I took Propecia for 45 days about 10 months ago, I was very glad I found this website and it made me decide to stop taking it. On the other hand it made me very scared and I became even more depressed than the drug had already influenced myself to be. While taking the drug, I started to notice the side effects getting worse and worse while I was taking the drug and some got better or worse after discontinuing the drug for a period of time. After realizing something was wrong, I decided to do my own research instead of calling my doctor who prescribed these poison pills to me and thats how I found this website. I definitely had issues with erectile functionality being slow and unreliable, rubbery penis erections, decreased sex drive, difficulty to maintain an erection or get one, hard to control peeing - it felt like it was just leaking out of my penis with little or very weak control from my valves that control the peeing process, sudden weight gain just in the stomach area, and even a mild hormone change that left me feeling depressed and down.
All of this crap for hair…no more!!! I would rather deal with slowly getting bald rather than messing with my manhood, weight, and confidence.
I am 31 years old now, I was 30 when I first took the drug. I have made about a 90%-100% recovery from these symptoms. I was single at the time when I was taking the drug so I really never noticed the erection problems until much later into the 45 days I took the drug. I am uncertain if I have completely recovered because some of the sex drive decreases could just be my sex drive naturally tampering off from me leaving my 20s and entering into my 30s. I am just thankful I have recovered this well. It has taken me this long to finally write about my experience, I was scared to even look at this website for a while because it just made me worry more and more for a long time. I did not do anything special to make the recovery process better, I have always liked carrots and eat them a lot while I am working at my desk. Someone earlier in this thread wrote about eating more veges and thinking that helped his recovery process. Maybe my carrots saved me, who knows?!?! I am naturally very skinny with a extremely high metabolism, so it was very easy for me to notice the instant beer gut in my stomach area that I have never had before.
This whole experience really angered me towards the hair treatment medical community. I was an ignorant patient who just fell victim to actually listening to my doctor. I explained that my hair was suddenly falling out a lot more than ever and I needed help because I was very worried only about my hair loss at the time. He said you should get on this drug called Propecia, he even told me that all of the topical solutions such as Rogaine and other similar products were all just B.S. crap. Well…I believed him! What a fool I was. He then explained how DHT causes the hair follicles to fall out and that Propecia blocks the DHT from getting to my scalp and therefore I would be able to keep my hair as is as long as I keep taking the drug. I asked him what the side effects are and he brushed it off like it was no big deal and stated some people have complained about low ejaculation emissions and erectile problems BUT at your age that is not going to be ANY problem for you. I thought well, that sucks but I want to keep my hair and he said that the side effects should not be a problem for me so I went out and got the Propecia and thats when my story started. I always do research before I buy something but in this case I figured I was taking wisdom from someone who has already prescribed this drug many times and at the time I felt that I did not need to do any research for this purchase…man was that a really dumb costly decision I made…now I always research before buying anything no matter how credible people are especially for ANYTHING medical. This drug could have potentially really screwed up my life, thank you, www.propeciasideeffects.com for helping me.
you should post this in the recoveries section as your own thread otherwise most people wont see it,recovery stories give people inspiration,and a feeling that there is hope.nice post by the way very good info.I also am having good results with carrots for some reason.
cooked carrots or just carrots without cook them ??
thanks
They are just the regular plain baby carrots you buy in a bag at your local grocery store. I do not cook them or anything, I just eat them straight out of the bag.
Be careful with consuming too many of those nice little carrots as they are unfortunately treated with chlorine.
Have you ever noticed that if you don’t eat them within a certain time period they start to turn white? This is the chlorine coming to the surface.
Try to buy organic if possible. I was shocked to find this out. If you don’t think chlorine is harmful, do some research…