-
Quitting propecia, share your thoughts:
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.
-
Senior Member
Originally Posted by 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.
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.
-
Originally Posted by Kayman
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.
-
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.
-
Senior Member
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?
-
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.
-
Originally Posted by 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.
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
-
Senior Member
See its these posts which make me avoid Fin....
-
Originally Posted by Assemblage23
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.
-
Senior Member
Originally Posted by 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.
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.
Similar Threads
-
By philippe in forum Men's Hair Loss: Start Your Own Topic
Replies: 4
Last Post: 03-11-2017, 12:24 AM
-
By Turk Durmac in forum Hair Loss Treatments
Replies: 18
Last Post: 03-28-2013, 10:34 PM
-
By montreal6130 in forum Hair Loss Treatments
Replies: 13
Last Post: 01-31-2013, 02:51 PM
-
By rtpatter in forum Hair Loss Treatments
Replies: 5
Last Post: 01-25-2012, 07:23 PM
-
By g k in forum Men's Hair Loss: Start Your Own Topic
Replies: 5
Last Post: 09-22-2009, 07:07 AM
Tags for this Thread
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
Forum Rules
|
» IAHRS
» The Bald Truth
» americanhairloss.org
|
Bookmarks