My life ruined because of finasteride some restoration after 7 years.. greetings from your Lost Brother

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Hello Brothers,

I have to say that doctors does not know much about this problem, specially experienced old guys. When i quit finasterid and my libido did not stop going down, i went to a respected urologist he did lots of expensive tests i had an exceptional high testosterone 1300 ng/dL medium - low range free T normal prolactin and estradiol. He said to me that i have anxiety and send me an psychiatrist, i went talked he said that i have no performance or any kind of anxiety, i went back he prescribed me 5 mg Levitra and it worked extremely well at that point i realized what i have lost!!.
2 years later i tried extenze pills which contains pregnelone keto steroids and yohimbine it immediately restored my libido unfortunately yohimbine caused an extreme panic attacks at that point I didn’t think mental and libido issues are linked.
I went to physiatrist he totally fixed my anxiety and panic disorder again he told me to go to urologist and i did last week this time i went to a research hospital and took appointment from second best doctor. He was a very young doctor he listened to me and told me immediately that the cause was 90% percent finasterid usage. He was almost sure of it he did again some lab test my total t 800 ng/dL prolactin was normal. He ordered ultrasound for my prostate. When i go home i started to search this pfs phenomenon and saw that lots of people have same problems exactly.
Until this day i thought this people was in nocebo effect and looking for a scape goat for their mental mood disorders. I was so wrong.

Hello cooper nice to meet you Brother.

And yes i was in the bottom 3 years ago now better but far form my old self.
Methylphenidate definitely helps with libido i tryed to make a break for 3 days third day my libido declined considerably.

As for niacin and folate, guys i can say that niacin helped me a lot i cannot explain var you feel the difference also i was using methylfolate but never exceeded 5 mg this time i gave a shot 10mg and planned to increase 15 in 3 months.

After i started this combo 10 mg methylfolate 1g niacin 2g fish oil my night time performance increased dramatically i was Abel to get hard after 3 years without the help of and pde5 inhibitors. Since than I tried to break methylphenidate 3rd day libido decreased. I am afraid to quit fish oil because it definitely cured my spine pain in the morning. I was suffering from back neck pains in the morning for 12 years and it cured with fish oil.
Also there is a fact that fish oil increases dopamine and no production i think these will boost the effects of methylphenidate and folate but i think my night time restored libido is mainly because of niacin and folate combo.

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#6

Btw i think niacin helped because it expels methyl donors from body. Methylfolate at that Supra physiological doses, causes over methylation some of via extreme Sam-e production and niacin expel this methyl donors from body.

#7

DHT

For how long had you been on methylphenidate ?

#8

Almost 8-9 months 20 mg. Before that I was on modafinil it helped a lot with mood and libido but not much of an effect on Ed. Weird thing is that dopaminergic anti
Depressants normally increases panic and anxiety but on me it killed my anxiety and panic attacks, I have complete recovery from them. psychiatrist says that my brain works differently.

#9

By the way guys, i still have my hair that was weird i reduced a bit but definitely i keep my hair without finasteride for 7 years.

#10

This is comforting to hear. After many years of fighting to gain recognition for PFS, there are these small signs that the truth is gaining a foothold.

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#11

Well like i said at first i thought he was inexperienced and just dismissing me but insists on it. He spoke very confidently and said that 5ar blockade does this!! then i started to research and i convinced. I am glad that i went to research hospital.
And informed me the only solution is long term tadadafil 5mg usage. He was sure that this will help.

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#13

But tadalafil usage only masks the problem :frowning: not cures it. By the way, how is your symptoms now? Are you better?

#14

Cooper bro, relax for some time, take some vacations sun in a nice beach in the Caribbean forget for awhile about PFS and you will be fine, trust me.

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#15

Guys I have to say that i am still improving on 10 mg methylfolate 1g niacin 2g epa fishoil 20mg methylphenidate.

After 5-6 years i got erections in daytime last two days without concentrating on anything.
I think this might be related with high dose floats NO boosting effect or it’s Triamine modulating effect on brain.

#16

And now that you have crashed, do you still say the same…?

#17

What are those subtances?

#18

No. Read please, there is little ups and downs but i am going better gradually two explanations are seasonal related effects or my medication works… i suspect it is the effect of supra-physiological doses of methylfolate and niacin. I also can say that my genital sensibility increased extremely

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#19

Hello DHT! My post was not over your post but Moonchild one :slight_smile:

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#20

I am getting better again after the crash, libido is no the same as before the crash, but will going there.

#21

Fantastic work setting this up! I’ve completed my survey too.

Also thanks a lot for copying the answers I already filled in in february before the technical issues to the new survey! First I was surprised I hardly saw questions about sexual dysfunction but then I realised these were skipped because you already copied my old answers to these questions :grinning:

Modest suggestion for an application: The survey results are very usefull to determine which members look like eachother. (“Clustering” in data science language.) For example: I was a long term finasteride user (12 years), had gradual worsening (no “crash”) and have severe sexual issues (ed) but almost no libido/mental issues (fortunately). Most members are quite different and I would find it rather usefull if I could quickly identify similar members (using an automatically calculated “similarity score”) so I can focus on their posts.

In case you have time left and don’t know what to do with it… :wink:

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#23

Little update, i tried to stop methylphenidate and Reduced niacin , had a Huge crash even with tadalafil…
Returned back to working regimen I will keep you updated. Also I planned to try Keto DHEA as a Nerosteroid.

#24

By returning old regimen, I have recovered from last crash but sensitivity is still not high as precrash levels I think this also related to dopamine.
I will never ever cut methylphenidate again.
I will add aromatase inhibitor soon.

#25

I’ve started arimidex 0,5 mg first day I got complete recovery for 36 hours. Sensitivity came back libido restored to normal I got a little bit painful morning woods, also spontaneous erections were restored.
Unfortunately second 0.5 mg after 2 days did not give the Same effect. Morning woods were okay but spontaneous erections lost, I also felt a little depressed by the end of the day. Libido was higher but not like pre pfs level.
Next day I took 0.25 mg arimidex libido and sensitivity skyrocketed refraction period reduced to 30 minutes. I exhaust my self but I still have weird horny feelings in my genitals my libido is like adolescence but still do not have spontaneous erections.