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Where are you from (country)?
USA -
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?
27, 6’2, 225lbs -
Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
thrice a week -
What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
vegetarian -
Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
hair loss -
For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
2 days -
How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride?
26 -
How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit?
26 -
How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
cold turkey -
What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?
propecia -
What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
1mg/daily -
How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
1 day -
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
[ ] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[x] Watery Ejaculate
[x] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[x] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[x] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[x] Confusion
[x] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[x] 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)
[x] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[x] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ ] Muscle Wastage
[x] 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?
No treatments- -
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)?
- Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
- Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
I had severe hair loss when I was 26 and was prescribed propecia by my dermatologist. It took only for 2 days to completely topple the harmonal balance in my body. After popping in the first pill, I had severe liver pain and hot flashes through my head. I woke up the next morning and I could n’t get an erection after trying for 30 minutes… My penis felt like a piece of muscle hanging around. I thought that my body is getting used to the drug and took it for another day. The next day I had a severe brain fog… It took me 2 hours to get out of my bed after I woke up and was extremely depressed after that and my hair starting falling off like it never had before.
so I quit the drug immediately and gave a piece of my mind to my dermatologist… The next night I had severe anxiety attack… I didn’t sleep that entire night… It took a week for both the anxiety attack and the brain fog to clear. My erections were normal the day after I quit and my ejaculations were fine. I thought I recovered but not. At the end of first week, I decided not to ejaculate for a couple of weeks to give my body some time to heal of any residual effects (also stopped exercising). At the end of two weeks, I noticed a lot of strange things happening- muscular wastage (finding hard to climb up stairs), my left man breast was swollen in compared to the right one and loss of sex drive and morning erections. So, I mustered whatever sex drive which was remaining to masturbate that night and to my horror found my erections were weak and my semen was extremely watery. I couldn’t sustain it without constant arousal… the next day I again masturbated but I found I was doing better- my erection was better but my ejaculation was still watery.
So, I masturbated twice a week for a month after that and I found gradual improvement in terms of maintaining erection and ejaculation. After a month I found myself back to normal- even spontaneous erections, my male breast size was back to normal and I
felt I was a man again. So, in short, it took 2 months to recover from 2 days of dosage and the key thing which I did to recover is masturbation twice a week (I don’t know if it makes sense or not) and healthy food-