Well now I’m on day 2 of being finasteride free. I felt like an absolute zombie for most of the day. My head hurt, my neck hurt, my testicles still hurt, I had no energy, I had no will to do anything, and I just felt sick inside. My impotence was about the same, and I still felt dizzy. I don’t find it hard to concentrate, but maybe I just have a variant of the “brain fog” with the headache and dizziness.
Suddenly around 7pm, the sickness I felt inside and my lack of willpower suddenly started letting up. I could get up and move around again, it felt great. My other symptoms were still about the same, but my impotence is starting to wear off and my ejaculate is getting less watery. (yay for prostatorrhea ) Even though I was curious what would happen, after reading other people’s early days of dealing with this I decided against trying to masturbate. I simply don’t want to risk damaging any tissue by making it do something it doesn’t want to. Instead I concentrated as hard as I could to try and get an erection, and although weak, it was getting much better than it was the day before (where it felt like it was dead). I was also able to start eating again, where earlier I couldn’t bring myself to swallow more than a few bites of food.
So my upwards recovery seems to be happening, and although it’s fluctuating where I’ll feel better or worse from hour to hour, it still seems to be moving towards improvement. This is making me very hopeful, but I know the true test is to see if it lasts and doesn’t relapse in a month. I’ll keep updating this for any changes I have later on, and I’ll be praying for each and every one of you. None of you deserved this crap, and it’s a crying shame that it happened. I know I’m not out of the woods yet, but I’ve felt the pain you guys go through on a daily basis, and I give you all the sympathy I can.