Hello guys. Firstly, I’d like to say this is my first post here, although I have been browsing around for awhile now, ever since I was on propecia. It’s nice to have a forum like this where people can vent their feelings and conditions and help raise awareness to others.
My propecia use first started about 1 year ago, when I noticed my crown visibly thinning to the point where I saw scalp directly through after returning from the barbers. This really shocked me, as it never entered my mind through out my life that I would indeed lose my hair due to my father having a full head of it with some recession at 60, and here I was at 25-26.
I was later told that the mother’s side has the dominant gene for hairloss, but even then my gramps lost his hair at a far later ago.
A few weeks after browsing the web hysterically I came across the “BIG 3”. Propecia, Rogaine and Nizoral, as we all now. I went ahead and jumped on just propecia and niz after meeting with my doctor, who told me to just let it go naturally. Well, that was not the answer I wanted to hear while I was in panic so I got him to write me a scrip for 1mg, and figured I’d use it for a few years to ‘buy me time’, then I wouldn’t care as much.
At first, I experienced minor sides such as watery semen, and a weird sensations in my left testicle which caused no pain but I could indeed feel it. After a few weeks, they dissipated and I just went on taking the pill once daily going on with my life. It wasn’t until about the 5-6 month mark which was at the time my script was running out that I started to feel a decreased sensation in my penis, trouble getting aroused, and the feeling of numbness. My orgasms weren’t nowhere as close as where they used to be also. So I simply panicked and said I’d never go on the pill again and quit immediately.
Two months passed and I was back to normal, without taking the pill and glad to be doing so. Then a few months later reality hit me again, and I thought to myself that I’m not doing anything about this issue now. So I read a few more stories online and noticed people taking as little as 1/4th the pill daily without severe sides. So I visited my doc and this time was taking .5 mg daily. After just a few days the sides came back, even with the lowered dosage. So once again I quit immediately and figured I’d just live with it and man up. And while being happy that I did so, here I am nearing a month after fully quitting once again, and I am still experiencing loss of sensitivity in my penis, and really weak orgasms. And although I can get it up, there is a real lack of pleasure.
I hope that with time these go away, but am unsure of what my next step should be if they don’t? I’m hating myself for getting on this drug and cannot believe how severe and lethal this drug is to many others out there who seem to be targeted as the ‘minority’.
Well this has been a short summary of my story, and I’m glad to have joined the forums. It feels good to get this out there.
And if anybody who has experienced my type of sides can enlighten me on what my next step should be that would be very appreciated. Otherwise, I just sit here, hoping I return to normal one day.
Thanks.