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In september 2011, I started finasteride. I took 0.5mg once every other day.
All was going well until a sexual side effect started to rear its ugly head around January, I decided to call it quits 5 months after taking the initial pill on the 1st of February.
The reason for quitting was that I was having difficulties getting it in up and maintaining the erection for any period over 60 seconds. Libido was rock bottom and no boners through-out the day. It was quite frustrating because I was beginning to see that it was started to do some good to my hair density (though it didn't stop some receding).
3-4 weeks after quitting I was almost completely much back to normal again and now I would say I'm 98% back to normal sexually.
I wanted to get some of your opinions on whether it would be a good idea to start taking finasteride again (my hairloss seems to have accelerated slightly). Has anybody quit and successfully restarted the medication without having any side effects? Will reducing the dose to 0.25mg every other day help? Or shall I not even consider touching the stuff and consider myself lucky that I recovered from the side effects in the first place?
Thanks guys
In september 2011, I started finasteride. I took 0.5mg once every other day.
All was going well until a sexual side effect started to rear its ugly head around January, I decided to call it quits 5 months after taking the initial pill on the 1st of February.
The reason for quitting was that I was having difficulties getting it in up and maintaining the erection for any period over 60 seconds. Libido was rock bottom and no boners through-out the day. It was quite frustrating because I was beginning to see that it was started to do some good to my hair density (though it didn't stop some receding).
3-4 weeks after quitting I was almost completely much back to normal again and now I would say I'm 98% back to normal sexually.
I wanted to get some of your opinions on whether it would be a good idea to start taking finasteride again (my hairloss seems to have accelerated slightly). Has anybody quit and successfully restarted the medication without having any side effects? Will reducing the dose to 0.25mg every other day help? Or shall I not even consider touching the stuff and consider myself lucky that I recovered from the side effects in the first place?
Thanks guys
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