A question for you joe…when you have sex can you get it up unassisted?
I have done yes, last week when I felt fine I had sex like I used to and ejaculated 4 times in a day.
The problem is, it’s not always like this, for example right now I couldn’t have sex - I believe that I could masturbate and ejaculate with something of hard erection. I’m not going to put myself through the pain right now. I just woke up form yet another 2 hour sleep waking up feeling like utter garbage, constantly urinating, and having very poor stool when excreting. It feels like there is a blockage in my penis.
It seems crazy how I can go from good to really bad so quickly and it makes things so difficult with the doctor and definitely family. The overall feeling I have of just fatigue, fuzzyness (but not really impaired memory), sleeping difficulties and heavily fluctuating sexual problems is vile.
I’m sending in the stool sample today, I don’t know how the basic routine tests work for stool but I have been reading this guide:
This is probaly a real dumb question joe but have you been tested for gluten intolerance. Sorry if you have mentioned somewhere else.
I haven’t no, and when i don’t eat very healthy or pure I do feel like shit. I will have a look into it now.
Diarreah seems to be a big symptom, which I don’t have much, I also do have a big appetite.
I’m preying propecia isn’t the cause of all these problems but because of the sexual stuff (numbing feeling in penis, very pale penis tip etc) I can’t help but think I may have been royally screwed up. The stool changes are definitely something to look into for something else though.
This is somewhat how I feel right now Joe. I’m getting 2 hours of decent sleep, constantly urinating(particularly when I’m trying to sleep), my stools are very thin and weird. I don’t know if your penis has shrunken, but mine has very greatly when flaccid, and there’s a big bottleneck when I get erect… when it’s filling up, my penis gets this hourglass shape before it’s able to fill itself out(I say this in regard to your statement about a “blockage”). Also, I think the constipation is probably a side of propecia. Several others seem to have had this too.
At least it sounds like your symptoms are fluctuating. Maybe your body is balancing hormonally. A couple of months from now you might be past this. I’m not having ups and downs at all. It just continues to worsen, which has me terrified.
That does sound similar to what I experience cantsleep. I contantly have this feeling running through me, it’s hard to describe, sort of like my adrenals are messed up or something.
Are you in the US or UK?
I’m in the US.
Yeah I have this feeling of weirdness. Not sure if it’s just because I can’t sleep though, or maybe it’s just general depression. Today I actually feel better than I have the last few days. I went and performed a decent workout at the gym for the first time in weeks. Still feel off and depressed as hell though.
I ordered some Sustain Alpha oral yesterday. Hoping that maybe if I do pct early enough, it might head some of this off. Seems like most of the people who try pct and fail have been off fin for many months or years…
How long have you been off?
I actually feel good today, but things are bad in the penis department, tip is very pale and nuts have shrunk up to acorn size :S
I’ve been off about 7 weeks.
Yeah my penis is getting worse every day. Shriveled and narrowed. Looks pathetic. It’s still about the same size when erect, though the girth might be very slightly less, and the head looks weird. Also my nuts are sagging like an old man’s. This is some freaky stuff man. It’s got me reading the bible and praying every night.
We sound very similar. Are you having any ED?
ive been off 6 weeks, my facial hair grows real slow now. im getting a little paranoid im turning into a girl. The worst part(i use that term lightly) is every girl wants a piece of me now. I reckon they can sniff a dead cock a mile away. i want my life back!
They want a peice of you now most likely because you’re not preoccupied with trying to fuck them, but rather just talking with them in normal conversation. The same thing happened to me when was at my worst. It’s not the dead cock they can sniff out, it’s a horny guy that wants to fuck them they can peg from a mile away.
Some of the things that assure me that in terms of testosterone, things can’t be that bad for me are:
- Bear still grows fine (I think) along with body hair etc
- I still feel very fit running and working out, but after a hard work out the aftermath is nasty and I feel very weak for days
- I can still have sex 3-4 times in one day
Sexually things are improving, I hope. But I swear to god, in terms of everything this has all got very real for me, I wasn’t buying into this propecia damage stuff too much at first but with all the weird stuff happening, there is too many coincidences.
