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Where are you from (country)? UK
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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?) DR Alan Jacobs website
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What is your current age, height, weight?Im 45 years old, 6.3, 205 lbs
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Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? weights,
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What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?Meat eater, low fat healthy 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)? 18 months on Finesteride then Dutasteride for 9 years
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How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride? 31 years old, about 1998 i think
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How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit? I quit at 44 years old, I quit december 24th 2010
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How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?I quit cold turkey,that was a mistake !!
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What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?
Finasteride the company told me it would be cheaper then the brand name. -
What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)? 1mg every day i think, you had to cut them so im not sure. then when i went on Dutasteride it was 0.5 every day.
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How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? After the 5 th day!
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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
[ 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
[X ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts
Physical
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] 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
[x ] Increased hair loss
[ ] Frequent urination
[ ] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
- What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
After 2 weeks of being in the Crash as its called( completly desimated sexually} I got in touch with someone(ex bodybuilder) who gave me HCG shots, 3 over 10 days i think after the second shot I noticed when I looked at girls there was a lift mentally and I started getting erections after the 3rd day, a much bigger lift, but my penis was like rubber,
I then went on clomid, I tried a second lot of HCG but this time the erections would struggle to go up but went down quickly, My friend tried to get in touch with Dr crysler but he didnt get back to me, so we found Dr Alan Jacobs in New York, He was very prompt and I booked a phone consultation,He told me what blood tests to get which I found a company called Medichecks £850 the lot, few companys did all the tests. The NHS never herd of them ! I recieved them then sent them to him he contacted me and told me what drugs to take, I was almost of the chart in a bad way, I flew to New York From the UK to get them. Testoserone cyp, Arimidex.
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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)?
I have after ones though i did get some done in London about 2008 but was told they were on normal to low which means nothing as the range in the UK is so wide. I hope i can link it to here never used a site like this before. -
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.
Hello, I first discoverd Finasteride with the Daily Mail saying male pattern baldness a cure ! that was about 1998 i think i looked up the company on the internet and found a place in London, I was suffering a little hair loss but I think it wasnt as bad as I thought,
I went up there and a guy gave me a big sales pitch about my libido may go down a little but it might go up, which is a good thing he said, I was sent them and told to cut them up as they were the the same drug but not the brand name ie Finesteride as apposed to propecia.
After the 5th day of taking them my ejaculate turned to clear water, and that was the last time I could maintain a erection. but i didnt seem to suffer much else at that point, I took them for 18 months and my hair kept falling out, i was about to stop and the company rang and asked how i was doing, I replied they were crap,I also told them about unable to get erections they said they had never herd of that !!, I assumed it was me, they said theres better ones on the way but there waiting to get a licence in the USA ie Dutasteride (lucky me )
I reiceved them and after the 2nd or third day my sex drive absolutly rocketed , I had feelings in my penis that i forgot about,really horny that lasted no more then 3 to 4 days then it came crashing down,
i couldnt get a erection at all after that just a semi,after a month my hair completly stopped falling out and over the next 5 years about 70 % of it grew back, and good quality hair.the strange thing with this new drug, although i did have a sex drive it wasnt that high but i couldnt seem to get any real relief from mastibating the orgasms were just about ok ish and i had to do it 3 times a day.
Over the years i went to a couple of prostitutes and they were really nice but nothing happend i just couldnt understand it, what was wrong with me ? there was a hot looking stripper type on the bed and there was nothing going on in my head, like a switch had gone of.
On the 24th december 2010 my friend came round, I was looking forward to a nice christmas.He said did you here about that guy on the news taking those hair loss pills making you go impotant, My heart sank I said you winding me up, Know look it up on the BBC I player, We did and I wanted to die, and its when you come of of them it gets worse !!!
I didnt take any more, and wanted to die, day by day went untill the 5th day I woke up and oh my god i had know feeling between my legs, it had happend to me,
my cock shrank i had really painfull pain running through my penis, at the same time I had kinda rushing feelin in my scrotom, really odd.
a few days went by and i couldnt bear the non existant feelin so i took a Levitra and that worked but my cock was really numbe, after a week of no feelin and feelin like my soul had been ripped from me,
I saw the youtube vid of Dr Crysler and he said to come of them slowly it may help, so after about a week i took a Dustaride ! maybe 2 cant remember and oh my god my sex drive went up i had those penis feelins again and that connection that i had forgoten about and the orgasms were great, so as for the recepter sites turning off well maybe, maybe not, I hope this helps those great men trieing to solve this nightmare, Ill log on everyday and answer any questions, or help in any way, I cant believe this is happning, Help
( thank fuk for my bodybuilder friend)