my experience with finasteride and ED

[andyoyo]

just wanted to share my experience of finasteride and ED on here...

i took finasteride like 0.5mg EOD for few months. everything seemed to be working alright, worried a bit about not having good erections. affected my sex life a bit but nothing that tangible. then a few months ago i slept with this girl and everything went swimmingly, i put on a pretty good show shall we say. so after that i got bit cocky and thought i could afford to up my dose of finasteride to 0.5mg daily to help save my hair

3 days later slept with same girl again, in the morning we went to have another go and the old fella died right at crucial moment. it was a horrible experience.

i basically dropped finasteride completely a week later. and have had persistent issues with ED since (this was about 3 months ago). not so much getting erections, just not being hard enough for long and mainly loosing it mid-game (which trust me is about one of the ****est things that can happen to a guy). once or twice i've had respectable sex but never for long. its a pretty crap situation

i appreciate some or even perhaps all of this could be psychological (though my dick going soft like that, that first time happened when i'd just had sex the night before and so think i was in a confident mood when it happened). but i'm not willing to take the chance and touch finasteride again.

i'm dating attractive girls at the moment but this ED thing is really getting in the way, and ruining the idea of sex for me, i've started taking generic v****, with varying degrees of success. not sure how to shake it.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone else who's been through something similar. especially if you went through this kinda thing and then got back to your game, maybe dont chip in if what you want to say is 'propecia has killed your dick forever' thanks

I'd also say to people out there considering taking finasteride, maybe don't do it. messing around with your sexual health or real or imagined, isn't worth it.

people on here will disagree and i know some people love finasteride and i respect their reasons, but thats my 10 cents worth - i'm back to the position i was in pre finasteride except i've got an even worse worry now too; my sexual health. i wish i'd never gone there.

any constructive advice appreciated, cheers

 

[xRedStaRx]

You're definitely panicking.

Finasteride is not that powerful to cause long lasting ED. Especially at your doses and duration.

I've went from ED to feeling fine on different doses of finasteride, I just experiment and see how I feel best, but I don't let it get to me that it's destroying my sexual health.

Right now, 0.5mg EOD seems right. Any more than that and I start feeling worse mentally more than anything, which ties to sexual health.

Don't take v****, lift weights, do cardio, and eat healthy. Watch how much better you'll get.

 

[andyoyo]

yeah i hear you, except its been going on a couple of months now. i've tried going down the gym, drinking less and being chilled about it, but my ED is still here

re finasteride and long term ED, i think you're probably right. but there are lots of opinions and experiences out there suggesting the otherwise. so i while i think that a lot of it can be psychological or other peoples scaremongering, i'm having problems myself and i cant totally discount the idea that finasteride had something to do with it.

hopefully your right and its just about getting my head straight / mojo back but i defo wouldnt go back on finasteride after this experience

 

[hmm]

It's in your head. It's called performance anxiety it has nothing to do with finasteride.

I'm going to admit something very embarrassing, back when I was younger 16-18 way before I ever took finasteride every time I'd get with a girl I'd psych myself out and I would have trouble getting hard. The more I thought about not being able to get hard the worse it was! It was terrible but it was nothing to do with a dysfunction it was all in my head. I had no problem getting hard when I was by myself. I finally conquered it by just staying calm and not thinking about it anymore. Since then and 10 years on finasteride I've never had a problem getting it up.

Point is if you think you're going to have ED chances are your mind WILL make you have ED even if there is nothing physically wrong with you. Don't stop taking finasteride, the chances for real ED are so slim it's unlikely. All of the scare posts being spewed all over these forums probably cause more people misery in that department than finasteride itself.

 

[Notcoolanymore]

i know some people love finasteride

Nobody here loves finasteride. We take it because it is all we have to combat our hairloss.

 

[andyoyo]

It's in your head. It's called performance anxiety it has nothing to do with finasteride. ...Don't stop taking finasteride, the chances for real ED are so slim it's unlikely.

I've already stopped taking finasteride for 2-3 months now. yes there's some scaremongering and BS out there but also seems there are credible people / testimonies on both sides of the debate, i think you MIGHT be right. even you say ED is unlikely, not impossible.

after experiencing ED i dont think i'd do anything to risk it now. i dont think i like the idea of being on a drug long term anyhow, just need to man up and shave the swede when the time comes. life will go on minus hair. life without a functioning dick feels like a different matter

hopefully the ED thing is all in my head and i'll work it out. wish me luck!

 

[shookwun]

Prolly p**rn induced ED

Blaming finasteride



worth looking into. it's real

 

[andyoyo]

Prolly p**rn induced ED

Blaming finasteride

i don't really watch much p**rn. but thanks for chipping in / being so helpful