(Repost) I’m new to this and this is my story
I’m 31 years old now, but I started about 10 years ago in summer of 2016 at 21 when I noticed my crown was thinning, Dr gave me a laser cap, minoxidil and 1mg finasteride, at first, I didn’t really notice anything bad, I knew all the horror stories online, but I still was able to function normally for years in fact,
No sides, lots of nights out with friends, girls, travel and a full head of hair, I figured I was one of the lucky ones, then some of my friends got the idea of doing sarms and I did a cycle in march of 2021 felt like King Kong for about a few weeks and built some nice muscles then … CRASH for about a month and a half. I felt like I was 80 years old, clomid did not seem to help, I recovered after this, but I never felt quite the same, I was more unstable now
Then i believe around early 2022 I stopped finasteride to see if I’d feel better, and man, felt like I was 18 again, I probably did have side effects all along diminishing my libido for all those years however instead of losing half or most of it I probably only lost 10 or 15% so it wasn’t very noticeable at first, who knows tho, but even after being off of it for a long time, I didn’t notice much hair loss
But then I did notice some, and in order to keep my hair I tried topical fin in the summer of 2023, same thing crash, I was down in colombia then and I bought probiotics which seemed to pick me up after I’d take some, along with eating red meat, figured I found the cure to bouncing back quick after stopping it
From that summer onwards, I really couldn’t handle sugar or carbohydrates without some sort of a crash, I continued to take very low dose topical mostly cause of YouTube hair channel’s promoting its safety, early 2025 I stopped, and then tried dutasteride last July. July 2025, crashed hard again but this time it took months to recover, tried topical dut late December 2025 from a doctors advice, and said enough is enough so did a 3 day water fast and ate clean as can be for a month or so and bounced back
Started pyrilutimide 1% this January and I can say it works better than fin like WAY better but I still have sides on and off, it seems as if the crashes are getting longer and harder for me, I often have zero libido, some brain fog, bad sleep, and physically, the testicles are smaller and the volume of semen is watery and “hot” feeling almost, like borderline painful
Wondering if pyrilutimide could also mess up my androgen receptors or if this is just ongoing damage from the dut/fin, I feel I can still recover decently if I go a week eating just meat and avoiding any sugar but this lifestyle is very hard for me to live, as I model, and my hair helps my livelihood in addition so do my muscles so the diet is a big problem
I know there are some here that are probably in way worse shape and I feel for you but just curious if anyone has something to add or experience with pyrilutimide or if anyone tried a libido enhancer like apomorphine or even wellbutrin
(I’d say I’m 4/10 right now side effects wise, 10 being perfectly normal, and I still get strong morning erections, I never rlly got ED symptoms but low libido absolutely