Helllo all. Oxy Elite propecia combo posible sides

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#1

This is so that we can more easily track our symptoms and hopefully find patterns in our syndrome. This will also help others understand your background, and help us try to determine what are the most commonly experienced side effects after discontinuation of Finasteride.

COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING INTO YOUR OWN POST, then answer the questions.

  1. Where are you from (country)? USA

  2. 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

  3. What is your current age, height, weight? 33, 5-10, 195lbs

  4. Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? Yes cardio and weights

  5. What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)? Not vegetarian but very healthy

  6. Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)? Hair Loss

  7. For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)? 8 months

  8. How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride? 32

  9. How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit? I have not quit per say but am flushing out in hopes of side effects reversal.

  10. How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)? Cold turkey

  11. What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic? Generic

  12. What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)? 1 to 1.24 mg a day, sometimes skipping a day after a whole 5mg.

  13. How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? JUST NOW

  14. What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?

Put an X beside all that apply:

Sexual
[ X] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[X ] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[X ] Loss of Morning Erections
[X ] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[ ] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[ ] Watery Ejaculate
[X ] 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
[X ] Testicular Pain
[X ] 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
[X ] Frequent urination
[ ] Lowered body temperature

[ ] Other (please explain)

  1. What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug? None yet

  2. 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)?

  3. Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?

  4. Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.

I started because I have been losing my hair since High school. It’s pretty hard on me because I was always a good looking guy who took very good care of himself. What worse is I have a brother who is only 2 years younger who will never lose his hair. We look almost identical aside this. It makes me insanely depressed and borderline violently angry at times.
In the past few weeks I noticed possible “slight” ED. Recently I have been getting some groin pain, and it appears my genitalia has almost shrunk a bit. As of the last two days (today it seems to have passed) my penis has almost had a strange mushroom shape. I can still get and maintain an erection but it does seem to take a minute longer. For a little while I noticed loss of spontaneous erections. This is strange because my sex drive has always been an over drive situation.
This is even harder because I was a great responder to the drug and even my GF said how much fuller and thicker it was looking.
Here is the one thing I noticed and I’m trying to figure out if it is coincidence or not.
About 2 years ago I was trying to burn a few pounds and started taking Oxy Elite Pro. It was amazing and worked wonders. After the vaca I was losing the weight for I stopped the oxy’s and the weight slowly came back. I’m not heavy at all but wanted to tone up a bit. I had NO side effects when taking the oxy.
Recently now that I am on the finasteride I started taking oxy’s again because once again I’m going on a beach vaca and wanted to drop a few pounds.
It seems almost instantly after the oxy started I experienced these side effects. Pre oxy I had none with the finasteride and to be honest it seemed almost like my groin actually inflated a bit on the finasteride.
I have decided to stop everything in hopes my body will return to normal but am afraid now in losing the hair I regained.
Questions are, for those of you who have experienced these same side effects, have you returned to normal and how long did it take?
Do you think the oxy elites (metabolizer) could have initiated these side effects of the finasteride or is this just coincidence?
Thanks, very troubled over all this right now, very depressed.

#2

For other fin users here, don’t read the following post.

Dude… let me you this. I don’t know exactly what Oxy Elite is but for it to cause eg mushroom shape etc. while using it with finasteride, you really should stop both fin and Oxy Elite and never use finasteride again. You’ll probably recover in the following weeks when you quit but it’s pr important that you stop caring about eg hair to reduce the stress.

And re: hair, i want you to be absolutely straight on this: do you think your hair matters to your girlfriend? Or to any girl really, to that matter?
I sound overbearing/patronizing but I would think that any girls who judges your appearance initially and ultimately by the look of your hair - a feature that is incredibly likely to lose in male population in general, no matter how it “frames” your face and all that pop culture bullshit - is not really worth your time, especially considering that what really matters in males/females in general is if you look good in idk facial and body features (and in males the social clues/attitude etc is another point of attraction to girls).
Since i crashed with finasteride, i’ve learnt tons of health, actual medical science and REAL health stuff and I can tell you for certain that stress and depression, that obsession of yours, is crudely put a hell of a risk/attractor for health problems and I hope you look at the bigger picture and give up on the obsession of your and your brother’s (and other people’s) hair. There’s no attraction to hollowed-out men, like many of us finasteride people are.

