Propecia and Painful ejaculation - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Painful ejaculation is found among people who take Propecia, especially for people who are 40-49 old, have been taking the drug for 2 - 5 years.
The phase IV clinical study analyzes which people take Propecia and have Painful ejaculation. It is created by eHealthMe based on reports of 9,208 people who have side effects when taking Propecia from the FDA, and is updated regularly. You can use the study as a second opinion to make health care decisions.
Phase IV trials are used to detect adverse drug outcomes and monitor drug effectiveness in the real world. With medical big data and AI algorithms, eHealthMe is running millions of phase IV trials and makes the results available to the public. Our original studies have been referenced on 600+ medical publications including The Lancet, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and Nature.
9,208 people reported to have side effects when taking Propecia.
Among them, 127 people (1.38%) have Painful ejaculation.
What is Propecia?
Propecia has active ingredients of finasteride. It is often used in hair loss. eHealthMe is studying from 9,542 Propecia users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
What is Painful ejaculation?
Painful ejaculation is found to be associated with 130 drugs and 135 conditions by eHealthMe.
Number of Propecia and Painful ejaculation reports submitted per year:

Time on Propecia when people have Painful ejaculation *:
Age of people who have Painful ejaculation when taking Propecia *:
Common drugs people take besides Propecia *:
Common side effects people have besides Painful ejaculation *:
Common conditions people have *:
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
Do you take Propecia and have Painful ejaculation?
Check whether Painful ejaculation is associated with a drug or a conditionHow to use the study?
You can discuss the study with your doctor, to ensure that all drug risks and benefits are fully discussed and understood.
Related publications that referenced our studies
- Fouda AM, Bazeed AM, "Hematuria and Hematospermia Associated with the Use of Finasteride for the Treatment of Androgenic Alopecia: A Case Report", Drug Safety-Case Reports, 2017 Dec .
Related studies
How severe was Painful ejaculation and when was it recovered:
Expand to all the drugs that have ingredients of finasteride:
Alternative drugs to, pros and cons of Propecia:
- Propecia (9,542 reports)
Common Propecia side effects:
- Abdominal pain: 171 reports
- Acne (skin problems that cause pimples): 191 reports
- Adverse drug reaction: 109 reports
- Adverse event: 228 reports
- Agitation (state of anxiety or nervous excitement): 105 reports
- Androgen deficiency: 123 reports
- Anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable): 147 reports
- Apathy: 126 reports
- Arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat): 125 reports
- Asthma: 154 reports
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (a chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness): 115 reports
- Back pain: 348 reports
- Blood testosterone decreased: 485 reports
- Breast pain: 101 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 196 reports
- Bronchitis (inflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes): 123 reports
- Chest pain: 275 reports
- Cognitive disorder (mental health disorders affects learning, memory, perception, and problem solving): 1,926 reports
- Confusional state: 103 reports
- Constipation: 133 reports
- Cough: 136 reports
- Curvature of the penis: 197 reports
- Depression: 2,399 reports
- Dermatitis (inflammation of the skin resulting from direct irritation by an external agent or an allergic reaction to it): 129 reports
- Diarrhea: 161 reports
- Disturbance in attention: 378 reports
- Dizziness: 341 reports
- Drug administration error: 330 reports
- Drug ineffective: 547 reports
- Dry skin: 163 reports
- Eczema (patches of skin become rough and inflamed, with itching and bleeding blisters): 114 reports
- Ejaculation disorder: 819 reports
- Ejaculation failure: 533 reports
- Emotional disorder: 133 reports
- Emotional distress: 352 reports
- Endocrine disorder (endocrine diseases are disorders of the endocrine system): 171 reports
- Enlarged prostate: 221 reports
- Erection problems: 4,114 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 994 reports
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (a condition in which stomach contents leak backward from the stomach into the oesophagus): 303 reports
- Generalized anxiety disorder (excessive, uncontrollable, unexplained and often irrational worry): 102 reports
- Genital hypoaesthesia (sensation loss of genital): 194 reports
- Groin pain: 151 reports
- Gynecomastia (enlargement of the gland tissue of the male breast): 467 reports
- Haemorrhoids (a swollen vein or group of veins in the region of the anus): 114 reports
- Hair loss: 647 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 432 reports
- Head injury: 299 reports
- Heart palpitations (feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing): 220 reports
