Man I hope I didn’t change my life

It definitely can go away or lessen in severity

I’ve had mine literally all over the place

Unfortunately anxiety makes it worse however of course it’s difficult to relax in that state

But yes of course I can’t tell you that it will definitely BUT for me and others there’s definitely improvements that are possible

So at least there’s good hope for that my friend

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Yeah I went to sleep and it seems it has gone away for now. Thanks for the insight

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And it’s back….

At least it quieting down showed you it can fluctuate which means over time maybe even short that it will get better

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Seems loud right now, this is my 33rd day off and this just happened, giving me less hope that I’ll have a natural recovery

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Some guys takes months

Everyone’s different

Me? I took about 6 weeks to get back to normal ish
Then maybe 5 months to go from say 80%
To about 95-100%

I can’t tell you all the ways I was fucked yo
I begged God to make it go away
Eventually it did
Tumor gotta be strong very very strong in this time and don’t let self doubt take you out my friend

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Back to normal from PFS or just the timmitus

I was speaking about the tinnitus

But it can also be about that as well
Just take it easy on yourself

Watch comforting things
Go for walks
If you need to sit and talk with someone do so

It’ll get better
And don’t experiment and watch what you eat

Keep it as clean and boring as possible if you can

I would HIGHLY recommend to stay away from creatine. It had extreme effects on me, even in small dose. There are many cases of people taking creatine on this forum and having negative effects with one user, westside, describing it as “his worst mistake other than finasteride”.

Will be at 2 months off my 4 doses.

An update

I stopped smoking weed throughout the 2 months off. This week I just started to cut back on sugar and am trying to eat natural foods, nothing from a fast food joint.

Sadly during 5th week I developed tinnitus in my right ear. The levels of volume changed throughout the day.

There are days I experience so bad prostate pain.

My scrotum sags a lot and my testicles change in size and fullness throughout the days.

Libedo has increased a bit, I can think of attractive women and have an urge.

Errections have improved somewhat, they come up without stimulation. Still get working wood, not as strong as pre fin.

Errections do go away faster, especially if I stand up.

Semen quality has improved a little, still watery but I’m notice a lot more white and thickness in it.

However semen is still low, if I ejaculate a 2nd time through out the day the semen is very low. Might be issues with my prostate.

My body has some time type of panic attack shock at work the other day. Could have been anxiety induced, I’m not too sure.

Sleep has improved, some days are great, others not so great, but have been probably getting 4-6 hours more frequently instead of 2-3.

Numbness is still present, but I I’m sensitive enough in the tip to enjoy some pleasure, albeit not to pre fin standards.

Still pushing and trying to live as healthy as possible, low and slow exercise, with water, coffee, and diet soda.

Anyone reading this I hope you recover from this drug

Well it’s been 2 months.

Tinnitus has been bugging me more lately.

Sex sides have improved maybe very slightly.

A very slight increase in libedo but if I wank once or twice it will go away til the next day.

Penis feels lighter than pre fin.

Sperm has maybe improved very slightly but is still shit.

Numbness is still there for the most part

Sensitivity maybe has improved a tiny bit.

Insomnia, the quality of sleep isn’t great, I’m always having lucid dreams. Can probably get 5 hours in a night, but that’s after waking up in the middle of the night.

Errections maybe have improved a tiny bit,
They get real soft after I fap, and they’re not really strong unless I go days without fapping.

Trying to hang in there the best I can, this disease is horrible, but I don’t want to submit to it, despite losing a lot of motivation.

In 30 days it’ll be official that I have PFS, although I’m very sure I do given the severity of my symptoms already to this point.

Best of luck to all those that read this, I keep you all in my prayers every night.

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Wish I could give better news but a couple days a go I made several attempts on my life.

I stabbed myself multiple times in the stomach, and try to suffocate myself.

The pain of this disease, the regret, it all got to me and so as much as the anxiety attacks.

I sense have seeked help, and am receiving it.

My eyes got red recently, I’m pretty sure it could be from the stress and from trying to suffocate myself.

My penis is wrecked though

I can’t sleep

Tinnitus is tolerable.

But this is just hell, a couple pills of fin and January and my life has been hell ever sense.

I hate my life

The first 3-7ish months were unrelenting, but now at 13 months out im like 80% recovered. Please hang in there. There is a lot of hope for positive change.

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Try taking loratidine for the tinnitus. It’s not a 100% fix.
Loratidine has some evidence of being used for POIS.

