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#1

BEFORE POSTING IN THE MEMBERS STORY SECTION, PLEASE COPY/PASTE THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS/PROFILE TEMPLATE INTO YOUR POST.

This is so that we can more easily track our symptoms and hopefully find patterns in our syndrome. This will also help others understand your background, and help us try to determine what are the most commonly experienced side effects after discontinuation of Finasteride.

COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING INTO YOUR OWN POST, then answer the questions.

  1. Where are you from (country)? Norway

  2. 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

  3. What is your current age, height, weight? 27, 75 kg, 185 cm

  4. Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? 3x week, weights

  5. What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)? All of the above

  6. Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)? For thinning of my hair

  7. For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)? Aprox. 3 months

  8. How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride? Around 10.02.013 to 22.05.013 - I’m 27 yrs.

  9. How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit? 27. 22th of May 2013

  10. How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)? Tapered off

  11. What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic? Finasteride 5 mg tablets

  12. What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)? 1.25 the first week, then started splitting the pills in 8, taking 0.6 for about a month. Side effects continued and I started splitting the pills in 16, ergo 0.3 mg for the last periode.

  13. How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? Already during the first days.

  14. What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation? Erectile dysfunction.

Put an X beside all that apply:

Sexual
[ ] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[X] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[ ] Loss of Morning Erections
[ ] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[ ] 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
[ ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts

Physical
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] 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)

  1. What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug? No treatment yet.

  2. 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)?

  3. Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?

  4. Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.

Started taking Finasteride in February 2013 for hairloss. Noticed side effects right away, already the second day on I had a really hard time getting hard while mastrubating. When I managed to get hard (during sex), I would only be about 60% erect. I also had testicular pain and shrinkage, and I started to pre- ejaculate with watery ejaculations. Orgasms felt weaker, though pleasureable.

I lift weights on a regular basis and that has always made me feel on fire, motivated, hyper sexual and also abit agrevated. I noticed on Finasteride that I started to feel listless. Hitting the gym didn’t give me the same attitude anymore. Although my libido presisted, even Escaladed. Testicular pain and pre-ejaculation went away as soon as i lowered the dosage. Flaccid erections, testicle shrinkage and watery ejaculations did not. The flaccid erections and my constant nervousness about not beeing able to stay hard around my girlfriend eventually made me quit some 6 weeks ago.

Since then my erectile dysfunction has continued. My post finasteride effects are relatively milde, though I feel like they’ve kind of set. Considering some of the real bad cases on this site, I consider myself somewhat lucky. Things are not back to normal for me, but as far as I can tell I only have troubles with my erections post-finasteride.

It takes me much longer than before to get an erection, keeping it means I have to stimulate it carefully. If I go at it to hard, I just lose it right away. When I watch porn for instance, I can feel really aroused, but things are happening slow down there (first days off the drug I could actually relate to the sensation of disconnection between mind and sexuality that some has described, that however has gone away). If I stop to mastrubate my erection is rapidly lost. I can only stay hard for a certain amount of time also. It’s not unusual for me to ejaculate while completely flaccid these days. When I do get hard, it fluctuates between hard and firm flaccid (about 60% erect). I also have some sort of altering of sensitivity. My girl has never been able to orally stimulate me 'til I come, but the last month she has been able to, even several times. The whole affair feels different in a way. I’ve also noticed that I have troubles with notion, and can’t feel how hard I am or if I’m about to go soft.

Things seems to act abit different around my girlfriend thou. I easily get hard around her, but I won’t get fully erected as before. Sometimes I go soft, altough not completely flaccid. Ejaculations seems to be normal again, altough they sometimes have less force, which I don’t find problematic. Orgasms are pleasureable, but I always got this post-ejaculate dream-like state of mind after coming before. I haven’t had that in a while.