Sorry for rant but i hope you take it in good spirit cos it just sounds like you’ve had this obsession for awhile… much like me when i was really insecure about my looks couple of years ago, thus i started finasteride. I actually cut my hair bald pr soon as i start finasteride - my sister and mother recently tells me that i don’t look as good in bald/short hair as i could (haha, great family support! kinda insensitive but i forgive) - and during that time pr attractive ladies were interested in me which uh kinda drove the point home to me about HAIR and about it’s actual “importance”. I actually know now that i probably look kinda good and sometimes i think that damn, should had stopped using finasteride when i saw all those ladies being interested of me. Wouldn’t have to be this non-manly, brain-fucked (really, brain sides are the worst that come. just stop using fin…) shell of a passive boy!!
Again, not to scare you but just a piece of advise. you can’t probably see the lost life/damage you actually risk with fin possibly now that you are still on healthy, cos when you are healthy and don’t know about being sick you take it as a given and do no research on it.

#3

The Oxy-Elite is likely a trigger or “exasibator” for your body to crash. Obv the finasteride is the root cause. It completely lowers your DHT as well as key nuerosteroids that help to protect your body against ANY kind of stressor. Adding the Oxy-Elite just added a potent stressor that your body couldnt handle. It caused your body to rev on the redline too long. If you look at every ones stories, it appears that 90+% had some time of stressor before/during their crash. Whether it is too much acohol, infection, drugs, GF/wife issues, stress at work, anxiety, etc… Yours happens to be the stimulant Oxy-Elite…

#4

Ive read on here caffeine seems to make it all worse for some people.
I know the oxy put me over. Ive dropped the fin. I stopped taking it during a 2 week vaca and stuff seemed to be getting better. Better erections and such but I took one dose when I got home to try again and MAN did I get hit hard.

I hope I didnt perm damage myself being hopeful.
Anyway Ive cut ceffiene for a while and drinking tea. dropped saw palmetto. getting blood work done.

Here another question
I was on lexapro for a long time in my life. I was even taking it with the Fin for MONTHS and had no sides, in fact it seemed like my whole situation was just better. I stopped taking the lex about 4 months in wheening because I wasnt sure about the combo but Im wondering if going back on might help relax me, get some serotonin running again and help me get back to regular. I was also thinking some SAMe.
I do beleive the mind has a HUGE part to play in this whole thing (at least with me) and the more I am relaxed the more things seemed to sexually get better.
I still have physical pain, mainly in the tip but I can deal with that if sexually Im back to normal. I am sure the rest will sort it out.
At the moment Im cleansing myself with water water water, raw foods, suppliments, lots of b-complex, zinc and omega and as always exercise.
also at my wort scare moment I jumped into a hot tub and not to be to graphic we’ll say “jelked a minute”. I think that relaxed all the tissues and I have been “better” since.

Im also anemic so I wonder if that has anything to do with anything.

as for the first poster, i appreciate your “confident, love yourself” boost you attempted but I really want biological outlooks. thank you tho.

#5

In my original introductory post I wrote about how I got hammered with what I thought were sides from the fin.
ED, and ALL the symptons + of what seemed like prostisitus. This was after 8 months of use with NO sides until I started taking a Fat burner then got my yearly sinus infection and went on omoxycilin. The worst though was what appeared to be the start of some minor atrophy in “that area”. My testicles seemed to not shrink but sort of pull up a bit and the shaft at the top sort of looked darker than normal and almost a bit shrunk as if blood flow was getting cut off.
anyway

I have halted the use of fin and even saw palmetto for now until Im fine again.
My erections are pretty much back to normal. The penis seems better each day, BUT my boys which have always been, let’s say, massive old man ones seem like they are still looking as if I just jumped into a cold bath.

I have found that taking a hot bath seems to bring everything back to normal for some time and even keeping a heating pack in the area while I relax. I believe it gets the blood flow back to normal. I have seen my doc and ALL my bloodwork, hormones and all seem corrrect. I have always been a gym rat, ate right and took multi’s which I think is the only thing that saved me. I have been eating alot of testosterone boosting raw foods and boosting my zinc, and B vits but was still very curious if this sounds like a side effect of the fin or maybe a case of prostisitus. I recently talked to my old man who said he gets it from time to time but honestly hes a daze case and getting any info from him is like talking to a 4 year old so Im kind of in the dark here.

my questions are

did the fin bring this on? (I think it did because I went off for two weeks and things got better than took ONE .25mg dose and the next day it was even worse than previous)
are these normal prostisitus symptoms? (the doc put me on doxycycline which I beleive has helped aside this annoying irritation at the tip still)
will my boy eventually drop back down to normal? Remember they havent shrunk just risen up a bit.

thanks

To those who experience the shrinkage effect have you tried hot baths and heat packs? they really do help and I “personally” beleive it gets the blood flowing better down there to help aid in recovery sooner.
good luck