My little story... Mike Inercity

Member Stories
#1

  1. Where are you from (country)?
    France

  2. 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?)
    Google “propecia side effects”

  3. What is your current age, height, weight?
    38, 180cm, 70 kg

  4. Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
    Gymnastics, stretching, body weight

  5. What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
    today Frutarian

  6. Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
    hair loss

  7. For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
    Around 6 months

  8. How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride?
    21 years old

  9. How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit?
    22 years old

  10. How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
    cold turkey

  11. What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?
    Propecia

  12. What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
    1 mg/day

  13. How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
    3 weeks

  14. What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
    I will describe below my main symptoms the last 15 years, you will see in my story I get my faculties as and, using a method that I will explain.

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
[ ] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[ x] Watery Ejaculate
[ x] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ x] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility

Mental
[x ] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[ x] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ x] Confusion
[ x] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[ x] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ x] Slurring of Speech
[ x] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[ x] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ x] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts

Physical
[ x] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ x] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ x] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ x] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ ] Muscle Wastage
[ x] Muscle Weakness
[ ] Joint Pain
[ x] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes

Misc
[x ] Prostate pain
[ x] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[ ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[ ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[ x] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ x] Increased hair loss
[ x] Frequent urination
[ x] Lowered body temperature

[ ] Other (please explain)

  1. What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
    Method hygienist, I’ll explain everything!

  2. 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)?
    No

  3. Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
    Yes I DO I finish a website on the subject and if you allow me I’ll post a link where everything is explained point by point for the community, in the hope that it helps.

  4. Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
    Ok I’ll do a little summary below

Mike Inercity

#2

Preamble: Although known propeciahelp in 2010, this is the first time I write. Not having much to bring to the time again I preferred to remain silent, waiting for better days … (that’s me)!

I’ll do here is a brief summary of my story, although I could easily write a book (there’s plenty to do …) :stuck_out_tongue:

I think being a “dean” in any case in France, since I took propecia in January 1999 (at the age of 21, I am now 38) early in its marketing, my first symptoms were not not long in coming since February is around three weeks after taking ALL of my symptoms appeared simultaneously.

My main symptoms:

-Troubles Of attention, memory, concentration, brain fog.

-Anxiété, Anxiety, depression.

-inflammation Prostate disorder entire urinary and sexual sphere.

-fatigue Chronic, burn out.

Both say that I did not understand what happened to me!

The worst is not my dear friends: I have not made the connection between my symptoms and the “product” … (I would use the term to refer propecia because it is out of the question for me to call it a drug)

I entered a dark tunnel … a long crossing of the desert “alone” … and guess how long I wandered without knowing? (I still pays 1 hot tear at the thought …)

For 11 years I DO NOT KNEW where did my huge problems!

During those years, I made full analysis, I have consulted at least 40 different doctors, begging them to give me a name, a beginning of explanation to my illness … The fog between me and them thickened .

Then one day, at a time when I expected it, the light hit me, I still remember it was in January 2010, when a (super) friend who had not asked internet to search for him on natural remedies for hair regrowth. I went home in the evening and browsing a forum in a thread if I come across a witness who initially did not appeal to me more than that the person (I take this opportunity to thank) complained of the same symptoms as me (I just said “hey, it could have been I who wrote that”) from taking the proprecia …

I think it was a coincidence, and continue reading.

Then 2 or 3 comments below, rebelote a second person responds by complaining + or - same symptoms. I say “it’s weird that,” I go back to read the first post …

Understand that with my exceptional brain fog, my memory of goldfish and the 11 years already passed, the product name had passed into oblivion. I read and reread and am focusing this time on this propecia “bizarre, it said still something …”

2 clicks later, I was on “google (which is our friend)” and clicking on picture what was my surprise! I had the picture before me and I identified the potential culprit of all my misfortune during these past years …!

Then re-google, I type propecia I barely finished writing and what was not my amazement when in proposed research already shows me google “propecia side effects” …!

I click and there I discovered the carnage, hundreds of testimonials from people who complain of the effects of this product.

I tell you without hesitation, my friends, my life changed that day, I still can not, I might still be there knowing there’s nothing worse. I already considered not least for that, as a great lucky survivor …

Overnight the issue had changed: yesterday I was alone castaway adrift and I did not know, one day later, I know, and am surrounded by thousands of fellow sufferers, I can finally take bull by the horns … Hallelujah!