Some might think since these are my only sides there is some kind of issue in my head. But I have always had great erections, and I have never had potency failiures before. I’ve been quite an excessive drinker in my life, and had one night stands while completely wasted, and I have never had an erectile issue. I’ve been nervous around girls aswell, but my erection has never ever faliled me before.

I’ve never felt any kind of DHT rush that people are talking about on here. I haven’t felt good and then worse again. So I wouldn’t say that I have ‘crashed’. It’s been like this ever since I took the last pill.

Reading on this forum can really freak you out. My girlfriend has complained about my sight lately, and things do appear more blurry to me at a distance than before. I was jogging quit much for some time, and i felt pain in my joints. I suddenly got allergic to some kind of pollenation that I’ve never been before. But non of these things bother me, and I don’t think they got anything to do with Finasteride.

I want to mention that spontaneous erections comes more seldom, and they’re weaker. Same with nocturnal and morning erections. And I’ve noticed some muscle twitching aswell, but that could probably be anything.

Something that is very interesting, is that I in my early twenties, had pretty severe depresssion accompanied by an awful amount of anxiety and anxiety attacks. I got rid of this a couple of years ago, and non of it has seem to come back with Finasteride. The posison hasn’t been doing anything to my mood. I might also mention I was on SSRI’s for a little while back then, which I also proved sensitive to.

Is there anbody else on this forum who has such mild sides after quitting as I have? I don’t mean to direspect any of the other members on here with much more seriouse cases then me, but I hope my case can help understanding the different ways which this pill effects a variety of men.

Sencierly…

#2

Closing in on my 3 month mark. A couple of weeks ago I felt completely cured, and wanted to go on here and tell everybody. Thou I knew sometimes you just have some good days before you relaps again, so I decided to hold on a little bit and see if it lasted. After that week I was back to where I’ve been the last 3 months. It does really show that I can get back to normal one day, and it’s boosted my positivity, althou relapsing came down hard on me.

So, since last time I was on here, the muscle twitching in my arms went away. I started to itch on the left side of my chest and it lasted for a week, which made me worry about gyno. This is probably 3 or 4 weeks ago now, and no gyno has evolved. My eye sight has seem to got better aswell. I’m still hitting the gym 3-4 times a week, where I’m doing some seriouse weight lifting. Don’t really feel that it ups my testosterone or helps me getting closer to heal thou, but I’ve packed on some neat muscle and I continue to lift heavier wights every time, which has to mean something. Atleast my body seems to be just as atheltic as always, and i gain muscle easy as before. My tests has hurt on two occations, and I still think they’re reduced in size. My ejaculate is becoming watery again, and somehow I produce hell of alot pre-ejaculate. Any body else has this? My ejaculation force is back thou. It was down and out when i first came of the pill, but now it’s back full force.

Now to the part where I thought I had healed. Me and my girlfriend went to her cabine on an island in the fjord. She has had a cabine there her whole life, and one of the first days we’re there she’s considerate enough to pop that she’s been sleeping with a guy in the neighbouring cabine previous summers. I was feriouse, I didn’t want to know at all, why can’t she just keep her mouth shut. Anyways, this led to us not heving sex for about a week. Also, this summer has been very warm. 30+ Celcius every day for 3 weeks now. On her cabine there’s a place where you can go swim in the sea. Since it was such high temperatures we went swimming almost every day. Weird enough the temperature was very low in the sea, even thou the weather was hot. Roumor had it that it was only around 15-16 degrees Celsius. We was at her cabine for a whole week, and that week was pretty similar to all the other weeks since i came off the pill. Except that I was stressed out, and jaelous, and angry about this guy next door thing. My girlfriends father is a wine specialist, so we drank a whole lot every evening. I didn’t have sex for a week, and I took a swim every day in cold water. After a week, we get home and my ED is completely gone. I have sex with my girlfriend several times a day. Everything is back to normal, and we are both so happy about it. Unfortunately, it only lasted a week, and I’m back to my post-Fin state.

