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  1. Where are you from (country)?

  2. 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?)

  3. What is your current age, height, weight?

  4. Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?

  5. What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?

  6. Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?

  7. For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?

  8. How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride?

  9. How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit?

  10. How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?

  11. What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?

  12. What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?

  13. How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?

  14. What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?

Put an X beside all that apply:

Sexual
[ ] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[ ] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[ ] Loss of Morning Erections
[ ] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[ ] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[ ] Watery Ejaculate
[ ] 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
[ ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts

Physical
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] 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)

  1. What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?

  2. 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)?

  3. Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?

  4. Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.

  5. I’m from Italy.

  6. I found it by Google search for findind informations about side effects’ Finasteride and Dutasteride.

  7. Yes, I do. I do the race.

  8. I’m 29 years old. I’m 190 cm and 80 kg.

  9. I eat Mediterranean diet.

  10. I take Finasteride for contrasting hair loss.

  11. I take it for 27 months.

  12. I was 22 and I started in February 2006.

  13. I was 24 and I quitted in May 2008.

  14. Major health problems have appeared.

  15. I used Propecia.

11)I took 1 mg/day.

  1. Always: from the beginning slighter side effects, and over the time grievious side effects which led me to suspend Finasteride’s assumption.

  2. 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
[X] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[X] Confusion
[X] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[X] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[X] Slurring of Speech
[X] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[ ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts

Physical:
[X] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[X] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[X] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[X] Muscle Wastage
[X] Muscle Weakness
[X] Joint Pain
[X] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes

Misc:
[ ] Prostate pain
[X] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[ ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[ ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[X] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ ] Increased hair loss
[ ] Frequent urination
[X] Lowered body temperature

  1. Unfortunately no one in particular, I assume only a few paracetamol tablet that gives me a slight benefit.

  2. Unfortunately, I don’t have pre-Finasteride bloodtests.

16)I still want to emphasize the serious side effects caused by Finasteride I are influencing the life from every point of view.

  1. My name is Lorenzo, I’m 28 and I live in Italy.
    In 2006, after a medical consultation by the dermatologist, I started assuming Propecia(Finasteride) for halting the incipient hair loss. For over a year and a half after, I was noticing lacking results on the aesthetic point of view, so I changed from Propecia to Dutasteride (Avodart), as you know, drug which completely or nearly blocks the conversion of testosterone to DHT.
    Dutasteride has blocked completely my hair loss but unfortunately,at the same time, after few weeks from the assumption’s beginning, very serious side effects, caused by Avodart, started. Initially tachycardia with extrasystoles, then intense muscular rheumatisms accompanied by severe tiredness and testicular pains.
    The administration of Avodart continued eight months and side effects showed during treatment didn’t disappeared after assumption’s end, but they ulteriorly got worse, making my life as a real nightmare.
    It’s four years that I’m referring to doctors searching answers for my malaise chronic: deep fatigue, muscular rheumatisms, testicles’pains, slight gynecomastia, fits of giddiness, decline of erection etc.
    I asked doctors who had difficulties in understanding my situation: they suspected that Cushing’s syndrome was the cause, but the analysis gave adverse results.
    At the end there’s only a certainty: I was a perfectly healthy person and now because of Dutasteride I live a life of hell, without knowing what really happens in me.

Lorenzo F

#2

Have you done a testicular MRI?

#3

Testicular MRI? Why would he do that?

#4

[X] Testicular Pain

#5

Vincent do you ever have any testicle pain? Specifically on the left side, a great majority have as it’s a symptom of PFS, so far each ultrasound has come back negative and non contributory.

#6

While on FIN I do not remeber any significant pain. But when trying to lower my estrogen while on TRT I took ERASE and I got a very bad pain on my left nut right where there are 2 bumps the size of rice grains. I did an ultrasound I think they did not focus on that area much. But did not see anything. But it hurt like hell at that point what does that mean? And I still have bumps and many others do - This is very hormonally active tissue if anything has gone astray there that could explain PFS very well.