- Hernia (hernia happens when part of an internal organ or tissue bulges through a weak area of muscle): 112 reports
- High blood cholesterol: 277 reports
- High blood pressure: 468 reports
- Hyperhidrosis (abnormally increased sweating): 127 reports
- Hyperlipidaemia (presence of excess lipids in the blood): 218 reports
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation): 189 reports
- Hypogonadism (reduction or absence of hormone secretion or other physiological activity of the gonads (testes or ovaries)): 405 reports
- Hypogonadism male (male testes produce little or no sex hormone): 123 reports
- Hypothyroidism (abnormally low activity of the thyroid gland, resulting in retardation of growth and mental development): 120 reports
- Indigestion: 185 reports
- Insomnia (sleeplessness): 670 reports
- Irritable bowel syndrome: 123 reports
- Itching: 190 reports
- Joint pain: 324 reports
- Kidney stones: 103 reports
- Libido decreased (loss of interest in sex): 1,635 reports
- Loss of libido (loss of sexual urge): 1,023 reports
- Major depression (a mood state that goes well beyond temporarily feeling sad or blue. it is a serious medical illness that affects one's thoughts, feelings): 129 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 193 reports
- Melanocytic naevus (a type of lesion that contains nevus cells (a type of melanocyte)): 119 reports
- Memory loss: 481 reports
- Mental disorder (a psychological term for a mental or behavioural pattern or anomaly that causes distress or disability): 188 reports
- Mood swings (an extreme or rapid change in mood): 162 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 180 reports
- Muscle atrophy (a decrease in the mass of the muscle): 224 reports
- Muscle spasms (muscle contraction): 125 reports
- Muscle twitching: 107 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 187 reports
- Neck pain: 113 reports
- Organic erectile dysfunction (inability to achieve or maintain an erection long enough to engage in sexual intercourse): 222 reports
- Orgasmic dysfunction (not getting orgasm): 116 reports
- Pain: 284 reports
- Painful ejaculation: 127 reports
- Pain in extremity: 165 reports
- Panic disorder: 395 reports
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect): 172 reports
- Penile size reduced: 290 reports
- Penis disorder: 260 reports
- Penis injury: 192 reports
- Pollakiuria (abnormally frequent passage of relatively small quantities or urine): 206 reports
- Prostate cancer: 124 reports
- Prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate gland): 213 reports
- Rashes (redness): 271 reports
- Rickets (softening of bones): 112 reports
- Road traffic accident: 109 reports
- Semen volume decreased: 614 reports
- Sinusitis (inflammation of sinus): 168 reports
- Sleep apnea syndrome: 192 reports
- Sleep disorder: 249 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 2,320 reports
- Suicidal ideation: 474 reports
- Testicular atrophy (wasting of testes): 215 reports
- Testicular disorder (disease of testes): 194 reports
- Testicular failure (testicles cannot produce sperm or male hormones): 111 reports
- Testicular pain (pain in testes): 583 reports
- Tinnitus (a ringing in the ears): 188 reports
- Upper respiratory tract infection: 119 reports
- Urination - excessive at night: 161 reports
- Urination - painful: 189 reports
- Varicocele (enlarged varicose vein): 135 reports
- Vision blurred: 198 reports
- Weakness: 529 reports
- Weight decreased: 212 reports
- Weight increased: 286 reports
Browse all side effects of Propecia:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y zPainful ejaculation treatments and more:
- Painful ejaculation (270 reports)
COVID vaccines that are related to Painful ejaculation:
- Painful ejaculation in Moderna COVID Vaccine
- Painful ejaculation in Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine
- Painful ejaculation in Johnson and Johnson Covid Vaccine
Common drugs associated with Painful ejaculation:
- Propecia: 127 reports
All the drugs that are associated with Painful ejaculation:
- Painful ejaculation (130 drugs)
All the conditions that are associated with Painful ejaculation:
- Painful ejaculation (135 conditions)
How the study uses the data?
The study uses data from the FDA. It is based on finasteride (the active ingredients of Propecia) and Propecia (the brand name). Other drugs that have the same active ingredients (e.g. generic drugs) are not considered. Dosage of drugs is not considered in the study.
Who is eHealthMe?
With medical big data and proven AI algorithms, eHealthMe provides a platform for everyone to run phase IV clinical trials. We study millions of patients and 5,000 more each day. Results of our real-world drug study have been referenced on 600+ medical publications, including The Lancet, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and Nature. Our analysis results are available to researchers, health care professionals, patients (testimonials), and software developers (open API).
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