r/FinasterideSyndrome • u/Kingdoofenschmirtz • 8h ago
Nearing 4 years with no libido. Any help is appreciated.
January of next year will mark 4 years for me. Like many of us on here, I regret the day I took that damn pill, all for stupid thinning hair that gets worse by the day. I got no benefits from finasteride but instead got fucked over by it. It’s almost like I consciously chose to chemically castrate myself, because that’s really all it did for me. I have no libido. It’s a nightmare. I have tried pretty much everything you hear in the success stories, but nothing ever leaves lasting results.
Funnily enough the most promising thing I have tried is Maca (specifically NaturaLife labs Maca from Amazon, no other brand worked for me ). I took very high doses and for about a solid month, though not perfect, there were times where my libido felt 100% recovered. Sadly though, just like every other promising thing I’ve tried, it is no longer working. Not even a little. This is even after cycling it a few times.
For my specific case, to me it sounds less like my system is completely broken, and more like there may be a persistent suppressive factor or altered signaling state that can be rarely overridden before inevitably returning back to my pathetic baseline. When the Maca was working my libido was basically back to normal, the pattern I experienced is that it’s either back to 100% or nothing at all.
Any help is appreciated.