Pretty Sure That My Libido Is Totally Gone

[ScaredOfBalding]

I agree in many cases it can be psychological but in a few severe cases I have no doubt it is completely physical.

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Why do u think that?

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[HLV]

Why do u think that?

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Well again I will stress that it’s in the minority and the majority will be fine. But it’s impossible or incredibly unlikely that every individual complaining about side effects is only experiencing them psychologically.

There are also a few objective users on the forums with no agenda who are neither pro, neither against using medications who simply state that the side effects are completely physical.

Finasteride gives excellent results but you are reducing an important hormone in the body. It’s not outside of reality that doing that potentially causes physical side effects in the minority.

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[Ljpviper]

I started taking proscar in 1995 then switched to Avodart. So almost 24 years on these drugs. I went through my 20's with no sexual issues, I am now 48. The internet did not have all the scare mongering in 90s.

I took it is as I didnt want to loose hair especially living in South Beach in 90s. Going to clubs every weekend, no thanks rather have hair.

Not saying these side are effects don't happen, but everyone is different. Just my option.

 

[ScaredOfBalding]

I started taking proscar in 1995 then switched to Avodart. So almost 24 years on these drugs. I went through my 20's with no sexual issues, I am now 48. The internet did not have all the scare mongering in 90s.

I took it is as I didnt want to loose hair especially living in South Beach in 90s. Going to clubs every weekend, no thanks rather have hair.

Not saying these side are effects don't happen, but everyone is different. Just my option.

And how is ur hair? Did u start losing hair at 24 or did u take it as prevention?

 

[Ljpviper]

Its still good, remember you do loose hair as you age. It got tad thinner but still decent for 48

 

[Moosey]

@Ljpviper
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@stachu

Personally, dutasteride has almost completely wiped out my libido. Im a mentally healthy young man. I never had depression or anxiety or anything like that. I havent watched p**rn since i was a teenager and i used to masturbate maybe once per week, with rock hard boners every single day. I didnt stress or even think about potential side effects from dutasteride. Partly because im simply not scared (even if it happens), and partly because i didnt expect it to happen to me.

The first few months, my libido got tanked by like 60%. It was very hard to keep erections and spontanous erections were reduced heavily.
Now after 8 months, spontanous erections do not happen anymore. Unless im thinking about sex intensly, or a woman is showing me affection, i do not get hard. I basically have to force it some way. I can masturbate maybe once per month now if i try really really hard, but it feels "boring".
I have also almost completely lost my desire to have sex with women. I was in the club last weekend and i literally didnt care about women at all. I basically see them as men right now. Non-sexual "Objects". Even though that is a very "rich" experience to have. To have the desire to prove yourself all the time to women.

 

[HLV]

@Ljpviper
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@stachu

Personally, dutasteride has almost completely wiped out my libido. Im a mentally healthy young man. I never had depression or anxiety or anything like that. I havent watched p*rn since i was a teenager and i used to masturbate maybe once per week, with rock hard boners every single day. I didnt stress or even think about potential side effects from dutasteride. Partly because im simply not scared (even if it happens), and partly because i didnt expect it to happen to me.

The first few months, my libido got tanked by like 60%. It was very hard to keep erections and spontanous erections were reduced heavily.
Now after 8 months, spontanous erections do not happen anymore. Unless im thinking about sex intensly, or a woman is showing me affection, i do not get hard. I basically have to force it some way. I can masturbate maybe once per month now if i try really really hard, but it feels "boring".
I have also almost completely lost my desire to have sex with women. I was in the club last weekend and i literally didnt care about women at all. I basically see them as men right now. Non-sexual "Objects". Even though that is a very "rich" experience to have. To have the desire to prove yourself all the time to women.

Sorry to hear that. I believe you. Have you considered stopping the medication?

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[JonnyGo]

For me it's also connected to motivation in other aspects of life.

