Another recovery posted today.
Great.
Congrats man 
Great, another example of recovery via Synthroid (the other one is Dury’s). Another story that points to the possibility of recovering by fixing thyroid hormones and cortisol.
One question: how long are you going to be on Synthroid?
Ahhaha you lucky bastard! Hell yeah!! Congratulations! 
I might have questions later on, i have to go now. Congratulations once again.
Congrats- that is an AWESOME story! We are all so happy for you, and really appreciate you showing up here and telling your story.
m-81- I think he said he was on Synthroid for 6 weeks in total.
First off, congratulations on your recovery.
I’m just trying to reconstruct the chain of events and the possible cause of your recovery.
So was it the sustained use of viagra with synthroid that did the trick? Short term use did not help you initially.
Also were your thyroid blood tests indicating a problem at any time?
I took the Synthroid for a total of 6 weeks. Again, I can’t say whether or not the Synthroid helped, but it sure didn’t hurt. I was the one who suggested Synthroid to my doctor after doing extensive research on this site. I thought it might be good for me. He said that that wasn’t a bad idea. He told me my thyroid levels were normal, right in the middle of the range. But these ranges are so subjective, what one persons thyroid needs to function adequately could be different than the next. he said people who take the Sythnroid generally feel better, it gives the body a boost which then allows you to more easily get things up and running (or so I think). So while I was on it, I also took Viagra, which started to literally wake my dick up. I took it again and again, probably seven or eight times, huge doses (100 mgs) until it really started working. And during this time I became comfortable with my girlfriend, knew that failure was okay, and things started slowly coming back. I used viagra at 100 mgs for a couple months, then tried the 50 mg. It worked. A month later I experimented with 25 mgs, and that did the trick, too. So then I nervously just stopped taking it. At least I could just say I was too tired and little willy didn’t want to work tonight. But it worked, and I’ve never taken Viagra since.
Some of you will realize, the negative thinking is a huge part of this too. For me it was maybe half the battle. Once I saw myself as a man with a functioning organ again, my mind let my body relax. Some guys simply can’t get an erection due to work life stress, all medications aside.
I’m also not trying to say it was all depression/negativity. For Christ’s sake, I had a beautiful girl give me a blowjob and that thing wouldn’t get more than half mast (on viagra).
If anyone is in or near the bay area, I recommend seeing Dr. Buxton. He knows what he’s doing, he has dealt with this problem before. If the Synthroid hadn’t worked, he would have stepped up his game plan and had me on some other routine.
Oversex yourselves gentlemen. It might do the trick.
What dose of Synthroid were you on?
Sorry, I don’t remember the dose.
You were prescribed a medication by an endo and took it for 6 weeks as prescribed, and can’t remember the dosage? That seems a little odd.
If you can’t recall off top of your head, you could check the packaging and prescription info you were given, or call their office, yes?
It was months ago, so no, I don’t remember the dosage. I could try calling to ask what the dose was.
what made you choose synthroid?
i know synthroid is a t4 only medication… so i’m curious on your thought process on why you chose it.
do you have the blood work from after, or do you only have the one that you posted?
I chose synthroid because I had heard good things about it on this site. I thought why not try it. I’ll try and find my results from the latest blood tests. The testosterone went up from 400 to 900 something. I’ll look for the actual numbers, though.
I see. I am wondering how this got you better. Synthroid is a T4 only medication. On JN’s thread, he got better by removing all the RT3 or maybe he did something else without realizing it. Because by you taking T4 only, that would theoretically increase your RT3, doing the opposite of what JN did.
Maybe it wasn’t the RT3 that was the problem and maybe our bodies just need more T3 to be made. Maybe the T4 you took did get turned into the necessary amount of T3 to be made.
Just making speculations… I’m not sure. Also not sure about the reaction between the viagra and the T4 combination being a possible factor.
WHY is this not in the recovery section?
I have requested this multiple times…
It’s gloomy enough around here mods.
I’m posting it in recoveries right now.
Can you please update us on this. This is an important piece of information.
Sorry, been super busy. I’ll call tomorrow.
Great, thanks. Could you also post results of the following, before/after your treatment. What brought your T levels up?
Any update on the above two requests?
Hello everyone. First of all I’d like to tell you that for all those still suffering everyday, stay positive. I can’t tell you how much positivity will help you through this. Be honest, don’t hide your problem (but don’t go shouting about it in the street either), accept that this has happened and work through the neccessary steps to fix it. Not everyone is the same, you will react to certain things and not others. If something doesn’t work, stick it out for a while then try something else. It will take time and patience. DON’T GIVE UP. See a number of doctors until one you can trust believes you. You WILL get better. In my case, I thought I was hopeless. I was literally suicidal. I would check this forum every day, and pray to one day open that home page and see a cure staring me in the face.
Now I will tell how I recovered.
First of all, here’s my story:
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After realizing I was affected by this drug, everything made sense to me: my lack of zest for life, my near zero libido, no morning erections–generally no feeling at all when I looked at a beautiful girl. However, what didn’t help was I had broken up with my girlfriend months before (which I blame partly on the Propecia sides), my parents were divorcing, I hated my job. I felt like this was the worst part of my life, and that it couldn’t get any worse. When I realize what Propecia had done, it did.