Penis only fills up halfways, head doesn’t fill with blood. Feels rubbery or like ‘just a pice of skin’. I lose my erection faster than I can gain it, and I’ve even ejaculated while flaccid a couple of times this week. Called my doctor today and made an appointment. Atleast now I know that I can get back to normal, and that for me atleast it’s probably a hormonal issue. I’m pretty sure the cold swims was what put me back on the saddle, as of how, I have no clue. All the other parameters of the trip to my girlfriends cabine should really have made things worse.

I’ll utdate you all as time goes by. For now I’m gonna try and have cold showers every day, to see if that does anything. Doesn’t hurt trying atleast.

Best wishes…

#3

Thought I’d come back and check by.

It’s been 7 months since I quit the shit, and I’m finally doing a lot better. Around the 4 month mark I started to see some improvments. My erections were suddenly able to hold longer, and I would no longer lose my erections. I have morning wood on a regular/normal basis and I’ve even had some spontaneous erections lately. I’m by all means able to have a normal sex life again, and I hardly ever think about my troubles with finasteride anymore. That said I’m still not 100%, my erections are still weaker than they used to be, but only slightly. Around now I would consider myself around 80-85% healed.

I get turned on just like I used to, getting boner from my girlfriend, porn, and even hot chincks in the street. I’ve felt slightly better from the fourth month til now, and as of today everything looks positiv. I have the feeling everything will heal from here, it’s just a matter of time.

Initially I thought that erection problems were the only thing that finasteride hit me with, but I also felt that my vision got worse, my ejaculate was definitly more watery and I produced a hell of a lot pre ejaculate (I think my muscles weren’t able to close good enough). I still feel I have a little trouble with my eye sight, my ejaculate is still watery and during the first months off of finasteride I had no problem with ejaculation force, though that seems weaker now. Anyhows, my erections are strong (not rock hard, but strong) and my erections no longer fail me. My refractory periode is longer that it used to be. And of course my hair is thinning again.

All in all I feel well… seems like I’m going to get through this hell after all. Everything is moving in the right direction, and what maks my day is not beeing troubled with everything I did to myself 24/7. As I said earlier, I almost never think about this anymore.

Hope this gives hope to everyone, and shows that it’s able to heal from this awful diseas. Stay strong.

Sencierly…

#4

In your previous post this summer you mentioned feeling improvement after cold-water swimming and said that you would be trying to take cold showers going forward. Now you’re back saying you’re doing better – do you think cold showers were part of this? Or did you not do them? Just curious, because I’ve seen others here suggest cold showers could be very beneficial.

#5

That’s true. Right before my 3 months mark I suddenly, out of nowhere, felt almost completely back to normal for a week. And I figured it could have had something to do with my swims in cold water. Unfortuneatly this only lasted for a week, before I was right back to my old shitty self. I tried showering in cold water for about a week or so after that, but it didn’t make any difference and it felt so horrible. It would be possible to do this for a swift period during summe time in Norway, but the winters are so cold, and cold showers on top of that is just unberable. Especially if it seems like they don’t work.

Thing were really rotten for a month or so even after that, and then during a two week periode around my 4 month mark, things started to get much better. Since then things have started to gradually return to normal in a slow manner. At least for me, the hydrotherapy didn’t seem to do any difference. I still can’t explain why everything went back to this summer thou.

#6

My symptoms are very much like yours… I am 7 weeks off today but the only side I have is ed and erection strength… I have to keep it stimulated to get off… But I still get spon, morning, and nocturnal erections… And I can get hard when I tell my fiancé on the phone I love her and how much I love her… She is in prison at the moment… So I am stuck masterbating a lot… Sometimes the erections are weak and sometimes they are strong… While on the drug I had sex one night and the erection was about 60 percent and it took me 4 hours to get off… it was very frustrating… I had sex 2 times after that and sex was normal… I quit immediately and I have been off 7 weeks today now… I had the side effect 9 weeks ago… It also gets hard when I talk dirty to my fiancé on the phone without any stimulation and also when I am telling her how I feel about her. but the erections dont last that long… My question to is does this sound like I am recovering on my own and like u I never had a surge of DHT return to my body like others on this forum describe a crash?? Does it sound like to u I am recovering without a crash??
PLEASE HELP

