Masturbation, sex drive, erections, and finasteride

Three weeks, I started 1 1mg Fin a day.  I noticed no reduction in libido or mental faculty, I even masturbated 2+ times a day, I think my erection was occasionally a bit weaker though, could be in my head?  Then in the last week, I moved to another country to start university, had to take care of a lot of administrative and logistic issues like accommodation, registration etc. so my masturbation frequency reduced greatly. I know I was stressed. I also just read about permanent reductions of sex drive from finasteride and I am getting freaked out so i cut the dose. What should I do?

Follow-up:  Hi, thank you for your answers. I am now convinced that what happened was likely ED due to overmasturbation (because I read the horror stories so I needed to check, again and again…). The days after I was fine.

It is possible that your stress caused the problem with your erections. It is also possible that finasteride caused it. Cutting the dose back when you don’t have side effects didn’t make sense to me, but maybe this is a psychological problem as when many young men, who were not having problems with this drug, read all of the information on the internet, they find that they develop the sexual problems.. You can stop the drug for 3 weeks and if the side effects go away, then this might tell you that there was a connection between the drug and the side effects.