Finasteride has reduced my sex drive, and this is a good thing in this current environment

[Xenom0rph]

Gents, let me start off by saying that I'm no doctor and I'm not giving medical advice. I'm only speaking about my personal experience.

In my late 20s (around 2011) I took finasteride (generic Propecia) to slow down my hair loss. However, the side effects such as decreased sex drive, decreased motivation, weaker erections, and increased general anxiety weren't something I could live with at the time.

So I decided to quit finasteride and got a hair transplant to lower my hairline and buy myself more time in the Sexual Market Place. The truth is that I'm not a Jason Statham/Dwayne Johnson/Stone Cold Steve Austin type and I simply don't look good with a shaved head and beard.

But starting in October 2019 my hair loss came back in full force. I was losing around 400 hairs in the shower each day. This wasn't natural shedding, this was androgenic alopecia. I decided to wait a little while to see if the shedding would eventually stabilize - it didn't.

So in June 2020 I decided to begin a finasteride and minoxidil foam protocol to slow down the progression.

As expected, the side effects have begun: decreased sex drive, decreased motivation, general anxiety.

However, I'm older and more mature now so I can handle the side effects. I'm fully aware that the decrease in motivation is purely a result of the medication and not an apathetic or defeatist mindset setting in, so I can psychologically push through it and get work done. Same with the anxiety, it's purely an illusion caused by the medication, so I am able to suspend the anxiety and proceed with life.

The decreased sex drive, unlike when I was in my 20s, is now a welcomed side effect. With the pandemic situation going on and everything shut down, it's hard to have a social life and meet women.

If I was having raging hard ons and uncontrolled sex drive like I did pre-pandemic, then I probably would have gone mad during this lockdown.

The lower sex drive has allowed me to stay focused on accomplishing the goals I want to get done this year.

I'm confident that I will come out of this pandemic in a stronger position.

I also don't plan to stay on finasteride long term. Instead I plan to cycle it by going on 6 months, going off 3 months and back on.

 

[Kitttydiet88]

Look into dutasteride. Much more effective than finasteride when it comes to hair loss and will plummet your sex drive/aggression even more (if you’re into that).

 

[mrgoodstuff]

Gents, let me start off by saying that I'm no doctor and I'm not giving medical advice. I'm only speaking about my personal experience.

In my late 20s (around 2011) I took finasteride (generic Propecia) to slow down my hair loss. However, the side effects such as decreased sex drive, decreased motivation, weaker erections, and increased general anxiety weren't something I could live with at the time.

So I decided to quit finasteride and got a hair transplant to lower my hairline and buy myself more time in the Sexual Market Place. The truth is that I'm not a Jason Statham/Dwayne Johnson/Stone Cold Steve Austin type and I simply don't look good with a shaved head and beard.

But starting in October 2019 my hair loss came back in full force. I was losing around 400 hairs in the shower each day. This wasn't natural shedding, this was androgenic alopecia. I decided to wait a little while to see if the shedding would eventually stabilize - it didn't.

So in June 2020 I decided to begin a finasteride and minoxidil foam protocol to slow down the progression.

As expected, the side effects have begun: decreased sex drive, decreased motivation, general anxiety.

However, I'm older and more mature now so I can handle the side effects. I'm fully aware that the decrease in motivation is purely a result of the medication and not an apathetic or defeatist mindset setting in, so I can psychologically push through it and get work done. Same with the anxiety, it's purely an illusion caused by the medication, so I am able to suspend the anxiety and proceed with life.

The decreased sex drive, unlike when I was in my 20s, is now a welcomed side effect. With the pandemic situation going on and everything shut down, it's hard to have a social life and meet women.

If I was having raging hard ons and uncontrolled sex drive like I did pre-pandemic, then I probably would have gone mad during this lockdown.

The lower sex drive has allowed me to stay focused on accomplishing the goals I want to get done this year.

I'm confident that I will come out of this pandemic in a stronger position.

