Recent content by jacobi33

I second this. I noticed I was starting to lose pretty rapidly a few years ago, found GourmetStyleWellness, weighed the pros and cons of finasteride, and decided I needed to at least try it before I lost my entire hairline and worse. At least from the perspective of keeping a respectable head of...

Time: 3 years Side effects: almost entirely on the "sexual" side, though nothing severe. My penis may have lost some "girthiness," if you get the idea, but I can live with it (or at least my wife can), and I'm not sure it's the case even so. I seem to go through times when my libido dips to...

Hmmm... good question. I never really knew how to do EOD, but my schedule has been simple: morning x-day, skip y-day, morning z-day. Basically every other morning. I have wondered if that was too far apart. Do most people who do EOD do it morning, then next night? And if it's .5mg (which...

Well, my story is this: I started on 1mg ED, and I did that for about two months. At that I point I suddenly got very ill with an (I think) unrelated case of chronic gastritis. I was also having some pretty depressing sides like occasional ED, very soft erections, and very watery sperm. I...

I would be freaked out if that happened to me, and of course it still might. I only commented because I thought there might be some relevance in the fact that I had a huge shed before I started finasteride, and it seems you did not. What you describe happening to you now on finasteride, in the shower, for...

I'm not denying that, just to be clear. I'm just saying that article didn't seem to me to be anti-propecia. If I was still waffling on propecia or just discovering what it is and does, the article would not have deterred me from taking it or led me to take it. His claims were pretty modest...

Perhaps you're right, but I didn't do anything months ago, and I never have hair days like this. And I'm not saying it's affected my hairs so much as my scalp, which in turn might have some effect on my hairs. All I can tell you is that right before I got on propecia my scalp was the worst...

I'm curious about the science on shedding. I don't mean why it happens, but whether there are known variances in its occurrence or the intensity of its occurrence depending on identifiable variances in subjects. OP - what is your Norwood? How was your hair before you started propecia? Were...

The article seems ok to me, and I don't think he was intending it to be anti-propecia. Basically he sets up a straw man - the belief held by god-knows-who that propecia is a "cure" for baldness - and then sets it afire with the answer: Nope, it's not. Which is well-known to us here, but maybe...

isis - Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

Ok, so can you give me advice on what to take/how often/dosage? I'm really curious about this. I don't want to just into my local pharmacy, buy some zinc and take it. What sort of zinc has copper in it? How much should I take and how often?

That is very well said, kpat. I really don't have anything to add except you said what I would want to say on the subject. It's completely true that I would still want my hair just as badly even if I never had another romantic partner. Which definitely signals that this - for some or most of...

Much obliged. I'm not going to fool around with the estrogen beyond dieting and lifting; I was just curious. I realize it won't do much, but I think I'm going to start zinc anyway, just for peace of mind - I have a bad diet anyway, so getting some zinc in me shouldn't hurt. Thanks for the info.

Very helpful. I worry because when I packed on some pounds - didn't get fat, but got puffy, if you know what I mean - I did get mild gyno-ish type breasts. I just assumed it was normal for guys who pack on some fat - does that necessarily mean one is predisposed to gyno? I think I'm going...

Donny J - Yeah, I'm only day 9 with 1 mg daily, but my semen is like more watery than urine. I've had no erection or orgasm problems, but today I felt like tapping, so I did - and at the climax... oh my lord. When they say "watery sperm" they are not kidding. Just wow. They should just...