r/FinasterideSyndrome

I have a decent head of hair, it's thinning diffuse over the top. Still looks ok (55M) but was thinking about options. Every dick on YouTube sez to do finasteride / dutasteride, so naturally I checked Reddit.

Then I see the tear-jerking horror stories of the blokes here. God bless you all--seriously--you saved me from this.

I see a lot of pain here and I wish there was something I could do about it. But I owe you huge thanks and in fact likely many millions of men do or will.

I can only imagine the anguish of some of the people here. But you all have my thoughts, blessings, thanks, love, respect and prayers.

If there's any consolation to the "survivors" of this bullshit drug--I hope you know that in your pain you are saving the lives of countless people who owe you a massive debt of gratitude.

Yes I feel like this since getting pfs,it gets reduced if I take testosterone

It's just the feeling of not able to feel your testosterone at all I think? Isn't it?

By far the most debilitating symptom for me is muscle and soft tissue pain and wastage. iIs there any chance for improvement?!? severe nervous system deregulation is a close second.

Reaching that 5 year mark for pfs. Tried a lot of stuff. Clomid damaged my eyes. PEA and Fish oil help the most. If I had to guess it's a gaba signaling issue. Increase gaba signaling at all costs. Eventually allopregnanolone may come back. I take magnolia extract too.

Edit: I did some more research because of this post. While I do feel better taking pea it probably doesn't work for everyone who is totally crushed. Fish oil is ok but does block 5 alpha in peripheral tissue.(Not sure about this either, Ive gotten bad with research).And magnolia does have a bad effect for 5 alpha type 1 in the brain. So do research and see what's best. Grass fed butter might be better than fish oil. And valerian better than magnolia. As for increasing gaba I would just take a pharmaceutical to avoid this stuff.

Hello, given how much the individuals in this subreddit have thought about Finasteride and the associated side effects, what do people who are considering taking the drug for hair loss need to know that doesn't get commonly discussed or come up when searching for information? Specifically, the things that don't show up in search or AI results.

I realize this is a broad question but I am sure you all have great insight and I am hoping you will share your unique thoughts on this topic with those wanting to learn.

Thank you very much.

It’s basically the title.
Has anyone here who suffered from sexual side effects managed to make a 100% recovery? I only see people discussing the problems here (and i understand because anyway, that’s the forum's focus), but it would be really good even mentally for everyone who suffers to hear stories from people who managed to recover or return to normal (if that’s even possible).

Btw, i’m 21 and it’s been 7 months since I stopped taking dutasteride, and I feel like my erogenous zones and libido are non-existent.

Has a PFS type long term sexual dysfunction been recorded in the scientific literature after taking AR blockers? I understand heavy doses of oral AR blockers are given for some diseases, do those cause PFS?

Hey fellas been seeing some awesome recovery protocols on here! Currently executing a protocol that has been the most promising yet. Gonna give it some more time to stabilize before reporting. Stay strong!!!

For those who lost their ability to feel alcohol, which I think is everyone though I’m not really sure I have PAS, did you ever regain the ability to feel alcohol again and if so when?

Had this for 1.5 years. Only thing that helps anhedonia and the nervous system which is in freeze (google it) is ice cold showers. The shock of the cold must release either norepinephrine or something similar that I think is missing from my neuro transmitter transmission.. I read others that had theory’s of norepinephrine being an important role in this

Hey all; to get right to the point the insomnia is destroying my life. I couldn’t tell you the last time I slept a legit 8 solid hours; I have the craziest eye bags and my eyes are always bloodshot nowadays, horrible exercise intolerance, horrible cognition, etc.

The only things I’ve noticed unquestionably makes it worse is eating a lot of carbs anywhere remotely close to bedtime (I’m talking many hours beforehand) and any type of exercise at all; it’s to the point where getting my 10000 steps, which I’ve done for years now, seems to raise cortisol enough that I am HORRIBLY restless that night.

Completely at a loss on what to do right now; being inactive ALSO leaves me with excess energy / restlessness and not eating any carbs for 5+ hours before bed puts me into a stress state. Seeing a doctor on the 13th but don’t really expect to get anything out of it.

I took 2 doses of 1mg fin and I lost my morning wood and I can get hard but I’m like flaccid at the same time…

I regret trying this at all, I’d rather be bald than have a non functioning member.

I’m immediately hopping off and I’m curious if there’s anything I can do to get the drug out of my system faster. Any help is appreciated…

Im at the end of my rope with this bullshit just trying anything now. I def have sibo bc I did a biomesight test and had stupidly high levels of methane and hydrogen. The rest of my gut was actually pretty good with lots of good bacteria and I had no issues besides that.

I’ve definitely had GI issues ever since this started so might be something to look into. Sibo seems like a bitch tho because rifaximin is insanely expensive and neomycin is dangerous af. I tried the herbal route of allicin and berberine and it did nothing

Does anyone know if ketotifen is safe to use with post-finasteride syndrome (PFS)? Since developing PFS, I’ve been struggling a lot with histamine intolerance and food intolerances. Please answer... I'm at the end of my rope... it's my only hope left... I want to get out of here... I can't take this anymore after 16 months.

Hello guy, so I wanted to share my experience to see if there people who had a similar experience to me.

I'm late 20's, started fin around 3/4 years ago, when I started I got sexual side effects, and gyno, I decreased the dose, and the sexual side effects went away nearly completely, sadly my gyno kept getting bigger.

Every 3 to 6 months, I would stop for a month to decrease the sensitivity in my nips, around 3 months ago I stopped and thought I don't wanna hop back on.

I was okay, around 2 months after stopping I noticed extremely high libido, prolonged erections it was weird but great, I was like maybe my body is getting back to normal.

One day I noticed that I don't have much sensation down there, like there is no connection between there and my brain, it was weird, it's not getting up whatsoever, and if it did get up, after a very long time, it's a half erection, and it goes away in a second, there was a connection from my brain down there, but now it's gone, it's a weird feeling, I've been like this for two weeks, and now I'm three months after stopping, everywhere I see that a lot of people recover after 3 months of stopping, but in my case that's the opposite of what happened, anyone had the same experience?

Hey was wondering how many here actually lost ability to feel all emotions. Including anxiety and depression? Or do most of you have anhedonia with ability to feel anxiety?

I can get hard but it takes time and also isn’t 100% hard. I tried tadalfil but I don’t wanna be dependent on a drug to have sex

Hoy tuve un encuentro con una chica, había tomado muy poco alcohol y fumé marihuana, nos comenzamos a besar en mi sala y estaba muy caliente, pero al momento de subir en mi cuarto la calentura se fue, tenía una erección pero se fue bajando y no regresó, es la segunda vez que me pasa algo así. Antes ya había pasado con mi ex (hace 1 y medio) yo desde pequeño he visto porno, me he masturbado y en general soy demasiado caliente. Tengo erecciones matutinas, me masturbo todos los días por calentura y si tengo erecciones firmes y duras, pero las 2 únicas veces que he estado con chicas el libido me abandona. Ya no se si estoy dañado por el porno en exceso o sea la medicación. Únicamente hubo una vez en la que estuve con una dama de compañía, no tuvimos sexo pero si me masturbo y tenía una erección firme. No sé qué me pasa, en estos días veré a mi dermatóloga y le preguntaré. Ustedes qué opinan?