I'll be surprised if there is a better treatment than Finasteride in ten years. Even if a better treatment is released will people use it? Finasteride in the grand scheme of things is very safe and effective, and yet a large amount of men still continue to bald to this day.
OK, so imagine you're new to this hair loss treatment lark, you hear about finasteride being the most popular and effective treatment, time to buy some surely?!
But before that let's just have a quick google for the most popular brand, Propecia, to make sure there's no nasty sides, and without even clicking anything you get:
Less serious side effects may include:
- impotence, loss of interest in sex, or trouble having an orgasm;
- abnormal ejaculation;
- swelling in your hands or feet;
- swelling or tenderness in your breasts;
- dizziness, weakness;
- feeling like you might pass out;
- headache;
- runny nose; (would anyone even be reading this far?)
More items...
And I re-iterate how this says LESS serious side effects, who could even imagine what the actual serious ones are? Even though there aren't any, those are it. I mean do Hair Transplant centres pay for this kind of google advertising? (serious question). It may not take THAT much understanding and digging to know that the above is bull****, but I only found that out here- after years of putting off the idea of finasteride because of all the supposed permanent debilitating side effects. And every day you'll see people posting on here talking about being in the exact same frame of mind, and who can blame them when this false idea is widely promoted.
But that's a big answer as to why so many continue to go bald, or get treatment. Besides plenty of people get no results, and only some get hair growth, it's a lot of effort and money, and time, to possibly get nothing, so for a lot of people who lean towards being indifferent/more comfortable in their baldness (plenty of men like this exist if you can imagine outside this forum) it isn't worth the hassle.
I mean it's hardly the kind of cure a lot of us imagined as teens a decade or so ago. The point is that we haven't come very far in a long time.
finasteride is hardly like a mainstream drug that everyone is expected to use once they start receding in their teens or early 20's, I'd say most people who go on it probably do a lot of research first. My idea of the great cure that would come along, is some pill you pick up in corner shops that you take every now and then which definitely grows hair, if you shed on a towel just pop another one like it's candy. I didn't picture years of ordering this stuff and using it at the same time every day, in conjunction with other treatments.
So when this safe and 100% effective corner store candy finasteride comes along, I guarantee you 99% of men will be on it. You're right that it's not THAT big of a deal but that's now you're used to it, but getting into it feels like a lot of hassle at first.
I don't know if I'd be so sure
it's happening as easy as that, but hey, I'm open minded. Sceptical too, but who knows.
