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How did you find this forum?
By accident on youtube when looking up hairloss vids, I saw a comment about how Propecia is stuffing guys up and to go to this site. -
What is your current age, height, weight?
29, 6’1, 80kg -
Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
No due to injuries from the gym years ago, but do jog one or twice a week -
What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
I eat healthy, have done so for about the past 3 years, and the last year especially. Dont drink soft drinks or eat junk food. Take lots of vitamins and make health smoothies for breakfast and before bed -
Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
So that i wouldnt lose hair, just as a preventative measure, my hair wasnt even falling out, but i thought if i take this, it will stop it from ever falling out… -
For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
Almost 2.5 years i think -
How old were you when you started Finasteride?
26.5 -
How old were you when you quit?
29 -
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 every day -
How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
Around exactly 2 years -
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
[x ] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[x ] Watery Ejaculate
[x ] 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
[ ] Depression / Melancholy
Physical
[x ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[x ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[x ] Testicular Pain
[? ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[maybe less sensitive ] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ ] Muscle Wastage
[ ] Muscle Weakness
[ ] Joint Pain
[ ] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[x] 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?
Vit D, Magnesium, GNC Ginseng triple Gold, Ashwaghanda, Vit E, Adrenotone (herbal adrenal support tablets) -
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?
I started using Melanotan II in the end of January, and this has viagra like effects. I definitely had a higher libido for the following 2 months after starting Melanotan, but then say at the 3 month mark it seemed like this effect went away, and then by the 4th month i actually noticed my first problems down there… So i thought maybe the Melanotan was causing this problem as Id been on Propecia for 2 years prior to this with no probloems whatsoever, so just assumed it was something going on with the melanotan. So then i stopped taking Melanotan mid June, but a couple of months later I coincidentally came aross this site which made it all clear to me that the Propecia was doing this.
So i wonder, did something in the melanotan cause these sexual problems from the propecia to kick in all of a sudden? It was just weird, zero probs on the propecia for 2 years, then a few months after starting melanotan which does affect libido somehow, sexual problems begin. Could there be a link? -
Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
Well i just started dating a girl and went on Propecia a few weeks later as she was hot and i thought i want to keep this girl, so want to be looking my best and so want to keep all of my hair. We had sex pretty much every day we were together for 15 months, and i was always horny as. She would get annoyed sometimes coz all i wanted to do was have sex with her :P. Id wake up in the middle of the night and start going for it, luckily she didnt mind too much being woken up by me already inside of her as she was pretty horny herself… but you know what girls are like, she wanted to see it as making love rather than sex. Needless to say we had an awesome sex life and never once could i not get it up or lost a erection. It didnt even come into my mind.
Anyway we broke up in August 09, and i was still really horny but heaps depressed over the breakup. I didnt have sex with anyone till Feb 10, and i was on Melanotan then, and as soon as we got in bed started making out and had a boner and bangered her easy. Then April slept with a girl, no probs, 2 nights in a row, then the next weekend went to bang a different chick , but all of a sudden i couldnt get it up. This was weird. I mean i have had stage fright a few times in my life in the past when i was younger with a chick for the first time, but maybe on only about 3 out of 15-20 girls, but this was rediculous. Then i went back to the previous girl the next weekend and fucekd her fine again, and another 2 times, so just thought it mustve been the girl.
Anyway, a couple weeks later went to sleep with a different chick, and again same story, nothing happening down there, weird! Then the following week went to sleep with her again and still nothing down there for like 10min, then it started getting kinda hard and then i told her to jack me off so she did that and i got real hard real quick and then she got ontop and i fucked her fine. But then i stopped seeing her and started seeing another one early June, and again just cudnt get it up, thought it was from stress in my life, we were in bed together then after like 30min i got hard and started fucking her from behind without a condom for like 10sec then she like u need a condom so i put one on the started doing it missionsary, i went for about 2 minutes then i could tell it just wasnt feeling very stimulating down there (maybe she was loose i duno), then soon after i had lost my erection and that was it. Havent slept with a girl since.
Stopped Propecia start of August, and penis hangs more to the left now, seems to be less thick when hard, length seems the same. Can get fully hard when watching porn and touching down there, and can blow fine, but if i stop the physical stimulation its quick to go soft. Had been getting say 60-70% wood in the mornings over the past month and semi hardons when touching down there say at work or in the car, even full hard ons sometimes, but in this last week they have stopped and seems like things have turned and are worse now for some reason. I havent done anything differently in the past week except that these Tribulus pills i was taking ran out, so not sure if that could be the cause…
And the last 2-3 days my balls have been aching constantly. They are aching right now. I dont know why this has just started now…
I just ordered some Viagra Soft Tabs off the net, so might try that small dosing before bed to promote the nighttime erections.
I cant believe this bullshit though, especially since i wasnt even losing my hair to begin with, and the rest of my life is finally going good, im getting more girls than ever easily, but now my dick doesnt work properly… GREAT!
I really hope a cure or at least a partial cure comes our way soon, i dont think i can deal with something like this for years… I am about to go on a date with this really awesome girl, and i would hate for soemthing like this to ruin it all. Hopefully some girls arent too concerned by sex… does anyone know if girls like this exist?
Do most of you find viagra does the trick to atleast allow you to have normal sex? Im mean i still want to have sex, i still want to sleep with girls, but my dick just wont stay hard enough for long enough…
Sorry for the long post and if there is too much detail but might as well tell you the full story.
Ps im in Sydney Australia, are there any doctors here who are aware of our situation? I want to get all the tests done which u guys recommend, but not sure who to go to. I recently had a hair mineral analysis done and everything was in range, except deficient in Manganese and Strontium, dont know if that means anything interesting to anyone.
Also had a live blood culture test done in July before i quit Propecia, can let you guys know results if that could be beneficial for anything…
Thanks for reading,
Mike