Just got on Propecia last week

Symptoms Sexual
#1

Hi - I am 40 years old and a lot of friends are using propecia to keep hair. Only one friend had side effect (low libido that his wife made him quit) and the others all rave about it. Some guys been on it 15 years now. I asked the doctor a lot of question and in the end she said she gave propecia to 500 patients over the last 15 years and none had any side effects. So this really calmed me.

Anyway, I am 7 days into 1mg/day and my testicles are so sore that hurts to walk. I googled it and found this website. I have the same situation that many on here discuss of dull ache, tingling, numbness of testicles and to lesser degree penis. I will stop taking propecia but my doctor friends all same I am just hypochondriac.

Five Questions:

1 - Could this all be in my head? I doubt it because I had trouble walking with testicle pain BEFORE I came on the website.

2 - If there are over 1 million users of finisteride, why are there so few on this website with my problems. It seems people do have similar situation to me but tiny minority of the users of this drug. I sincerely believe the people on here similar to me but we must have some unique factor that affects us.

3 - I stopped cold turkey today and took a multi-vitamin. Any other recommendations for someone quitting finisteride? I masturbated and everything is working like normal.

4 - Surely at just 7 days I must not have done much damage.

5 - Maybe I should just using topical rogaine?

Ugh

#2

There’s only one place for all those hair loss products and that’s in the bin. Put your focus into other important stuff like your career and family. The side effects are simply not worth it.

#3

I don’t dissuade people from using Finasteride who are dead set on using it (unless their family and friends). Its like playing Russian Roulette with a gun with an unknown number of cylinders/bullets. We’re not really sure how rare/common PFS is, just ask yourself if its worth it, knowing you might end up killing yourself at worst… to potentially keep your hair.

#4

Do not go on and off propecia. It is Russian Roulett and each time you go on and off you are firing another shot.

#5

Update. My testicles were really hurting after 7 days of 1mg/day. This was not in my head because I didn’t know it was a side effect until start googling after the pain set in.

I dialed dosage back to .25 EOD and still had a little trouble getting erections and some minor aches in testes/penis.

I am now one week off of it and feel 100%.

Maybe I will try again in a few years but my hair is not that bad to risk any of this b.s.

Oddly, I got red face and bags under my eyes. Which I read is probably from Minox (rogaine). I stopped rogaine as well and the red puffy face went away but not the bags under my eyes. It’s been almost 3 weeks so I hope the bags go away.

#6

dude go off propecia… im 25 now, started when i was 22 a few months later i become 23 and lost my dick entirely… cant get an erection standing it… its generally smaller when flacid by a lot and cant have sex without cialis. my girlfriend left me after 2 years and met a new guy in 2 weeks and started dating him. it ruined my life. just quit it now while everything still works. go on regaine, i have a bush for hair now it does the same shit as propecia but topically.