Should I Quit Finasteride? (side Effects?)

[Rashid36]

I've been asking myself if i should quit fin and thinking more will i take this pill for years?

 

The thing is i've been on half a tab daily for the past 6 months and it's improved my hair so much.

 

I've always said there should be some kind on test to see if fin is causing the problem.

 

If a person has low sex drive due to depression etc should they risk ontop of this and take a medicine like fin ?

 

Also the clinic i get mine from told me not to take it for atleast 3months if i'm planning on starting a family.

 

There are alot of things involved and it can effect people in different ways.

 

What i've seen these days is many women like guys with full head of hair and if they see someone whose got more hair they would perfer that person to someone who has hairloss there are many reasons for this but thats the way it is.

 

Another thing people associate hairloss with is age they think you are old or getting old if you got hair loss and you might be like 20!

[BaronVonHairline]

I feel you brotha, I've been on this pill for 5 years with just watery semen and no morning erections but the past couple of months it's almost like I woke up one day and realized like I really am causing myself damage to my lower half.. none of this makes sense to me and it kills me. <b>All I want is a libido and hair</b> but it seems like with this pill you don't get to have both.. ironic how you take it to basically get laid and then you can't.. but hey at least you have hair rignt? It's crushing me but I can't willingly take this pill anymore and allow myself to be this way.. a happy life is more important than hair when it gets to this point.. I want a fix just as bad as you idk why I can't just be lucky for once instead of unlucky. This has ruined me

 

Story of all our lives, man. Seems so simple, right? Just let me keep my hair without risking my dick and/or brain. Not asking to win the lottery here. It's really gotten disheartening though, seeing more and more visible spots open up on my head every few weeks. Really don't know what to do. I actually went and saw a Dr. and got a prescription for fin, but still haven't committed to taking it. Those pfs stories scared the f outta me. I really wish there were just a solution for this.

[MrOneSeries]

I feel you brotha, I've been on this pill for 5 years with just watery semen and no morning erections but the past couple of months it's almost like I woke up one day and realized like I really am causing myself damage to my lower half.. none of this makes sense to me and it kills me. All I want is a libido and hair but it seems like with this pill you don't get to have both.. ironic how you take it to basically get laid and then you can't.. but hey at least you have hair rignt? It's crushing me but I can't willingly take this pill anymore and allow myself to be this way.. a happy life is more important than hair when it gets to this point.. I want a fix just as bad as you idk why I can't just be lucky for once instead of unlucky. This has ruined me

 

Aw man, not good at all.......really hope things improve for you!! :(

[Rashid36]

After been on fin for 7months 0.5mg (half a tablet daily) i can say my hair has improved alot but recently i noticed no early morning erection, no erection during the day and less interest.

 

I thought it could be other stuff but after been off fin for about 4 days i'm getting early morning erection and during the day.

 

So now i'm thinking to reduce fin further i might take half a tab every other day or a quarter tab every day ?

 

Also i feel my hair loss is too much for fin to make a big difference even if it has improved things alot i will see if it has helped my donor hair minitrization.

 

I never liked taking meds but understand sometimes you need but fin is not for me i don't even like taking alot of supplements.

 

At the moment i don't mind using minox but even that's getting expensive.

 

I'm going to give it a little more time then buzz down and see how i feel about it and then see if i want to go down the ht road.

[NeedSomeHelpBro]

Okay y'all here's my situation.. I took this propecia pill for 5 years.. since I was 17 with little to no side effects, obviously as I got older that changed and now I clearly can't use it anymore.. literally after the first time I stopped being hard during sex it happened again after when I was doing it.. in the back of my mind I was thinking about the time it happened before and I think it made it happen the second time.. it's like the fear of knowing it could happen terrifies you.. that I didn't want it to want it do and it did.. and there was a few times I literally couldn't get hard at all with my gf even with stimulation and that's when I knew I can't take this pill anymore.. it crushed me.. I was convinced it wasn't mental but obviously that plays into it to.. it's been so hard.. then I contributed it more to propecia and obviously after that I just had to quit.. I'm just terrified that will happen with somebody else and that's scary.. how can I just not think about it? it's been so hard to not take it cause it feels like 5 years of effort and my life down the drain.. just to lose it all? I don't seem to have many more options tho I haven't taken propecia since January 9th so.. I see it getting real bad for me soon in the hair department.. if you look at my relies you can see where my hair is currently at.. I see the end coming but yeah.. what do u think? Obviously I'd rather have hair then a broken wang and obviously this pill is not ok for young men.. being off it for this long has shown me how different I was in all aspects vs when I was off it.. a grown man needs DHT for more then hair. That pill turns u into something broken.. it's sad really. I want to live a normal life.. I'm so torn on what to do.. I just wanna be a regular guy.. the anxiety has been bad.. I've been trying to eat rignt and sleep right.. imma keep doing that.. but yeah.. what do y'all think I should do? Or can do.. about all this.. I wanna be normal sexually and I hope time can help me.. I don't want it to just randomly get soft ever again.. I'm 22 and that's just not ok.

