ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[ ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[ ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[ ] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ ] Increased hair loss
[ ] Frequent urination
[x] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
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What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug? Dogmatil and Cialis
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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)? I’m still waiting to have my test.
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Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
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Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
Hello,
I’m David Villena from Granollers, Barcelona.
I contact you because I’m desperate trying to find some person can help me with this horrible PFS. I explain you breifly my history.
I started to take Propecia at 23 years old.
I actually had so much hair, but it was falling down a lot, and actually I got so so worried about that. I went to the dermatologist and he said I had to take propecia, that was a good medicine for hair loss . I did it for about 4 years, stopping to take it periods and starting again. I never ever had any secondary effect, just last months I noticed that I my eyaculation was so much wattery than normal, but didn’t get really worried about that.
As I said,I was so worried about the hair. It never stop falling down when I was taking Propecia, but I was still taking it just thinking that maybe it was helping anyway to my hair. Every year I was more obsessed about my hair and because I was feeling in such a bad mood in October 2014 I went to a psicologist to explain everything, she said that I had a lot of hair and I was obsessed so she said that for helping me I had to got to the psiquiatra to take some medicine for make easier my treatment with her.
The psiquiatra he gave me Citalopram . So I started taking Citalopram and Propecia. I took it for 2 weeks, and then I realized that my penis was dead, had no erection and couldn’t get it, never before I’d had any problem with ED. I got suddenly so so scare because I though that had been the effect of Propecia so I stopped taking everything (Citalopram and Propecia). I went to the doctor and he said that I had not to be worried, that it had been the effect of Citalopram… So I got calmed down and 5 or 6 days later the effects of Citalopram dissapeared and I came back. My erecctions were again normal, my functionallity was again so normal like always. That was at the beggining of November.
The bad thing is that 6 months later, at the end of April 2015, I noticed that again I couldn’t have normal erections. This time was different though, it wasn’t as dead as when I took Citalopram, I had sensibility but is just that I couldn’t have erections…Suddenly I started to feel so anxious and worried, I started to go to the same doctors to explain everything and they said it was psychological but, 2 and a half months later I know is not. My effects basically are ED and low libido…I had always worked so well with the erections…
Right now I’m taking Dogmatil because I can’t control my anxiety, I feel sunken…like that it has ruined my life forever…Don’t know what to do because the doctors here don’t know anything about this…So thank you for your attention…I will be so grateful if you could give me any help or hope…
BTW now I’m 29 year old.
Thank you so much to all the people is helping us.
Best regards.