Now for a while, I entertained the notion that it was depression. Do not rule this out, but don’t give it too much credit either if you know yourself well and understand what depression really is. I know a lot about depression, it runs in my family, and I have never suffered from chronic depression. Sure we all get down now and then, but I have always been a generally happy person. I, like many of you, was made to feel crazy when I went into the doctor with pages of statistics, research, on the verge of tears, practically begging the doctor to hear me out, always getting the feeling they felt threatened by me. Things were made worse when two doctors told me it was just depression, stop thinking about it so much, relax and let your body heal. Well, to an extent this was true. Most things in life aren’t absolute. For many of us the problem starts with propecia but is certainly exacerbated by our festering on the idea–day in and day out, sometimes obsessively–that we are impotent and worthless. Now, to a certain extent the doctors were right. I was depressed, because of my break-up, my parents, my life in general. But I knew and still know today that the side effects from Propecia were very real.
I finally met an endocrinologist named Eric Buxton here in the bay area. He looked me in the eyes and told me “I believe you. I have not only seen this problem before in young men, but it’s actually not uncommon. You will recover, and we’ll do what ever we can to make that happen.” I nearly cried.
Buxton also listened to me, and we worked out a recovery plan. I stopped taking supplements all together and started Synthroid. Now, I cannot promise that it helped. But Dr. Buxton also gave me some Viagra, and said to take the Synthroid, the viagra, and go be as sexually active as you possibly can be. I had met a girl, the girl of my dreams, who I’m still with now (this was seven months ago.) I had gotten her number but was apprehensive to call her because of fearing that inevitable moment at the end of the evening when I would have to get it up. I nearly didn’t call her. I was going to make up some lousy excuse. I had spoken to my mother and she knew my problem and of course believed me, and she talked me into calling her.
Another thing I’d like to say, for those of you whose sex lives has been indefinitely put on hold because you’re waiting to “get better” before you get back in the game, DON’T WAIT. I know it’s hard, but please, go for it. For the love of god! You’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did. If I hadn’t made that phone call, maybe I’d still be here crying over my keyboard. The worst that could happen is you will fail. If she’s a good girl, a real human being who likes you, she will not reject you, and if she does, she’s not worth seeing again. I know it’s hard, but you deserve it. Don’t let this turn you into an asexual hermit. You are still a good person who deserves to love and be loved.
So anyways, I did the Synthroid, the viagra, and OH MY GOD–the Viagra didn’t even fucking work. Wow. So now I’m taking this medication that gives impotent 70 year old men raging boners, and I’m 25 and still can’t get it up. Well, I went out with her again. We drank wine, saw movies, held hands, made out. I did things to her that I didn’t need my penis to do. I tried another time. I failed. I tried the next weekend, took an entire 100 mg of Viagra. Well, I felt some movement, my face was flush, and the erection this time was at least good enough for a minute or so of penetration. But it was still pathetic, and I was embarrassed. Finally I told my self that the next time this happens, I need to be honest with her. So yet again I had trouble in the erection department, and I told her what was wrong. I didn’t get into details, I didn’t use the word “propecia” or “viagra.” I simply said “I took a medication that I’m having some bad sexual reactions to, and I’m seeing doctors right now to try and work through it. This is really embarrassing for me to tell you, but the reason I’m telling you is because I really like you and don’t want this stupid problem to ruin something great.” She was so appreciative that I told her, I think it made her like me even more. She said wow that must be hard, and said I don’t have to apologize for anything and it was okay, and that she really liked me, too.
So, this is what I did: I kept taking the viagra. After a few more tries, it worked. I continued with the Synthroid. It was a six week period of time I took the synthroid, half a pill every day for the first four weeks, then half a pill every other day for the last two. After my penis had entered her a few times, I started to get more confident. Maybe that cold little bastard between my legs can learn to do his job again. So I tried to have as much sex as I could, masterbate when I wasn’t having sex. I essentially oversexualized myself. And I’m still with this girl, we love each other, and I stopped useing Viagra completely about three months ago (which means I took it for the first four months of our relationship.) She never knew about the viagra, so I wasn’t completely honest with her, but I don’t think she needs to know. I don’t use it now, I get morning erections, I can have sex a few times a day if I want to, or back to back sessions with 15 minutes between. It’s like I was before, it just works and I don’t have to think about it. I’m as horny as ever. I don’t take anything at all anymore besides a daily multivitamin. I also smoke and drink booze and coffee and I’m fine, and I don’t see this ever becoming a problem in the forseeable future. Of course anythings possible, but right now I am incredibly grateful. I feel like I was given my life back. And I would have worked at recovery for as long as it took, but fortunately this ordeal only wasted lasted one and a half years.
All of us here on this site are here to help you through this. I can’t tell you how much the support of friends and family and a girl will help lift you up to fight another day.
So basically, I took synthroid, viagra, and found a really sweet girl who I could confide in. I think the viagra woke things up a bit, reminded that region what it was supposed to do, then the synthroid (if it had an effect at all–I can’t be sure) just gave the rest of my system a fighting chance, and the support of a good girl, and engaging in as much sexual activity as I could–all these things helped me recover.
Don’t let it sit there and get cold, use that stubborn little bastard.
It was the biggest sigh of relief as I lay there naked with the limp culprit right there out there in the open and she said to me “you don’t have to apologize. Thanks for telling me, that must have been really hard to say.” Don’t underestimate the power of negative thinking also. Your mind will destroy you if you continuosly see yourself as an incomplete man. You are a human being, your body can recover, you can make your body recover, you will get better.
If any one has any questions, please feel free. If you would like to talk, I’ll give you my email address and you can send me your phone number and we can talk about it. Talking to another person is so much more meaningful than words on a screen.
P.S. I recently had a friend who started taking Propecia. I hadn’t told him what I was going through, but when he started taking it, I pulled him aside and told him my story. You better believe he threw those pills away right quick.
Good luck to all of you who are still fighting. Stay in the fight, you are a great person who will be happy again.
Best wishes
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