I stopped taking Finasteride 6 years ago (27 at time) after suffering mental and psychological side effects from the drug. Had no sexual side effects whatsoever when on and off the drug for about 3 years. However when I finally stopped using it I remember losing my libbido for about a week and a weird sensation whereby I didn’t feel like there was a connection between my brain and penis - someone mentioned before this is probably caused by the shock to your body of suddenly stopping the drug. This soon subsided and my sex drive returned as normal - as well as all the other side effects disappearing. I counted myself so lucky after reading so many horror stories here.
However now at 32 I have recently started to suffer from erectile dysfunction . The first bout was about 3 months ago which lasted about a week - but my sex drive (consider myself to have a fairly high sex drive) returned to normal so I thought this must just be a blip. But it has now returned and I am starting to worry that this is possibly delayed side effects or damage of finasteride use kicking in? The feeling is the exact same as when i stopped using the drug 6 years ago - whereby your penis doesn’t seem or feel to be connected to your brain - or the rest of your body for that matter! It feels totally separate. I’m not sure if this is the same for all ED cases regardless of whether it is related to finasteride use?
Anyway I was wondering if anyone has heard of delayed sexual side effects like this from finasteride? I know this ED could be a result from other things as well so I am trying not to freak out and focus on just finasteride. however it does make me wonder if damage has been done that is only kicking in now??
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!
Thanks