SonfofOdin
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Hey guys, first time poster(I think). I post a lot on a natural hair loss forum, but have gone to the dark side for over two years now, in that I took the plunge and began taking finasteride. Now, I feel like this is a topic users of this forum may know a bit more about, or at least have more of a balanced opinion over. I'm trying to figure out if finasteride may be giving me sides that have crept up on me without realizing.
I'm 26 now, but started finasteride when I was about twenty three. When I first began finasteride, the first week it seemed to of messed with my emotions. I was very emotional for no reason at all but then things balanced out by the end of the week. After that week, suddenly I felt a surge of energy. I was relentless in the gym, and during my college classes I couldn't stop getting boners just from seeing girls in class and it felt like I was in middle school again. I had to 'deal with' the issue 5-6 times a day when I got home. Not only that but it felt like I could handle any workload. I took 20 credits(4 classes), worked 30 hours a week, and went to the gym 5 times a week and still had loads of energy.
Fast forward 3 months and things balance out. My sex drive wasn't as extreme and seemed more normal. I thought great, no sides. Not only that, but my rapidly advancing hair loss, had halted and began to regrow rapidly. I went from a NW4 to a thick NW3 by the end of my first year. Yes, I have very bad hair loss genetics. Around age 22 I lost just about half of my hair, and so now you see why I so quickly abandoned natural treatments.
Now on to the present day. My hair has maintained, but has stopped growing. But lately I have no desire for girls in real life. They just don't do anything for me anymore. The first red flag was when I was at a rave, and a very forward girl actually forcefully put my hands down her shirt and then more. But as she was grinding on me I think she noticed that I hadn't gotten hard. She turned around, looked at me weirdly, and walked off.
After that incident, I felt like I couldn't deny things any longer. I began keeping track of when I'd get boners. I realized they were actually happening very rarely. Very few morning woods as well. Even as recent as halloween, I went to a big party and probably had the most attractive girl there wanting to get to know me, but I blew her off because I worried something might happen, where she'd find out I couldn't get hard. I'm sorry if this is tmi. I am still able to fap but a lot of times I do it to make sure I still can, than as an urge. My question to you all, has finasteride been destroying my sex drive? Obviously if I go off the drug, I'll immediately lose just about all of my hair. My hair loss genetics are no joke, so I'm taking the decision to go off very seriously.
What can I do to narrow down the causes? All I can think to do is to try to fix my sleep schedule, and try to stop viewing prn(maybe desensitizing myself to RL girls?) and possibly try to find ways to remove stress. I just don't know at what point this testing is adequate enough to come to the conclusion it truly is the drug, and because of how aggressive my hair loss is, going off as a 'test', could mean a lot of ground lost. Thanks for any advice, and ty again for reading through this story.
I'm 26 now, but started finasteride when I was about twenty three. When I first began finasteride, the first week it seemed to of messed with my emotions. I was very emotional for no reason at all but then things balanced out by the end of the week. After that week, suddenly I felt a surge of energy. I was relentless in the gym, and during my college classes I couldn't stop getting boners just from seeing girls in class and it felt like I was in middle school again. I had to 'deal with' the issue 5-6 times a day when I got home. Not only that but it felt like I could handle any workload. I took 20 credits(4 classes), worked 30 hours a week, and went to the gym 5 times a week and still had loads of energy.
Fast forward 3 months and things balance out. My sex drive wasn't as extreme and seemed more normal. I thought great, no sides. Not only that, but my rapidly advancing hair loss, had halted and began to regrow rapidly. I went from a NW4 to a thick NW3 by the end of my first year. Yes, I have very bad hair loss genetics. Around age 22 I lost just about half of my hair, and so now you see why I so quickly abandoned natural treatments.
Now on to the present day. My hair has maintained, but has stopped growing. But lately I have no desire for girls in real life. They just don't do anything for me anymore. The first red flag was when I was at a rave, and a very forward girl actually forcefully put my hands down her shirt and then more. But as she was grinding on me I think she noticed that I hadn't gotten hard. She turned around, looked at me weirdly, and walked off.
After that incident, I felt like I couldn't deny things any longer. I began keeping track of when I'd get boners. I realized they were actually happening very rarely. Very few morning woods as well. Even as recent as halloween, I went to a big party and probably had the most attractive girl there wanting to get to know me, but I blew her off because I worried something might happen, where she'd find out I couldn't get hard. I'm sorry if this is tmi. I am still able to fap but a lot of times I do it to make sure I still can, than as an urge. My question to you all, has finasteride been destroying my sex drive? Obviously if I go off the drug, I'll immediately lose just about all of my hair. My hair loss genetics are no joke, so I'm taking the decision to go off very seriously.
What can I do to narrow down the causes? All I can think to do is to try to fix my sleep schedule, and try to stop viewing prn(maybe desensitizing myself to RL girls?) and possibly try to find ways to remove stress. I just don't know at what point this testing is adequate enough to come to the conclusion it truly is the drug, and because of how aggressive my hair loss is, going off as a 'test', could mean a lot of ground lost. Thanks for any advice, and ty again for reading through this story.
