Hey man, keep waiting longer before to jump on finasteride again.
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Hey man, keep waiting longer before to jump on finasteride again.
about 3 days I started to feel an improvement in libido, I think I'm about 15% better than before taking finasteride, but the other problems are all the same, anhedonia, cerebral fog, depersonalization, tiredness, etc., I'm having more acne too, it seems that my metabolism is working a little better too, for now are the only things I noticed, I'll probably use finasteride again for 25 to 30 days again, I should start next week, anything notice you
Keep eating low GI foods and low raffined carbo for the brain fog etc....
@wuf
I do heavy bodybuilding at 5 years, my body does well with almost any carbohydrate, I feel worse when I reduce them and tired, and I felt practically no improvement at the sides
@Lost
Yes I noticed a small improvement about 15%, I'm having acne still too, my gut seems to be working much better too, but nothing much yet, I'll wait a little longer before taking finasteride again I think, a few more days, I'll keep you informed about any change
I do heavy bodybuilding at 5 years, my body does well with almost any carbohydrate, I feel worse when I reduce them and tired, and I felt practically no improvement at the sides
@Lost
Yes I noticed a small improvement about 15%, I'm having acne still too, my gut seems to be working much better too, but nothing much yet, I'll wait a little longer before taking finasteride again I think, a few more days, I'll keep you informed about any change
@wuf
I do heavy bodybuilding at 5 years, my body does well with almost any carbohydrate, I feel worse when I reduce them and tired, and I felt practically no improvement at the sides
@Lost
Yes I noticed a small improvement about 15%, I'm having acne still too, my gut seems to be working much better too, but nothing much yet, I'll wait a little longer before taking finasteride again I think, a few more days, I'll keep you informed about any change
You should search for latent inflamation in the body.. if you have it you would not feel it, but that could be crucial to let your body recover.
That could be the reason different people got rid from taking care of the gut.
check it out about no inflamation diet, you will read all sites suggest to have a low carbo diet cause carbo are irritant.
Any updates @Namelk? I’m considering this protocol as well. I’m 21 and still have sexual sides after haven taken Accutane when i was 18.
I only have ED and a very low libido, no other sides. Cialis helps a little with the ED but doesn’t do shit for the libido, which is my biggest concern.
Now my hairline is slowely starting to recede so i’m seriously considering this protocol.
Will start in a few weeks and i’ll keep you guys up to date
I only have ED and a very low libido, no other sides. Cialis helps a little with the ED but doesn’t do shit for the libido, which is my biggest concern.
Now my hairline is slowely starting to recede so i’m seriously considering this protocol.
Will start in a few weeks and i’ll keep you guys up to date
Any updates @Namelk? I’m considering this protocol as well. I’m 21 and still have sexual sides after haven taken Accutane when i was 18.
I only have ED and a very low libido, no other sides. Cialis helps a little with the ED but doesn’t do **** for the libido, which is my biggest concern.
Now my hairline is slowely starting to recede so i’m seriously considering this protocol.
Will start in a few weeks and i’ll keep you guys up to date
Just out of interest did you loss of libido start whilst on accutane or after stopping? Was there a significant difference between before accutane and after in terms of libido/arousal?
Also do you have any other side effects such as social withdrawal? anxiety? depression? emotional blunting?
Sorry to ask so many questions, its just that getting an idea of sexual side effects and the presence of other sides if there are any, will be very useful.
I'll go in to moor detail.
I was about three weeks into a 40mg/d course of accutane when i noticed my libido was very low and i hadn't jerked off in maybe a week.
This didn't bother me too much as i wasn't aware of any side effects. Later that night i tried to jerk of and i couldn't get it up, even with porn.
That freaked me out and i started researching and kinda panicked. I'm aware this could be the onset of a "nocebo" effect and still hope to this day it's all in my head.
The problem is i'm having physical sides as well. Before accutane i would wake up with rock solid morning wood 5-6 days a week.
This erection kept going until i was in the shower, even if i wasn't horny at all. Never happend since. I still occasionally get morning wood, but these are like 50% erections.
