You are the only people who understand my suffering

[WonderPill]

I have taken propecia before for about 3 weeks. I took quartered doses of 1mg. I got mental side effects nearly immediately and quit within a couple weeks. It just wasn’t worth it.

However, I was still using another alpha-5-reductase inhibitor on my scrotum for jock itch (doc said it was harmless, right??). I used this cream (clotrimazole) for about 3 years. My scrotum and penis have shrunken (they are now tiny - I am afraid to show them to women - I at one point had a large penis…). My pubic hair has become less dense around the penis and scrotum. I never had this problem before.

Even worse, I lost about 20 lbs in muscle weight gradually over about a year and a half. Oddly enough, my total testosterone is 520 (average) and my free testosterone is 9.4 ng/dl (well below average for a man in his late twenties).

I don’t know what to do. I am so upset about this - I wish I realized what was causing the weight loss earlier!! No doctors take me seriously. I suppose I could get circumcised now and get an even tinier penis? The jock itch/yeast infection would certainly go away.

I stopped putting clotrimazole on my penis/scrotum 6 months ago (I use tinactin now) yet the penile shrinkage and muscle wasting continues.

Seeing that a lot of you guy’s problems seem permanent…I feel hopeless. The damage I have sustained to my masculinty seems permanent.

[mcibofh]

Please go to one of the studies. It’s our only hope for answers.

[Gelhead]

Hi, thanks for posting.

As mcibofh both says, it’s absolutely vital that you apply for the studies into why sexual dysfunction occurs in people who use these drugs.

Please apply. These studies are being undertaken at two major US medical research institutions and are the opportunity available for finding why these symptoms happen. Without this work there will be no treatments.

Find out how to apply here:

pfsfoundation.org/news/docto … h-studies/

You can discuss financial support towards your application by contacting the PFS Foundation.

[BP7667]

@youngbuck21

I also have jock itch ever since I got pfs. I get it almost every other week in varying degrees. I use lotrimin ultra and it usually works after a few applications but sometimes it doesn’t which is the situation I find myself in again right now. I’ve tried just about everything and now I am gonna use some of the cannabis oil I made with coconut oil to try to see if it helps as a safe alternative. I’ll let you know how it works but do try lotrimin ultra.

Me too its weird… hormonal issues can exacerbate this I think that’s our issue.

[WonderPill]

@Gelhead

Hi, thanks for posting.

As mcibofh both says, it’s absolutely vital that you apply for the studies into why sexual dysfunction occurs in people who use these drugs.

Please apply. These studies are being undertaken at two major US medical research institutions and are the opportunity available for finding why these symptoms happen. Without this work there will be no treatments.

Find out how to apply here:

pfsfoundation.org/news/docto … h-studies/

You can discuss financial support towards your application by contacting the PFS Foundation.

My problems with penis shrinkage and muscle wasting happened a year prior to me taking my first finasteride pill, though. They began a few months after I started applying clotrimazole (alpha 5 reductase inhibitor) twice a day to my penis and scrotum for a yeast infection.

I don’t think they would take me.