Hmm, looks like a site for crybaby whingers to fester in their collective paranoia and pin the blame on a pill with less side-effects that some over the counter drugs for their psychosomatic "symptoms".
I was an ignorant person like you once, before I popped Finasteride. Stayed on it for 11 months while the mental, sexual, and physical sides continued to get worse under the assurance by Merck that this they would "go away" with time as my body adjusted to the drug and that they would cease after discontinuation.
Needless to say her I am 20 months later with many of the sexual and physical changes to my body still present -- shrunken + shrivelled penis/nuts, decreased ejaculate volume, gyno, loss of morning/nocturnal/spontaneous erections, genital numbness, and total loss of sex drive to name a few. You're telling me that the fact my dick has physically shrunk, is constantly retreating, that I got gyno, that my penis feels lifeless and totally numb, that my jizz volume is 25% of what it was before the drug, that I no longer wake up with morning wood or experience nocturnal erections, and all the rest of it is in my head? Get a clue.
I know how I was for the first 25 years of my life before I popped that pill, and I know what it did to me, and I have the bloodwork to prove it as do so many other men on that site -- the majority of us are now in a state of Secondary Hypogonadism with low Testosterone, LH, FSH, DHT and often elevated Estradiol/Estrogens or SHBG.
You need to read the FAQ on that site because unfortunately for SOME men, this is a very real phenomenon and trust me, the more guys that take this drug and report it the more exposure it gets, and you naysayers will be eating your ignorant words in the end -- either that or you might end up getting sides down the road yourself... nobody knows -- not even some of the top doctors, including Dr. Eugene Shippen who wrote The Testosterone Syndrome and is an active advocate against Finasteride use due to thh rare and dangerous complications from 5AR inhibitors -- can say when, how or why certain men gets sides and why out of those men, some don't recover after quitting.
Realize that if you are taking a drug that messes with the delicate balance of your endorcrine system, there are no guarantees it will return to its pristine state after you quit. And by depriving your body of DHT -- a critical male hormone necessary for libido, proper genital tissue maintenance/function and much more -- and 5ARII -- necessary for a number of vital functions in the body, including metabolism of 5AR-derived neurosteroids -- you are messing with more than what Merck labels their drug to do.
Read the FAQ on propeciahelp.com for more info.
[quote:9ac98]Those sites do put you off, until you realise they fly in the face of clinical evidence