What was the feeling that went through me during the following days? Paradoxical: a deep rage at having trusted a medical profession which had me run down, and a huge and intense joy because millions of solutions are now available to me … and I tell you the lively friends solutions, better is to have too much than not enough and in my case before that, I was close to zero!

I then discovered another search of the “finasteride side effects” such propeciahelp.com the forum (which I also thank :stuck_out_tongue: ) and for 2 months every day for several hours I read, read, read! The two sections that interested me most: the “side effects” … and the “recovery” on the 2, from A to Z!

Then one year later, after questioning, I took the decision to stop working to devote myself to my rescue, even find myself in an economically fragile situation, it did not matter to me , besides, I do not always work to date but it is my choice easy to justify to my family: my health priority!

This free time allowed me to devote myself to a lot of research on different natural protocols to discover the physiology and natural hygiene. Sewing up I tested, abandoned, validated some methods which I still is benefiting today.

Although the road is not finished I’m aware, I went from 30% down to 90% in my state stably today, and know especially since most of my positive results I have obtained during the last 2 years including changing diet. (fruit-eating)

At the moment I work hard every day to making a website which is being completed in order to provide for all 100% natural tools based on common sense that allow me to rebuild myself gradually, hoping that this may help some people.

Having a lot of respect for the administrators of this forum and their tremendous work, so I expect the green light to post maybe one day the site link.

Of course I understand their distrust because it can be abused by unscrupulous people, sometimes with intentions to sell products and to hope people in distress touting invoked “quackery …”

Although I have made much progress, for my part I still do not wish to testify in the recovery section, I prefer to stay humble and keep a low profile and continue my travels that I know is not finished, I am still on the way . When we have suffered for years, patience and humility become good companions …

See you soon

Mike - Peace77

If you have general questions, I can answer but as I said I have a lot of work with the site, I try to do the best :stuck_out_tongue:

#3

thank you for posting your story. Sorry to hear it. Please post a link to your site. Thanks.

#4

Hello Vincentv , thank you for the reply but as I said I site is in production for some more days and I’ll post the link with the green light of a director by respect. In any case I would keep you informed by mp when available and I also would communicate via social networks because the message is important and optimistic. If you have questions in the meantime I can answer you with pleasure.

#5

Hi, sorry to hear your story, 10 Years without knowing…this is hard, very hard. I am very very happy things are getting better for you. You deserve it and hope you can completely heal and live a better life with the rates on the years you lived with pfs.

I have a question for you. In those 10 years, was there something you did do that might have mantained your condition and impeded the healing? like smoking? doing drugs? drinking? no sports? what olistical approach you tried in those 10 years to get better? also did you try depression treatments maybe, antidepressants, benzos?
thank you

#6

Must have been quite a relief to get the explanation for what caused all your problems. We’re at least very lucky to have the internet. I too would like to see your site, if you can share the link.

#7

Hello Tab,

Thank you for your encouragements and I hope that you too you will soon get better.

To answer your question during these 11 years not knowing where from came my problems I made nothing of private individual set apart consulted a great deal of doctors to find the cause of my state.
Strong fortunately I did not consume drugs, alcohol, tobacco …
I have to practise a little sport but it was extremely difficult seen my chronic fatigue and my depression, anxiety. I did not take antidepressant medicine non-more.
I remember that in 2008 I began to pay more attention on my food, by stopping drinks gaseous, candies, sauces as ketchup, mayonnaise and by avoiding food additives …
With hindsight, it was already that less. :stuck_out_tongue:

#8

Hello Nopecia,

Yes really a great relief and even a Liberation!

For my site I am in her behind straight line of the regulations, I would not miss to hold you informed. What I am going to make, if no administrator of the forum contacts me by a few days then I would consider that there is no opposition and I would post you the link with a great pleasure.

Be patient it is for soon and it will be a joyful site I believe :stuck_out_tongue:

Peace77

#9

Hello,

I wanted to inform you that, following discussions with my Webmaster my site with all the method I use, will be available Saturday, March 19, I’ll post the link here.

I also opened a post on how I went from 60% to 90% in 2 years, it traces the milestones of my evolution.

http://www.propeciahelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10988

Bye

#10

Hello everyone,

Here as promised on my website link http://a-life-after-propecia.com/

Here are the instructions:

1- Select your language at the top left

2- To understand the thread, read the menu left to the right.

Good reading

Peace