My journey with Propecia started about 2 years ago. I noticed thinning and was prescribed it to me by a doctor who told me it only had “2% side effects.” With stats like that how could I say no?
Anyhow I started taking it for the next 6 months. All was okay and I was already living a great life as a single bachelor. My god I was on a HOT streak with the girls, I always was good but when I turned 25 I just went blazing. I was juggling 4 girls at the same time. Having sex with each of them sometimes multilpes times a week and then calling them in for office blowjobs, roadhead, and still had one night stands on the side etc etc… Every girl I hooked up with told me the same thing: I had the sex drive of a 16yr old teen horn dog. I could drill girls night and day and keep going 3 sometimes 4 times after another. Sex was on my mind all the time. I had an insatiable appetite.
I finally narrowed all the girls down to THE ONE. She was perfect in every way. We connectd on an emotional, spiritual level and of course we had matching sex drives to boot. We were like sex addicts on each others drug. About this time as I got serious with my gf I unexpectadly stopped taking Propecia. After 6 months I noticed no side effects but also noticed it did nothing for my hair. I was conviced it was pointless. After going off it cold turkey for a month or so I noticed something odd…
My Sex drive started plummeting! I had constant fatigue, erections were only semi hard or only lasted a few minutes at best and morning wood was a rare occurence. It wasn’t instant but a gradual decline. Of course my gf noticed. How could she not? At first we just spiced things up more. Went more kinky. Got into more experimental sex thinking we just needed to try new things to get my libido going. It stayed the same.
I had not idea what was happening?!? A healthy 26 year old with hot gf and super high sex drive was vanishing before my eyes. I took action and assumed it was age catching up and I needed to boost my Testosterone levels. I hit the gym like a maniac. Did squats, dead lifts, ate more clean fruits and vegetables and stopped drinking alchoal and junk food. I changed myself on the outside. I put on muscle and confidence but the sex drive was still not coming back. I felt like others mentioned-- disconnected from my penis. Like it was just some shrivled up ball between my legs servinig no purpose.
By this time in the relationship it was beggining to strain us. I had a hot gf begging me to “Fuck her” but I had NO drive… I would want to cuddle and just talk to her about emotional issues. She did not understand what was going on and began to think I was cheating on her with other girls on the side. We got into fights, she bagn checking my emails/text messages and would blow up over any little thing because she was convinced I was sleeping with other women.
I got desperate. I did not want to lose this woman. The love of my life. I saw a doc and they put me on low dose of Cialis. Popped a pill every other day and noticed I had my hard erections back. I was back to normal physically. We would have sex but it felt mechanical. I felt no drive to actually do the deed. It felt disconnected having a ragining boner but not feeling any desire to do anything about it. My gf figured things were back to normal we talked of marriage, having childern one day and being together forever.
Then I tested going a week or few days without popping an ED pill and my penis shrivled up into a grape. I felt no desire to workout anymore and it began effecting my entire life. Afraid to tell anyone what was going on I went to see a sex therapist and she like most docs said it was a “mental block”. At this point I was getting frustrated. Therapy sessions only made me worse off as I tired to emotionaly connect with my gf but could not get a erection or have ANY sexual desire. I felt lost, hopeless. She began to lose attraction and I knew the day would come we’d end up breaking up. It was hard to accept. Not because it did not work out between us but the reason why it didn’t was because I wasn’t able to sexually satisfy her or myself. Of all the reasons. This was the one I NEVER thought would end any of my relationships. The man every girl saw as a Sex God was now a sexless eunich.
Months have gone by now and its been almost a year since I stopped taking Propecia and no longer do Cialis. Nothing has changed. I can’t remember the last time I had a morning erection and desires for sex are non existent. I get maybe one semi hard on every few days and masturbation is never on my mind. I’ve slept with a few women since then but the desire is just weak and the sex not very good.
I came upon this site today and was shocked that this long term sideffect is almost certianly due to messing up my brain/horomones by taking Propecia. I am ANGRY, frustrated and hopeless. I could not believe I got duped by the mega billion dollar drug companies that have effectivly runined my life on a physical, emotional and spirtual level. Had I known there was even a slight possiblity of this occuring I never would have popped a single pill.
Is there anything that can be done here guys? Can we sue the companies? Submit our stroies to the FDA? I’ve been telling my friends on Propecia to STOP now and spread the word on this posionious drug. For now I’ve read through the FAQ’s and I hoping that with time like with others my body will heal itself. That is the only hope we have to hold onto.
Thank you for this forum. At least I know I’m not alone.