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Where are you from (country)? USA
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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?) googled hard flaccid
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What is your current age, height, weight? 25 5’8 145 lbs
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Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise? Weights mostly and yoga ever since problem started
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What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)? Use to eat anything really now try to eat mostly healthy
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Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)? Starting taking it at age 20 for hairloss
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For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)? About 2 years
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How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride? Back in like 2007 at age 20
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How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit? Quit at like age 22
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How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)? Quit cold turkey
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What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic? Finasteride generic
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What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)? Had to cut tablets so was usually taking more than 1mg since dosing wasn’t accurate
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How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects? Noticed it when I got a Gf and realized I wasn’t able to perform like I use to
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What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation? Greatly dimished sensation especially at glans and base. Weaker erections
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
[ ] Watery Ejaculate
[x ] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[ ] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[ ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ ] Confusion
[x ] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[x ] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[x ] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[ ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[x ] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ ] Suicidal Thoughts
Physical
[x ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled) penis head turned more dull and not as shiny pink which are the areas of numbness
[x ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis penis easily bends down
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ x] 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
[ x] 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?
Cialis Viagra trental all didnt help much. Proviron helped with libido and a little with erection strength -
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)? Never took pre lab tests but post tests came back with vit d deficiency and testosterone on the lower end
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Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
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Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug. After stopping I felt recovered after about 2 weeks. I then started doing pe exercises which were going great until one day during an edging exercise that left me with this problem for over 3 years now. Sensation is getting more and more dimished and no doc has been able to tell me why.