Finasteride really that bad regarding sex life?

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6 hours ago, Odysseus said:

Murray Avenue Apothecary. I don't want to come across like I'm throwing them under the bus or criticizing them in any way, because I'm not. I always found them to be very helpful and efficient when I reached out to them. And it is very difficult to tell how well a drug is working when its job is to slow down hairloss - because we can't peer into another universe where we didn't take it and compare those results with ours. 🤷‍♂️ But my sense is that it didn't do as good a job as the oral Dut did.

I had no noticeable side effects while on the topical Dut.

 

14 hours ago, helpthisguypls said:

Which topical dutasteride did you use and did it have side effects?

he used oral dut without side effects, so topical would not be an issue for him. i wouldnt use his experience on dut as a gauge that topical dut is side effect free

[SoSoz]

On me it has 0 impact, it was in my head before. I take it 3x a week

[Odysseus]

On 10/5/2023 at 1:11 AM, Odysseus said:

Oh, I have no doubt whatsoever that the issue is the Finasteride. It did the same thing to me when I tried it 20 years ago (so I switched to oral Dutasteride, which didn't have that side effect). What I'm saying is that the Tadalafil removes the limp dick issue. I was waking up with morning wood on a regular basis despite the Finasteride. If I had the Tadalafil in hand, I wouldn't be in this position. That said, I am leaning toward getting back on oral Dutasteride. The only reason I got on Finasteride again is because Eugenix recommended it so strenuously and I thought I'd give it another try. Until the July switch to oral Finasteride, I had been using topical Dutasteride for years...but I don't think it worked very well.

It's my fault that I ran out of Tadalafil. I should have been paying closer attention to how many were left. Now I'm in a bind because the young woman has invited herself to spend the night tomorrow. I was hoping to put off her next visit until late next week when my order might be here...but I'm obviously not going to tell her no. But the situation sucks. And what makes it even worse is that the quickest way to ensure you don't get an erection is to worry about whether you will get an erection! Uuugh. 🤦‍♂️

Okay, here is what I have discovered about where things stand taking oral Finasteride and also 5 mg Tadalafil daily. Out of sheer luck (If you believe in that sort of thing) my Tadalafil shipment arrived early, just hours before the young lady was supposed to come to my house. I promptly popped four pills (giving me a full 20 mg dose, standard to help with erections) and assumed my troubles were over! And on top of having the Tadalafil, it had been 48 hours since I last took any Finasteride...so maybe that would help lessen the side effects. The result? Mr. Friendly was only at about 70% efficiency. 😒 We still had a great time, but, on the inside, I was NOT happy that I wasn't able to give her my best work. Then she came back a few days later and I repeated the 20 mg dose (but now built on a platform of 5 mg a day in the intervening days and not having taken any Finasteride in 5 days). Mr. Friendly was at about 75 - 80%, so I was still disappointed. I want her to get the full experience (thankfully, she is very happy with my other tricks. If that weren't the case, I would be pretty devastated. This is a girl I have wanted for quite a while and she's 20 years younger than I am).

So, now I have decided I'm going to follow Melvin's suggestion and split up the Finasteride pills and take them Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If that doesn't fix things, I'll have to bite the bullet and get the Xyon topical Finasteride...but that $100/month price tag is painful. But I need my dick to work properly and I want hair, so I have to find something that allows for both. 

[LeveledUp]

Maybe anecdotal took a break from Fin been nearly a month and I feel like E quality has improved.

Going to start again next week but do 1mg 3x a week rather than daily. 

[4Godot]

On 9/20/2022 at 4:58 PM, lindros88 said:

Just want to drop a line here and say 5mg Cialis completely fixed any finasteride issue I had telling me it was likely mental/nocebo.

I think a distinction that is worth making is between loss of libido and loss of erections. Obviously lower libido will cause erection issues, but it doesn't follow that taking meds to allow you to have erections fixes the drop in libido. Libido also impacts how you think, act, feel, motivation etc. So pills that physically allow you to achieve and keep an erection aren't really dealing with the source of the problem in my opinion.

 

Just speaking as somehow who sympathizes and has had many of the same issues/ quandaries with finasteride. 

[Earnyxia]

It's a real concern, I had it too. Always chat with your doc about it. On another note, if you're up for some adult content exploration, https://phima1.xyz/phim-18/ has a positive vibe.

[Kamran10]

Hey guys , I have been on fin for the past 3 months and had no issue or side effect . Last week , my dr prescribed me a new refill and I went to pick it up from different pharmacy and since last week I lost my erection but  desire still there . No morning wood for the past few days . I realized the manufacturer of the fin is different this time . Do you guys think , it’s because of manufacturer ?should I go back to the first one . Active ingredient should be the same  but I’m not sure why I didn’t have side effect to the first one but I do to the 2nd one . Anyone has had this experience ?