Hello people, two year lurker, first time poster here.
So I finally decided to bite the bullet and take some finasteride to deal with my slow recession when I ended up getting an anxiety attack and noticing it was still progressing when I hoped it had stopped. I've been taking 0.5mg M/W/F of finpecia from inhousepharmacy for almost two weeks now just to gauge how I feel about taking it and if all goes well I'll move on to every day within the next few weeks.
Now I am a HUGE hypochondriac and this was the main reason I was against taking finasteride. I convinced myself I had ED two years ago when I was on zero medication and it manifested itself for two months thinking I had imaginary illnesses until a very kind GP managed to talk me out of taking v****. It turned out there was no problem to begin with. I already had many anxiety issues so I knew if I took finasteride I'd need to take how I feel with a pinch of salt and accept the majority of side effects were in my head.
The first second I took my first half finasteride tablet I was instantly in jitters, I had read WAY too much into the side effects and I was in a panic over what would happen to my body. Because I was so shakey and worried my penis felt numb and I struggled being able to think straight, but of course attributing it to finasteride was ridiculous and this subsided within the next day.
But my question is: how the hell do you guys convince yourselves that finasteride isn't going to screw something up when all the internet does is scream different ideas in your face? I have to test that my penis can maintain an erection all the time, check my ejaculate, and I almost definitely KNOW that constantly doing so is lowering the quality of my erection and it's almost definitely not finasteride's fault. How the hell do you remain calm?
Whenever I come on the internet to get reassurance that it's all in my head I hear everything from:
"finasteride made my hair grow back to a NW1, expanded my penis and made women fall from the sky. Every sandwich tastes great and I no longer need to piss. I am now immortal and can manipulate manner with my tentacle shaped hair."
to
"The very instant I took finasteride my penis exploded. An eerie fog crept up into my room and sucked into my brain and never left. I told the doctor about my exploding penis but he could find nothing wrong, he said my hormone levels were normal. I now have hairy G-cup breasts and feel no connection between my body and my dismembered penis. A few days later (because I was no longer taking finasteride) my body crashed into a brick wall and I became a giant boob hairless impotent blob of Ben."
I'm not trying to offend anyone's personal experiences here, but I feel so torn up taking this drug and I don't know how to calm myself down about the potential side effects because no matter what I read that is positive there is always a negative around the corner and both sides sound somewhat convincing. It's like all the panic I had about hairloss is now being focused on this effing drug and I can't win. How do you stop these feelings? I feel okay at the moment other than the quality in erections being variable, but I think this is more because I am looking into it. I don't get morning wood but to be honest I don't think I've had consistent morning wood for almost three years.
Sorry for this verbal splodge, I'll go now.
So I finally decided to bite the bullet and take some finasteride to deal with my slow recession when I ended up getting an anxiety attack and noticing it was still progressing when I hoped it had stopped. I've been taking 0.5mg M/W/F of finpecia from inhousepharmacy for almost two weeks now just to gauge how I feel about taking it and if all goes well I'll move on to every day within the next few weeks.
Now I am a HUGE hypochondriac and this was the main reason I was against taking finasteride. I convinced myself I had ED two years ago when I was on zero medication and it manifested itself for two months thinking I had imaginary illnesses until a very kind GP managed to talk me out of taking v****. It turned out there was no problem to begin with. I already had many anxiety issues so I knew if I took finasteride I'd need to take how I feel with a pinch of salt and accept the majority of side effects were in my head.
The first second I took my first half finasteride tablet I was instantly in jitters, I had read WAY too much into the side effects and I was in a panic over what would happen to my body. Because I was so shakey and worried my penis felt numb and I struggled being able to think straight, but of course attributing it to finasteride was ridiculous and this subsided within the next day.
But my question is: how the hell do you guys convince yourselves that finasteride isn't going to screw something up when all the internet does is scream different ideas in your face? I have to test that my penis can maintain an erection all the time, check my ejaculate, and I almost definitely KNOW that constantly doing so is lowering the quality of my erection and it's almost definitely not finasteride's fault. How the hell do you remain calm?
Whenever I come on the internet to get reassurance that it's all in my head I hear everything from:
"finasteride made my hair grow back to a NW1, expanded my penis and made women fall from the sky. Every sandwich tastes great and I no longer need to piss. I am now immortal and can manipulate manner with my tentacle shaped hair."
to
"The very instant I took finasteride my penis exploded. An eerie fog crept up into my room and sucked into my brain and never left. I told the doctor about my exploding penis but he could find nothing wrong, he said my hormone levels were normal. I now have hairy G-cup breasts and feel no connection between my body and my dismembered penis. A few days later (because I was no longer taking finasteride) my body crashed into a brick wall and I became a giant boob hairless impotent blob of Ben."
I'm not trying to offend anyone's personal experiences here, but I feel so torn up taking this drug and I don't know how to calm myself down about the potential side effects because no matter what I read that is positive there is always a negative around the corner and both sides sound somewhat convincing. It's like all the panic I had about hairloss is now being focused on this effing drug and I can't win. How do you stop these feelings? I feel okay at the moment other than the quality in erections being variable, but I think this is more because I am looking into it. I don't get morning wood but to be honest I don't think I've had consistent morning wood for almost three years.
Sorry for this verbal splodge, I'll go now.
