Left finasteride and went topical spironolactone.. libido changes!

[Rage]

Never realised how much of a dampener finasteride was. I've been on 1/4 Proscar for nearly 2 years, but had to stop due to gyno development. It wasn't like it was "poof" suddenly there, but I believe the tissue had been steadily building up since I began finasteride. I switched to topical spironolactone, which appears to have worked since I haven't shed at all.

I didn't really feel like finasteride effected libido that much since starting it, but once I stopped it was amazing!

There is no way to describe it other than this: I feel like a man again

Somehow I think the 2% or something quoted by the finasteride studies about dysfunction is very misleading. I wasn't having any dysfunction, but something -definitely- changes. I just want people taking finasteride to be aware of that..

 

[thiningattop]

How long ago did you go off finasteride?

It could be that your body is now adjusting itself to being off of it, and that makes your libio go crazy. When i first started it, instead of my libio going down, it sky-rocketed. Then after a few weeks, my body adjusted itself, and now im back to normal. If you just recently went off of it, give it a few weeks, maybe a month, and its possible that you might go back to normal. But if it doesnt, and u still have a high libio .... Good Shiit Bro!!

 

[science-jay]

Re: Left finasteride and went topical spironolactone.. libido changes

Never realised how much of a dampener finasteride was. I've been on 1/4 Proscar for nearly 2 years, but had to stop due to gyno development. It wasn't like it was "poof" suddenly there, but I believe the tissue had been steadily building up since I began finasteride. I switched to topical spironolactone, which appears to have worked since I haven't shed at all.

I didn't really feel like finasteride effected libido that much since starting it, but once I stopped it was amazing!

There is no way to describe it other than this: I feel like a man again

Somehow I think the 2% or something quoted by the finasteride studies about dysfunction is very misleading. I wasn't having any dysfunction, but something -definitely- changes. I just want people taking finasteride to be aware of that..

For how long are you using spironolactone with succes now?

 

[Rage]

I've been off since about november.. but yes, that first week of finasteride was absolutely insane - basically had to sit cross legged all day!

When going off finasteride, most people shed like crazy but I never experienced it. It may be because it just hasn't kicked in yet, or because spironolactone is doing it's job.

 

[Thinning]

Posts like this make me wanna dump finasteride.

 

[random32]

I am the exact opposite; finasteride has kept my libido sky-hight ever since I started it

A sky-high libido is a CURSE however

 

[Rage]

How long have you been on it? That period lasts for about 2 weeks / 1 month..

then it drops back down to "normal" which is lower than pre-finasteride "normal" :/

 

[exstatic]

Posts like this make me wanna dump finasteride.

go on, DO IT.

 

[Johnny24601]

re:

Increased labido is a side effect as well. This 2% number is a lie.

 

[Guest]

Interesting.

I myself been on finasteride for nearly 2 and a half years and have not had any problems sexually. Ironically, I ended up taking about a 4 week break off of finasteride the past month(just couldn't get around to getting a new prescrip and to the pharmacy...busy), and the third week off, I had sexual dysfunction for sure. I was with my girl and I went soft. Weird. Now I'm back on finasteride, and hopefully things go back to normal.

 

[-cj-]

Interesting.

I myself been on finasteride for nearly 2 and a half years and have not had any problems sexually. Ironically, I ended up taking about a 4 week break off of finasteride the past month(just couldn't get around to getting a new prescrip and to the pharmacy...busy), and the third week off, I had sexual dysfunction for sure. I was with my girl and I went soft. Weird. Now I'm back on finasteride, and hopefully things go back to normal.

Wow, that's weird. Let us know how that goes.

 

[Old Baldy]

It is interesting how different we can be when it comes to drug reactions.

I didn't have any libido changes on finasteride. or when I stopped taking finasteride.

I did have watery semen on finasteride. but it went back to thick semen when I stopped taking finasteride.

Plus, at my age, I hope my chances of contracting high grade prostate cancer are back to normal!

Oh I forgot to mention, when weaning myself off of finasteride., I had groin pain. So that stuff was doing something I didn't know about! :-x