I also took
finasteride in the past for one month or 5 weeks or so.
I havent had proper sex since then. Its 4 yrs now.
Yet i managed to show 30-40% improvement after one and a half yr since i quit.
At that timei started lifting weights and playing more sports and cutting down all apart from weigh protein.
It seems that my liver was left at a bizzare state after
finasteride use.
Any alcohol, excess vitamins or anything in excess would just trigger my liver somehow and my balls would shrink, have ED, loss of libido, pains in scrotum, shrinkage of penis and all the side effects when being on finasteride and duriing the first yr after it.
I dont know about
nolvadex, i am thinking of starting some
HcG + nolvadex in the future, but i m very skeptikal about it, my estrogen levels are not that high.
Last yr i got overtraining syndrome, and my finasteride problems were back. Offcourse this is logical when your free testo drops from 20 to 8.5 and your cortisol hits the top. But still i cant say i feel any better. My penis size is still decreased and i have very little urge for sex, watery semen and all those stupid post finasteride problems. Despite my free testo being at 16.5 now (normal is 15-42)
You didnt say when and for how long you took finasteride for and state any of your blood tests.
In my opinion you should refrain from all possible therapies for some time, since many finasteride users have felt better as yrs go by. Offcourse this is not always true, but its statistically seen. It also depends on how your gonadotropins have been affected.
Till now, no one really knows the exact mechanism by which finasteride brings such a deterioration to your sexual status.
Nevertheless, people who have used it, have seen a steady drop in their
testosterone levels from yr to yr. Moreover some have experienced a faster drop in their FsH levels while LH would remain the same. Others had the exact opposite effects. Some others have steadily increasing estrogen or progesterone.
I really dont know my self, i spend months initially trying to understand how that drug affects your system short and long term, i read and read but never reached to a point of understanding whats going on, then i gave up and concentrated on healthy living. It is a crappy steroid for sure but i guess that some time from now there will be some breakthroughs in treating people with post fin erectile problems.
One thing i always wanted to try, but didnt know how helpfull it could be is take a steady dose of milk thistle for like 2-3 months, just for the sake of it. But with all them vitamins and proteins i have been on i guess i wouldnt really understand if it works or not.
I also started noticing some minor panic attacks after finasteride. I dont even know how much it correlates with my overtraiing sickness, but i guess lowering
testosterone year by year would make my adrenals vulnerable and prolong stressful conditions. I wish someone could help me out as well in explaining that.
Hang in there, if you took something that made you worse, cut it down. Write down your blood tests and your experience with
propecia and get back to as much healthy living as possible. Maybe time is the best healer after all