Yeah I’ve got some ED. Hasn’t been tested with a girl, but masturbating is much more difficult. Getting it erect is kind of a chore now, and it doesn’t seem to get as hard as it used to. I really don’t much feel like touching it any more, but I force myself to masturbate because I’m afraid of hypoxia from the lack of nocturnal erections.
My facial hair is growing about the same rate too. Also I’ve been keeping a close eye on my chest for gyno, but nothing yet. I’m going to work out as hard as I can and watch what I eat to keep my body fat down as much as possible.
One thing I’ve noticed is that it takes me a few days to recover from things that used to only take me one day to recover from, such as muscle pain from working out or hangover from taking sleep meds. I’m guessing this is probably because I’m not getting much deep sleep, if any.
To be honest, I believed in all this propecia damage stuff, but I took the shit anyway. I thought it probably happened to some guys, but it was a very tiny percentage, and it seemed to work wonders for many in regrowing their hair. Plus I trusted the statements of doctors(like hair transplant doc Rassman, who I think is a Merck shill) that they had almost no reports of major sides.
I was just going to take it and quit at the first sign of sides, which is exactly what I did. What I didn’t understand was that the worst things can happen AFTER you go off the drug, even if you’ve only had minimal sides to that point. A lot of these clowns on hairloss sites defending the honor of this drug may very well end up here after a few years when they’ve stopped taking it.
Cantsleep did your sides get worse when you quit? people talk about getting better then crashing…this never happened for me.
I took my last pill then the next day i was smashed to the point of “if i wasnt in a safe place(my own house) i probably would have died because i had absoulutly no idea what was going on”
My hair is falling out at the pre fin rate, so in reality i paid someone to whack me in the head and nuts with a baseball bat.
My head has got a little better but im sick of feeling sad and angry, these are two things i never used to be.
Just a footnote aswell…if anyone blames thereself for this by being to vain dont! My sister and mother just got their eyebrows and nails done…they have no sides to report of as yet
Tim, my sides kind of stayed the same for about 6 weeks after coming off. I had slightly decreased libido, terrible sleep, slight inability to urinate, and constipation-- All problems I had developed after about a week on fin. The sides actually weren’t that bad, and besides the lack of sleep(which it took me a while to attribute to fin), they didn’t bother me too much.
Things crashed at about the 6 week point. Since then my dick has shrunken, my libido has plummeted, urination is frequent but very difficult, testicular pain is frequent, and I’m getting random muscle twitches in the legs. My sleep is awful… I get about 2-3 hours of decent sleep, then I keep waking up over and over and over again having to urinate, about every 30-45 min roughly.
Cantsleep-So before you crashed you were back to normal?
The crash seems scary to me…the fact that your body has gone back to normal and not been able to handle it. I dont know whats happened with me, my body must have been so reliant on fin that as soon as it didnt get one…boom…i dont know
when i came off i didnt sleep for about 2-3 weeks…at best it would be 5 minutes at a time just very light…i would usually just get up. My brain just wasnt going to turn off.
Now im just so tired, my body like, my brain still wont switch off for a long period…unless i use pescribed pills…which knock me the hell out for about 8 hours, but these make me take a step back cause my brain gets fogged backup for at lest a few hours after i wake up.
I cant help but think this period of not sleeping at all has hindered my recovery.
Im going to see a doctor this week and not say anything about fin, just tell em my symptoms and see what happens. Health care is good here cause its free but if they can keep you out of the system they will.
Im aiming for a full panel of blood tests and a referal to a urologist.
Also im getting really sharp pains just above my penis, sometimes i think ive been stabbed its that sharp…Joe you had or have a pain simlar to this…did it go away?
No I was never back to normal. I got sides after a few days on fin and quit after 2 weeks. When I quit, the sides didn’t go away, but they weren’t that strong besides the insomnia, and also the constipation and difficulty urinating. The last 10 days or so there has been a sharp change and all side effects have gotten worse except the constipation. Also the dramatic changes to my penis and nuts began around that point.