- How did you find this forum?
- What is your current age, height, weight?
24, 140pnds, 6,5f
- Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
no longer
- What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
quite balanced
- Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
hair loss
- For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
for 2 months
- How old were you when you started Finasteride?
23
- How old were you when you quit?
23
- 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.)?
between 0,25 and 1mg/d
- How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
few days after. First got acne and oily skin, dry eyes, than after about 3 weeks ed and loss of libido followed and my psyche was fucked up.
- What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
ed, bad libido, dry eyes
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
[ ] Watery Ejaculate
[ ] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] 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
[ X] Depression / Melancholy
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
[X ] 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?
Nearly any herbal or food supplement treatment i’ve found 
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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.
Hi guys, my name is matthias and im from germany.
A year ago rapid hair loss started and i freaked out, especially since no one in my family had to deal with that problem. So i informed myself and started taking minox. That didnt help, so i went to a dermatologist, who prescribed me proscar (1/4 a day). So i started taking it but already 3 days later i got acne on my back and my eyes stared getting even drier as they were before. So i went down to 1/8 and in die end 1/16. (at this time i didnt know, that this wouldnt do much of a difference concerning my DHT-lvls). By the time i started notincing, that my morning erections where gone and though i had a new girlfriend maintaining an erection got worse and worse. Since i was told, that side effects would go away after quitting the drug i didnt panic immediately. But i noticed, that my mood was in a horrible state and i could sleep all day long and werent interested in anything. Besides that it was obvious that in spite of the situation (ED and hairloss with 23) my reaction to that were out of ratio. I was lying in my bed crying and shivering, something which werent part of my personality before and even the smallest problem that appeared seemed to be the biggest in the world. So i stopped taking the drug immediately after 2 month. My mental state improved rapidely. Sadly libido, loss of morning erections and ed continued and didnt improve a bit since then (its now 6 month). Since i still had the hope, that it would get better by time i didnt see a doctor, and since im a medical student in 5th year myself i didnt want anyone to mess with my hormones especially since nearly no doctor knows about this bad sideffects of propecia. (i’ll know about it, you can bet on this!! ) So i read this board and tried several supps that were mentioned.( arginine, maca, zinc, diesel-test (not to easy to get this stuff, when you dont live in the us ), agnus castus and so one) and ordered viagra and stuff to at least sometimes maintain an erection. Present situation is: My hair is falling off rapidely, what still bothers me, but fuck it, my libido is pretty normal due to zinc and maca, the only things that seem to help for me, erection still very bad but viagra and co helps. Besides that im praying to god to get me back to normal and im definitely going into endocrinology if my state doesnt improve and get rid of that shit, and if its the last thing i’ll do!!!