It’s ok brother I remember this exact feeling. But you’ve had one pill. The OVERWHELMING majority of people just get better. Takes even a couple of months sometimes.
As a few folks have said don’t stress, don’t drink or binge on sugar, don’t masturbate any, just relax. Have a little bit of a workout too, push a bit but don’t kill yourself at it.
My money’s on you being fine. 
Sorry for spamming you, but that’s plain wrong and a few people (who got bad enough to make it to this forum) bounced back from that, so don’t stress. And probably many hundreds or thousands who got better before they thought to make it here.
I mean that too. Actively try not to stress. Might take a couple of days/weeks/months even, but it’s definitely weighted in your favour.
But don’t read scare stories about this, do leave the forum, just don’t take Saw Palmetto, SSRIs, Fin/Duta, anything with Beta Sistosterol (sp?) in it again.
Im trying to cope and it really helps you talking to me. But to be honest man I see how this goes here. I took it at 13 and probably after 7/8h the halflife ended and I got the crash. How tf can I stay hopeful omg… these stories here are awful ;//
Hey there.
Calm down.
It’s far too early to say how this will go. The odds are in your favour. There’s no point googling half lifes (lives?) Or ifs or buts or maybes.
You’re gonna have to ride this out.
I know how scary it is, I have lived it. I was suicidal at the time of my crash but someone here told me to calm the fuck down and they were right.
There’s nothing you can do right now. The odds are very much in your favour. Take some time out from school or work. Avoid stress. Don’t test yourself. Give yourself time. The odds are in your favour.
You see how it goes here because here is where folks with PFS come. What you don’t see and hear (and this is VERY important) are the THOUSANDS of folks who read and believe the inserts along with the medicine, which tell you sides clear up within a few weeks. My GP, who has prescribed finasteride to HUNDREDS of people, along with his colleage, has NEVER seen a case of PFS and shooed me out the door telling me the ED etc will clear up in a few months because in hundreds of people that’s LITERALLY the only thing he’s ever seen happen.
So, let’s say given that you’re (pessimistically) 90% likely to get better. If you are in the unlucky 10% then you only had one .25mg dose. I can’t recall them all but I think tryingnottoworry was like that and he got better and did about three more who took a single dose.
I’m not bullshitting you here because the odds REALLY are in your favour.
So, get off this forum and forget about it for a few weeks. Then you’ll wake up with a boner one day and say “thank fuck for that” and it’ll all be done with. Seriously I’d put money on it. What WILL fuck you up is stressing, testing yourself with masturbating, ruminating over every little non-symptom thing and reading the worst-case stories.
Try and relax, follow the advice of the veterans in this thread and FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE don’t try and take anything for it! That’s got a REAL likelihood of messing with you. You’re in a fragile state right now but that human body of yours is a fucking MACHINE of a thing and wants to right itself, so relax a couple months and let it try.
There is hope. As i said stop obsessing about your situation and don’t read other stories. Many people have recovered.
Can we stop with the term “horror stories”, please?
You are talking about our friends and fellow members of this forum. People who have gone out of their way to aid and help, I might add.
Your case is still one of the easiest. If your issues are now only ED, stay calm, i assure you, that in some time it will come back.
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So of the recommendations we all gave you, have you started any of them? You need to get off your ass and work.
I dont really understand what to do. I havent eaten today yet since like 20 o clock yesterday. Was in the gym did light cardio with compoundexercises. Only thing I did was some garlic after gym. Was in the sun for 2-3hours. I feel freaking tired now and am cuddled in my fkin bed. This is unbeliveable.
You should eat, do not stress your hormonal level now. It’s not time for fasting directly after the crash. Fasting trigger hormonal fluctuations. Eat and live like a normal day before you crashed. Do not drink alcohol and avoid hard training.
Basically, nobody knows what to do.
So yea I see it right. If I have PFS it’s over. Nothing of this is in my head. Noone here has made any recoveries. I’m in shambles and dont even know how to cope. Cant tell anyone and esp not my parents. Their only son made himself impotent what a fkin comedy
That’s also totally not true, believe me there are several who have, probably many more who never came back (we do get the odd person sign in after years who got better) and natural recovery is quite likely after a couple of weeks or months. Also I know of a few from Reddit and elsewhere who just got better.
Please try and stay calm, like Greek and I keep saying the chances are you’ll get better. People with PFS are hugely rare.
Relax as much as you can, don’t try and take anything to recover, just let your body do it’s thing and don’t stress.
