Quitting propecia, share your thoughts:

[Assemblage23]

Hi all,

Hair loss truely strikes where it hurts the most as a young man. You have to deal with a conflict between your loss of attractiveness and your libido. You barely got out of your adolescence and what you thought was your youthfull looks are already falling apart. This is absolutly devastating especially when you where looking forward so much to adulthood as a teen who grew up in a very conservative environment.

I chose to get on Propecia two years ago because I was desperate for some regrowth in the frontal area. Denial cost me my temples and the forelock started to thin when I hit 22. I was hoping to god I would see some real regrowth and minox was really hard to apply constantly and making my hair even more frizzy/tumbleweed-looking. I had an insanely high sex drive and I always thought I had very high T due to my appaearance and sex drive(very hairy very muscular as a teen).

So I got on Propecia, hoping and thinking I would just stop if a cure ever came out or if the sides where too much to cope with. Here I am today.

I never had any gyno, I ejaculate like a pornstar, and my balls ached a little bit for the first month on finasteride, but it went away.

But my penis is numb, I barely feel anything a girl does to it. And I miss being looking forwad to sex or being exited to see a girl. I rarely get horny and I only get turned on when I actively try to get aroused.

I no longer wake up like a raging hornball eager to find something to masturbate to or someone to ****. I just go on with my life and get slightly aroused when a girl is heavily making out with me or when I'm watching some porn.

The crazy thing is that before I took propecia I had only laid four girls at 24.
I started taking it and now I get laid with a new girl LEFT AND RIGHT about twice a month. I started taking it and it gave me a sense of urgency about my powers of seduction.

Maybe my loss of libido make me look at girls in a different way that makes me more attractive to them. I'm no longer needy and my thoughts are clearer when I interract with them. Getting laid is very easy for me these days it's just about going out and flirting with every woman I see and a couple will respond positively every night. Two thirds don't reply the next day and some of them give me the relationship/I've been hurt before lecture but I still live in a porn movie these days.

Many men with my level of libido probably feel fine. I am fine actually, I can still perform but I just miss the random thoughts and being exited about seeing someone and the very intense arousal. I just screw around like a sociopath trying to feel something and I don't feel happy about it. I just want the random boners to come back and to have fantasies and strong urges to keep the fun in my dull sex life.

Going bald is still scary as ****. Truth be told, I wish I had gotten on fin at the first sign of hair loss but now I'm not sure what I have is worth fighting for. I have already posted pictures on here I'm an advanced norwood 3 at 26.


Sorry about the long biography. I will keep you updated about my libido coming back or not. I really hope someone can contribute to this thread by adding his experience.

[Kayman]

Hi all,

Hair loss truely strikes where it hurts the most as a young man. You have to deal with a conflict between your loss of attractiveness and your libido. You barely got out of your adolescence and what you thought was your youthfull looks are already falling apart. This is absolutly devastating especially when you where looking forward so much to adulthood as a teen who grew up in a very conservative environment.

I chose to get on Propecia two years ago because I was desperate for some regrowth in the frontal area. Denial cost me my temples and the forelock started to thin when I hit 22. I was hoping to god I would see some real regrowth and minox was really hard to apply constantly and making my hair even more frizzy/tumbleweed-looking. I had an insanely high sex drive and I always thought I had very high T due to my appaearance and sex drive(very hairy very muscular as a teen).

So I got on Propecia, hoping and thinking I would just stop if a cure ever came out or if the sides where too much to cope with. Here I am today.

I never had any gyno, I ejaculate like a pornstar, and my balls ached a little bit for the first month on finasteride, but it went away.

But my penis is numb, I barely feel anything a girl does to it. And I miss being looking forwad to sex or being exited to see a girl. I rarely get horny and I only get turned on when I actively try to get aroused.

I no longer wake up like a raging hornball eager to find something to masturbate to or someone to ****. I just go on with my life and get slightly aroused when a girl is heavily making out with me or when I'm watching some porn.

The crazy thing is that before I took propecia I had only laid four girls at 24.
I started taking it and now I get laid with a new girl LEFT AND RIGHT about twice a month. I started taking it and it gave me a sense of urgency about my powers of seduction.

Maybe my loss of libido make me look at girls in a different way that makes me more attractive to them. I'm no longer needy and my thoughts are clearer when I interract with them. Getting laid is very easy for me these days it's just about going out and flirting with every woman I see and a couple will respond positively every night. Two thirds don't reply the next day and some of them give me the relationship/I've been hurt before lecture but I still live in a porn movie these days.

Many men with my level of libido probably feel fine. I am fine actually, I can still perform but I just miss the random thoughts and being exited about seeing someone and the very intense arousal. I just screw around like a sociopath trying to feel something and I don't feel happy about it. I just want the random boners to come back and to have fantasies and strong urges to keep the fun in my dull sex life.

Going bald is still scary as ****. Truth be told, I wish I had gotten on fin at the first sign of hair loss but now I'm not sure what I have is worth fighting for. I have already posted pictures on here I'm an advanced norwood 3 at 26.


