Looks like my time w/ Finasteride is finished

[Cincinnati Kid]

I went to my doctor's office a few days back to get a checkup because my health insurance will lapse by January first because I recently just turned 26 and can no longer be covered under my parents' insurance policy. I also kind of wanted to ask the doctor a few questions, and pick his brain a little about his experiences with men suffering from male pattern baldness. Anyway, he knew more than I thought he would. When he saw on my chart that I was taking Finasteride, he asked me about my experience with it, and I told him about feeling normal most of the time, but my lacking morning erections and watery semen quality. Just to be cautious, he ordered blood work for me.

Today, I got the results during our follow up. He had my levels from prior to taking finasteride, which were from the blood work my dermatologist ordered, as a baseline. Well, let's just say that my results were not good...really not good. Basically, my testosterone levels are in the toilet. I didn't really hear too much after that, other than that they can return back to normal after quitting the medication so long as I'm not one of the poor souls that will suffer from PFS. For the most part, I took from that visit that I tried my best on the big 3, caught it early, saw good improvements in thickness, and thought I just might be okay. But as we all know, you can try to fight back against life, and I thought I threw some good punches, but nothing hits as hard as life does. My hair follicles were just given a death sentence. Do I have cancer? No... but I'll certainly look like a cancer patient in a few short years when I'm shaving my head every other day. Spent a good hour staring at my bottle of finasteride pondering my next move before I ultimately flushed the remainder of them down the toilet. Don't even know if I'm going to bother trying RU, or even continuing minoxidil or keto treatments for that matter. Guess I'll be asking for a lot of hats for Christmas.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

Don't flush drugs down the toilet. It contaminates our water supply. Not everything gets filtered.

Right...the same way your brain managed to filter out the most important parts of my original post. I wasn't really looking for sympathy from anyone, just merely wanted to let my situation be known. But I'm glad your first response was to be the Smokey the Bear of toilet etiquette.

 

[arvindekrahi]

I went to my doctor's office a few days back to get a checkup because my health insurance will lapse by January first because I recently just turned 26 and can no longer be covered under my parents' insurance policy. I also kind of wanted to ask the doctor a few questions, and pick his brain a little about his experiences with men suffering from male pattern baldness. Anyway, he knew more than I thought he would. When he saw on my chart that I was taking Finasteride, he asked me about my experience with it, and I told him about feeling normal most of the time, but my lacking morning erections and watery semen quality. Just to be cautious, he ordered blood work for me.

Today, I got the results during our follow up. He had my levels from prior to taking finasteride, which were from the blood work my dermatologist ordered, as a baseline. Well, let's just say that my results were not good...really not good. Basically, my testosterone levels are in the toilet. I didn't really hear too much after that, other than that they can return back to normal after quitting the medication so long as I'm not one of the poor souls that will suffer from PFS. For the most part, I took from that visit that I tried my best on the big 3, caught it early, saw good improvements in thickness, and thought I just might be okay. But as we all know, you can try to fight back against life, and I thought I threw some good punches, but nothing hits as hard as life does. My hair follicles were just given a death sentence. Do I have cancer? No... but I'll certainly look like a cancer patient in a few short years when I'm shaving my head every other day. Spent a good hour staring at my bottle of finasteride pondering my next move before I ultimately flushed the remainder of them down the toilet. Don't even know if I'm going to bother trying RU, or even continuing minoxidil or keto treatments for that matter. Guess I'll be asking for a lot of hats for Christmas.

You ended it on a positive note..Its time to embrace this thing.One day or the other i would too.Its just that i am 4 years younger to you and never had a girlfriend despite better than average looks..so let me continue fighting for a while.i am still at stage 1..


I cant take finasteride now either.I would advise you to get your semem checked too.Cause my testosterone levels were above normal but my semen showed a very dark picture.

and to be honest if you grow a french beard..i bet girls will find that pretty sexy too..

 

[Notcoolanymore]

Damn that sucks. Maybe RU is worth looking into if you really want to try to keep your hair? Not sure how easy it is to get or how reliable the quality is. At least you gave it a good fight. Hopefully you can adjust to living life with less hair. Good luck.

 

[arvindekrahi]

Damn that sucks. Maybe RU is worth looking into if you really want to try to keep your hair? Not sure how easy it is to get or how reliable the quality is. At least you gave it a good fight. Hopefully you can adjust to living life with less hair. Good luck.

How does the lazer comb work for you man?

 

[Notcoolanymore]

Damn and you just posted your progress pics like a week ago. You were looking pretty damn good.

 

[Wolf Pack]

Don't flush drugs down the toilet. It contaminates our water supply. Not everything gets filtered.

May help some baldies. That's why I always say to people morning erections must be monitored - it's a sign of testosterone and everything working okay. OP how long were you on finasteride, dosage, other sides? Can you still get it up with p**rn/gf e.t.c?

 

[frenchy]

Damn bro, you had good progess indeed.. go for RU

 

[ssjpotato]

I got the same thing, man. Told my Doctor about loss of morning wood ect ect and he made me get blood work. He called me today to say we need to set an appointment and when I asked him if it was good or bad news he seemed to dance around it and just say look we need to discuss this. Heart sank. He's a family doctor, mum has been seeing him since before i was born and he actually helped my mother give birth to me and he's always been straight with me and even brutally honest with me when I needed it. Not a good sign that he wouldn't even tell me if it was good or bad news. I'm not looking forward to the appointment but i need to know.
I'm 21 year old... this could tip me over the edge mentally if i have no choice but to embrace it.

