Propecia induced performance anxiety?

[Orca]

Hey, I've been on propecia for about a month, and up until now experienced no sides.
Last night however was the first time having sex in this month, and I couldn't perform. I still get morning wood, I had successfully mastubated just hours before, she could get me rock hard in 10 seconds with oral, but as soon as it came to actually sticking the damn thing in, he was like NOPE and went all floppy.
I did feel a bit worried that the propecia would stop me peforming, but I didn't realise I was that anxious about it! I have experienced performance anxiety before, when I first lost my virginity, but it wasn't a problem I thought I'd ever get again. I can see this being a self-fulfilling prophecy; Since it happened once I'm just gonna worry next time and then stress is gonna make it happen again.

The sensible part of me says it's not the propecia, and I'm just submitting to the fear mongering I have read about propecia, but it is worrying me.

[chrisis]

What dose are you on? I had side effects a couple of months after starting. I came off it for now and may return at a lower dose.

You could try 0.25mg or 0.5mg. It's a compromise between keeping your hair and keeping your wood.

[clandestine]

If you could get hard previously while masturbating, or when she was giving you head, then it is performance anxiety. Without a doubt.

Research performance anxiety, the askmen article is pretty good. The answer lies in you relaxing, getting out of your head about it, in short. But read up. Something you have to work over yourself, mentally.

Also, stop seeing it as a self-fulfilling prophecy. With this mindset, it will be. But that's obvious. So, stop it. It's not. Unless you make it. Simple; switch your modality of thought.

Good luck to you. Cheers.

[clandestine]

It's a compromise between keeping your hair and keeping your wood.

Also, **** this^

Not you, chrisis, the fact that your statement holds truth. **** that, **** compromise such as this.

Here's to hoping for new treatments. Because **** that.

Cheers.

[Orca]

What dose are you on? I had side effects a couple of months after starting. I came off it for now and may return at a lower dose.

You could try 0.25mg or 0.5mg. It's a compromise between keeping your hair and keeping your wood.

I did think about this, but I thought if I have propecia related ED it would affect me all the time rather than just when I wanted to have sex. Getting an erection on my own is as easy as it ever was.

[Orca]

If you could get hard previously while masturbating, or when she was giving you head, then it is performance anxiety. Without a doubt.

Research performance anxiety, the askmen article is pretty good. The answer lies in you relaxing, getting out of your head about it, in short. But read up. Something you have to work over yourself, mentally.

Also, stop seeing it as a self-fulfilling prophecy. With this mindset, it will be. But that's obvious. So, stop it. It's not. Unless you make it. Simple; switch your modality of thought.

Good luck to you. Cheers.

Yeah I thought it was most likely. I'm quite an anxious person so that probably doesn't help with performance anxiety. I'll take a look at the article, cheers man.

[Maradona]

Also, **** this^

Not you, chrisis, the fact that your statement holds truth. **** that, **** compromise such as this.

Here's to hoping for new treatments. Because **** that.

Cheers.

why the **** does it have to give side effects? can life be simple for once?

These companies are making gazillions off of us, can they at least not **** us up for life? or be effective?

sighs...i just hope replicel/aderans give something similar to propecia for the young cats .

[SoothSayer]

Hey, I've been on propecia for about a month, and up until now experienced no sides.

Last night however was the first time having sex in this month, and I couldn't perform. I still get morning wood, I had successfully mastubated just hours before, she could get me rock hard in 10 seconds with oral, but as soon as it came to actually sticking the damn thing in, he was like NOPE and went all floppy.

The sensible part of me says it's not the propecia, and I'm just submitting to the fear mongering I have read about propecia, but it is worrying me.

If you successfully masturbated hours before you failed to have sex it is obviously in your head. Propecia induced erectile dysfunction is not something that comes and goes. Good luck with everything if you decided to proceed while knowing about the risks.

[bob13]

its your head man.

[clandestine]

I'm a terribly anxious person, myself. My best to you, try not to over think these things. And be thankful knowing it's not the finasteride.

[jayth]

I kinda had the same thing the first time I had sex on finasteride. I think it was all in my head. If I had never heard all the terrible things about Fin on this site I bet nothing would have happend. But you are convinced after reading it so many times that your not gonna be able to get it up and guess what....Your right.

[Orca]

Thanks for the replies guys. Like you said, I think it's best to just relax and not think about it. You have very much helped put my mind much more at ease though . Just need to get over this bump once and I know after that I will be absolutely fine. I forgot to mention that we even managed to have sex for about 10 minutes, which I spent worrying about keeping my erection, and of course all the anxiety caused me to actually lose it. I think all the fear mongering looking at sites like propecia help and all the talk of 'post finasteride syndrome' has just sent my anxiety skyrocketing.

[Orca]

Hey guys, just wanted to provide an update.
Had sex last night, relaxed, told myself all my issues were in my head. Was rock hard all night, no anxiety issues or loss of boner. It was great.
The only difference I could see was that I took my propecia at about 3pm the day before, and only took my propecia the night I had sex afterwards, about 11:45ish pm. I doubt my dht levels could return to normal in that time so it definitely was all in my head. Thanks for the support guys!

[chrisis]

Not trying to alarm you but I didn't notice my issues kicking in until 2-3 months after I started taking it.

If they do come back, you'll know they're not just in your head because they won't just come and go like this time.

I'd say chill out unless it starts severely impacting your sexual health.

[Orca]

Not trying to alarm you but I didn't notice my issues kicking in until 2-3 months after I started taking it.

If they do come back, you'll know they're not just in your head because they won't just come and go like this time.

I'd say chill out unless it starts severely impacting your sexual health.

I guess so, it's still a possibility in the future no doubt, but I'm hoping I won't be one of the 2% or so affected. This definitely was not a propecia thing, this was definitely an anxiety thing.