#7

Wanted to do an update in here. It´s been a while. Always thought I´d check in and give a post around my one yearn anniversary in April 2014. But I had so much going on, work was going fine, I exercised regularly, and I felt I was recovering good. I wasn´t completely back to my good old self, but things were working ok, and I tried to not let it bother me anymore. I was having morning wood and night time erections on a regular basis, and I was able to stay erect enough for sex, althou my erections were not as hard and firm as before. Eventually I felt that I had survived the erectile dysfunction and we were talking more of an erectile quality issue.

Willing to try and go the extra mile and recover a 100%, i decided that I was going to work out every single day during my summer vacation. So I started in mid june with some heavy weight lifting and even some cardio from time to time. I was hoping that this would put me in great shape and make me produce some more testosterone as well. The idea, was that I was supposed to become the healthiest I´ve ever been, and my erectile difficulties would go away. In the middle of july I started to supply with creatine, I wanted to lift much heavier, I wanted to feel the testosterone rush through my body after a heavy set. It worked out extremely well! I must have been really prone for that stuff. My weight lifting went trough the roof. I´ve been pumping bench with 65 kg steady for half a year or so, not being able to do more. By three weeks on creatine I was doing sets of 75 kg, and I felt that i would be able to push it even further. I gained 4 kg on that stuff, and finally crossed the 80kg mark on my scale, which has been my goal for a long time.

Here is the deal thou, in the beginning of August my scrotum felt a little sore and erections were becoming weaker again. I totally panicked. I had had such good progress all year long, and suddenly I was back feeling just like I did when I came off the fucking poison. I wasn´t able to keep my erections any more, sex was impossible again. My ejaculate got reduced, my penis shriveled up while flaccid and i felt completely devastated. I was back in hell and freaked out. Muscle twitches was back and I´ve gained a fucking badass floater on my left eye, which is killing me!

So I googled some and came over some literature that said creatine ups your DHT somewhat 40-60%… something like that. I just quit the creatine on that very day, and hoped everything would go back to, at least, where it was at the beginning of summer. My body is so destroyed it can´t even tackle some creatine supply, which I bought over the counter in some health store in a country that is so medically regulated you have to go to the pharmacy to get toothpaste?!

All the small recovering steps I´ve made through almost one and a half year has been destroyed. I´ve cried over it many times over the last weeks. Relationship with my lovely girlfriend is taken the toll. My self-esteem is out of the window. I quit in mid august. It doesn´t seem to improve, and maybe this was the last time my system could handle all this stuff. I went to the doctor, and he prescribed me viagra. I could do well without viagra before, now I need it to function. Luckily, and thank God! 50 mg of viagra is actually able to get me hard. For what it´s worth, I´am glad there´s something I can do in this situation. The floater (or maybe even floaters) is a pain in the ass, and there´s nothing I can do about it. The worst thing is that my ability to stay positive is starting to disappear.

To sum up. Creatine was not good for me. It was amazing for my lifting, but it was terrible for my PFS. It tells me that my situation has to be due to some hormonal imbalance of sorts. What did I complain about when i came of Finasteride? Erectile dysfunction and problems with my vision. Maybe some muscle twitches. What happened when I started creatine which is suppose to mess with my DHT again? (I swear to God, every time I see that acronym problems are just around the corner.) The exact same symptoms as when i came off the finasteride in the first place. Morning erections are gone again, I can´t stay hard, head of penis doesn´t fill, etc. Major floater on my left eye, and twitches in my arms and legs of course. I also experience some reduced ejaculate this time.

