Not here. Anyone better on libido and eréctil disfunción? Focking bastards those people in Merck…
Hi, yes to both of you. @bluecloud87 and @Tiro. I recovered from genital shrinkage, ED and libido. Shrinkage was present but I wouldn’t call it a significant symptom. ED was only complete disfunction for periods, I usually had some function although greatly reduced. At the beginning I could only respond to significant manual stimulation, visual stimulation was absent. This is now recovered although spontaneous erections are more rare. Libido went down to zero and is now almost entirely back at times. It is still up and down, but at this point more up than down.
May as well provide end of month update while here. I am at the moment doing fantastic, best I’ve felt post-fin. Beginning of the month was rough still, but on March 10th I finally started feeling better steadily more so until the 16th when I crashed back down, again recovering steadily until today where I’ve felt fantastic for 5 or 6 days straight. Sleep is better than ever, some emotional affect of music is present, just really close to normal. Every night though I have significant anxiety for about 2-3 hours before bed, although I believe this to be lessening each day. Yesterday, stiff hands and joints returned also.
So half bad month, half great. I’ll take it.
Amazing
How long has it taken you to to get to this point
I have crashed after being recovered for 10 years I’m currently absolutely stunned at my current predicament
It took me 4 ish years to recover when I first had PFS at 20 and I’m now 34
I have kids
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I have a son too and it’s very difficult with this condition. However he is my biggest fan but not being the father i/we want to be is devestating. You could yet recover again. I’ve seen it in others.
Can you provide your story, journey.
Something as simple as shampoo could have pulled you back in. Once hit by pfs we become more susceptible to crashes from 5aris/anti/pro androgens. Many factors could make u more vulnerable. I was much more resilient to such things years ago. Examples Krill oil screwed me before I knew about pfs and suncream as recent as 3 years ago brought on my biggest crash to date. I used suncream with pfs for years without apparent issue (again before I knew of the condition.
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If anything crashed me it will have been months of stress after breakup and also chronic pain from a spinal issue. My sleep already went haywire due to these two.
But god knows. To this day I find it hard to believe any of this is even possible and that finasteride is legal. To my shock finasteride is marketed heavily now to young men by a company called HIMS in the UK.
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These could be factors.
The system us corrupt the mhra are funded by Big pharma it’s all tilted in their favour they bribe Drs and panel members to approve their drugs then malign the victims. You don’t see any of it until if happens to you. Then everyone around u thinks ure insane. The UK is as bad as anywhere in the world when it comes down to it
Lazarus’s point about being sensitive to substances is a good one. I believe my recent instability to be potentially brought on by accidental use of a hair thinning shampoo and significant pumpkin seed ingestion. It terrifies me that you were recovered for 10 years, only to get pulled back in. However, it is a good warning and strengthens my resolve to continue to stay vigilant for the rest of my life at avoiding 5ari substances. Others should also take heed.
If you recovered once, you could do it again.
I am currently at ~46 months post-fin right now. I also have children, 3 of them. They are part of what got me through, they and my wife all rely on me as I am the sole income earner in the household.
I just learned that one of my friends fell for the HIMS/Keeps marketing (like me) and is taking Finasteride. I tried to talk to him about it, but I don’t know if I was able to convince him. I’m so scared for all the young men who will lose their lives to this poison with increased access.
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The trouble is, it’s hard to avoid all these things throughout life and there could be all kinds of endocrine disruption from technology, materials and so on.
If anything crashed me it was these months of very little sleep and being in near constant stress. But I could never guarantee that.
I did have a epidural injection in my spine, I have taken naproxen and a medicine for the stomach to protect it from naproxen, the SSRI amytriptaline all since December.
I’m concerned that it’s even possible full stop. How are we meant to go on with confidence and happiness if this can happen.
I hate to say it but I can’t imagine just coming out of this. This is exactly like my crash all of those years ago.
I am just going to go on living as if it hasn’t happened. I met a new woman just today, I could probably perform, but it would be one session and done.
It is almost certainly the SSRI. Many here have PFS symptoms induced by SSRI alone.
If you can, try to count your blessings, with PFS it can always be worse, much worse. If you can still perform once and done, that’s better than most and something you can enjoy. I went through many periods where I did not think I would be as recovered as I am now, yet here I am. Recovery could be possible, you just don’t know.
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How recovered are you and how long has it taken?
I’m not so sure. I took the amytriptaline many years ago for a week or two and I was fine. My sex drive and dick was dead from the break up but then it turned into this crash.
Back when I was a suffered in 2010 and proceeding, if I refrained from ejaculation it was a matter of time before sex drive built. Im on about 90 days with zero porn and a few ejaculations and yet I have zero drive.
4 years, and I would say 90%+ at my highest.
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Incredible. Did you have severe sexual sides? At what month did your improvements begin?
I went through this, and continue to go through periods of low libido, but this week my libido is very strong. Not yet like before, but very close.
Even if you took SSRI before without issue, it could still cause issues now. I mean I took fin for 9 months before I noticed the problems. Just don’t rule it out at the very least.
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I had sexual sides, but they were never my focus early on as my neurological symptoms were just so devastating. Not exaggerating, but I would’ve chopped off my dick to solve my mental issues early on.
I had complete impotence for some periods, shrinkage, but the most noticeable was complete lack of libido. Looking at a beautiful woman was the same as looking at a tree stump, just triggered nothing. I don’t really know when sexual symptoms started improving as they weren’t really my focus, but I do know the recovery was VERY up and down. I would say only recently has that real “hunger” for sex returned for significant periods of time.
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So I did a lot of record keeping to track my recovery and one of things I would do each morning is look at a picture of a woman and would rate visual response 1–10.
Looks like around 18 months I saw a spike improvement and then again at 30 months. I would also say again over past 8 months I’ve seen more improvement.
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That’s a good idea. I’ll inevitably do the same with some videos. Or as it stands the woman I’m seeing, however long I can keep that going. Christ…
In your time here I guess you’ve seen some recoveries right? I’ve came back and been reading and can see a decent number of recoveries but many cases of zero recovery or even worsening.
Thank you for responding
Yes, I seen many recoveries and talked to others that have recovered. There are obviously many more here who have not recovered or worsened.
Recovery is typically VERY slow, at the start I would say I could maybe measure progress every 3 months, and only due to my meticulous record keeping. I wouldn’t have been able to tell you by feeling. Now that I’m more stable I can feel monthly progress for some time.
I do not claim to be any kind of an expert here, nor to I claim to have any real answers, but I did recover and I’m always here if you have any questions or need to talk.
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I had testicular shrinkage which recovered, I didn’t experience any penile shrinkage thankfully.
Libedo feels mostly back, libedo is one of those things that fluctuate in general for people so it’s hard to say “ it’s 100% back” but am I far better off than when I had zero libedo, I would say yes
I still feel the effects of finasteride everyday, I just got to a point where I don’t think about them every hour of the day,
I still have a ways to go but I’m grateful for the progress I’ve made and pray everyone improves from this as well
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