I feel I just make a post here.
I was never poster, more of a reader, but have not visited the site as much this year as I have been feeling better.
My story is I was on 1mg a day Fin for 5 years aged 26-31.
I felt things were getting worse sexually so came off and lost pretty much all attraction for opposite sex for around a year with very poor sexual performance.
Have to say i did not suffer the other mental side effects others suffer, just sexual. These included Poor erections, could usually achieve one with porn but no chance without and very weak. Probably worse I used to get a real empty feeling in the penis and seemed smaller and thinner when not erect, a really horrible uncomfortable feeling.
Around August last year I visited a urologist who did all the usual Hormone checks and found everything was normal but recommended Cialis 5mg a day which I took for around 6 months.
His theory was the penis had been deprived of DHT and we needed to get the blood flow to promote healing. At the time I was not convinced, but I was desperate, there was little to no side effects and i had no other ideas so went with it.
Not much happened for a while but steadily things got better sexually on the Cialis.
I must say i was not taking any other supplements, just active healthy lifestyle.
At the time I felt i was fixing the problem with another drug and was not looking forward to the prospect of using this for the rest of my life. In total i was using it for around 8 months.
Then around 6 months ago I had a pretty serious accident and wrecked my ankle quite bad.
This coincided with me running out of Cialis. I didn’t really want to go back to the private Urologist and pay a lot for another appointment to get another prescription and my GP was unhelpful when I told of my issues and asked to be prescribed the drug.
In any case, I was in a bad state with my ankle, I could not walk let alone go looking for sex so I came off the Cialis, my sexual problems were not my priority.
While I was stuck at home recovering from my injuries I kind of sunk into a big depression about my situation and kind forgot about my sexual issues,
However over time I realised I could perform reasonably normally, of course not at pre Fin levels, but I am 32 not 25 anymore.
I feel my accident was perhaps a blessing in disguise, the time out from work and regular life though incredibly dull and depressing allowed my body some real long term rest, something pretty much all of us probably never get in any other situation.
At it stands I am taking no drugs or supplements and feel ok. I may yet go back on Cialis if things begin to decline, but i don’t feel broken in the way I did before and to be honest don’t dwell on my Propecia issues much any more.
My feelings now are that the healers were mostly time and rest, the Cialis helped too. Perhaps i had slightly more mild case than some, but for the 1st year post quitting I was in a real bad situation and suicidal.
I am not 100% but i can live a normal life and that’s good enough for me now.
Hopefully I can give a small bit of hope to some out there, and maybe there is others like me who no longer post/read as they just slowly got better and forgot about Propecia.
Thanks for reading