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UPDATE: Today I had an appointment with a trichologist to rule out any underlying scalp issues, and now I'm more confused than ever. The Trich wasn't certain that I even have male pattern baldness (said she feels 50/50 about it) and advised me to stop finasteride and then check back with her in 9/12 months time, she...

Yeah I appreciate that, however it's not that finasteride hasn't 'worked' for me per se, it's more that I'm now losing hair in a way that I wasn't prior to starting the medication. I started treatment because I'd noticed thinning at my hairline, but I wasn't noticeably shedding hair; even on shampoo...

Do you by any chance have a link to that Reddit post? Had a quick search but couldn't find anything

M(29) Been on finasteride 0.5 ED for just shy of 14 months now and am in a considerably worse place than when I started 'treatment'. I began shedding diffusely approx 2 months after commencing finasteride and this 'shed' is still ongoing, to the point that I'm now significantly below baseline in terms of...

thanks for this thoughtful insight, care to elaborate at all?

Hey guys, I've been taking 0.5mg of finasteride ED for three weeks now and have not experienced any sides except for some chest sensations that have begun in the past couple of days. My chest intermittently feels kind of achy as if I'd done a big workout, but isn't really tender to the touch, this is...

Hey guys, hoping for a bit of advice or hopefully some knowledgeable people to quash my fears. The backstory is that I'm 28 and my hair has always been a massive source of poor self-esteem for me, in that it has historically been very thick and coarse and unruly, never adhering to any style I...