I just looked at his blood results, he had excepionally low LH and FSH but very good TT level in 618 and 631 (241- 827) and yet it took 10 years to hime to get normal. So some body who is very low in TT will take very long time I guess.
You guys have officially turned into your own worst enemies. It would be nice if we could keep the revised recovery section to recoveries and questions regarding them. I want to say more, but that alone should suffice. Congrats on your recovery.
Erection quality goes down over time for most, no? I hope things improve over time. I’ll be 50 in 10 years so it’ll be surprising if I have better wood at 50 than 40 lol
So just wanted to update from the past over a year ago.
Everything is still fine.
I think the only long term effect from having taken Propecia (and having stopped August 2005) was some penile shrinkage. I know I was about 0.75" larger in college than I am now.
But at least I’m getting hard and have libido which are 2 things I really didn’t have for 5 fucking years (libido) and 6 fucking years (erection strength).
God I remember in 2008 hiding a 25 mg of Viagra in my pocket when I went out with a girl and had to surreptitiously use it like an hour before we had sex.
And I also had the symptom of “gynecomastia.” I remember taking off my shirt in front of some girl back in 2006-2007 or something and she exclaimed, “Nice boobs!”
I had extensive blood work but I don’t remember seeing that Adiosol-G or something like that. But I remember a urologist telling me I’ve had extensive bloodwork on multiple occasions.
THE POINT I’M TRYING TO MAKE IS THAT ONLY TIME WILL FIX WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU. YOUR BODY HAS TO GET BACK TO WHAT IS NORMAL. HOWEVER, I AM A FIRM BELIEVER THAT THIS MAKES SOME LONG-TERM CHANGES BECAUSE I STRANGELY STILL HAVE MY HAIR. SO TAKING PROPECIA FOR 5 YEARS I BELIEVE STOPPED ME FROM LOSING MY HAIR ON WHAT APPEARS TO BE A PERMANENT BASIS (IT’S BEEN 6.5 YEARS SINCE I’VE TAKEN PROPECIA). YET I HAVE RECOVERED I ASSUME FROM MY BODY NATURALLY DEALING WITH WHAT THE PROPECIA DID TO MY BODY CHEMISTRY.
So just take Viagra (the smallest dosage you can 25 mg) to get the confidence to be erect with a woman and just wait this out and hope for the best. That’s all you can do. Don’t take any more pills to try to fix this. Just eat well and exercise and just try to wait this out.
However I will share with you a little secret. In 2009 I was fortunate enough to hook up with a young hot chick who was able to get me off orally like no one else before her. After an incredible weekend with her, that was the time I realized I was fully recovered (minus the penile shrinkage). So go out and try to find someone who turns you on, but you have to be in the right frame of mind to do this (I couldn’t have done this sub 5 years after Propecia usage).
Best of luck to all of you and no I’m definitely not a Merck drug rep or whatever.
what does your shrikage affect? length, girth or both?
Congratulations and thanks for returning to update us! I know there is a good chance you won’t see this message, but did you have any genital numbness or loss of sensation? As you know, a lot of guys on the forum have problems that are at least partially neurogenic so I am curious if this was reversible in your case.
Thanks
I would want to think that he was much better of even during his bad years because he was able to make “it” happen with Viagra atleast…Viagra gives me a weak erection and premature ejaculate with a mild feeling of an orgasm. I tried having sex last week and came in four strokes…
There are people like me who have multitudes of problems and have no confidence to even try having sex…
Mark
u get erection as fast as pre fina?
I KNOW DUDE… DOESNT THAT SUCK!!! Same shit happens to me sometimes. Does it happen to you all the time? It happens to me, and its very frustrating. I used to be able to fuck girls for an hour if I wanted to. I could bang them til they screamed. Or at least please them for a bit until I got tired of it, then blast…
But now I feel like I almost like dont even want to go to bed with some girls, because of fear that I will disappoint them, and they will make fun of me! Its like very frustrating!!