I hope you stay strong though, dude.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

Damn and you just posted your progress pics like a week ago. You were looking pretty damn good.

That's what chaps my a$$ the most about it. I was making really good progress. Now, I'm just counting down the days until it's all gone. I'd rather have had no success, and then stopping treatment wouldn't feel so bad.

May help some baldies. That's why I always say to people morning erections must be monitored - it's a sign of testosterone and everything working okay. OP how long were you on finasteride, dosage, other sides? Can you still get it up with p**rn/gf e.t.c?

Was on 1.25mg daily doses for the first month or so, then .625mg daily doses for about 6 months. My only sides were watery semen and lack of morning wood. During the day I could get it up fine for the most part. Some erections were softer than others, but even before finasteride that was the case. All guys know that there are erections and then there are ERECTIONS. The latter being the kind you get after a night dancing with some hot girl's trunk grinding all over your junk. I've only been off the drug for two days now, but I'm feeling okay. I can still get it up on command. Let's hope that never changes.

Damn bro, you had good progess indeed.. go for RU

Yeah, I'm considering it. The problem is it's expensive, unproven, I have no idea how to use it, or make it for that matter. I'm not made of money at this point in my life, so I don't really know what to do at this point.

I got the same thing, man. Told my Doctor about loss of morning wood ect ect and he made me get blood work. He called me today to say we need to set an appointment and when I asked him if it was good or bad news he seemed to dance around it and just say look we need to discuss this. Heart sank. He's a family doctor, mum has been seeing him since before i was born and he actually helped my mother give birth to me and he's always been straight with me and even brutally honest with me when I needed it. Not a good sign that he wouldn't even tell me if it was good or bad news. I'm not looking forward to the appointment but i need to know.
I'm 21 year old... this could tip me over the edge mentally if i have no choice but to embrace it.

I hope you stay strong though, dude.

Yeah, I'm teetering on sanity right now, but I'm trying to keep it together. I'm just not ready to be bald, I don't think I'll ever be, nor should any man ever have to be. Life isn't fair, never was fair, and never will be fair. I guess I'll just have to work doubly hard on getting my body in shape. My facial hair sucks, it looks all patchy when grown out... kinda like Keanu Reeves. I wish all of you the best in your fight, even though it's looking like my fight is just about over.

 

[smyth01]

I got the same thing, man. Told my Doctor about loss of morning wood ect ect and he made me get blood work. He called me today to say we need to set an appointment and when I asked him if it was good or bad news he seemed to dance around it and just say look we need to discuss this. Heart sank. He's a family doctor, mum has been seeing him since before i was born and he actually helped my mother give birth to me and he's always been straight with me and even brutally honest with me when I needed it. Not a good sign that he wouldn't even tell me if it was good or bad news. I'm not looking forward to the appointment but i need to know.
I'm 21 year old... this could tip me over the edge mentally if i have no choice but to embrace it.

I hope you stay strong though, dude.

What! So you could have something serious wrong with you?

 

[ssjpotato]

What! So you could have something serious wrong with you?

Yes. I got my testosterone and liver tested. Either way, it sounds like bad news and I'm not feeling good about this. I mean, as long as it's not cancer, right? But losing my hair and no way to stop it... fkn death sentence anyway.

 

[hmm]

So you felt fine and finasteride has been working for you and you just quit cold turkey because of this doctor? How about hitting the gym and getting active that will raise your Testosterone naturally. This has worked for me while on finasteride for 9 years... I would try this first, see how you feel and then retest blood work from a second doctor. I'm sorry but you are crazy to just give up after one opinion. :freaked2:

 

[smyth01]

Don't see how finasteride can drop testosterone levels. Studies have always show around a 10% increase. Lowered test can come with ill health so it could be completely unrelated to finasteride.

 

[ssjpotato]

Don't see how finasteride can drop testosterone levels. Studies have always show around a 10% increase. Lowered test can come with ill health so it could be completely unrelated to finasteride.

I don't know, man.

Once i started taking finasteride my morning wood went away ect I have other sides that have now lasted longer than three months. I told him about it and how I thought it might be psychological. he told me loss of morning wood isn't a good thing and indicates a physiological problem rather than psychological.

You could be right. It might be unrelated to finasteride. I'm not dismissing that option just yet. It could just be coincidence the sides started after taking finasteride.

I'm seeing him next week to discuss the bloodwork so I guess I'll see.

 

[Aesthetic]

I don't know, man.

Once i started taking finasteride my morning wood went away ect I have other sides that have now lasted longer than three months. I told him about it and how I thought it might be psychological. he told me loss of morning wood isn't a good thing and indicates a physiological problem rather than psychological.

You could be right. It might be unrelated to finasteride. I'm not dismissing that option just yet. It could just be coincidence the sides started after taking finasteride.

I'm seeing him next week to discuss the bloodwork so I guess I'll see.

how do u know if u had low t prior to finasteride?

how can finasteride even make ur T get lower?

do u workout? r u over weight? whats ur diet like?