How Do I Know If My Side Effects Are Real(nsfw)?

[recedingornot87]

So ive been on propecia for 6 months. I stopped taking it for 2 weeks thinking I could just maintain with rogaine. I was wrong and am a dumbass. In only 2 weeks I went back to regularly losing over 100 hairs per shower. At my peak hairloss I was losing over 400 hairs per shower in the summer and I can tell that without finasteride I will slowly creep back up to that rate. Right before stopping finasteride I was losing around 20-30 per shower but my density was improving which I guess gave me a false sense of safety (dumb I know).

Before anyone says the number of hairs you lose in shower doesnt matter let me preface by saying that for me it absolutely does. More hair loss in showers always equals a loss of cosmetic density. This may not be true for everyone but I know my hair well enough to say it.

I stopped propecia because of a few reason.I had lowered libido, less sensitivity in dink, and failure to maintain hardness in dink. Was able to get dink hard easily but maintaining it was hard. For the 6 months prior to this I had no problems with dink but I would say that jizz was definitely watery and my libido felt lower.

Once I got off of finasteride, a week later my jizz became thick and white again and almost immediately it felt like my libido was higher. The libido change I felt just days after getting off of finasteride even though my DHT levels must have still been low for the first few days which makes me think this might be psychosomatic. IDK what the hell to do, I dont want to go bald but I want my normal libido and dink powers back. My dad was already NW6ish at this age so I know whats in store if I stop taking finasteride. Sorry for long post I just needed to rant.

 

[Charlie Foxtrot]

It’s difficult mate! I think your hair loss looks a lot like mine and I’ve been following your story for quite some time now. Too bad to see you’re having sides on the meds man, psychological or real.

I’m no experienced user giving advice, since I still have to start finasteride myself, but I think advice is not what you need. You’ve probably done tons of research youself and you know you’re dink best. The sides could be real, but I also think a lot of libido and dink related sides are psychological. The brain is so powerful, if you really think you struggle to maintain a hard one, you will struggle. Also if this is constantly on your mind, your libido/mood will suffer I guess since limb dinks and balding aren’t the most stimulating of all if you ask me

It’s tough to say bro. Think you know best!

 

[recedingornot87]

It’s difficult mate! I think your hair loss looks a lot like mine and I’ve been following your story for quite some time now. Too bad to see you’re having sides on the meds man, psychological or real.

I’m no experienced user giving advice, since I still have to start finasteride myself, but I think advice is not what you need. You’ve probably done tons of research youself and you know you’re dink best. The sides could be real, but I also think a lot of libido and dink related sides are psychological. The brain is so powerful, if you really think you struggle to maintain a hard one, you will struggle. Also if this is constantly on your mind, your libido/mood will suffer I guess since limb dinks and balding aren’t the most stimulating of all if you ask me

It’s tough to say bro. Think you know best!

The interesting thing is that once I got off the med, in 3 days I felt like my libido increased a lot. Obviously 5ar isnt replenished enough in that time period which is making me think it could be psychological. At the same time though, the watery semen is very very real and I dont think not being able to stay hard is psychological.

How is your progress going? Is finasteride working for you without sides?

 

[frank1980]

The interesting thing is that once I got off the med, in 3 days I felt like my libido increased a lot. Obviously 5ar isnt replenished enough in that time period which is making me think it could be psychological. At the same time though, the watery semen is very very real and I dont think not being able to stay hard is psychological.

How is your progress going? Is finasteride working for you without sides?

I'm surprsed it hit you that hard. I thought it took two weeks to regain normal dht levels after stopping finasteride. Was it at the end of the two weeks?

 

[Derelict]

On finasteride and now dutasteride my libido dropped a tiny bit, but still able to get erections when i needed. The only real change i can attribute to finasteride/dutasteride i have been taking that is not psychological is that my semen volume has decreased by quite a large margin, i don't know if there are any supplements that can help with that.

 

[recedingornot87]

On finasteride and now dutasteride my libido dropped a tiny bit, but still able to get erections when i needed. The only real change i can attribute to finasteride/dutasteride i have been taking that is not psychological is that my semen volume has decreased by quite a large margin, i don't know if there are any supplements that can help with that.

Yeah that was another side I got. Semen volume decreased significantly.

 

[recedingornot87]

I'm surprsed it hit you that hard. I thought it took two weeks to regain normal dht levels after stopping finasteride. Was it at the end of the two weeks?

At the end of the first week I was pretty much back to normal.

 

[Falsenine]

@Derelict how’s duta working out for you bro? Any improvements?