Sorry about the long biography. I will keep you updated about my libido coming back or not. I really hope someone can contribute to this thread by adding his experience.

Come off it, forget you ever took it, shave your head, get on with life and enjoy a full libido again. You'll feel healthy and if you're fairly heavy set or muscular you can still have a bald shaved head and avoid the "ill" look many people talk about.
I know it feels scary to let go of that last little bit you got going on up there but what's it doing for you at this stage in the game? If not for your libido do it so your hair will stop playing on your mind so much, your body will thank you for it.
That was my experience and I wish I did it sooner.

[Assemblage23]

Come off it, forget you ever took it, shave your head, get on with life and enjoy a full libido again. You'll feel healthy and if you're fairly heavy set or muscular you can still have a bald shaved head and avoid the "ill" look many people talk about.
I know it feels scary to let go of that last little bit you got going on up there but what's it doing for you at this stage in the game? If not for your libido do it so your hair will stop playing on your mind so much, your body will thank you for it.
That was my experience and I wish I did it sooner.

Thank you for your reply how long did it take you to restore your sex drive?

I buzzed my hair to a stubble this summer and I was absolutly DEVASTATED. It was six milimeters. I hope shaving it with no guard will make me feel better.

[Assemblage23]

On the other hand I dont intend to give up the fight yet, I will keep using minox and nizoral, and I still hope to get a transplant or that a cure will come out before I'm too old.

It's just that I really can no longer accept not living to my full sexual potential. I might become the creepy bald man that hits on women and be considered gross by younger broads but I will experience intense lust and pleasure again from time to time.

I feel like I'm just chasing girls for validation now and it's a very bad place to be. I just hope this PFS is only hypochondriac fear-mongering and that my sex drive will be back in a matter of weeks. I will post regular updates even if I get back on fin, and I hope some other guys that have been riding the same boat will tell me what I want or don't want to hear.

It seems most guys recover after a few weeks, and they sometimes lose a little of that massive libido increase.

PFS: I don't know how much of this is true, it stopped me from quitting last year, I decided to cut it to every other day because of it.

[Exodus]

See I buzzed my hair to a three, whilst Im happy there is no hair falling out, you can still see the pattern of where I am losing hair. At 22, I still think it's a tad early for it...

Im happy to keep this look, possibly even shorter (grade 2, 1, no guard), but I was curious to see if minox/thin would thicken my hair even a little for a few years?

[chrisis]

If you're going to come off it, I'd suggest doing so gradually, i.e. lower the dose over the course of weeks or months. I'm not sure if it will make a difference but I wish I'd done that.

[Assemblage23]

If you're going to come off it, I'd suggest doing so gradually, i.e. lower the dose over the course of weeks or months. I'm not sure if it will make a difference but I wish I'd done that.

What was your experience when you stopped? I was taking one pill every other day maybe I can switch to one every three days until I finish my last tablet

[Exodus]

See its these posts which make me avoid Fin....

[chrisis]

What was your experience when you stopped? I was taking one pill every other day maybe I can switch to one every three days until I finish my last tablet

When I stopped I had a libido surge for a few weeks, then it crashed and now I'm maybe running at 50% of where I was before taking it.

Just made me think actually - if all of this was in my head, why did I experience a surge? And this is reported by many men!

If I was you I'd not take the full dose at any one time; I'd cut the tablet into bits and work from 1mg, down to 0.75mg to 0.5mg to 0.25mg.

[Kayman]

On the other hand I dont intend to give up the fight yet, I will keep using minox and nizoral, and I still hope to get a transplant or that a cure will come out before I'm too old.

It's just that I really can no longer accept not living to my full sexual potential. I might become the creepy bald man that hits on women and be considered gross by younger broads but I will experience intense lust and pleasure again from time to time.

I feel like I'm just chasing girls for validation now and it's a very bad place to be. I just hope this PFS is only hypochondriac fear-mongering and that my sex drive will be back in a matter of weeks. I will post regular updates even if I get back on fin, and I hope some other guys that have been riding the same boat will tell me what I want or don't want to hear.

It seems most guys recover after a few weeks, and they sometimes lose a little of that massive libido increase.

PFS: I don't know how much of this is true, it stopped me from quitting last year, I decided to cut it to every other day because of it.

My main side was brain fog, I suppose it went completely after about 3 months, 6 mil is long for a buzz cut, its natural to do it then look at yourself and freak out over it, you have to force yourself to keep doing it so you get used to it then it becomes the norm and that devastation you speak of disappears.
Bare in mind if you go down the transplant route its multiple surgery's over time or you'll be locked in to a life time of finasteride to prevent the native hair from falling out. That's a lot of money and personally I wouldn't trust finasteride to not completely **** my body up after taking it for twenty plus years or something, its a risk I wouldn't be willing to take. Being impotent would be much worse for me than being bald.
You might be able to maintain the stubble on your head with minox and nizoral and I think that's fair enough perhaps a cure will come out in the next few years who knows. Easier said than done I know but I think for now the best cure is a set of clippers and a change in outlook.

