Yes im a woman… yes you can get married with someone that understands your issues i learned of the side effects a month ago… I didnt know what was happening to him. I know now but he is happy bcz he doesnt have acne… I will move on … today 10 years ago we decided to be together. Today right now im getting all his stuff together…
I hope you can detox your liver improve your health.
Acne came back
Today I have talked with my urologist. He said finasteride can cause this permanent side effects. I am gonna kill myself I am %100 sure about that. I am only 20 years old virgin. I didn’t even kissed a girl. But this drug took all of my pleasure in my life. This is not a suicide this is a murder. Doctors who made propecia they killed me.
I know this is horrible lads, and you can BELIEVE that I know how horrible it all is. But you need to hang on, any way you can do. People DO recover and various initiatives and research approaches are underway.
I know right now it’s an awful life but SO many of us improve. Hopefully it won’t be long before Merck pay for this and hopefully it’ll be sooner that we’re all well, but for now try your very best to get through the days, as best you can.
Hold on to something and try not to despair. Vent all you like on the forums here, we all know how it feels and we’ll all understand. For now just hang on a bit, share what you can and keep going.
Thanks. Sometimes I feel worse but for now I am good. This forum is a life saver. Thanks to founders of this site.
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Are we really close to those research papers or something that can find a cure or treatment for this? I’m new to this condition and I hope to see some treatment within a decade. But don’t you think finding the treatment for this is similar to finding the cure for hairloss? Like everyone is affected differently, and treatment will be different for everyone.
Ah, well the answer to that is going to be a big “maybe” and one I don’t personally know myself. So I’ll say maybe.
How severe are your symptoms?
That’s another very difficult one to answer. Probably not as bad as some, probably worse than some others. Had the gamut of symptoms for the first year and to be honest that was a seething horror of a year. I don’t know quite how I didn’t end it tbh, with the shock of everything and the sexual, physical and mental failure of a body that’d always acted and responded and functioned in a way for a whole lifetime.
If I were to be honest, from what I’ve read over the years, I probably was a bad one yes.
These days I am DEFINITELY not one of the worse ones at all. Sexually not better, physically (was a bodybuilder) not up to much, just a regular out of shape 40yo now. However I CAN sleep (that’s now PERFECT) and I have my “world immersion” back. Can sit and enjoy a movie, can function at work (although not who or what I was I must add.)
…I anticipate your next question to be what improved me. Just in case that is your next question I would love to tell you, but I don’t want to fall foul of the rules of this forum. And some of it was/is fairly extreme. After a couple of years here I’d DEFINITELY recommend anyone just toughing out those first six months at least to see how far you bounce back rather than start injecting shit or piling in $1000 of Indian birth control pills. However I have written up most stuff in my own thread.
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Did you make any improvements in sexual sides? My case isn’t too extreme, but enough to not live a happy life. I still have energy to go to gym and add muscle. Porn still arouse me. But libido, ED and sensitivity is my biggest battle.
Only small ones, nothing night-and-day. They did seem to get worse as PFS went on I think I’d say, then bounced back probably a little after the proviron run. But only a little. Still got small balls and hard flaccid even on HCG.
Reading that I don’t want to say anything like “oh yeah that’s mild for sure” because I’ve got no idea how that’s affecting you and sounds bad enough in the context of a human life, so here’s hoping they improve over there. I am rather envious though, miss training a great deal.
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I haven’t visited this forum for many years. I am a long-time sufferer and decided to stop visiting just because it didn’t help my mentality.
Anyway, long story short, I had bad peyronie’s after taking just 1/4 pill of proscar back in '08. I had surgery to fix it, and that seemed to be botched because afterwards I couldn’t get an erection full stop.
So eventually I gave up hope of recovery and got a penile transplant around 4 years ago. Honestly it has returned my life to some kind of normal, and totally changed things around for me. I’ve had many GFs since then, with only one woman I’ve been with finding the implant to be an issue (even though i’m still relatively young), after having no GFs or even sex for almost a decade. I feel good again. Sex isn’t as good with an implant, it’s true, but it’s fine, and a whole lot better than none at all.
Sadly I never fully recovered from fin, despite being super healthy, so in a way I’m glad my hand was forced to have the implant. Although some side effects diminished over time, the libido never returned for me.
All that said, I am certainly not advocating an implant for everyone here. It’s a huge step, and non-reversible, and has its own risks and complications. I prob wouldn’t have taken it had I not had botched surgery; a natural recovery, or at least improvement, should definitely the goal.
But I’m sharing my story because I too felt suicidal for years, but the implant changed everything for me. So even if you are feeling extremely low; like there is no hope, you should consider the implant as a last resort option to give you some kind of life back, and definitely preferable to ending things!
Good luck 
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Hi @FranzFan , looking back at your member story mate it seemed you were doing well at the 10 and 16 month mark of your recovery. You talk of rock hard erections, morning wood and overall improvements. What do you feel the catalyst was to go so downhill from there, to a point where you’ve had to get a penile implant. Can you remember anything in particular?
Thanx for coming back to tell your story.
I"m considering an implant myself.
Some q’s i want to ask you.
- Do you have a Coloplast or an AMS?
2., What was your pre-op and post-op size? - Why is sex not as good?
- Who was your surgeon?
- Is your implant obvisious in daily life? So do people notice a semi-erect bulge?
- What is your age now?
Thanx bro