I just have to appreciate that I didn´t get any of the other side effects this time. I still have no mental sides. Actually my testosterone has seemed to work fine all the way for me. I have absolutely no mental sides. (I feel shit, but that´s due to my situation, not mental side effects.) I do not stumble over words, I write lyrics for my band and got a scholarship, so finding words does´t seem to be a problem. My cognition is good, I´m an upper high school chemistry teacher and everything´s fine at work. I sleep well and eat good. I am able to bulk up at the gym and have gained some 15 kg over the last two years. There has to be something else messing with me. Maybe there´s something wrong with my veins leaking? Maybe my nerve signals are screwed up? I´m sure my hormones are out of whack somehow. Maybe all those things at the same time… . I haven´t lost a single hair either.

If I ever get out of this mess, I´ll shave it all off.

#8

Hang in there. Hope things get better for you soon.
What do you mean by eye floater? is there a particle that is in your eye that is affecting your vision or is this a twitch in your eyelid?

#9

Thought I’d give a new update, since even the smallest of good news is good news in here.

It’s been six months since my last update. Long story short: I took finasteride for 2 and a half months back in spring of 2013. Crashed afterwards, and had serious issues with my erections - also felt that something was wrong with my vision. A part from that, everything seemed fine. Around 4 moths off of finasteride I saw some good improvements with my erections, and I felt like I was about 80% of how I used to be. I continued to improve along the year, and by summer 2014 I hardly thought about PFS anymore. Actually, I felt so close to my old self that I started to doubt if I even had PFS in the first place?

During July of 2014 I started to add creatine to my work out routine. I had been thinking about it for years, even before all this finasteride-shit came along. A part of me also justified it by thinking that it would heal the small steps I had left to call myself fully recovered within the year.

Creatine had a strong effect on me. First off, I didn’t notice much, but then - after a week or so - I became an awful lot stronger. I also added some 4 kg to my body weight. Thinking back, there’s actually an incident that’s stuck in my head. I was with my girlfriend at her cabine, and I had been doing creatine for aprox. a week. One morning I wake up with strong morning wood. When I first came off finasteride in 2013 my morning wood disappeared, and then reappeared around 4 months later, thou weaker. It continued to improve throughout the year, but it had this tendency of going flaccid pretty quick if I stood up. This time at the cabine it didn’t. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to give it a test drive in this period, since it’s pretty hard to have sex unnoticed at her cabine. Anyways, a week later I’m back home and can’t get it up. I start to see floaters. Weeks go by, and I get terrified. I do creatine some 3-4 weeks total, before I get the picture and quit. It all goes down hill from here.

Couple of weeks after I quit creatine I wrote my previous post. Things got even worse after that. I get some viagra from my GP, it works really well the first couple of times before it stops working. I panic. I up the dosage, it’s still not working. I am almost a 100% impotent. I’m not able to have sex at all, obviously no morning wood, no spontaneous erections. I notice that sometimes I have weak erections during sleep, and I’m able to rub on out from time to time as long as I’m lying on the side.

Sex with my girlfriend is out of the question. We try a couple of times, but I can’t stay hard. It’s awful. She’s young. She thinks I’m not attracted to her. I try to explain and she says she understands, but I can tell she blames herself and feel unattractive. I have no idea if I’m going to be better this time. I cry a lot when I’m by myself. The whole situation gets worse. I get depressed, hell - I even get suicidal. I sleep a whole lot. I feel like less of a man most of the time. Not being able to have strong opinions about stuff anymore, I lose my train of thought often. I start to stumble over words. My girlfriend gets frustrated with me more easily and yells. I behave like an omega male, bow my head and place myself in a corner. It can’t be fun being my girlfriend anymore. When I’m not asleep, I’m a shadow of myself. I try to be my sweetest, but it just doesn’t work out.