[MAGNUMpi]

I also can't live my life with sexual side effects. Id rather be healthy sexually then anything else..

Ive been on Fin for 10+ years without side effects but this quote pretty much answers the question for you.

[NeedSomeHelpBro]

Ive been on Fin for 10+ years without side effects but this quote pretty much answers the question for you.

 

It's funny because since I took it since I was 17 I had none.. like, watery semen and lack of morning erections was the only two things I had.. how can someone honestly take it for over 10 years and have nothing? I find it hard to believe.. like you had ZERO effects? The effects I had started happening to me in the last couple of months.. erections hard to maintain and get.. losing erection during sex twice.. like.. it's been so stressful for me.. I want to live a normal life and have no effects.. but my confidence will literally be shattered if I lose my hair.. is there really anything else I can do? I attached picture of my hair where it's at.. I don't want to be a bald loser.. what should I do? Why can't I just have no effects.. I'm 22 now.. it can't be this bad at my age

[dagwood]

I used to take the full dose (1mg). Then switched to a half dose. I can go for months without any side effects but a couple times I have (mild). I really don't want to cut the dose lower than half either.

 

I just stop taking fin for maybe a few days or a week, and let it clear out of my system. When all symptoms are gone I start up again. So maybe average twice a year I have to quit fin.

 

Maybe the fin just builds up after taking it everyday for months and months and you got to clear it out once in a while. IDK

[Rashid36]

When i started fin half tab daily there was no sides after 2 to 3 months started seeing big difference so i continued it for about 7 months in total only recently got sides.

 

Stopped fin for about a week and things are normal (thank God)

 

Now i'm starting a quarter tab daily, if it effects I will stop it fully.

[Dolph1969]

Honestly, better to have a work d...k than hair. Seriously, if you get bad sides ,come off it.

[MrOneSeries]

I stopped taking fin about 3 weeks ago and I still don't feel back to normal. Libido still very low. :(

 

I'm getting a blood test done at the docs this week as I want them to check my hormone levels.

Will be interesting if anything comes up in the test - maybe low testosterone. Not sure what the doc will give me for that, if anything?

[Rashid36]

I just had a general check up blood test and it showed my cholesterol levels were higher than last year when i did not take fin. I wonder if fin had anything to do with this or not or what other things can fin change?

 

I've read different things on fin and cholesterol lipid levels on the internet.

 

I know alot has been said about possible side effects with fin but regarding my experience, i know for sure...

 

Now the thing is i can see alot of miniature hairs coming thru...

[NeedSomeHelpBro]

Honestly, better to have a work d...k than hair. Seriously, if you get bad sides ,come off it.

 

I did get bad sides and I did come off.. but now my worst fears are coming through.. I don't want to lose my hair. My confidence starts and ends with my hair.. I don't want to be a bald loser with a working penis.. what's the difference if you look at the pics I just posted you can see where my hairs been at.. I can see them slowly miniturizing.. I just don't want to let go.. is there really no alternative to this issue? How is it 2017 and yet there are zero changes in how we deal with something so stupid like hair loss.. I don't want to let this go. What do I do? I'm so depressed

[hsrp10]

Hey man a few of us mentioned possibly considering lower doses spaced out further apart on page one.

Have you given it a thought? good luck

[Melvin- Admin]

I did get bad sides and I did come off.. but now my worst fears are coming through.. I don't want to lose my hair. My confidence starts and ends with my hair.. I don't want to be a bald loser with a working penis.. what's the difference if you look at the pics I just posted you can see where my hairs been at.. I can see them slowly miniturizing.. I just don't want to let go.. is there really no alternative to this issue? How is it 2017 and yet there are zero changes in how we deal with something so stupid like hair loss.. I don't want to let this go. What do I do? I'm so depressed

 

Hey dude I talked to you on BTT, you are not thinking clearly as someone who's been through bad side effects with finasteride and gone bald young, let me tell you that finding a woman who accepts you being bald is WAY easier than finding a woman who will accept your sexual dysfunction. There are way more solutions for hair then there are for ED that's a fact, let's say worse case scenario you go completely bald by 30 like I did, you could depending on your donor hair get a hair transplant and restore a lot of your hair, you could use concealers and look like you have a full head of hair, last option getting a hair system that blends seamlessly in to your native hair.

