I am one who suffers from numbness, so im scared that going back on the drug will kill nerves in other parts of my body. Right now its just my penis and surrouding area, but what it it effects the eyes, legs etc. Could this blind us, disable us. Sex was important to me and has changed who i am. But loosing my sight would kill me off.
I think youre getting way carried away sir.
do u? because it has effected my breathing and parts of my lower back. my whole skin has reduced feeling when touched
I dont think youre going to die. Thatās what I meanā¦ I also donāt recommend going on Finasterideā¦
I have been writing and can bet fin/dut/sp are capable of destroying our nerve cells. I still highly think our nerve cells have undergone atrophy or destroyed. In other words we have got selectve sclerosis.
From what i can gather, there is a very good chance that finasteride simply boosted my testosterone levels. There was me thinking that i might have pulled off some next level shitā like boosting 5AR or something 
so my best guess is that my testosterone levels rose, which caused improvements in symptoms and like many on this forum that have tried testosterone/ hormone therapy - the effects simply wore off. It is interesting to note that the positive effects began the very same night i first took finasteride. In fact, about 5 hours after taking it my semen thickened up considerably; like i had never seen before.
I did sleep well last night and have felt good all day - some decent libido too. I donāt expect it to last though. It is now 17 days since i first began taking finasteride again.
baldingblog.com/2008/11/20/testosterone-levels-rise-with-finasteride/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14624915
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Good job. Iām sick of that shit.
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Thank you Mew, I think that is much more fair.
This thread is now very hard to follow.
My general question was would going back on to the poison on a very low dose help with the roller-coaster hormonal pattern I have had. I am very afraid I cannot stabilize as I keep bouncing up and down.
The ironic thing is that so many of us are so much worse after quitting than while still on. I had some issues but nothing like the past two crappy years. I do wish I had never quit but then again who could have predicted it could get so bad.
There is nothing to follow anyway. No logical theory and no outcome. Are you saying that you are considering going back on the drug and staying on it? that was never my plan, i simply tried to copy what āDenarionā did.
Just for the record i am still on a very low dosage and intend to come off it completely within the next week. I still feel a considerable amount better than i did before i took the drug again but this is still a far cry from normality. The 10 days of bliss must have been a T boost, nothing more. Interestingly my testicles feel full and heavy but my ejaculate is abysmal, watery stuff.
I fluctuate considerably, so always take that into account when you read my posts. Maybe the sort of better sleep and erections i am experiencing now would be my baseline with or without taking finasteride anyway. I was in fucking hell before the 16th, i know that much.
I just wrote this to a fellow sufferer i was speaking to, thought i may as well drop it in here.
"You know these people that get fucked over by SSRIās/ anti depressants yeah? well, many of them have helped there condition by going on the very same medicine that caused there problems and ween off very slowly. I know anti depressants are probably a whole different ball game, because itās well known that they cause āwithdrawalā that can be serious stuff - but many of the sufferers have exactly the same side effects as us. I do sometimes forget that Dr. Irwig himself states that āsomething has gone wrong in the brainā or something along those lines, but then again, thatās just his and dr jacobs guess.
paxilprogress.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51410
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SSRIsex/?v=1&t=directory&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=dir&slk=5
They are the forums just in case you were wondering
Interesting considering my reaction to going back on propecia isnāt it?"
Might have perceived that wrong actually
UK20 - not sure what the plan is. Three possibilities:
- Remain off the the poison forever but accept roller coster symptoms and little hope for recovery.
- Get back on at a very low dosage to hopefully stabilize the up and down bad hormonal cycle. Once things stabilize try to very slowly wean off (your protocol). However I will not some folks carshed far worse the second/third time around.
- Get back on at a very low dosage to hopefully stabilize the up and down bad hormonal cycle. Once things stabilize stay on very limited dosage.
Not saying I am advocating any of the three paths - just not sure I can cope with #1 anymore. F*ck
You can try that if things are getting too much for you but the positive effects have completely gone now. So basically, once your body adapts to the drug i think you will be on the roller coaster again but you will also be on finasteride. It would be good to have someone try going back on and tapering off like i am, but obviously thatās your call.
I am not sure what i am going to do next, i took this because i was at breaking point. I really thought i was done with all of this shit for a minute. I am fatigued to hell, joints cracking all over the place, 0 libido, no feeling in penis at all etc etc.
I think that the rollercoaster effect is 100% caused by fluctuations in adrenal hormones. Iāve had the rollercoaster for more than a year and it suddenly stopped as soon as I started taking transdermal pregnenolone. At that point, I stayed at a functionality level that is at the mid point between bad times and good times.
m_81 - where do you get this?