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Where are you from (country)? Canada
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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 search Propecia + Impotance
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What is your current age, height, weight? 22, 5 foot 9, 200 pounds
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Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? No
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What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)? I don’t follow any diet.
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Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)? Hair Loss
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For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)? Discontinued usage between January 2011 and September 2012
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How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride? 20
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How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit? 22, stopped in late September
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How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)? Cold turkey
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What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic? Finasteride Brand PharmaScience
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What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)? 1 mg/day
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How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? The day after I quitted
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What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation? Too early to tell
Put an X beside all that apply:
Sexual
[X] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[X] Erectile Dysfunction
[X] Complete Impotence
[X] Loss of Morning Erections
[X] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[X] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[X] 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
[ ] Depression / Melancholy
Physical
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[X] 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
[ ] Frequent urination
[ ] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
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What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug? To early to tell
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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)?
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Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
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Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
[b]So here is my story :
I took Propecia in a discontinued way from January, 2011 to October 2012. I’d say that I took it from January 2011 to September 2011 but I stopped because I wanted to combined Propecia and Minox, but I couldn’t find any Minox in stores. I thought that taking Propecia alone was worthless so I stopped using it. Once, I found minox (June 2012), I restarted to take Propecia. I stopped last week.
I didn’t regrew any hair while I was on Propecia
During my time on Propecia, I experienced a few sides : Semen was more watery, Morningwood was rare. However, when it was time to get hard, I had no problem to lift it up. Honestly, sides were bearable, especially in the hope that I would regrow some hair.
However, something weird happened last week. I had just finished my monthly dose of fin and I “accidentally” skipped two days, because I didn’t have time to go to the drug store. Then, on last wednesday, I bought my propecia and took one pill. The next day, I noticed that my erections weren’t as strong. I, immediately, stopped taking my treament. However, the sides didn’t go away. On Friday and Saturday, I still had soft erections.
Then on Sunday, it seemed like my dick just died. I couldn’t get hard. I was still able to cummed, but my dick stayed completely flat. I got a semi while masturbating to porn but that’s the best I could do.
And it’s been like that for the past three days. Just no sensation in my dick. Only a week ago, I was still having rock hard boners…
Also, it’s though to point out what caused the problem : Is it because I stopped (barely) taking Propecia for a few days, Is it that single one pill I took, or does it come from the accumalation of all the Propecia pills I’ve taken!
Hopefully it’s just a case of the tank being empty. I jerked off many times on Saturday because I was trying to find ways to stimulate my dick and trying to understand what was happening.
So yeah hopefully this situation will resolve itself, if it doesn’t I might not experience another boner for the rest of my life…Woo!
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