There’s new studies coming, this website definitely isn’t the only place looking into this either. But right now you have to wait a few weeks and see. I know that’s difficult, you can DEFINITELY believe me that I know too, but please wait and stay as calm as you can friend.
EDIT - I’ve just read back, apart from the panic right now all you’ve got so far is some ED? My GP (who, again, has prescribed this to hundreds of people) hasn’t EVER seen anyone who didn’t recover from that. Ever. Until me. Just think about how likely it makes it that you’ll mend.
I know it’s a shock, I really do, but the best thing you can do right now is stay as calm as possible and ride it out. I’m sure you’ll be ok.
Hi @imscaredman,
I am very sorry to hear your experience - as you’ve probably discovered antiandrogenic hair loss treatments are not safe. I am as involved as one could be with making progress on this issue and I have read the decade+ of this forum entirely. Firstly, while this condition is not dose dependent, it is not possible to say you have PFS at this time. What you are experiencing currently is a side effect due to your recent use of this medication and you should maintain hope, as other members rightly have said, that this will resolve in some weeks. PFS is a lasting and highly variable post drug disorder, and you will need to give it a lot more time before even beginning to conclude the things you are, let alone worry about what individual members are doing for therapeutic attempts. Thankfully PFS is very rare in statistical terms and very severe cases are not the norm within that. I can at least assure you many people have reported a reaction like yours and improved over the following months, and while some attribute it to this and that there’s no common denominators. I would strongly advise not getting hung up on anything but self care for the moment, try and rest yourself, stay off this forum (it is for support for patients after all and just reading and reading isn’t going to change things) and see how you are in two weeks.
Please know this community will be here for you in whatever way if you are still having problems at that point.
I seem to have all the symptomps other have… the sleep shit I cant fall asleep. My brain feels like exploding and my heartbeat is def stronger and way more noticeable. And I have absolutely 0 connection to my dick. It has this slight burning sensation. Ballache subsided a little but still present. Always when I try to get hard I feel like Im going to pee. In addition I think to feel fukin breast tenderness too (felt it immediately after taking fin too but then subsided and ed came inplace).
Yesterday after taking fin, my errection stayed for like 2 full minutes longer. Like halferrect but not subsiding. And after that the shit went loose.
In addition my head feels hot or like im close to break a sweat
Am really grateful for the responds tho. It’s hard to be grateful for anything right now…
Yes you probably will do, it’s to be expected. Right now enzymes and hormones in you are probably going a bit haywire trying to re-calibrate.
I cannot for the life of me remember the username, but what you describe is similar to another guy I’m thinking of and different to what I had - I had the “traditional” crash you see, but you don’t seem to be doing the same. Which I’m honestly going to say sounds good in my opinion.
…You know what happened to this other guy? He got better in a couple of months. Just like the vast majority do. I will try and dig that one up. Annoyingly I don’t recall it now.
The next few weeks will probably be very tough. That’s normal (well, finasteride normal) and you can expect ups and downs rather than a sort of ‘linear’ recovery I’d say.
Stay as calm as you can, listen to Axo above (he REALLY knows his stuff) and maybe stay away from the forum a bit. Be selfish with your time for a while too. Do something nice to distract yourself a bit.
I’m sure you’ll be ok in time.
Would you mind explaining me the difference between the crashes?
I can tell you how mine went and how, as far as I’ve read, the majority go.
I took fin for 8 pills, over 4 weeks, 4x1mg pills one week, then a maintenance dose of 0.5mg Monday, Weds and Fri. At the time I was ALSO taking Saw Palmetto (and for a little while after too, had no idea it could do this too you see.) I got a slight instance of ED one night and thought “right, that’s it, enough for me.” And then I stopped the fin, and was totally OK for about two weeks after - to the point I just fully forgot I ever took it. Then the ED came back and within a couple of days I got the sleeplessness, mental sides etc.
That’s the “textbook” crash I think. Some folks do indeed crash whilst on it, but I’m not fully sure you have even had the “crash” yet tbh. To actually get PFS at this point you’d have to be unlucky enough to get sides from fin (majority don’t) and unlucky enough to not recover in a few weeks (most do) and then after that so overwhelmingly unlucky that one single 0.25mg pill did it (this is now into lottery-winning-odds territory.)
So if you’re wanting to analyse that and look for patterns and everything, trust me I’m way ahead of you and so is Greek and so is Axo, and cleverer people than me and you with more experience of PFS than me and you are getting into your thread here to tell you in all likelihood you’ll recover. So try and believe us - we’ve been around here a while and we know things.