Frequent Urination/Urge to urinate since starting avodart monday

[mentalnorman]

Hi all. Started Avodart Monday and since yesterday I noticed that I am urinating more frequently and feel an urge to urniate more more often then I previously did. Also my bladder seems to be getting full much faster then it normally would. No painful urination or anything like that though thankfully. Find this to be quite weird since the original use of avodart is to treat the above mentioned problems not cause them! Just wondering if this is a weird transient side effect that other long term avodart users have experienced since starting the drug? I also am experiencing a loss of libido but I remember hearing about people losing there libido for a couple weeks when starting and then it returning so I'm not too worried about that at this point. Morning wood is still fine tho. I know from using ssris that the libido/erections drop significantly when starting and just about returns to baseline in 4-6 weeks. My major annoyance now is the frequent urination/urge to urinate. Makes no sense!

 

[Vlatch]

It happened to me at the beginning, it came back to normal after a few weeks.

 

[Raz]

I had what you have when I started finasteride. Subsided in about 3 days for me so that it wasn't noticeable anymore. During the first 3 days I literally had to pee like 3-10x more a day... After those few days, it was only maybe like 1-2x more per day for a few weeks, then going back to normal.

 

[mentalnorman]

Vlatch how long did it take exactly for the effect to go away? Also did you notice that your bladder got full much faster and the urine steam wasn't as strong? Raz didn't have this effect at all while on finasteride. No positive results either unfortunately. Hopefully it goes away though!