What if all of these side effects are merely caused by your depression. I mean, I’ve been dealing with depression and anxiety for a very long time, and every time i read about someone’s horror finasteride story I feel like I can understand them because I experienced all of these side effects you guys are mentioning. Especially low libido and achieving/maintaining erections. Yet, I never took Finasteride.
For more than 5 years(worst of my life) I thought I was impotent and unable to ever live a normal life. Took me a long time to realize that all of these “problems” were psychologically induced.
So how do you know that all of this is not caused by psychological issues? Just asking.

 

[HLV]

What if all of these side effects are merely caused by your depression. I mean, I’ve been dealing with depression and anxiety for a very long time, and every time i read about someone’s horror finasteride story I feel like I can understand them because I experienced all of these side effects you guys are mentioning. Especially low libido and achieving/maintaining erections. Yet, I never took Finasteride.
For more than 5 years(worst of my life) I thought I was impotent and unable to ever live a normal life. Took me a long time to realize that all of these “problems” were psychologically induced.
So how do you know that all of this is not caused by psychological issues? Just asking.

I believe for a few men when they “crash” and experience the physical side effects, they can PHYSICALLY feel something has changed in their bodies. When it’s physical, it’s physical. No different if someone were to cut your arm off and you couldn’t feel it anymore.

You can’t feel your arm anymore because it PHYSICALLY isn’t there anymore. The mind has nothing to do with it. Same unfortunate experience for some of the men who can no longer feel their penis because of medication side effects. Something chemically in the body has changed.

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[HLV]

Or to put it an easier way to understand. Ever feel horny just before you ejaculate and immediately after ejaculating you don’t feel horny anymore and your desire for sex plummets and you just don’t think about sex? That’s one hundred percent a physical chemical change in the body that occurs in a matter of seconds. Some things are purely physical.

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[Moosey]

Holy fck, I experienced the exact same horror as you and after 2 years my libido is still low.
What is even worse is the desire to do well in life is connected to your libido, for me that is.

Sorry to hear that. I believe you. Have you considered stopping the medication?

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I have to say thats not happening to me. I feel completely fine in my well-being and mental state, apart from the fact that i dont desire women anymore (as sad as that f*****g sounds).

One might think "Why the FOOK are you still on duta?". Well, im not even going to bother approaching women with a bald head, so i dont really have another choice. I dont care about having a working dick if i cant put it to use, lol.
Im also confident that the side effects will subside once i stop the medication.

 

[Moosey]

And what if after a while you can't get it up anymore, what are you gonna say to those women, that at least you have hair ? I mean i really understand people taking this shitty drugs, because we don't have any other choice but what's the point if they retain your hair but also give you boobies and take your manhood ? When i hear people saying i don't desire women anymore, i don't even want to imagine how it feels, i could only think sitting there next to some hot chicks or my girlfriend and just watching her as an empty body without any sexual desire towards her...

Really fucked up situation, really really fucked up, it could destroy marriages, relationships, i heard people divorcing because of the lack of desire and sex brought by this pills, anti depressants and finasteride also, really fucked up...
And how can you be confident that the sides will subside once you stop, you don't know that, i mean, it's good to be positive, but some say that longer you are on it, the longer you body will find it hard to adapt to the way it was before the treatment, if will ever revert to that point, considering your getting older on this pill...

Has it at least helped with your hair or just retained it ?

I understand. Its just pure coincidence that im able to do this. I decided to stop "hunting", hop on dutasteride, focus on other things in life. Basically go into cocoon mode. I wouldnt want to walk around with a almost dead dick in every other period in my life. Its just that at this very moment it just "fits" my current attitude or whatever you may call it. I wouldnt be able to do this if i had a partner.
I still think girls are pretty. I still look at girls asses. I just dont get the urge to jackhammer their bungholes and i dont feel like fapping at all.

I just am. I have recovered from worse sh*t than dutasteride that killed my dick (took the wrong steroid some years ago). Thought i would never recover from that, but i did. I just believe with enough time, your body can recover from alot of things.
Also you have to consider that its not like im completely unable to get erections. If im sexually aroused, my boner is rock hard like it always was. But thats the thing. First i have to get sexually aroused, and that doesnt happen unless im being grinded by a girl or im having intense fantasies.

