hairloss,porn and propecia

[elnino]

update:

i lasted a total of 5 weeks and 6 days. my relapse came totally out of the blue as this chick i know was sending me erotic pics of herself. anyway i must admit it was such a weak erection it really was so...i was thinking is this it it must be the propecia killing my sex drive but two days later i had no probs at all and then two more days im back t ED.. so my libido is as high as its ever been but to know for certain i need to start again. i didnt even make it to the "flatline" period. so annoying.it takes about 3 months in total and your forbidden from looking at all sorts of porn so here i go again on my quest to rid myself of this porn induced ED.
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@thinningB420....have you abstained so for three months? as in nothing at all?? it so annoying i just dont know how i can overcome it to know if maybe its propecia thats doing it.

[sausage]

i screwed up my dick masturbating everyday, sometime giving it a good old tug for 2 hours.

Now my foreskin has scarred and tightened a little. Rough skin sits on top of the scar and gets worse everytime I jack off. Its been like this for 2 years now and won't go away even when I refrain from tugging on my tiddler.

Being bald and having a scarred **** is not a good look.

[ThinningB420]

Any update elnino?

I've been on propecia for almost a month now and so far everything seems normal.

I will say I stopped all masturbation and porn at the beginning of October for other reasons. I've been good for three months now and at this point it's pretty easy not to fall into the habit. I credit my new job for much of this as it has kept me really busy.

[elnino]

or maybe try to think of someone who you must def would not like to have sex with....

in fact im thinking back to the sexual nights ive had that have been far from satisfying. that has to stop. what will be a killer is that if i do continue with this and stay the course, and still experiencing ED im sure it will be down to propecia.

[BigThinker]

you should try to go out, or go somewhere where you don't have access to a computer

[ppxrare]

relapsed again today.... I don't trust myself, getting a porn blocker program.

[elnino]

man ive relapsed so many times but not this time. hoesntly the best thing u can do when u get the urge is to remined yourself that for a few minutes pleasure im damaging my health!! il upate again in a few weeks with the help of my courage i dont relapse!!!

[ppxrare]

too bad i only made it up to a week and relapsed, my brain tricked me into just wanting to know how it feels after 1 week of nofap. now I'm 2 days in, hope I make it to > 3 weeks

[BigThinker]

I remember there was a True Life on MTV about a guy addicted to porn. I was probably 16 or 17, and it literally scared me into limiting my porn use.

Power to you guys. I hope you reward yourself by picking up a dime piece on campus or at the bars when you're back to full charge!

[elnino]

[QUOTE=Aames;89615]Yeah, I've decided I'm quitting porn.

good for you buddy, first step is courage,

i broke my pledge at least on 7 occasions so this is the longest ive ever lasted honestly. still dying to look at it but......

[elnino]

the flatline period is basically your dick going cold turkey. as in when your 4 weeks straight without watching or masturbation of any kind, its like a reboot for you brain to re-sensitize you. i was worried reading it but it said that this is normal, im currently 18 days into it now and to be honest my libido is kicking in hard, but maybe if i last the 4-5 weeks it will go down altogether before it "reboots" again. im going to give it 7/8 weeks max, i hope to see different results then.

i must state though that this " therapy" includes a void on anything sex related, no touching,masturbating(obviously), no porn at any level, and no fantasizing if you can.

[ppxrare]

WHOA.. i find this intriguing and must ask more, since you've apparently done research. Does the "flatline" period end?

yes but its different for everyone, usually lasts from 2-8 weeks I guess.

[Aames]

Yeah, I've decided I'm quitting porn. I'm starting fin as soon as my package arrives and I want to be sure that I don't mistake one cause for another. I have already had problems getting hard with my ex in the past. Even though she was a 7.5, she didn't really compare to the girls in porn. I think a lot of men these days are having this problem.

[BigThinker]

apparently, the period where your dick goes limp and you lose all your libido when quitting porn is called a flatline period. I wonder what percentage of finasteride users who experienced side effects are actually people who lost their libido due to porn but didnt realize it until they started taking finasteride

WHOA.. i find this intriguing and must ask more, since you've apparently done research. Does the "flatline" period end?

[elnino]

well said ppx. some guys mighnt have high libido and then take fin and put it down to that but i dont want to generalise, there are some who have suffered when before it was fine.