Recent content by blandflabbis

I have to say, that sounds absolutely horrendous, maybe a soup would be better? I can't be the only one who gets a little nauseous at the idea of drinking a broccoli and cauliflower shake. :x

What's this definition of "excessive ejaculation" as "once a week" anyway?

This is the only side effect I've experienced with Propecia (I wouldn't even notice if there was shedding because I don't pay any attention to the amount of hair falling out of my head). I've never had any sort of acne, I think everyone gets the odd blemish now and then, but aside from that it...

The only side effects I've ever had were when I first took Propecia it caused some mild acne - the odd spot, but I'd never experienced that before so I'm 90% certain it was caused by Propecia. I stopped taking it as a result though - not because the acne was a problem as it was very mild, but I...

There are two problems here, firstly Finasteride doesn't work by stopping hair falling out, if you're sitting around waiting for less hair to fall out then you're looking for the wrong thing. It works by targeting the regrowth process - i.e. when someone is going bald certain follicles stop...

This is a good question, I've never taken propecia itself on a trip abroad, but I have taken prescription drugs without documentation before and didn't have any problems. Generally if a customs official finds 4 weeks worth of tablets it's so small an amount that they'll assume it's just...

Well they're the same thing essentially, they only differ in a practical sense - namely that proscar is a lot cheaper, but it's more hassle because you have to cut the tablets. It's up to you as to whether you'd rather pay a bit more and not have the hassle of cutting tablets (I've never done it...

I know it's hard to believe sometimes, but this is your answer. It's virtually impossible that you'd experience any increase or decrease of hairs falling out within a week of taking the tablets because of the amount of time it takes hairs to fall out - as JJ_24 says this takes between 1-3...

This is to be expected in my view, if you take finasteride at 5 mg every day for 9 years then your body will develop a tolerance to it, then if you changed to 1 mg (propecia) it might be expected that you would experience an increase in DHT levels and hair loss. The difference was only...

Medically speaking it can't have an immediate impact. If you've experienced that then the situation is one of the following - 1) It's a coincidence that you noticed less hair falling out when you went off the tablets and an increase when you went back on it. 2) Everything we know about...

It's a natural fluctuation in your hair cycle more than likely, everyone (teenage girls, sixty year old men, it doesn't matter) lose hairs at varying rates. Personally I have long hair (around 15 inches) so it's easy to see that I'm losing hairs all the time, every time I have a shower I'll take...

JDW - I've posted this a couple of times but it isn't possible that if Propecia was causing your shedding it would stop two days after you went off the drug. If that happened it would contradict virtually everything we know about hair growth. If your hair stopped falling out two days after you...

I don't mean to hammer this point, but if Propecia was causing excessive shedding it wouldn't stop immediately when you went off the tablets. Telogen Effluvium happens several months after the initial cause, if you were suffering from it and it's suddenly stopped then it means that whatever was...

I was saying that sheds in this context are often just fluctuations in the natural shedding of hair during your hair cycle. The argument is that Propecia can cause a Telogen effluvium, personally I don't subscribe to that in most cases (it's possible there could be an adverse reaction to the...

Your situation seems strange, it is possible that you can take a bad reaction to virtually any medication and it can cause Telogen Effluvium, however it takes several months before you see the effects of it so you certainly wouldn't see any improvement from stopping taking the tablets in two...