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Where are you from (country)? Germany
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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?) link from german website, don´t know how it´s name anymore
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What is your current age, height, weight? 28, 176 cm, 82 kg
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Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? soccer
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What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)? meat eater, fast food
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Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)? hair loss
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For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)? 7 weeks
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How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride? 28 (26 January 2012)
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How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit? 28 (06 March 2012)
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How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)? cold turkey
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What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic? generica Finapil 1mg
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What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)? 1mg per day
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How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? 32-35 days
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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
[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
[ ] Watery Ejaculate
[ ] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[x] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[x] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ ] Confusion
[x] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[x] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[x] Slurring of Speech
[ ] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[x] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[x] Depression / Melancholy
Physical
[x] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[x] Testicular Pain
[x] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[x] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ ] Muscle Wastage
[x] Muscle Weakness
[ ] Joint Pain
[ ] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[ ] Prostate pain
[ ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[x] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[x] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[x] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ ] Increased hair loss
[ ] Frequent urination
[x] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
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What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
I visited 3 doctors, but none of these treated me at all, I think this is because they don´t know how and because I quit only some weeks ago. -
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)?
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Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
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Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
First I thought Finasteride must be a miracle, my hair grows only after a week or two. I felt so powerful, made over 300 ! pushups one evening. I think I looked younger. After this weeks I noticed rings under the eyes (which seem to disappear). I had sleeping problems, which I could not connect to Fin. But I had not his sex drive after some days, which felt not so bad at the beginning. In this 7 weeks I did masturbation only 4-5 times. When I realized I had a weak erection I was shocked and stopped taking propecia immediatly. In this time I got to know my girlfriend (which I still have). We tried to have sex - I can get an errection when I am with here but it is not the same as before and so we cannot have real sex. I had a bigger breast, but this seems to go away. The sexual effects were concerning me in the first weeks. I read more about this in the internet, specialists say it is reversibel - user say it is maybe not. So I feeling a little depressed about that, but I had in mind that this cannot be possible. So stayed just calm before I had a really emotional crash in the last week. I was really scared, was thinking about to kill myself, but that won´t help me I think. I read so much of the stuff that is posted in here and I want that I can recover. Hopefully at least the mental side effects go away or can be handled by any drugs. So I decided to go to the Dr. from Belgian “hertoghe” (his link his listed on this side). I was wondering if anybody of you guys (from Europe, or at its best from Germany) was ever visiting him and treated by him - maybe with succes?
Regards