I also haven't had any spontaneous erections since, which leads me to believe there is some kind of physiological problem and it's not only a mental thing.
Now onto the libido aspect:
It just takes a lot to get aroused. Before accutane i was horny all day and even thinking about a naked girl turned me on.
I know i just turned 18 at the time and my body was still filled with teenage testosterone, but now the only time i'll get a little aroused is when i'm with a girl. Porn doesn't do the job.
Still need cialis to get it up because i'm not aroused enough to get a full on erection, even with a girl trying.
It just feels like my responsiveness to sexual stimuli has decreased greatly. This makes me avoid a lot of situations that could have turned to sex, which is a total bummer.
Luckily i never had problems with orgasms.
The only thing that has helped me so far is stopping smoking. This didn't solve the problem at all but it has been the only major improvement. All other lifestyle risk factors are not at play because i'm quite fit and have a healthy diet.
In total i would rate it like this:
Libido: 30%
Dick: 50% but with only 30% of the horniness this is not enough to function properly.
Mental: No sides, i had social anxiety in my teenage years but not anymore.
On a final note, i have had anxious/depressed episodes that lasted a month or two, but i don't attribute them to accutane because they started a year post accutane and a lot of them had to to with different reasons (shit that happend in my life).
Hope this paints a clearer picture.
I was about three weeks into a 40mg/d course of accutane when i noticed my libido was very low and i hadn't jerked off in maybe a week.
This didn't bother me too much as i wasn't aware of any side effects. Later that night i tried to jerk of and i couldn't get it up, even with porn.
That freaked me out and i started researching and kinda panicked. I'm aware this could be the onset of a "nocebo" effect and still hope to this day it's all in my head.
The problem is i'm having physical sides as well. Before accutane i would wake up with rock solid morning wood 5-6 days a week.
This erection kept going until i was in the shower, even if i wasn't horny at all. Never happend since. I still occasionally get morning wood, but these are like 50% erections.
I also haven't had any spontaneous erections since, which leads me to believe there is some kind of physiological problem and it's not only a mental thing.
Now onto the libido aspect:
It just takes a lot to get aroused. Before accutane i was horny all day and even thinking about a naked girl turned me on.
I know i just turned 18 at the time and my body was still filled with teenage testosterone, but now the only time i'll get a little aroused is when i'm with a girl. Porn doesn't do the job.
Still need cialis to get it up because i'm not aroused enough to get a full on erection, even with a girl trying.
It just feels like my responsiveness to sexual stimuli has decreased greatly. This makes me avoid a lot of situations that could have turned to sex, which is a total bummer.
Luckily i never had problems with orgasms.
The only thing that has helped me so far is stopping smoking. This didn't solve the problem at all but it has been the only major improvement. All other lifestyle risk factors are not at play because i'm quite fit and have a healthy diet.
In total i would rate it like this:
Libido: 30%
Dick: 50% but with only 30% of the horniness this is not enough to function properly.
Mental: No sides, i had social anxiety in my teenage years but not anymore.
On a final note, i have had anxious/depressed episodes that lasted a month or two, but i don't attribute them to accutane because they started a year post accutane and a lot of them had to to with different reasons (shit that happend in my life).
Hope this paints a clearer picture.
So, my libido question is practically the same as @Dasjes , the way he described, other than that I'm always tired, extreme fatigue, I have anhedonia, depersonalization, I have no enthusiasm or feelings in practically anything, nor motivation, very different of how I was before accutane, my first problem was the libido that started during the treatment, but I felt very good still, motivation and all the feelings were great, things were still cool, nowadays I stopped liking everything and nothing pleases me, depersonalization is very strong, and I still have to work to support myself because I live with my girlfriend and my parents do not help me at all, it's too bad to live like this, the libido is not even the worst of mine problems, the anhedonia that is, it's as if I lived for nothing, I took accutane at age 17 and now I'm 20
So, my libido question is practically the same as @Dasjes , the way he described, other than that I'm always tired, extreme fatigue, I have anhedonia, depersonalization, I have no enthusiasm or feelings in practically anything, nor motivation, very different of how I was before accutane, my first problem was the libido that started during the treatment, but I felt very good still, motivation and all the feelings were great, things were still cool, nowadays I stopped liking everything and nothing pleases me, depersonalization is very strong, and I still have to work to support myself because I live with my girlfriend and my parents do not help me at all, it's too bad to live like this, the libido is not even the worst of mine problems, the anhedonia that is, it's as if I lived for nothing, I took accutane at age 17 and now I'm 20
Did the other non-sexual side effects start after stopping accutane or during the treatment?