You can read about my progress here: https://www.gourmetstylewellness.com/intera...s-from-tressless.117746/page-547#post-1824812

Looks like its working for me. If i ever come to a point where im certain thats its not doin jackshit for my hair, ill drop it.

 

[justbeconfident]

imagine how it feels, i could only think sitting there next to some hot chicks or my girlfriend and just watching her as an empty body without any sexual desire towards her...

Ive felt that on finasteride, it makes your life bland, bleak, emotionless. Lack of sexual desire makes you lethargic and unmotivated for everything else in your life, its a deadly feeling for a male

Really fucked up situation, we don't have any other choice

Yeah, it's a scary scary f*****g disease, it makes you a walking corpse. Cancer kills you for real, baldness kills your soul and spirit, and leaves the body hanging.

 

[Moosey]

Ive felt that on finasteride, it makes your life bland, bleak, emotionless. Lack of sexual desire makes you lethargic and unmotivated for everything else in your life, its a deadly feeling for a male


Yeah, it's a scary scary f*****g disease, it makes you a walking corpse. Cancer kills you for real, baldness kills your soul and spirit, and leaves the body hanging.

Dont wanna be rude but please speak for yourself.

 

[StevenGerrard]

found my logs (regarding finasteride). I started June 20th, took 0,5mg for the first 2 weeks then starting taking a full tablet (1mg) afterwards. Anyway, I'm going back down to .5mg/day.

according to a bunch of old-*** threads here on GourmetStyleWellness 0,5 mg is just as effective as 1mg. here is hoping the negative side effects improve (lethargy & significantly lower libido)

 

[justbeconfident]

found my logs (regarding finasteride). I started June 20th, took 0,5mg for the first 2 weeks then starting taking a full tablet (1mg) afterwards. Anyway, I'm going back down to .5mg/day.

according to a bunch of old-*** threads here on GourmetStyleWellness 0,5 mg is just as effective as 1mg. here is hoping the negative side effects improve (lethargy & significantly lower libido)

Looking at your avatar makes me jealous and angry every f*****g time

Hair genetiscs goat

 

[Oscar66]

As my male pattern baldness got more aggressive, the less blood flow was going into my penis. I was never scared of taking finasteride because I haven’t had morning wood since years before finasteride. Haven’t even taken a proper poop since around that time also. Have been reliant on laxatives on a daily basis.

Still can’t pee properly, comes out in drips.

Honestly I have been living with the side effects of finasteride long before even taking it.

And you've seen a Doctor for a prostate exam?

 

[Capone]

What’s your diet like?

 

[Dennis1775]

Mmmhhh..my libido has been low my entire life. (But what is low?)
But there were exceptions!

Its probably more the hazzle that surrounds it all. I prefer dominant women.
As they are in relative short supply. I cant be bothered.

However I have had drive..as far as employment is concerned at least...

The question is if libido provides you with motivation is this a good thing?
Should not other things in life motivate people to have happy life's.

The worst is having a high libido and getting not what you want (perhaps to insecurity due to hairloss) then I am convinced its better to be low.

Oh my god man I cannot believe I am taking this avodart dutasteride crap for 9 months now My energy is dead I wanna f''''''' kill myself.I don't know what to do I don't get sensation on my penis literally and the top of my penis has been reduced by size by like 40percent the doctor measured it with a modern new machine.I cannot believe my life I wanna kill myself I get no pleasure during sex I cannot orgasm I cannot get instant erections YOU GUY ARE POISON YOU SAID ENERGY IS NOT IMPORTANT FOR ME what kind of a man are you man ? What kind of a man are you???? Dominant females ? WHAAAAT????

 

[Dennis1775]

I started taking proscar in 1995 then switched to Avodart. So almost 24 years on these drugs. I went through my 20's with no sexual issues, I am now 48. The internet did not have all the scare mongering in 90s.

I took it is as I didnt want to loose hair especially living in South Beach in 90s. Going to clubs every weekend, no thanks rather have hair.

Not saying these side are effects don't happen, but everyone is different. Just my option.

You said on another page I started taking avodart in 2001 but It is a lie because It did not exist in 2001