- Where are you from (country)?
Norway - How did you find this forum (Google search – if so, what search terms? Via link from a forum or website – if so, what page? Other?)
Google - What is your current age, height, weight?
47 years, 180cm, 75kg - Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
lifting weights 3 times a week - What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
Regular/healty - Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
hair loss - For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
16 years - How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride?
30 years - year 2000 - How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit?
46 years - march 2017 - How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
last month I took every other day then quit. - What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?
Propecia poison - What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
1 mg/day - How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
don’t remember, probably right away (loss of mornng wood) - What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
Put an X beside all that apply:
Sexual
[ x] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[ x] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[ x] Loss of Morning Erections
[ x] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[ 50%] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[ ] Watery Ejaculate
[ x] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[ x] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[ x] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[ x] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ ] Confusion
[ x] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[ ] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[ x] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[ x] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ x] Severe Depression / Melancholy
[ x] Suicidal Thoughts
Physical
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ x] Testicular Pain
[ ] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ x] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ ] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ x] Muscle Wastage
[ x] Muscle Weakness
[ ] Joint Pain
[ ] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[ x] Prostate pain
[ ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[ ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[ ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[ x] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ x] Increased hair loss
[ ] Frequent urination
[ ] Lowered body temperature
[ x] Other (please explain)
ice cold testicles, tinnitus, afterdribble
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What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
None, taking omega3, zinc, magnesium, cold showers, weight lifting -
If you have pre or post-Finasteride bloodtests, what hormonal changes have you encountered since discontinuing the drug (pls post your test results in the “Blood Tests” section and link to them in your post)?
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Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
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Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
Hi guys
I’m very sad to become a member of this forum, but I hope I can get some support and maybe help others in the same boat called pfs.
I took propecia for 16 years…yes it’s a long time, but it was the new drug on the marked back in the year 2000 in Norway and I started losing my hair in my late teens so I didn’t think twice before starting the drug. No doctor informed me of any sideeffects and I didn’t get any sideeffects either for the 16 years I took it except loss of morning wood and some reduced semen. Life was good….until I stopped 11 weeks ago. It started with anal pain, penis pain and a full mental breakdown, I started to cry at work and got panic attacks. I didn’t understand what happened to me until I googled propecia sideeffects and found you guys……Then the coldness in my genetails began…it’s like my testicles is in a bucket of icewater, then 4 weeks off I got tinnitus on my left ear, a few more weeks down the road I got the afterdribble when I pee and now I’m more or less impotent…life is now…not that good….I’m so fucked up I don’t reconize my body, I lost 10kg, my penis has changed (longer in flaccid state), almost no beardgrowth, my joints click and my mental state is all over the place and I got bad insomnia…I can’t god damn believe a 1mg drug can fuck me up this bad….where on the package does it say you get all the sideeffects AFTER you stop?
I’m trying to stay positive, I’m still only 11 weeks down the road but reading this forum ain’t positive reading for the most part…I’m afraid my wife will leave me in the future if this is the new «me». I got som bloodwork done 1 week off, then again 4 weeks off and my testosterone had been cut in half in that time…I’m now waiting for a full hormone profile via my Endo. I will post it when I get it.
The main problem except the ED and insomnia is this damn coldness in my testicles, I assume this is because of low T?..I haven’t been working since this hit me. And btw. I didn’t have that «crash» I read about not the rush of DHT in the body either, one thing just keep hitting me week after week. I’m so afraid what will come next……U guys all all in my prayer…I now know what hell is like…