I myriad of side effects starts to kick in:

  • my feet gets really cold.
  • my arms falls asleep very easy.
  • shortness of breath
  • I have a lot of muscle twitches.
  • forgetfulness
  • my balls get tied up.
  • my flaccid penis shrinks and gets wrinkled.
  • I easily get nervous.
  • I frequently have to urinate.
  • I have less ejaculate
  • I have less powerful ejaculate
  • no libido
  • I start to wake up once every night and it’a hard to go back to sleep (fortunately I’m always able to).
  • hair doesn’t seem to get thinner anymore.
  • sweat a lot more when working out

worth commenting:

  • I dream a lot more than I used to do.
  • I haven’t had a cold this whole year (I’ve had a cold atleast twice a year since I was born)

Hell, I think it’s amazing no one’s died from this yet.

I’ll try to keep it short. I start to eat viagra every night before bedtime. I’m deadly afraid of fibrosis, since I’m not able to get erect at all anymore. But who am I fooling? Even 100 mg doesn’t work. I visit an androgen expert. He’s an arrogant dick, but he’s had other finasteride-victims by his office, and he tells me they’ve all gotten well in the end. I cling to this and hope that one day I will get better too. He gives me cialis and tells me to take one every day. They don’t work. Just clog my nose and make my heart race, but no erections. We’re probably in November and I start to feel that my sweet girlfriend’s giving up on us, ehm - me. I’ve probably had sex with her twice since July, when creatine screwed me up. She was never very sexual, but no sex at all was probably not what she had in mind when she called me too horny in the beginning of our relationship. Before this whole finasteride nightmare. It’s December and I get carverject injections to produce erections, so my dick can get oxygenated. I start to shot 10 micrograms in my bathroom. I do it a couple of times. It’s not pleasant, dick feels awkward afterwards. Not to say the least; it didn’t work. My life has never been so dark.

I could ramble page up and page down about how upset I was in this period, and I’m really in the mood to try and see this whole thing from my girlfriends perspective. But for now it’s actually enough to mentally go through this time in my head, and kind of relive it. Guess it feels a little therapeutic as I’m writing. As you might have figured: there’s an upside to this story and I’ve been feeling better lately. It does make me feel even better to look back at how bad it really was.

So, over Christmas - literally 1st of January - I suddenly start to feel better. I have sex with my girlfriend a couple of times on that very day. I don’t feel all good, but thinking about where I’ve been - I feel better. I start being able to get erections again, and I can maintain it as long as I stimulated it. With this, my libido also comes back. Not full force, but I start to feel horny again. I’ve got bigger ejaculate volume nowadays, and my ejaculate force is stronger. Weird thing is, this was about 4 months after I quit the creatine, so there seems to be a pattern to my improvements.

My girlfriend broke up with me a few weeks ago. It’s a shame she had to live with me trough this. She deserves so much better. I’ve crashed two times during our 2 and a half year long relationship. Which means out of 2 and a half years, I’ve been unable to have sex for 8 months all together, and in between the two crashes I was never my old self. At least I got to spend a good 8 months with her before this started.

On the other side, I’ve been thinking maybe I’m better off by myself. I’ve felt too many times that I’ve made my girlfriend’s life unsatisfying. If I only have myself to worry about, maybe I’ll heal better. From now on, it’s only myself and I and I’m very thankful that things seems to recover again. I hope things will continue to heal from here.

B.

#10

Hi Was reading your story so very similar to mine although you have had recovery periods which unfortunately I have not apart from very brief episodes.
I am glad you are on the mend and if I have any advice for you it would be to be as healthy as you possibly can a carb free diet with no sugar and alcohol makes me feel the best. I would not try to have sex or masturbate too often as this always does me in.
I have been in this hell for 5 years but can say that I have recovered most of my mental sides I am not 100 % impotent as i was in the beginning but can not achieve a full erection, no libido and no sensitivity so I will try and keep recovering .
It is not fair that such a young guy should go through this, one good thing I can say is I had my youth .
I really hope you will improve and live a full normal life, If you ever find yourself in a bad way again I have been through it all so please do not hesitate in contacting me for any advice.
Good Luck

#11

Sorry to hear about your situation… have you had any blood testing done? If so, what were the results?