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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Posted 6 years ago, 9 users are following. Ok. Around 2009 at age 43, I was prescribed Finasteride for BPH. I was on it approximately 9 months and saw no improvement so I stopped. Prior to that, I had a healthy sex drive. Maybe too healthy! Shortly after, I experienced a gradual loss of libido, sensation, insomnia, and ridiculous anxiety. All symptoms are still ongoing today. Obviously I'm not sure if Post Finasteride Syndrome caused my problems. I'm not the lawsuit type and I never heard of it until recently. I also had a stressful job which I recently retired from. I know stress can hit you in a lot of ways, but I find it odd that I had no anxiety or sexual issues for the first 20 years in that career field. The symptoms only began after the Finasteride was prescribed. Maybe it's a coincidence. I don't know. I also have High Blood pressure which is well controlled with Lisinopril. (Stress test looked good as did ultrasound doppler test I had done.) That (HTN/Lisinopril) was also prescribed around the same time as the Finasteride was. I'm not blaming Finasteride on my HTN at all. In fact, I was wondering if it might be the Lisinopril that was causing some of these issues. Any thoughts on that would be highly appreciated too. When I brought this (PFS) up to my urologist six months ago, he basically said I was crazy and not to read about medical disorders on the internet. I saw a second and third urologist and they said the same thing and insisted that Finasteride causes no sexual side effects at all. When I showed the last uro the Finasteride info that came with my prescription (He tried to prescribe it again!) and the first side effect listed was "Long term sexual dysfunction even after the medication is discontinued", he got angry and said "Well in 22 years I've never seen a problem with it!" The second side effect was anxiety. In fact, I had almost all of the various side effects listed. Around this same time
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