[Cr779]

If you're going to come off it, I'd suggest doing so gradually, i.e. lower the dose over the course of weeks or months. I'm not sure if it will make a difference but I wish I'd done that.

I agree with you here but I actually have something interesting to say about this. I went to my doctor to look at the results of my blood test that was taken the day before my last dose of propecia. I was only taking like 0.06 at this point barely any of the drug and had been weaning off for over a month. My DHT was still inhibited by about 50% at this point, pre fin I was at 3199 DHT at this point I was at about 1588. So the drug is far more effective at lower doses than people think.

Not to derail I plan to make an update thread soon enough.

But I still think weaning off is the best choice.

[Aames]

Congrats on giving up on the dream. If that's what makes you happy, I guess.

[Assemblage23]

I just had sex came twice and masturbated in her bathroom to cum a third time because she is asleep right now. My sex Life is very decent however at norwood 3 with a thin forelock i dont think i'm better off with hair and i know i could have a much higher libido

If I was happy with what's left I would stay on propecia. Feeling attractive is a greater satisfaction than running around as a horny bald man. But i cringe every time i look in the mirror at my current state. Lets see how much better i will feel sexually in a couple weeks.

[clandestine]

Congrats on giving up on the dream. If that's what makes you happy, I guess.

dickbreak dream?

[BigThinker]

Want to start by thanks for the post. It was powerful and provided a lot of insight. I'm 25 with a thinning NW2, and I have probably lost about 4 months of being on fin. I read your post and realize I've already lost some time. But, strangely enough, at the same time going through hairloss up to this point has made me stronger.

The crazy thing is that before I took propecia I had only laid four girls at 24.
I started taking it and now I get laid with a new girl LEFT AND RIGHT about twice a month. I started taking it and it gave me a sense of urgency about my powers of seduction.

Maybe my loss of libido make me look at girls in a different way that makes me more attractive to them. I'm no longer needy and my thoughts are clearer when I interract with them. Getting laid is very easy for me these days it's just about going out and flirting with every woman I see and a couple will respond positively every night. Two thirds don't reply the next day and some of them give me the relationship/I've been hurt before lecture but I still live in a porn movie these days.

Wow, this part spoke to me. Although I havn't been on fin yet, I also saw my deterring hair as a time bomb until I was completely and utterly unaesthetic, even though I have had every indication from girls that isn't the case.

Last year, with full hair, I was staying at home on the weekend and playing video games, copping out on my friends and blaming it on lack of money (which was hardly true). This year, I said f**k it, moved into a sick condo with a good buddy and have been going out every reasonable opportunity I get. In addition, my game has been totally on point and I've never been so uninhibited in my entire life.

Two nights ago, I had a work party where I stole the dance floor and had a circle of girls clapping and dancing with me as I "taught them out to dougie". Ended up going home with a girl from work whom I've been attracted to for ages, and only after I had multiple other women from work approach me. She ran her hands through my hair, which is obviously thinning and I decided to not let it bother me, and it ended up not bothering her or deterring her from what we were about to get into. I couldn't believe how "in control" I felt of my own projection onto women. It was sort of like I had nothing left to lose.

Many men with my level of libido probably feel fine. I am fine actually, I can still perform but I just miss the random thoughts and being exited about seeing someone and the very intense arousal. I just screw around like a sociopath trying to feel something and I don't feel happy about it. I just want the random boners to come back and to have fantasies and strong urges to keep the fun in my dull sex life.

Going bald is still scary as ****. Truth be told, I wish I had gotten on fin at the first sign of hair loss but now I'm not sure what I have is worth fighting for. I have already posted pictures on here I'm an advanced norwood 3 at 26.


Sorry about the long biography. I will keep you updated about my libido coming back or not. I really hope someone can contribute to this thread by adding his experience.

I'm not sure your loss of random boners is due to fin, and not due to loss of ego or maturation. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't - hear me out. To be honest, in the last year I've also lost those tendencies, up until very, very recently. I still enjoyed being with women but havn't felt "head over heals" in some time.

I just said "up until very, very recently" and I'll elaborate: Since I started hitting the gym hard, my libido and random boners have came back. I'm back to laying in bed thinking of a girl from work or school I'm super attracted to until I fall asleep and into a great dream.

I should add I've put on 8 pounds of muscle in 1 month, and I love the way I look. I hit the gym and look in the mirror and love what I see. I run my hand through my hair and see my scalp 1 inch deep from the hairline and it just doesn't even bother me. I smirk, hop in the shower, rinse with 2% keto twice a week and just function.

I think I'm really close to being at total peace with myself. I think I'll still start fin next month just to keep an NW3, but I may still bare clipper it and take fin to maintain some stubble.

I hope you don't mind my rant, but your post really spoke to me. I can connect on a lot of levels. Also, I think learning to love yourself: face, body, identity (career, etc.), intelligence, game, etc is all you have to do to get the random boners back. Maybe I'm crazy, but give it a shot.