I’ve been on Finasteride for about 5 years, I haven’t been to any doctors nor did any blood tests before starting it, I just researched the MPB treatments since I showed some signs of receding and I decided to jump on Finasteride once I couldn’t cope living with my hairline.
It has worked fine, I think I even regrew a bit of my hairline, but the density all over my head is kinda bad, shame I don’t have any old pictures anymore to compare. So my huge insecurities about hair are almost gone, I still get them when I visit my barber and I look at him cut my hair from the top and he looks like he’s seen a ghost but I pretend he’s just minding his own stuff.
Anyway another issue started to surface: sexual sides. In the first couple of years I remember there was basicaly no problems having sex or maintaining an erection, just that I had trouble reaching an orgasm. At that point I thought it’s because I was a regular gooner and my penis was worn or something. However, this has started to become a recurring issue and it has been brought to surface by my long term partner aswell, as in she said she feels I am not attracted to her anymore because I couldn’t orgasm without a helping hand (ehm). So I figured it’s time to kill the porn/masturbation addiction for good. I still fail at times but I am on a 5 days streak right now and I feel absolutely nothing. No horniness, even if I see a hot woman on Instagram I just don’t feel anything, like an urge to have sex or anything like that.
I thought maybe it’s because my brain is so fried that it will take time but it’s been more than 2 months since I reduced porn/jerking off and I see little change in my libido. So naturally I blamed Fin.
Now as for the Fin intake, I used to do 1 mg/day, then I cut the pills as best as I could in half so I could take 0.5 mg/day. I also stayed off Fin a couple of times recently, during Christmas holidays (for about two weeks) and I felt like my libido was getting back to the point where I wanted to have sex with my partner even infront of her parents, then a few months ago when I noticed no significant change in my libido, so that’s why I restarted it again.
Another factor would be that I’ve gone through a rough patch with my partner so let’s just put it this way, my trust in her has drastically eroded so I feel a lot less confident when having sex with her. And bottom line, I was never that attracted to her physically.
This whole array of variables has made me consider and reconsider the decision of abandoning Fin forever. I am 30 and although I do not expect to have the same sex drive as in my early 20s, I still don’t think a big change should be noticed. I have started going to the gym for a couple of months hoping that maybe my T level will be fixed and I’ll be horny more often but it hasn’t done much.
Maybe I am low T naturally? I guess some blood work wouldn’t hurt at this point, right?