I'm in a similar position, my problem is that I took tane when I was just 14 years so I wasn't as aware of the changes when they happened, didn't take note of specific changes etc. always assumed things would go back to normal.
I'm just interested whether the effect accutane has on libido/sex drive is always linked to other effects such as anhedonia, lack of motivation emotional blunting etc. This would be fairly important to find out. Another important thing to consider is that losing libido/sex drive could potentially cause a lot of the other side effects such as lack of motivation, anhedonia, depression etc. as they are closely linked in my opinion. In my opinion if we can fix the sexual dysfunction, it will help fix other symptoms.
I'll go in to moor detail.
I was about three weeks into a 40mg/d course of accutane when i noticed my libido was very low and i hadn't jerked off in maybe a week.
This didn't bother me too much as i wasn't aware of any side effects. Later that night i tried to jerk of and i couldn't get it up, even with porn.
That freaked me out and i started researching and kinda panicked. I'm aware this could be the onset of a "nocebo" effect and still hope to this day it's all in my head.
The problem is i'm having physical sides as well. Before accutane i would wake up with rock solid morning wood 5-6 days a week.
This erection kept going until i was in the shower, even if i wasn't horny at all. Never happend since. I still occasionally get morning wood, but these are like 50% erections.
I also haven't had any spontaneous erections since, which leads me to believe there is some kind of physiological problem and it's not only a mental thing.
Now onto the libido aspect:
It just takes a lot to get aroused. Before accutane i was horny all day and even thinking about a naked girl turned me on.
I know i just turned 18 at the time and my body was still filled with teenage testosterone, but now the only time i'll get a little aroused is when i'm with a girl. Porn doesn't do the job.
Still need cialis to get it up because i'm not aroused enough to get a full on erection, even with a girl trying.
It just feels like my responsiveness to sexual stimuli has decreased greatly. This makes me avoid a lot of situations that could have turned to sex, which is a total bummer.
Luckily i never had problems with orgasms.
The only thing that has helped me so far is stopping smoking. This didn't solve the problem at all but it has been the only major improvement. All other lifestyle risk factors are not at play because i'm quite fit and have a healthy diet.
In total i would rate it like this:
Libido: 30%
****: 50% but with only 30% of the horniness this is not enough to function properly.
Mental: No sides, i had social anxiety in my teenage years but not anymore.
On a final note, i have had anxious/depressed episodes that lasted a month or two, but i don't attribute them to accutane because they started a year post accutane and a lot of them had to to with different reasons (**** that happend in my life).
Hope this paints a clearer picture.
Its useful to know that the sexual side effects didn't start once you stopped the accutane but started during treatment. This shows that the effects aren't the result of a withdrawal of retinoic acid.
To be honest, I think the physical sides like erections etc. are related to the libido issue. I'm fairly certain there a strong links between the neural pathways regulating sexual arousal etc. and the stimulation of erections. I wouldn't worry about physical damage to the penis etc. I find this highly unlikely. Morning wood is absolutely linked to the neural pathways of sexual desire/arousal. Have you ever tried drinking loads of water before bed. You can get morning wood sometimes simply because you really need to urinate. Its a different type of morning wood but helps discount the idea that physical damage has occurred. Something has happened in our brains, where the normal signalling has been blocked/interrupted.