I will say that sometimes it is a little improved. Also, I wonder that if I have A LOT of regular sex… if its just like anything else… any other muscle… in that if we train it…we can maybe in time train it to perform better!!?
I hope so…bcos thats what Im banking on.
I’m only 35… and I still like to fuck girls!
Its frustrating! 
I second your thoughts…I am damn unlucky because i quit the drug once to recover fully within a week and then started the drug after 4 months to crash in a few months and never recovered…how many recovered and then started again…lol.
anyways, i have had some consistent improvements over last four years which I will post in my section of the story…
Mark
This dude is 100% right, on all accounts. First only time can heal the damage done, because no one really has any clue how this drug works and how it effects us all on an individual case by case scenario. I agree 100% with the confidence thing, you need to get that confidence back before you can really feel recovered. Reading that recent post describes my exact situation, unfortunately I have been plagued with allot of mental problems as well. Slowly they are getting better too. Still have my hair 5 years later, so theres long term changes here. But I have officially turned the corner in the sex department, and can really get it going with the right women. Patience and self empathy go along way in the healing process. Last thing I would recommend is taking another drug to help, other than some Viagra/Cialis. Just my two cents.
I am going to post a new thread regarding post-FIN, long-term symptoms. I know that someone is researching this, but I want to make this crystal-clear to everyone. please reply to it.
Hey I’m just piggybacking off of mrmoskowitz’s recovery story, as I’m starting to feel like I have recovered as well (see my thread).
Congrats mrmoskowitz. Just following up… is everything still OK with you? My story is very similar to yours… except that I am losing my hair again, and will be bald very soon.
I have been reading people’s recoveries and crashes for the last six months on this site. Not one person says that they got a mild crash. this guy saying he’s got a mild crash or you’re saying he’s got a mild crash when you get a crash it’s a crash okay you basically totaled out like totally out of car you unusable there’s no mild crashes at least No one has claimed to it
Hi, this is my first post on this website but I had to know this question: “How often did you use Viagra and did you ever feel that you built a tolerance to it?”. I hope to hear from you but understand if you’ve left to enjoy your life.
In response to the post regarding a lack of people who have experienced “mild crashes” I honestly believe that there are exceptions to this rule. I have no reason to lie about this, but I wanted to say that my crash was definitely mild. I have been off of the drug since the end of December (so almost 8 months) and I can honestly say that I did have a mild crash.
What I mean by this is that, compared to most people on here, my crash was extremely mild. I did not have any over night shrinkage or anything like that. I did get chronic constipation (still a big issue), as well as muscle twitches, low libido, testicle shrinkage, and a number of other side effects, (including depression which now comes and goes). But the odd thing about my story is that these side effects seemed to come on slowly since stopping the drug. While some effects were with me since the second pill that I took (reduced ejaculate for example), many others came on after stopping (constipation came 2 months after quitting, and muscle and joint pain happened after about 3 weeks off the drug). So for me each month seemed to bring a new and scary side effect (at least for the first 6 months). It was actually terrifying, because instead of crashing and getting better, I had a mini crash (depression came on all of a sudden and erections became mildly weaker and some slight joint pain) that continued to worsen as more and more side effects piled on over the coming months.
I feel at this point some things I can say have consistently improved are my mental well being. I no longer am chronically depressed (although I do have my days). I also have had more libido these past 2 weeks, although the lack of morning and random erections persists along with countless other side effects.
Anyways I feel my case was very weird indeed but things are better than they were back in March I can say that.
All the best,
Brad
mrmoskowitz,
have you faced numbness? Most of ppl who has taken this poison for long time like you did they have experienced
lack of sensibility and total lack of control of the penis.
if yes, when did you feel you were recovering from these sensations?
Hello mrmoskowitz,
have you felt penile numbness of lack of sensibility during the time you were off??? Most of ppl who were poisoned
by the consumption of this drug relate these sensations. Penis feels like dead, there´s no link between it and head.
if yes, when did you feel you were recovering from these symptoms?