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Where are you from (country)?
- Croatia -
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 -
What is your current age, height, weight?
- 22, 187cm, 76 kg -
Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
- No -
What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
- Everything (excluding fast-food) -
Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
- Balding -
For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
- Around 3-4 months -
How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride?
- 22, not sure about the date -
How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit?
- 22, today 31.01.2009. -
How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
- Cold turkey -
What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?
- Proscar -
What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
- 1 mg/day -
How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
- A month -
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
[x] Loss of Morning Erections
[x] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[x] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[x] Watery Ejaculate
[ ] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[x] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[ ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ ] Confusion
[ ] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[ ] 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
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[x] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[x] 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
[ ] Increased hair loss
[ ] Frequent urination
[ ] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
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What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
- just quit i.e. nothing -
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)?
- haven’t had any blood tests (explain later - I’m a fool)
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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.
All right, my story begins with the picture of my mom and dad from their wedding. And then I started shedding. What a nice couple. My mom was not fat at all, and my daddy had a combover. He was 24. Otherwise, very handsome guy, but I have body dysmorphic disorder, so maybe he was uglier than me. Anyway, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Three months had passed, and a lovely group of swallows made a couple of nests from hair collected from the shower drain. So, springtime came, and everything was blooming, but I was burning to ashes, devastated, falling apart. My hairline was in ruins, and so was I. This thought is morally repulsive at least. Now, I can hardly believe I was so vain, shallow, and narrow minded. Not that it is a strange thought. It’s the downsize of the striptease culture that we live in, that weak spirits are created, or even better, generated, because there is no ingenuity involved in the process. Be true to yourself and others. Don’t advise to - go with the flow! It just doesn’t work out that way. Say instead - ride the conveyor belt! It’s like a roller coaster but you will not end at the beginning nor someplace unknown. It’s perfectly safe - you’ll fall down in a bin, get wrapped in cellophane, labeled and given a price. On second thought, don’t say anything. Just shut up! It can’t be different.
I apologize for not saying what I’m supposed to. To the point…
With the swallows nest abandoned I started swallowing. Proscar with no prescription. I work in a medical institution, and I stole it. An I kept on stealing. But my criminal mind is the least of my problems. Today I woke up, and had no erection, and was not surprised. My floppy has gone flaccid three months ago. And was getting worse every day. After the first couple of weeks my scrotum started to hurt, but the pain had passed after another two weeks, and so did my erection. I didn’t pay much attention and thought it was psychological, with all the negative chatter I have come across on the internet. I came across this site too. Nothing personal, but I thought you guys were paranoid idiots. My patronizing smugness, or in other words, my extreme lack of confidence got the better of me. A scalpel in my hand, a pill on the table, and a steady hand. I was devoted. A month ago I proposed to my girl. We are getting married on June, 27. She had no idea that I was taking the pill and didn’t notice anything, I think. I perfected the technique and positions for the impotent man, and I lick a lot, and she is very tight. I love her deeply. Wanna make babies with her. I have an enormous will to make love with her, but have no desire. Before I was horny like a hound and she had me ready to go even with just a dirty little implication. Now sometimes she can blow my mind of, and the bastard won’t get hard as it should and was. Masturbation became tedious and forced.
In short, I have ED, and have been taking the bloody drug for three months following the day it became obvious that it is so. I discarded the sings, and now I am very hopeful that things will get better. No, really, I’m fucking depressed and fill myself with exaggerated doses of hope and hope that it doesn’t kill me.
Also, I gained some perky nipples - but nothing alarming.
Anyway, this morning I woke up with no boner and decided to stop with the drug. I collected all the blisters from the drawers in my room and put them in a bag. On my way to work, I threw the bag through the window of my car. I’ll be like my father. He has a combover and he is nice.
To everyone who is thinking about taking finasteride - you are an idiot if you do so! And I’m not being a paranoid idiot here, nobody is! Take us very seriously.
Thank you for reading and good luck to everyone…