billie_tv (imported) wrote: Wed May 20, 2009 12:10 pm I'm taking Avodart- inhibits conversion of testosterone to the more potent form DHT- and have noticed that I don't get erections: spontaneous or even when I try to stimulate myself. My penis is much smaller flaccid and very rubbery and flimsy when I try for it to become erect. Is it permanent? I've taken it for about four months and also tried a femininizing herbal product that I think might have intensified the effect. What I have noticed, I don't know if anyone else on chemicals or hormones has, is that at times I have a pain in my testicles and sometimes they feel swollen and at other times they feel smaller, much smaller. I don't know if this is a form of oedema- fluid accumulation- or if it's something else. Additionally, when I do ejaculate I'm almost completely limp now, and instead of the streams that would shoot out before I now have totally clear water droplets that spray out with much force. Without a blood test, does this sound like the meds have permanently sterilized me- or at least impaired spermatogenisis? I still have just as high a sex drive but now I can't get it up. I am thinking of maybe trying a low dose of estrogen, as I am accepting that I might well in fact be transgendered and I've never been brave enough to accept.