 

Now the options for ED taking viagra or cialis, this pretty much eliminates spontaneous sex, which is what most guys in their 20's are having, trust me if you do things right no one will notice you're losing hair, it's also way more embarrassing to have ED in your 20's than it is being bald, trust me my experience with finasteride was pretty much the same as you, I had no problems getting dates after quitting finasteride, I've even talked about this with my current gf, I told her about my experience with finasteride, she knows all about my transplants and went with me to all of my procedures. Her reply to me was "why would you take something that gives you ED, being bald is not that bad but ED..." so that pretty much summed it up for me.

[NeedSomeHelpBro]

Hey dude I talked to you on BTT, you are not thinking clearly as someone who's been through bad side effects with finasteride and gone bald young, let me tell you that finding a woman who accepts you being bald is WAY easier than finding a woman who will accept your sexual dysfunction. There are way more solutions for hair then there are for ED that's a fact, let's say worse case scenario you go completely bald by 30 like I did, you could depending on your donor hair get a hair transplant and restore a lot of your hair, you could use concealers and look like you have a full head of hair, last option getting a hair system that blends seamlessly in to your native hair.

 

Now the options for ED taking viagra or cialis, this pretty much eliminates spontaneous sex, which is what most guys in their 20's are having, trust me if you do things right no one will notice you're losing hair, it's also way more embarrassing to have ED in your 20's than it is being bald, trust me my experience with finasteride was pretty much the same as you, I had no problems getting dates after quitting finasteride, I've even talked about this with my current gf, I told her about my experience with finasteride, she knows all about my transplants and went with me to all of my procedures. Her reply to me was "why would you take something that gives you ED, being bald is not that bad but ED..." so that pretty much summed it up for me.

 

 

If you look at my last message you can see where my hair is at in pictures.. it just seems to be miniaturizing at the temples.. I can't just let it go.. 5 years I've been on this pill man.. since I was 17 years old.. am I really just gonna keep sitting back and allowing my hair to thin out? It breaks my heart to see my hair thinning but the ED I started to suffer which was really just out of nowhere.. during sex twice with my ex GF.. losing my erection.. that crushed her and me.. and trying to get hard and not being able to.. that terrified me.. I feel like my hair is what keeps me normal.. I want to get girls and be attractive.. not a bald loser. I'm gonna have to wear hats 24/7.. is there really no alternative for me? Why the fuck did these side effects have to come now.. I don't understand.. I had 5 years of just clear semen and no morning elections.. and as bad as that I was I dealt with it.. now I'm losing it all. being 22 and dealing with this since I was 17 has crushed my confidence.. I'm heavily debating starting up propecia again and making this deal with the devil.. I feel so lost and I don't know how I can get out of this better. I'm so crushed man.. what can I do. What do u think? I'm depressed man..

[Melvin- Admin]

If you look at my last message you can see where my hair is at in pictures.. it just seems to be miniaturizing at the temples.. I can't just let it go.. 5 years I've been on this pill man.. since I was 17 years old.. am I really just gonna keep sitting back and allowing my hair to thin out? It breaks my heart to see my hair thinning but the ED I started to suffer which was really just out of nowhere.. during sex twice with my ex GF.. losing my erection.. that crushed her and me.. and trying to get hard and not being able to.. that terrified me.. I feel like my hair is what keeps me normal.. I want to get girls and be attractive.. not a bald loser. I'm gonna have to wear hats 24/7.. is there really no alternative for me? Why the fuck did these side effects have to come now.. I don't understand.. I had 5 years of just clear semen and no morning elections.. and as bad as that I was I dealt with it.. now I'm losing it all. being 22 and dealing with this since I was 17 has crushed my confidence.. I'm heavily debating starting up propecia again and making this deal with the devil.. I feel so lost and I don't know how I can get out of this better. I'm so crushed man.. what can I do. What do u think? I'm depressed man..

 

I don't know I guess it depends on what matters more to you, having hair or a working penis, I can't answer that for you, for me the penis was a no brainer. A hair system now a days is so good no one can tell, visit northwest lace forum. You don't have to be a bald loser if you don't want to be there are options besides finasteride and hats.

 

Take a look this guy went from creepy old guy to handsome older guy within minutes, this is a real viable option for guys unwilling to cope with hair loss.

 

 

[NeedSomeHelpBro]

Hey man a few of us mentioned possibly considering lower doses spaced out further apart on page one.

Have you given it a thought? good luck

 

I have heavily considered doing this but.. I just feel like when I did try it I was just making my ED worse.. would Monday Wednesday Friday be best? I just honestly don't feel like doing this will fix my ED that have suffered from this pill.. and that scares me the most.. I don't want to start again and make myself worse. I don't want to get post finasteride syndrome.. but I don't want to lose my hair I've never been so conflicted.. I don't know if it's worth the risk.. I don't know what to do..