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How did you find this forum?
Google -
What is your current age, height, weight?
Age 18, 5’ 8", 9stone 7pounds -
Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
Free Hand, 5 days a week -
What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
All sorts - prob too many carbs and fats.
a bit too much on the meat side and virtually nothing on the vegetarian -
Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
Hairloss -
For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
1 month, 30 tablets -
How old were you when you started Finasteride?
18 -
How old were you when you quit?
18 -
How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
Cold turkey -
What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?
over here its called Recur (Finasteride 1mg) -
What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
1mg each day -
How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
1-2 days -
What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
well its been one month already most of the side effects are gone
nothing is completely broke, just not as good as it used to be
Put an X beside all that apply:
Sexual
[ x] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[x ] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] 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
[ x] 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
[x ] 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)
I used to have a fantastic sex drive. I never took anything for it. It was all me and now I feel inhuman. Its not that I can’t have sex anymore, its just that its so much more diminished.
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What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
None -
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)?
not done yet
will wait another month -
Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
I will try to keep this short. I am an 18 year old single guy from Bangladesh. I was prescribed to take a medicine by a doctor to stop my balding (supposedly he was the best) and right away after 2 days, I started noticing differences.
In two damn days, I didn’t link it with the final thing, its called recur here. I mean who would link a half dead penis and feeling like shit to the new hair medication you take. If that bastard told me of the risks, I would never have used it.
Instead I remember him clearly telling me not to tell anyone else about it. I didn’t make much of it than but it all makes sense now. It wasn’t till yesterday that I realized what I was doing to myself when I finally decided to do a little bit of research on “finasteride”.
Ironically the balding never bothered me. I made up for it in other areas. Anyways, I stopped dead today and burned the rest of the tablets. That psycho prescribed me this shit for two years. I can’t believe it.
And don’t get me started on the psychological crap this stuff does to you. I don’t want to sound like a prick bitching about depression and shit like that but it has been definitely altered me in some way for the past month. I even checked with my family and friends and even they agree.
I took the pill for approximately a month 1 mg. I got to the part where there’s no difference if you take it for a week or a month and the side effects kick in after the first pill is taken.
I can guarantee that drug did something to me but my question is this now - can I ever go back to my old self?
Or in other words is there a full 100% recovery and how long will that take? I pray that it does.
- Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
This is my update on week 2 since discontinuing the drug.
Its been almost two weeks now and I am beginning to worry, although the mental side effects seemed to have gone away and my penis has improved but its only half of what it used to be.
I now have a considerably lowered sex drive but nothing too bad since I can get an erection again. But a couple of days ago when I rubbed one out I experienced a very weak orgasm. I tried it again today and the same thing happened, the sensation was weak, and my semen was very watery also.
18)What i want to know is am i a permanent sufferer?
i went cold turkey on the drug once i realized what i was doing to myself
looking back that wasn’t a very smart idea
pretty much every side effect has improved a little since then
but nowhere near of what i used to be before the drug
mostly its the erections that get to me
i haven’t had one hard erection ever since i stopped taking the drug
even if i try to masturbate it isn’t as hard as it could be
and the overall disinterest in sex is just depressing
now i don’t know whether any of this actually means anything
19)Most recent update.
i can see little improvements
started to get morning erections again
weak as they maybe better than nothing
anyways I’ll remember the blood thing and update this section back with the results, I’ll probably wait another month to see where things are going exactly
the only thing that bothers me the most as of right now is i can’t get hard enough to penetrate anybody well enough or be able to get hard with girls without any physical stimulation
but maybe that’'ll change in time
peace