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 
Seems like my dark circles have improved and my skin is not as dry and gross.
Hoping my 
and sleep and digestion can improve over time as well
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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
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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.
Thanks man but I’m still messed up bad, I hope I get better and I hope you’re doing well
I’m doing fine, still dealing with some residual problems but almost everything has cleared up. I was actually just about to post in my own story topic about how we’re closing in on my PFS birthday! I believe it was last july when I started taking Saw Palmetto which is what lead to this disaster in my case. If things keeps going smoothly enough I suspect in 3-4 months I’m gonna be a success story.
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x ( sometimes I get them [ ] Loss of Morning Erections
X ( very weak )[ ] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
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- 7 Month Update.
Overall things have gotten better compared to the first 3 months.
I have visual libedo that comes and goes definitely don’t have the same drive as before. Errections can become 80% hard laying down, but are harder to maintain and go away fast if I stand up. My penis and balls have normalized in tissue and size of the testicles as well.
My main issues from 3-4 pills of fin back at the end of January are.
Errection quality issues
Libedo that fluctuates
Digestion issues
Broken up sleep in the night
On and off tinnitus.
Pleasureless orgasm and decreased sensitivity that has slightly improved to the point where masterbation is enjoyable.
Life has hit me hard this week,
Injured my thumb playing basketball, got friend zoned by my crush, and recently have gotten sick outside of the finasteride side effects. Uggghhhhh. Anyways, hoping I have better news to bring as I get closer to the 1 year mark.
I have done nothing really to improve just tried to be more healthy, I quit weed, don’t drink much often, and been focusing on losing weight.
Best wishes to all those that come across this post
Here’s another update and my last one for a while, as I’m a week away from the 8 month mark.
Life is more manageable, I work 2 jobs, one in retail and another as a special ed educator. I play basketball and am trying to lose weight. I socialize with friends and try my best to be a good person towards other People.
In terms of sides,
Sleep is more manageable I probably get 5-7 hours but I will wake up 1-2 times in the night, and I’m always always having very lucid dreams.
Tinnitus is a lot more Managebale, it probably is 90% gone but can have its spikes, here and there.
Digestion the last couple days have been better * knocks on wood.
I haven’t really been eating healthy, but constipation hasn’t been an issue lately and my stools are more brown and log shape but they still can seem very loose, but I’ll take progress where it is, and with a healthier diet it could probably improve more.
Sexually, libedo has definitely improved, I can look at girls and feel attraction, I fap a lot than the crash.
However, errections still aren’t great, I stopped really taking cialis as I just don’t want to take meds anymore. Lying down I can get 75% errections but they can go away faster without visual or physical stimulation.
Sensations have improved a bit but not normal and orgasms are a tiny bit better but still are weak and I don’t ejaculate with force.
Balls have regrown and are fuller and scortum has seem normalish, the weaker penis feeling and tissue has seemed to get stronger.
All and all have been improving but am still battling depression from not have my potence, and get sad with the though of never having a girl or relationship or family, but I remind myself of how far I came, read the stories of the many that have greatly improved with time, and pray to god.
I do believe I can get better, and so many face with this ordeal, I do believe that our bodies have an amazing capacity to correct the damage but it takes time, but I also do believe a treatment is well needed Through studies to prevent the wait and help those who have been far worst affected.
I really want to take time off this and the Reddit forum as the negativity and darkness can fuck with my mental health, I truly pray for better days for us all, and I want to come back when I have better news to spread hope
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