Hey guys, i have a little problem when taking zinc. Zinc does alot for my testosterone levels hairs and nails but as soon i take it i lose my libido?like Overall numbness etc. Im not sure why this happens. Ive read a few threads about it and zinc seems to be a 5 alpha inhibitor. Is it possible that zinc gives me pfs like syndromes? I dont want to fuck myself. I remember taking 50 mg zinc for a week like ten years ago with 16 feelimg alot stronger but stopping because of libido going down. Thanks
Hey,
It is possible yes. Zinc can have anti-androgenic effects and as you say possible 5ari properties, and you’ll find many reports of PFS sufferers feeling better or crashing with zinc here on the forum (antiandrogenic substances have an impact on PFS symptoms). A “PFS”-type case lost his libido from zinc.
Thanks bro, so your friend used finasteride later? Did he recover from the zinc alone?
Sorry, I got the wrong person - I asked him and it was someone he was aware of. Looks like a regular here (moonman) spoke to the guy I was thinking of, whose story is here: http://www.allthingsmale.com/community/threads/zinc-killed-my-libido-and-made-me-depressed-help.24886/
No problem. I will try zinc one more time this time with copper and will see. I did some steroid cycles in the past thats why i hsve little bit problems when off with my levels(400 something). Guess i stay away from everything that can act as a 5 ar inhibitor(nettle root, fenugreek, saw palmetto)
There are a lot of drugs, even over the counter stuff, that can give you permanent side effects. They don’t even have to have 5AR properties. Anything that messes with hormones can mess you up.
Blood pressure drugs like Rogaine are alpha blockers
Various antibiotics can just mess you up
Estrogen hormone drugs like zinc and tamoxifen (for gynecomastia)
It’s hard to be know what’s safe and what isn’t.
Hi, two months ago i also took zinc for ±1 month. But i found a huge diffrence in the time when taking it, at the beginning i took it in the morning or in the day when i felt bad. This had no effect for me. Then i began to search the web for more information about diffrent supplements because of the diffrent effects they had here on the people. I found out that it is very important to not take diffrent supplements together while on the other side some had to be taken together, also very important is the time when you take a supplement because often the body needs a supplement to produce another stuff and this often hapens in the body more specific in a certain time of the day.
So i started taking zinc 25mg before going to bed, after only 1 week i got a much better sleep, very intensive draems back and nerarly every morning hard morning wood back. While i can not say for 100% if this was because of the zinc or just a coincidence and it was time that helped my body, i want to share my experience with you. Now i take 25mg of zinc only every third day before going to bed, even sometimes not for a week.
I am not healed, i still have diffrent problems but had improved in some areas in the past months.
While in the first months of my pfs i took diffrent supplements like candys, because i absolutely wanted to get healed and out of this, every time i read a post with a supplement that could help i bought it and took it together with the ohters i already had. Nothing helped me, i only lost a lot of money…I think it is realy important to focus on the diffrent problems we have one by one, to inform yourself very good on the supplement that could help with this problem. Get the information when it’s the best time for the body to take it and then only take this specific one. Look over a period of at least 2-3 weeks if you get a diffrence in a condition and then concentrate on the next problem. And listen to your body, treats here can help to get on a direction but every body is diffrent and we are all hit in diffrent areas.
Again i want to tell you that i am not sure if anything really helped me or if it was only time, but this is the advice that i wanted to share with you.
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Thanks, its quite terrifying to see how taking something few times can do permanent damage. Apways thought the body bounces back sooner or later but after reading some stuff about pfs i stay away from finasteride even tho i had it in mind because of hair loss. I guess there is a cure for everything just need to find it.