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How did you find this forum? google
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What is your current age, height, weight? 35,180cm,75Kg
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Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? No
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What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)? meat eater
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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)? 3 months during a year and a half, two weeks for time
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How old were you when you started Finasteride ? 32
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How old were you when you quit? 34
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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? Saw Palmetto
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What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)? Saw Palmetto @95%
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How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? After one week I got testicular pain
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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
[ ] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[X] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[50%] Loss of Morning Erections
[50%] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[50%] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[ ] Watery Ejaculate
[ ] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[ ] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[ ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ ] Confusion
[X] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[X] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[X] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[ ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[X] Depression / Melancholy
Physical
[X] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled) blue dark painful veins(inflammed ?), spider veins, redness
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[X] Testicular Pain now is much less heavy
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[X] Muscle Wastage
[ ] Muscle Weakness
[X] Joint Pain
[X] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[ ] Prostate pain
[ ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[ ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[X] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[ ] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ ] Increased hair loss
[X] Frequent urination
[X] Lowered body temperature
[X] Other (please explain)
Sometimes dry mouth
much less ear wax
sometimes orthostatic hypotension
terminal insomnia
hard flaccid penis after ejaculation
dermatographic urticaria
eritema on hands after ejaculation
thinner skin
hairloss blocked
much less acne
thinner hairs on body
altered gut rythm, dhiarrea / constipation
fat on chest, sometimes I still have chest pain
telangiectasia and more visible veins on body
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What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug? Only probiotics, Vit D and magnesium.
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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)?
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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.
I began saw palmetto on november 2012. After one week my left testicle was very painful and my ejaculate very poor, penis erection was difficult. I stopped this supplement for one month in which my libido was at 1000%. After this month I asked to dermatologist who said that testicle pain was impossible and ask to try one pill every two days. Due to incresed sed drive I said ok, it seemed good and I tried again. After one month more or less I get the same pain on testicles and the same issue on ejaculate. I stopped again. My hairs were fine with this supplement, dense and thick. At the same time (I reconstructed the puzzle after) a very bad dry cough began. On june 2013 I had a big otitis that I never had before. I took antibiotics and cortisone for it.
During 2012/2013 I think I took more or less 70pills, but no more than two weeks for time due to the testicular pains.
On april 2014 I had the squared eritema on my body, it burned and became more and more red. In this period I had first experiences of memory issues.
On june 2014 I had again a big otitis.
In upper part of the body I bagan to have itch, in particular on arms,armpits,chest.
My intestine was going from constipation to a faster rhythm.
I began to have need to urinate more often than usual.
My sex drive was very fine and all these symptoms were not correlated to saw palmetto in the thoughts of that period.
The hairs on all my body were increasing, I noted that also the hairs on my arms were growing.
The veins on my penis were becoming blue and visible.
On June 2014 I took my last 15 pills of serenoa repens. Again I had testicule pain. I stopped again.
On August 2014 I had the first symptom that scared me. I had a big pain on my chest, the pain seemed to be
inside the bone, a big itch on chest and then I felt with hand a little nodule inside the right breast.
In some days the right breast grew up a little, and after 15days also the left breast grew up.
It was terrifying. The echography said it was a fat accumulation, the nodule was gone: no Gynecomastia but Lipomastia.
My itch on upper part of the body become hives, in same cases with no reason I saw wheals. The urticaria was dermographic.
The squared area on body went and came again.
On December 2014 I had the worst influence of my life, very bad cough and asthma.
During the months my chest pain and fat accumulation decreased.
On January 2015 I had my first big sexual issue. During a masturbation I had difficulties to get the erection, the penis
seemed to go on right when from flaccid it went to rigid, when was rigid then become fine.
I saw three andrologists in two months, they said is all psychology, the lab tests were fine. The veins on penis were ok for them. My puzzle was completed, the cause was saw palmetto.
I began to note every single symptom.
From january to august 2015 the stool worse, they became very clear and into pieces.
My penis was changing consistency, It became strange when flaccid, I noted an hard flaccid status, in which
it was bigger than normal, swollen, with the consistency of a pongo.
The sleep was worsening. I began to wake up during the night.
On june 2015 I did a big mistake. I took zinc supplement for a month. On july and august many symptoms worsened.
I got bad insomnia, many days I could not sleep, then I began to sleep only 5 hours, no more.
I had dhiarrea many times and my weight decreased. I had poor nocturnal erections, but they occasionally were very strong like in the past.
On july I had for the first time pain on muscle of legs near the knees and in particular if I press with hand.
In the same period I had experiences of hypotension.
My body temperature in summer was cold.
On august 2015 I began to have red eyes and on september 2015 blurred vision. In this period I felt pain on hands
and also arms in particular the left ones, I suppose for the position in bed during the night. Then also a pain on
foots.
The veins on body became more and more visible, in particular on hands.
I have had often aphthas in mouth, from my nose every moorning I had some lump of blood.
My coagulation is slow, if I have a little wound it takes time to heal.
On october I began lactic ferments and Vitamin D.
On november I noted less hairs on body, in particular legs and the beard grew more slowly, also less earwax.
Many time I had dry mouth.
The urinate need was going worse.
The penis on flaccid status is less hard flaccid and more very very flaccid, like the penis of an old man. Sometimes it
become again hard flaccid expecially in the moorning if I had nocturnal erection or after ejaculation.
During Vitamin D and lactic ferments the stool improved a lot, I had no more blurred vision, no more bad urticaria no muscle pain. I took 2/3 Kg.
Now my thoughts are about insomnia, frequent urination, strange penis consistency with painful/inflammed veins and not easy erection.