I know exactly what feeling you are talking about… its the strangest thing ever… I just don’t understand it… Its just a feeling that something just doesnt feel right in that area… The best way I could describe it is a “Nothingness feeling”.
EXACTLY. It is quite frightening. I cannot get use to it. The only thing that has helped me al ittle is the ball zinger and supplements. But it is still nowhere near the same as it was.
This “nothingness feeling” is quite evident. It is hard to compare what I used to feel like because it has been a while and who the fuck even thinks about this when one is “normal”, NO ONE.
GET a ball zinger man.
what exactly is a “ball zinger?”
Nothingness feeling? You mean lack of sensitivity, right?
yes, thats a good way to put it… When i touch it, it feels like im touching my finger or something…
But when it’s erect?
when its erect it feels okay, but not like normally but then again, its hard to tell sometimes, because i took the drug for 8 months and have been off it for 12, so its hard to remember being normal at this point.
This “nothingness” feeling for me is not necessarily a feeling of lack of sensitivity but it is to an extent if that makes sense. When i am feeling good sexually, sensitivity isn’t an issue.
But it is just a feeling of while doing everyday things like going to work etc, it doesn’t feel like it used to…It is very perplexing and really annoying.
I feel like sometimes I need to inject some life into my penis (whack off) to feel “normal”…
Anyone else have this feeling or something akin to it??
I think what you guys are feeling in regards to the “nothingness” is emotional blankness. Such as doing the old things you used to do does not elicite an emotional response anymore. So you have, nothing. I think this may be linked to dopamine somehow. Driving in my car and listening to music on a nice day used to be EXTREMELEY pleasurable to me. While after fin, I would get “nothing” from doing this activity. I think this is the main problem for “lack of vigor for life.”
CD,
I understand what you’re saying about not reacting the same way to more pleasurabe things in life, like taking a drive on a nice day. I feel this way to from time to time.
But the nothingness feeling is DIRECTLY related to my lower libido. Does your junk just feel/seem different? I can’t for the life of me explain it but I believe it has to due with sensitivity. The ball zinger helps as far as being more aware of my penis but it i stll not the same…
I guess when you were talking about how you didn’t feel the same throughout your day, such as going to work, etc, I didn’t relate those things to libido, but I did put them in the general catagory of emotional blunting. How does your libido effect you going to work?
As far as my unit feeling different, yeah, it did. It’s getting better. I relate it to the lack of response in my brain. The head of your dick, and the whole thing in general is tapped right into the pleasure center of your brain. That’s why you don’t get that “special” feeling when you touch it anymore. What’s supposed to happen in your head doesn’t, so it feels like any other body part that doesn’t have direct access to your pleasure center.
I think maybe a lack of emtional response could be what effects libido in general. This is just an opinion though.
A week after I started taking Propecia for the second time my testicles started to hang lower than they ever have for 95% of the time. Even during intercourse they will sag very low and only just before I ejaculate will they come a little. Does anyone else have this problem and have any solutions? Thanks
i am pretty sure i have this problem. No solution.
Mine do the same while on Propecia - just constantly hang low. Actually I was surprised how different they were when off the drug - much higher and “tighter.”
Yeah I can really relate to this. A feeling of “nothingness” as toadstool put it. It’s pretty exasperating. I also have a strange soreness (and a feeling of being depleted if that makes sense). I guess it boils down to a pervasive feeling of unwellness in that whole area. Very strange stuff.
I agree, “emptiness” is a great way to describe this. Even though my sexual sides weren’t bad when I was on the drug, I like being off the drug a lot better. This is non-scientific but I have noticed two types of arousal: one is very mentally-driven when you’re in a sexual situation, or focusing on sexual thoughts, etc, the other is more sort of “primal” and happens almost as an instinct. My experience with Propecia was that the latter almost disappeared - if i wanted to get aroused I had to consciously put myself into a sexual situation, and even then it helped to get my brain engaged as well (fantasizing, talking dirty, etc). I didn’t necessarily have the primal urge to do anything until I got going and got my mind engaged. The “primal” urge has come back somewhat but not fully. But I do find myself at times seeing a pretty girl and instantly feel like having sex with her.
i also have testicles hanging very low after quit finasteride. i took it for 5 yeas and stoped 2 years ago. before i never had this problem. i believe testicles hang low when we have no libido. i can have an erection watching porn but i feel nothing and testicles hang low all time. when i masturbate my balls are higher, tight and closer to penis and feel normal, when i stop, immediatly i loose erection and testicles hang very low again, so this may means something related to sensitivity or libido.
they look awful, i´m 34 and it looks and feel like i´m 80years old. i´m embaraced with it. it looks like they´re dead or something. propecia ruined that also. if anyone has a solution to this please share it.
MY testicles start hanging low in the afternoon. always low in the evening. But dick is always larger during these times.
In the morning balls are tight but penis is smaller. I dont notice a difference in libido. Maybe 10% more in the morning, maybe…
My two cents here, please stop these kind of discussion, it makes us look hypochondriac. Testicles or testosterone has nothing to do with our problem, it has been repeated many times. If it was primary hypogonadism our LH, FSH should have been 2-3 times the high range ( 25 or 35 etc) and we should have been treated with TRT easily but so far none has been treated 100% successfully with TRT. We have very unique hypogonadism. Again this kind of discussion will not get us any where.
I have to disagree. I mean i may be different to your case, though as from my treatment my testicles still produce Testosterone and Sperm. So I Doubt it’s hypergonadism. More of a downregulation of the feedback loop from supression of DHT. Keep in mind Finasteride also shuts down your prostate by reducing DHT, Prostate gland is responsive to hormones,