I’m age 42 male and I took 2.5 mg of finasteride for 2 days in a row last Wednesday (Oct 30) and Thursday (Oct 31). On the 2nd day, I can feel the major side effect. Basically I was complete impotent, feeling like penis is completely disconnected from the brain. I’m also feeling some occassional minor discomfort around the prostate area and some sourness feeling around my scrotum. I don’t have other symptoms such as brain frog or difficult concentrating. I do still get night and morning erections while I sleep; however, as soon as I wake up, the erection is gone. Its been 2 days since I last took the drug and I’m still completely impotent. Does anyone know any other members who took similar doseage and has now completely recovered? Thank you very much from a guy desperately looking for help.
I would say its too early to tell. I would give it a few weeks. If you still feel the same have blood tests run.
You HAVE to give it few weeks to see if your body jumps back to baseline pre-finasteride. Don’t start reading topics here now, only if it persists then come back. You must not stress out with this stuff until it’s confirmed. You’ll have all the time in the world, naturally, to know about this condition/people in same situation as you THEN, lol.
Just take it easy/relieve stress, avoid masturbation (and sex preferably), don’t drink alcohol or smoke marijuana/cigs. Your best bets.
A quick update on my situation right now.
I’m actually doing much better now. After reading all the postings from people who recovered completely, I observe that the key thing to recover is to eat healthy and live healthy so that it’ll allow your body to recover naturally. After I figure that out, I decided to see a locally well known acupuncturist who specializes in treating infertility and all the various issues with hormones. I thought about acupuncture because it is a practice which stimulates your own body to heal itself naturally. To my surprise, after I mentioned my problem, the acupuncturist smiled and said he actually has successfully treated a number of patients from propecia with ED problem. I was thrilled to hear that and started my treatment right away. I think after about 3 treatments, I felt connection down below again. Originally I felt completely disconnected, can’t get any erection what so ever. Now with about 2 weeks of treatment, I got 100% erection this Sunday and actually had sex twice on that same day. However, I think I’m also experiencing some discomfort on my abdominal area. I’m not sure if it is prostate related. Its kind of on and off. However, I noticed that when I exercise and I have a lot of heat build up in my body, I don’t feel it then. I think I’m going to ask the acupuncturist to see if he knows what’s going on.
The acupuncturist is mainly treating my liver. He mentioned that liver actually produces the substances which are used by the genital to produce certain male hormone. Finasteride actually damanaged the liver so that it is either not producing or not producing enough substance for the genital to product male hormone, and that’s why ED and many other hormone inbalance related side effects occur.
I’m continuing my acupuncture session to see if my ED problem will continue to stay away.
Besides acupuncture, I also started eating more healthy and exercise regularly. I think like other people mentioned, weight lifting is good also. According to the acupuncturist, muscle and rigorous exercise will also produce male hormone; however, that is not the most efficient way to produce male hormone. The most efficient way is to heal your liver so that it’ll produce enough substance for your male hormone to produce internally.
I’ll post more update in about a week.
Just be thankful you dont have any brain fog. Its the most aggravating bullshit you will ever experience.
In your case, i wouldnt stress out too much. Just cleanse your liver and detox your system by eating plenty of greens and fruits with tons of water. Chances are youll be fine.
If the impotency keeps up, go see your endocrinologist and get it treated.