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I just want to add my story, I do not want to scare people but tell them the side effects can be really real. Here is my story:
Started taking finasteride and within one day i got testicular pain followed by a huge increase in sex drive. I had boners in class like i was in middle school (age 23). I started to notice after about a week It was getting hard to get an erection. I had a beautiful girlfriend at the time and I could sort of hide it. Something strange started to happen that whenever I would stand up or change positions I would lose my erection within seconds. This scared me so I went back to the Doctor and started every other day. I did this and it did not improve so i called it quits. It's weird because my depression got worse but nothing really changed except knowing I probably cant do treatments. I can't explain the depression at this point because i had so much going on. It just was classical depression nothing to serious. I quit the drug for two weeks and started again every other day because I was desperate. During this time i was in nursing school and noticed something perhaps called brain fog. I could not answer the most simple questions and was spaced out all the time. I had to like think in my mind about speaking nothing came out natural. It got so bad I had to withdraw in case i failed. I shaved my head going into nursing and did great even though i was stressed. That was until I started taking finasteride.. Back to me restarting finasteride this time I could not even get an erection with my ex and it was pathetic. I quit the drug for good and have not taken it since. After quitting within 2 weeks my ex mentioned my dick was curved to the left. It was always perfect straight.. At this point I knew all the side effects were not in my head. During this time I became suicidal and super depressed. It was not just thoughts I would look online of heads blown off and people killing themselves. I even went to the local gun shop and bought a 357 magnum to end my life. Someone it seemed I got better through therapy and i admitted myself into the hospital. I'm just saying I have had a sh*t life but I always had a positive attitude. The whole suicide thing does not make sense to me. I went to a doctor to confirm the curve in my penis and I in fact do have a curve. There was no plaque so its very minor pyroines he mentioned. He said I could have gotten it from having really rough sex.. trust me its bullshit I got it from propecia. My ED ended up resolving and so did the depression to an extent. I had watery semen which is back to normal also. I had all the symptoms of PFS but al lot have resolved. The curve is still there but i'm still able to have sex as it's very minor. If anyone has any questions I'd gladly answer. This drug is no joke. I should add i got DNA tested to see my reaction towards drugs and i'm waiting for those results.
Started taking finasteride and within one day i got testicular pain followed by a huge increase in sex drive. I had boners in class like i was in middle school (age 23). I started to notice after about a week It was getting hard to get an erection. I had a beautiful girlfriend at the time and I could sort of hide it. Something strange started to happen that whenever I would stand up or change positions I would lose my erection within seconds. This scared me so I went back to the Doctor and started every other day. I did this and it did not improve so i called it quits. It's weird because my depression got worse but nothing really changed except knowing I probably cant do treatments. I can't explain the depression at this point because i had so much going on. It just was classical depression nothing to serious. I quit the drug for two weeks and started again every other day because I was desperate. During this time i was in nursing school and noticed something perhaps called brain fog. I could not answer the most simple questions and was spaced out all the time. I had to like think in my mind about speaking nothing came out natural. It got so bad I had to withdraw in case i failed. I shaved my head going into nursing and did great even though i was stressed. That was until I started taking finasteride.. Back to me restarting finasteride this time I could not even get an erection with my ex and it was pathetic. I quit the drug for good and have not taken it since. After quitting within 2 weeks my ex mentioned my dick was curved to the left. It was always perfect straight.. At this point I knew all the side effects were not in my head. During this time I became suicidal and super depressed. It was not just thoughts I would look online of heads blown off and people killing themselves. I even went to the local gun shop and bought a 357 magnum to end my life. Someone it seemed I got better through therapy and i admitted myself into the hospital. I'm just saying I have had a sh*t life but I always had a positive attitude. The whole suicide thing does not make sense to me. I went to a doctor to confirm the curve in my penis and I in fact do have a curve. There was no plaque so its very minor pyroines he mentioned. He said I could have gotten it from having really rough sex.. trust me its bullshit I got it from propecia. My ED ended up resolving and so did the depression to an extent. I had watery semen which is back to normal also. I had all the symptoms of PFS but al lot have resolved. The curve is still there but i'm still able to have sex as it's very minor. If anyone has any questions I'd gladly answer. This drug is no joke. I should add i got DNA tested to see my reaction towards drugs and i'm waiting for those results.
