My Penis and finasteride

I just decided to take a break from FIN (after 9 months of 1mg/day) and within 4 days of stopping my flaccid penis size has returned back to what it used to be and I am starting to get morning woods again ( I have not had one in forever) with good libido.

I really do not want to take this drug knowing how much it shrunk my penis while I was on it (when soft, erected penis looked about the same but maybe a tad bit thinner) but it helped preventing further hair loss so much smh..

I tried not to think about my penis while I was on it, but not getting morning wood and shrunk penis are definitely side effects, right? After a month break I am thinking of starting back with 1mg eod regimen and hoping I will not get any of these sides..

My last resort would be 0.25mg eod and if this still makes my penis look small and takes away my libido,, I might just give up using this drug.

When you have to trade your sex life for your hair, I tell patients that my advice is forget the hair and focus on your sex life.  Hair transplants can always solve the hair loss problem without a sex drive sacrifice. For other hair loss medications, oral minoxidil works nicely without the sexual side effects of finasteride.  Also, some men use liposomal topical finasteride which is powerful and stays mostly just where you apply it in the scalp and doesn’t go significantly systemic.