I've done a forum search for topics discussing this and started feeling bad after reading posts in thread results...
Basically I've been told, and under the impression (for 18 months, which is how long I've been on Propecia...may stop it any day now, after what I've read today) that one, Propecia may cause loss of libido in some patients taking the drug, and any side effects that may pop up can be fixed by simply discontinuing, even if this would take months to wear off.
To me this has seemed to be the official and accepted truth though now I am seeing what seems to be official evidence somewhere that this causes permanent ED in some males....even if this ED isn't like you can't get an erection at all, but just having a harder time getting one, thereby reducing the erection rate to 80% for the rest of your life.
I take words with a grain of salt, but I was curious of what's now the forum's current opinion of this subject.
Last few questions I have:
1. Does anyone on finasteride/Propecia have problems holding their urine in? Whenever I get the urge to pee (I pee about say 3 or 4 times a day) it's like I can barely freaking hold it in. I resort to having to walk around or flex my muscles sometimes telling myself to hold it in. I believe someone answered me months ago saying Propecia's most likely the reason. Reason I'm asking is, I noticed I had this problem even before using Propecia...maybe it's sex-related? As in engaging in frequent sex/masturbation may have something to do with it?
2. Is it possible that v**** or any other potence increasing drug could fix any possible sexual side effects of Propecia? I'm not talking only about temporary side effects (which means they'll heal on their own) but "permanent" effects as well. Can't someone just take v**** for a while and get all their potence back that way?
If only Male-P Baldness didn't exist...then again, that's (to me, the crap known as) life, though I sure hope nothing to even any degree permanently affected me or that I can't "regain" after using something like v**** from a legit pharmacy. Something like Hair Direct would so have fixed this issue up...though here's a little trivia as to why I went on Propecia and decided to be on it temporarily.
I live in a family of 5. I have two brothers and I'm the youngest at 21 years. I can't really live around them when they know I have hair that's not mine on (I know I can't hide this fact forever, that is if I manage to go past the first few weeks not making anything seem suspicious) since well...they'd be pissed at me, especially my dad...older brother would pester me beyond belief, other brother would constantly question me. Only person I could manage to put up with is my mom but even still that would be difficult, though worth the try IMO.
My plan was to use Propecia/Minoxidil (recently stopped Min due to the WTFdifficult use while living a normal life...considering I'm not thinning in just a spot but pretty much all over my head, not to mention its flakes and residue it buries in my scalp), use those until I either get out of the house and live my own life, or my dad leaves/retires and lives somewhere else, and my brothers live their own lives elsewhere. That way I'd have no one to deal with except maybe my mom, which like I said is not much of a problem.
It's been 8 months of minoxidil...and 18 months of Propecia at this point. This may very well be my last day of Propecia. Ironically, my new prescription of 3 months Propecia started 3-4 days ago....may need to trash it, depending on what I get convinced of.
Honestly I can't tell for sure if my libido is lower JUST BECAUSE of the drug. I can say a big factor to my recent half-***'d "masturbation-life" is because of life occurrences that depressed me, that have nothing to do with Propecia. Of course I am still able to achieve erections (without difficulty) as recently I know what my libido can be like. I guess what I'm trying to say is I haven't been doing it lately which means little.
Even if something did happen within those 18 months that couldn't be fixed somehow, from passage of time or something like v****, at least I know I was destined to have half-***'d pleasure anyway, thanks to manmade re(tarded)ligious-based circumcision.
Basically I've been told, and under the impression (for 18 months, which is how long I've been on Propecia...may stop it any day now, after what I've read today) that one, Propecia may cause loss of libido in some patients taking the drug, and any side effects that may pop up can be fixed by simply discontinuing, even if this would take months to wear off.
To me this has seemed to be the official and accepted truth though now I am seeing what seems to be official evidence somewhere that this causes permanent ED in some males....even if this ED isn't like you can't get an erection at all, but just having a harder time getting one, thereby reducing the erection rate to 80% for the rest of your life.
I take words with a grain of salt, but I was curious of what's now the forum's current opinion of this subject.
Last few questions I have:
1. Does anyone on finasteride/Propecia have problems holding their urine in? Whenever I get the urge to pee (I pee about say 3 or 4 times a day) it's like I can barely freaking hold it in. I resort to having to walk around or flex my muscles sometimes telling myself to hold it in. I believe someone answered me months ago saying Propecia's most likely the reason. Reason I'm asking is, I noticed I had this problem even before using Propecia...maybe it's sex-related? As in engaging in frequent sex/masturbation may have something to do with it?
2. Is it possible that v**** or any other potence increasing drug could fix any possible sexual side effects of Propecia? I'm not talking only about temporary side effects (which means they'll heal on their own) but "permanent" effects as well. Can't someone just take v**** for a while and get all their potence back that way?
If only Male-P Baldness didn't exist...then again, that's (to me, the crap known as) life, though I sure hope nothing to even any degree permanently affected me or that I can't "regain" after using something like v**** from a legit pharmacy. Something like Hair Direct would so have fixed this issue up...though here's a little trivia as to why I went on Propecia and decided to be on it temporarily.
I live in a family of 5. I have two brothers and I'm the youngest at 21 years. I can't really live around them when they know I have hair that's not mine on (I know I can't hide this fact forever, that is if I manage to go past the first few weeks not making anything seem suspicious) since well...they'd be pissed at me, especially my dad...older brother would pester me beyond belief, other brother would constantly question me. Only person I could manage to put up with is my mom but even still that would be difficult, though worth the try IMO.
My plan was to use Propecia/Minoxidil (recently stopped Min due to the WTFdifficult use while living a normal life...considering I'm not thinning in just a spot but pretty much all over my head, not to mention its flakes and residue it buries in my scalp), use those until I either get out of the house and live my own life, or my dad leaves/retires and lives somewhere else, and my brothers live their own lives elsewhere. That way I'd have no one to deal with except maybe my mom, which like I said is not much of a problem.
It's been 8 months of minoxidil...and 18 months of Propecia at this point. This may very well be my last day of Propecia. Ironically, my new prescription of 3 months Propecia started 3-4 days ago....may need to trash it, depending on what I get convinced of.
Honestly I can't tell for sure if my libido is lower JUST BECAUSE of the drug. I can say a big factor to my recent half-***'d "masturbation-life" is because of life occurrences that depressed me, that have nothing to do with Propecia. Of course I am still able to achieve erections (without difficulty) as recently I know what my libido can be like. I guess what I'm trying to say is I haven't been doing it lately which means little.
Even if something did happen within those 18 months that couldn't be fixed somehow, from passage of time or something like v****, at least I know I was destined to have half-***'d pleasure anyway, thanks to manmade re(tarded)ligious-based circumcision.