This post is for those who suffer of problems related to sex because of propecia. I am wondering how many years or months did you need to recover after stop taking propecia? Please write how many month to notice any improvements and how many year to nearly entirely recover.
Thank you
most people are here because they never did recover… me personally it will be 2 years this summer and i still have sexual sides.
Exactly. This forum is dedicated to men with persistent issues from the drug, if there were no persistent problems this site and others like it wouldn’t exist.
I notice you are currently taking Propecia with no quit date listed. I assume your intention is to continue to take the drug?
Been a year for me with no improvements. I’d get off Fin now if I were you. There is no set recovery time. If you told most of us we’d be “better” in a only a few years we’d be ecstatic. Sadly, thats likely not the case. There are people who have been suffering for nearly a decade.
I stopped it about 1 year ago. Actually my question is how much chance I have that I will recover after 1 year. Or is it more likely that if I haven’t receovered in 1 year, than I will never recover? So are there any common cases that people started to recover after more than 12 months or are they very rare?
In my situation I did get back to feeling about 90% recovered after about a year and a half off Fin, then I had 4-5 glorious months of pretty darn good sexual functioning, then out of the blue I went right back to disaster (~10% functioning) and that’s where I’m at today.
It’s been almost 3 years for me, and no recovery yet, although I did have a good week or two here and there.
newbie,
first of all you should never give up. There are some recoveries, even though they seem to be rare (look at the recovery section). Unfortunately, for me, I am suffering for 8 years now and I haven’t recovered at all. Nothing has changed since I droped finasteride.
Are you serious that some men never recover?
I want kids, and sex, and to feel horny again. This is so depressing… I’ve only been off Duta and propeica for about 3 months…
Stay away from this website until your at around J+6 months or you will drive yourself nuts with anxiety and depression (which themselves are a cause of ED, fatigue etc). Try to stay as positive as possible, and have a really good life hygiene (good nutrition, exercise, good sleep patterns, no excessive stress) in the meantime. If you still havent recovered naturally, then come back here to look for solutions.
That sound like great advise, people should try to recover naturally and stay positive health and nutrition is very important as well as good sleep and little to no stress, don’t start messing around cause you can worsen the problem and not recover at all.
Regards
Suave
Thanks I think I have to avoid this website for abit. One additional question. My hair has begun to thin rapidly over the last 3 months, but more so in the past month. Based on experience of others, is this a good sign?
It is funny because others feel pity for me for my thinning hair, but I could care less, and IF I ever get lucky enough to end of with a good sex life with a girl it will be 100x better than having hair. I am working my butt of to try to provide myself with the best life possible as well (financially) , so hair transplant might be an option.
It has been 3 years in two months for me and still, there is no significant improvement with that drive. And I think you would not get any first hand experience here but stories and more stories who they say have recovered from it. Until then, we just have to wait and hope. And hope and wait. The list goes on and the threshold keeps on going up, unfortunately.
OMG again with this hair thing. Let it go. As in let that fear and insecurity go, it’s the only thing stopping you from accepting nature’s desire for your hair to fall-out. Transplants are $$$, and the results aren’t great since they excise the hair from the back of your scalp leaving a nasty scar so you’ll never be able to shave your head. Worst of all, since your hair will continue to fall out, they will prescribe you (OH NO) prope***.
I really don’t think there is anyone here with PFS who cares about hair transplants or would even consider it. Why would I give someone who has dispensed Propecia like candy for a decade a penny of my money? Hair loss docs should be facing the same law suits as Merck. Hmm, lets see give 10-20k for PFS research or a hair transplant. Is that really a difficult choice? Anyway, I don’t need anyone in my life who has an issue with my thinning hair.
Actually it is. Merck states that the recovery period is 2 weeks.
Enden,
can you quote where Merck says that the recovery period is 2 weeks. All I know is that they say once you drop the medication you recover immediately (that means within one or two days).
For me it is almost eight years and no improvements yet.
I found a leaflet on propecia.co.uk which stated that all hormone levels returns to baseline values within 2 weeks after treatment. I confronted Merck with it. Suddenly they stopped responding, and propecia.co.uk was taken down. What pisses me off even more, is that I don’t have a copy of that prescribing information leaflet, but I guess it’s available somewhere in U.K.
All there is now, is the Proscar prescribing information leaflet. It states that the DHT level returns to normal within 2 weeks after treatment, and since finasteride isn’t supposed to affect other hormone levels (other than a slight increase in testosterone and estrogen), it means that all side effects should subside within then.
Post a link to this please.