Franz66 wrote:Vitalssk, as you are also a young ED sufferer. Do you know what the cause was? Many young ones here had taken finasteride and then ended up with ED although totally fit otherwise.
So i have a theory with finasteride. Ive taken it for like 3 months, but it never affected me hormonally because i am on TRT. So finasteride works by blocking the conversion of testosterone into DHT. DHT is very important for sexual function, hormonal function and of course hair growth. Now the problem is when you have too much DHT, aka taking higher levels of testosterone OR pairing testosterone with another DHT derived steroid you begin to have an abnormal amount of DHT in your body. This DHT which was used to stimulate hair growth now overstimulates the hair follicles and causes them to die basically. This is the reason finasteride doesn't work if your taking a DHT derived steroid on top of Test.
Now i believe that when you take finasteride you are again causing DHT to be blocked at the conversion. Blocking its conversion lowers the amount of DHT in the system which then affects the sexual function of the male taking it. Now not everyone who takes finasteride is going to be affected by this. Some produce more test than what the finasteride can block. others have lower functioning test levels which crash the DHT production in the males body.
Ive read articles of people on TRT never having an issue with finasteride. Whether that's because the finasteride cant block enough of the DHT from being produced or whether its from the genetic lottery of it not having that side effect. we may never know.
I would say test your hormone levels if your libido is low after finasteride use. It might have wiped out your libido simply because your body was just surviving on the DHT produced by a low test level, and now you introduce finasteride and it wipes out the DHT that was providing your libido.
Also testosterone still has its own inherent androgenicity and will miniaturize hair follicles too, just to a far lesser and slower extent.
This is why some individuals on Dutasteride with aggressive hair loss still lose hair even with zero DHT in their body.
But to answer your question, I think it was just genetics that chose me for ED. Peyronies disease and Venous leak will make anyone have ED at a certain level.
36 year old with 28cm coloplast titan with 125cc Reservoir, lock out with 0 Rear tip extender and pump
Suffered from Combined arterial insufficiency and corporo-venous occlusive erectile dysfunction and Peyronie disease
Had a 35 degree curve