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Loratidine: my experience with tinnitus.

I have continuous tinnitus resulting from PFS, and my wife also has it due to her immunotherapy.

During allergy season we both take 10mg loratidine daily, and it has no effect on our tinnitus. It also has no ill effects on me as a PFS victim, I should add.

Contributed here FYI, your experience may vary. At least it shouldn’t harm you. Jim

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how did you improve? any inteervention or time alone?

4 1/2 month update.

This last month I’ve improved to more functional socially, actively in sports, and can work my usual schedule more or less now.

These are things the first 3 months that seemed impossible to do. I’m able to manage symptoms but life is still rough with them. Thankful and know things could be much worse.

Sexually - I’ve been on 5 mg Cialis, and my penis definitely looks more normal and hangs more normal now than before. Errections look about the same in length and girth but don’t last very long and are less hard at the glands.

Libedo has definitely increased I can mastebate daily but choose not to.

Penile sensitivity has improved a bit but nothing like pre fin. Orgasms are also less enjoyable and not as forceful, the semen loos more normalish but still a bit watery. A lot of the semen doesn’t really shoot out but kind of come out after the orgasm happens. Reduced ejaculation I suppose.

Digestion wise, it’s been rough as of late have been constipated, diary at times, and stools are inconsistent and abnormal. Have been eating like shit tho, fast food, sugar, all the bad stuff. I have a gi map I’m prepping for with a biofilm defense with the nutritionist I’m working with and will def have drastic diet changes and supplemental changes coming up.

Sleep wise, sleep is still far from normal, 3 hours I can sleep the first go, and then maybe pick up 1 to 2 hours through out the night to get me to 4-6 hours typically.

Tinnitus is more manageable hardly noticeable during the day and only really hear it in silent environments.

My skin is more oily, I sweat more in my balls and face during exercise ( basketball )

Body odor still isn’t fully back tho around the torso region has come back a little.

Before my skin was a lot more dry and the could not sweat.

Can’t believe such a small dosage of less than a week has fucked my up this bad. Hoping whoever reads this is recovering well :heart:

I’m grateful for the things propecia hasn’t taken away from me. Besides insomnia and mild tinnitus I recovered and haven’t been hit too hard with the mental sides.

I been having depression but that’s 100% from the sexual sides and digestion and sleep. More or less the sexual sides tbh. I don’t know I’m 25, I want to talk to girls again, I want to be able to be confident that I can please a girl.

Before fin, I was working out, really trying to build my life together for that one girl, and I just wanted to keep my hair too, and get it restored with a surgery.

I listen to doctors from some hair restoration places that recommend fin at one point and some on YouTube. I really thought it was a safe Medication. I really had no idea I was gambling my health and my future.

I’ve been working, socializing with friends more. However that depression just hits that I still suffer side effects 5 months from a couple of pills ( less than a week).

I don’t know I’m probably just rambling and sad that I might never recover from this. Might never be able to give a women a beautiful life and raise a family, breaks my heart every day, but somehow I must pull through and hope things can get better some way, some how, I don’t how

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Anyway, if someone responds I’ll answer. Or DM’s me.

I’m going to try to update at month 6 with some hopefully better news, and stay off this site and the Reddit forum for the time being to the best of my ability. Wishing everyone here the best of health :heart:

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Yeah you’re definitely gonna recover, when you start getting to the point where the thing is hanging at all, you can masturbate any day you want to even though spontaneous erections are more difficult, and the sensitivity is consistently there then you’re gonna be fine especially if you can eat whatever you want now. Very early on I had to extremely careful what I ate because I was crash prone to the most normal foods, now I can even eat foods with turmeric.

I’d just over the next months play things a bit safer while living your life, you may have little fluctuations now and then but they shouldn’t be terrible. Even if I eat like garbage which I have recently I don’t too much in the way of fluctuations anymore, I tend to at worst feel more brain foggy and my immune system won’t be too happy. For me later routine wise a bag of cistus tea followed by a bag of green tea irons that out pretty well though. For real emergencies if I really went overboard and ate way too much of something that my immune system wasn’t happy with which was a huge problem in my case I always have activated charcoal on hand. That stuff through this journey has been a life saver for me. I only started beating back the burning brain stuff with MK7 K2 and taking a small amount of activated charcoal whenever I felt I made a big mistake or I had a bad wave of side effects coming on.