Sadly, Its time for me to get off Finasteride and explanation why I am

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Gym performance has also suffered

No amount of hair follicles is worth sacrificing gym performace

 

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Ive been on multiple different does of topical finasteride over the last six months and its been a very bumpy ride.

The good things I noticed was insane reduction of acne and sebderm, my skin also feels super smooth and bright although Im not sure if that is from the fin. No hair growth yet.

Now the bad things started the first week, I noticed gyno symptoms, burning itchy nips. This varied in severity throughout the six months and I hoped it would go away and it did not even on liposmal finasteride that I paid 165$ for. I noticed slight growth in the gyno.

Now I would be ok with that and was planning to still use it anyway but at month five I noticed a pretty drastic drop in libido, around 50% and it slowly got worse throughout last month. It got to the point where it took a lot more effort to achieve and hold an erection which I have never had a problem my whole life. I haven't had the urge to jerk off in over a month. Also morning wood disappeared.

Ive also felt a lot more sensitive and emotional sort of less "aggressive" lately. Gym performance has also suffered. Im on a cut and its insanely hard to lose chest fat and hip fat while everything is already lean.

The male penis is kind of a use-it-or-lose-it thing, you need nighttime erections and morning wood to keep it healthy. I decided to stop finasteride because of this I don't want to end up with some shit like peyronies disease or something from lack of erections and high estrogen activity id probably kill myself.

Ive actually found some cases of men that got peyronies disease while using finasteride and the weird thing is majority of them also had a gyno side effect. Testosterone and DHT prevent fibrosis in the penis and when there is a lot of estrogen activity and weak soft erections that just sounds like recipe for disaster.

I've been researching hair loss for the past two years and I've concluded that some individuals like me need dht to antagonize estrogen in the body, I got a blood test and my estrogen and testosterone are in range yet I am experiencing symptoms of high estrogen. There are some people that treat gynecomastia with dht gel on their nipples it is an excellent estrogen antagonizer.

I know some of you guys will say placebo and I probably would have said the same thing to a post like this 3 months ago but its sadly real.

Finasteride is not a once size fits all medication, some people might be fine but some people need that dht to antagonize estrogen. It is worth a try though.

IMO if you have lower libido or gyno symptoms on fnasteride that don't go away after 3 months of use just drop it. It not healthy to be walking around with to much estrogen activity you can get a bunch of problems.

Js get arimidex