These questions may seem strange but they are very helpful. Do you have any other side effects along with sexual dysfunction such as:
1. Being less sociable? avoiding social events/social withdrawal?
2. Anhedonia (not being able to get pleasure from things), lack of drive/motivation to do things?
3. Impaired attention?
4. Blunted emotions, not having a strong emotional response to things?
Its useful to know that the sexual side effects didn't start once you stopped the accutane but started during treatment. This shows that the effects aren't the result of a withdrawal of retinoic acid.
To be honest, I think the physical sides like erections etc. are related to the libido issue. I'm fairly certain there a strong links between the neural pathways regulating sexual arousal etc. and the stimulation of erections. I wouldn't worry about physical damage to the penis etc. I find this highly unlikely. Morning wood is absolutely linked to the neural pathways of sexual desire/arousal. Have you ever tried drinking loads of water before bed. You can get morning wood sometimes simply because you really need to urinate. Its a different type of morning wood but helps discount the idea that physical damage has occurred. Something has happened in our brains, where the normal signalling has been blocked/interrupted.
These questions may seem strange but they are very helpful. Do you have any other side effects along with sexual dysfunction such as:
1. Being less sociable? avoiding social events/social withdrawal?
2. Anhedonia (not being able to get pleasure from things), lack of drive/motivation to do things?
3. Impaired attention?
4. Blunted emotions, not having a strong emotional response to things?
so my only problem during treatment was that of libido and skin, extremely dry mouth, the other problems I described all started after stopping taking over time, I still have morning erections sometimes when I wake up with a lot of urge to urinate
so my only problem during treatment was that of libido and skin, extremely dry mouth, the other problems I described all started after stopping taking over time, I still have morning erections sometimes when I wake up with a lot of urge to urinate
Yes well thats one positive thing at least, it shows there probably isn't any physical damage to the penis which could arguably be harder to treat.
So you started having low libido whilst on accutane, can you remember how many weeks on accutane before libido started to decline.
Then anhedonia, depersonalization etc. all started after stopping accutane?
@Dasjes Did you smoke cigarettes or marijuana?
I smoked weed daily and cigarettes daily at that time. I quit the weed about a year after the accutane and that didn't have any effect on my libido.
Two years went by and nothing changed, but the only improvement was when i quit smoking about two weeks ago.
I finally sometimes think about having sex when i see a hot girl in the gym, but my dick still feels unresponsive to non physical stimuli.
You said your libido increased a little after the finasteride cycle, but did your sexual responsiveness also increase?
@Dasjes I also smoke weed almost every day the night after the service and the gym, when I get home, I think this has worsened my depersonalization and anhedonia, but I have stopped for 2 months 2 times and nothing has changed.
As for finasteride, only the libido, the answer was still the same I think, I'm taking finasteride again has 5 days already
a year ago had an that I took for about 2 months zinc 50mg every night before bed, up to 100mg I got to take, nowadays I stop to think and it seems that my anhedonia and depersonalization worsened after that I guess.
After stopping finasteride again if nothing changes, I will try to supplement copper to see if anything changes
And @Flynn yes, all other problems started when I was no longer taking accutane
As for finasteride, only the libido, the answer was still the same I think, I'm taking finasteride again has 5 days already
a year ago had an that I took for about 2 months zinc 50mg every night before bed, up to 100mg I got to take, nowadays I stop to think and it seems that my anhedonia and depersonalization worsened after that I guess.
After stopping finasteride again if nothing changes, I will try to supplement copper to see if anything changes
And @Flynn yes, all other problems started when I was no longer taking accutane
I smoked weed daily and cigarettes daily at that time. I quit the weed about a year after the accutane and that didn't have any effect on my libido.
Two years went by and nothing changed, but the only improvement was when i quit smoking about two weeks ago.
I finally sometimes think about having sex when i see a hot girl in the gym, but my **** still feels unresponsive to non physical stimuli.
You said your libido increased a little after the finasteride cycle, but did your sexual responsiveness also increase?
Out of interest. Did you notice any difference in the effect smoking weed had before and after accutane? Like did it effect you differently? Enjoy it less? Or was it pretty much the same?