I’ve only taken the pill for 3 days. 1mg/day
On day 3 i noticed I couldn’t get an erection. I remember reading about propecia side effects so i immediately stopped taking it.
It’s 4 days later and I still can barely get an erection and no sexual thoughts.
Please someone… tell me what can I do. (24 year old male)
First thing is to stop stressing.
You only took a few pills, so hopefully you will recover just fine over the coming weeks/months.
If i was you, i would stay away from this forum for a few weeks and let things settle down.
Also go and report your symptoms to your doctor.
Try to eat healthy by incorporating plenty of organic fruit and vegetables into your daily diet.
Avoid excessive masturbation/ejaculation for the next few weeks …maybe once every 3 or 4 days to keep things in working order and not to put any excessive strain on your endrocrine system.
I quote noniman. You took just a few pills, so don’t worry too much. I mean, this can give you some problem, but pretty surely your body didn’t have much damage from it. It is important you keep stress free. Do not terrorise yourself. Stress can be pretty devastating. Don’t start reading all along the forum for the next weeks as this will surely worsen your situation. Eat well. If you try masturbating and you have problems, absolutely do not worry about it. You have very good chances to recover soon.
You took Propecia after the labels have been updated?
Yes I took it thinking nothing would happen to me.
A hard lesson learned. No pun intended (because my dick can’t get hard… get it…)
Day 5. Absolutely no change in libido/erections.
This is scary.
id say don’t stress as well. if it doesn’t go away - get some cialis. didn’t really help libido but it definitely helped me with erections. some people recommend alpha blockers. plus - if you need to feel better - read through the forums and realize that you are actually BLESSED to only have sexual issues.
First things first. Don’t read the forums for atleast a month. It’s easy to read horror stories and try and find answers and become very cynical. I recommend giving it atleast a month. I myself took two dosages and things defintley improve. I recommend not stressing, eating correctly and not sexually over stimulating yourself.
I also recommend getting your blood levels/saliva levels to see where your hormones are at, do you have your levels prior to finasteride?
most recover.
Good luck.
Hey guys, I’d like to post a quick update:
I’m pretty much back to 100% (for now)
Hopefully I don’t experience any sort of resurgence of my symptoms.
The 1.5 weeks that I had symptoms were HELL. I had the following:
These symptoms are all gone now. I’m about 95% recovered. I still have some weird erection problems here and there but those I believe are mental. My mind was so jarred by the fact that I couldn’t get an erection that I think there’s still some emotional/mental scarring.
The best thing for me was honestly not being on this forum. In this thread you guys recommended me to stop reading the posts here and that REALLY took a huge amount of stress off of me.
Thanks again guys.
Congrats! You escaped hell!
Please, never forget that hairloss is not worth that hell! In some months you will probably start to feel bad about your hairloss again. Don’t even think of using propecia! We have had some people that went back on Propecia once their memory of side effects faded and hairloss problems become dominant. You will always regret taking Propecia when you get these side effects. Don’t forget that lesson!
Good luck and take care!
Just want to give a quick update:
Everything is still going well. There are minor lingering erection issues here and there that still occur. But these usually only happen when I’m with a girl. So I’m positive this is mental and not the drug (performance anxiety). When I’m solo I have no problems maintaining erection whatsoever.
But the performance anxiety problem is VERY rare… Around 10% of the time it’ll happen.
I’ll share what I did while i was in the “hell” phase of this drug. I took multi vitamin everyday, worked out every day, took NOW men’s Virility every day.
I’m no longer taking the virility.
Thanks everyone.
Crap…
Woke up yesterday with inability to maintain erection…
It’s been almost 2 months since the initial side effects. Is this the “Crash”?
Am I screwed??
chances are you have boarded the boat permanently. just be relieved you are not alone, we are many.
shit.
does amount of time on drug have any impact on recovery?
What should my next steps be?
It’s one day your fine stop stressing.
It’s actually 3 days now. Girlfriend came over. No movement downstairs.
any changes in dick size?
yes - displaying same exact symptoms as before. Penis appears more shriveled.
Any changes in semen appearance?