increased finasteride dosage makes me hornier

[techprof]

Guys:
Wanted to share this with you. Had been taking finasteride from 0.625 last year to 1.25 mg per day for the last 4months or so. No side effects.
Recently moved to 2.5 mg every other day (no effect in hair fall or shedding). Getting really hornier now.
Waking up with a wood and needs to either have sex or whack off at least once a day now.
are there any reasons for this?

 

[drinkrum]

Temporary increase in testosterone. This will level off as the HPTA adjusts.

D.

 

[techprof]

thanks D.

 

[j25]

I've experienced something similar. During the first couple of weeks on propecia, i had a considerable drop in libido, imaginery or not. Then my libido sky-rocketed, felt like having sex twice or three times a day. Now (11 months) things seems to have returned to normal again.