I also don't plan to stay on finasteride long term. Instead I plan to cycle it by going on 6 months, going off 3 months and back on.

Raise your fitness to counter the motivation loss

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Should look into a caffeine based shampoo...it naturally blocks DHT in the hair follicles.

 

[Who Dares Win]

I would have no problem with the decreased sex drive side, but no chance in hell I would risk to have a decreased aggression or mental state.

This is not the world where you can succeed without being a rabid dog if you are a man of great ambition or that accept nothing but freedom.

Im currently using topical finasteride and doing blood work in a couple of weeks, if DHT decrease on my blood more than 10% compared to the normal range I'll simply cut it, in my mid 30s there are more important things than being goodlooking plus the older you get the less a shaved head is a malus.

Androgenic alopecia is a death sentence to guy in their early 20s unless they are top chads in everything else, but for a guy in his mid 30s is just a light handicap that can be easily balanced with a masculine body and attitude.

The good thing about it is that you can also run low tier steroids since the sides at that point will be minimal given that you know what you are doing.

Aggressivity is a bad things only in a low IQ man with low self control while its an amazing asset on a smart man.

 

[RickTheToad]

Gents, let me start off by saying that I'm no doctor and I'm not giving medical advice. I'm only speaking about my personal experience.

In my late 20s (around 2011) I took finasteride (generic Propecia) to slow down my hair loss. However, the side effects such as decreased sex drive, decreased motivation, weaker erections, and increased general anxiety weren't something I could live with at the time.

So I decided to quit finasteride and got a hair transplant to lower my hairline and buy myself more time in the Sexual Market Place. The truth is that I'm not a Jason Statham/Dwayne Johnson/Stone Cold Steve Austin type and I simply don't look good with a shaved head and beard.

But starting in October 2019 my hair loss came back in full force. I was losing around 400 hairs in the shower each day. This wasn't natural shedding, this was androgenic alopecia. I decided to wait a little while to see if the shedding would eventually stabilize - it didn't.

So in June 2020 I decided to begin a finasteride and minoxidil foam protocol to slow down the progression.

As expected, the side effects have begun: decreased sex drive, decreased motivation, general anxiety.

However, I'm older and more mature now so I can handle the side effects. I'm fully aware that the decrease in motivation is purely a result of the medication and not an apathetic or defeatist mindset setting in, so I can psychologically push through it and get work done. Same with the anxiety, it's purely an illusion caused by the medication, so I am able to suspend the anxiety and proceed with life.

The decreased sex drive, unlike when I was in my 20s, is now a welcomed side effect. With the pandemic situation going on and everything shut down, it's hard to have a social life and meet women.

If I was having raging hard ons and uncontrolled sex drive like I did pre-pandemic, then I probably would have gone mad during this lockdown.

The lower sex drive has allowed me to stay focused on accomplishing the goals I want to get done this year.

I'm confident that I will come out of this pandemic in a stronger position.

I also don't plan to stay on finasteride long term. Instead I plan to cycle it by going on 6 months, going off 3 months and back on.

Topical finasteride rarely, less than 2% does this. The strength, if the cause is this, may be too high. See a doctor.

 

[redskinsfan92]

Who the hell would want that under any circumstances? Be a caged and drugged tiger? Hell no!

 

[Xenom0rph]

Who the hell would want that under any circumstances? Be a caged and drugged tiger? Hell no!

Bro, when I was 28 a decreased sex drive was not a good thing, at 37 it's still not a good thing. But in the middle of a scamdemic when everything is shut down and I can't go out, a decreased sex drive isn't as bad as it might sound.

Plus, I have to build up my hair density so that I know how to proceed with my next hair transplant that I plan on getting around Christmas if this scamdemic ends...


EDIT::: it's the curse of manhood:

1) If you want to keep your testosterone and manliness, you must sacrifice your hair.

2) If you want to keep your hair, you must sacrifice your testosterone and manliness...


God has a sense of humor, it seems.....