sex drive devistation

amrod

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been on propecia 1mg daily and minoxidil 12% applied 1ce daily for about 3 months

although the hair regrowth has been impressive ive found my sex drive to be alot lower and having constant anxiety problems - im not sure whether this is down to the medication or not but it would seem entirely possible

was thinking of lowering my dosage or something - anyone have any ideas?
 

HairyPotter

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I've been on Finpecia for about 16 1/2 weeks now and at around the 3 month mark my sex drive went to sh*t and I was having some erection problems...

It couldnt have happened at a worse time either, I was hooking up with some chick and the damn sh*t wouldnt get up... so embarassing. I know it was the Finasteride too because that has never happened to me before in my life.

Well anyways its been a little over 4 months now and I stuck with the same dosage and everything and my sex drive has "rebounded" and I no longer am having "performance problems". So my advice would be to just ride it out and hopefully it will go away for you like it did for me.
 

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Barry_Blue said:
Try L-Argenine (think I've mis-spelt that) I found it to be most useful

L-Arginine (amino acid available from health food stores)

The sexual side effects should subside with continued use of finasteride.

Otherwise try a reduced dose of 0.5mg a day.

The anxiey could be caused by the systemic over absoption of minoxidil, do you use it after showering/bathing and is your scalp still damp ?
 
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I had the same as you a few weeks after starting finasteride. I can't be certain but I think that it was a mixture of being down, paranoia and the effect of finasteride. I was so sure that I couldn't get hard - so much so that I kept trying to beat myself off- but it was so pressured that it didn;t really work

The worst thing was that I was away from my girl for 4 weeks so I had no way to test how I would react.. I almost cut of my trip to see her...

I toyed with giving up finasteride but decided to stick it out.

When I arrived at her place and consumed some vino - it all went away and was rock hard - she even commented on it.

I now realise that all the time I was by myself - I wasn't really horny - I was just trying to get hard - which doesn't - and perhaps shouldn't work. Luckily that night I was so gald to see her I forgot about finasteride, hairloss and paranoia and everything fell back into place.

After that I never had any problem - except once when I was so drunk I slept naked on a boat launch - but I would have to be pretty paranoid to blame that on the finasteride.

Just try and relax and ride it out. Hopefully your body will get back in balance and you'll be back on song.

a couple of times I have been so stressed that I can;t get hard - a sometimes, can't come, but I find that the best thing to do is just slow things down, smoke a j, talk to her.

And remember women can be just as selfish as men, so get that tounge action sorted and it'll keep her coming back for more until you are firing on all cylinders!
 
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