Propecia & Test levels and stuff? (1week off now)

Finprop
Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:51:54 +0000

Hi!

First, my story:
[i]I’m new on this forum, I’m 21years old and started using Propecia at 2007 when I noticed hairloss beginning at that point. I used propecia for about 1year, and then quitted because I felt that my hairloss was not slowen down dramatically. After few months, I started again when I felt that hairloss was getting so rough that every help available must be usen.

Well, now a 8months period of Propecia is behind again, and I happened to read this forum - and found out that many little things I’ve been noticing in last few years, MIGHT be cause of Propecia, I just haven’t thought about it.

I.e. foggy feeling in life generally, little floating “worms” on my left eye when looking at white wall etc., the more you think about it, the more you find matching symptoms - of course I have to be realistic some of these little things have probably been with me all my life and have nothing to with Fin, but anyway…[/i]

To the point:
I love going at the gym and lifting weights, and so on I became interested about my hormone levels and stuff at one point last october 2008, and found out that for some reason my test levels were pretty low for a young man like me.

Free T = 172 (150-500 reference)
Total T = 14,1 (10-30 if I remember correctly)

I wonder if this could be because of finasteride?

Now I quitted it one week ago, and I’m wondering when should I do those blood tests again, can test levels be recovered in 1month, 2months…?

I have tried anabolic steroids in the past as well (AFTER those blood tests…) to give the missing boost on the gym, so I have Nolvadex (tamoxifen) left - I wonder if I should take an little PCT myself with this? Or would it do more harm than good?

I have pretty high hematocrite and hemoglobin (always been over 165hbg and 0,48 hematocrite when 0,5 is maximum) so I don’t know if the tamoxifen would make that worse, or somehow f*ck up my test levels even more. (It increases test levels when used, but…)

Also,
after I quitted one week ago, I have felt very low libido and almost no interest to sexuality last week. Is this caused because I got off the Propecia? Anyone else met this kind of side effects? Sounds pretty weird, shouldn’t my libido increase when I get off this drug?

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