How Do You Guys Deal With The Worst Days?

[PappinAce]

Beyond that 95% of us would never have had to deal with serious baldness if they had got on finasteride early.

finasteride helps marginally but don't overestimate it. if nature has male pattern baldness in store for you, dht is going to overcome your meds. finasteride may put up a resistance for 3-5 years, but if your hair loss is aggressive you're going to end up with a rat's nest anyway.

buying yourself a couple extra years may be the time it takes to meet somebody and get your foot in the door with dating though, something you can't do if you've thinned. there are pros and cons. life is full of tough decisions.

 

[Baldingat188]

finasteride helps marginally but don't overestimate it. if nature has male pattern baldness in store for you, dht is going to overcome your meds. finasteride may put up a resistance for 3-5 years, but if your hair loss is aggressive you're going to end up with a rat's nest anyway.

buying yourself a couple extra years may be the time it takes to meet somebody and get your foot in the door with dating though, something you can't do if you've thinned. there are pros and cons. life is full of tough decisions.

This is depressing af

I want to switch to duta now cause my life is over once bald basically

 

[CopeForLife]

This is depressing af

I want to switch to duta now cause my life is over once bald basically

ur hair is fine so far... no need to reinforce a heavy artillery

 

[JeanLucBB]

So I am lying?

Before I started finasteride I woke up with rock hard morning wood EVERY morning, no exceptions. Even when I was completely wasted I could still get it up and be rock hard.

I quit finasteride more than one year ago an my morning woods has still not come back and my erections are on average stil only 80% of what they were.

Just because it did not happen to you does not mean it is not a real thing. Nowadays it is even confirmed by signs that you are more likely to get ED if you are/have been on finasteride compared to non finasteride users....

Also:

"The National Institutes of Health estimates that erectile dysfunction strikes as many as 30 million men in the United States. Its prevalence does increase with age — 4 percent of men in their 50s are affected by ED, 17 percent in their 60s, and 47 percent of those over 75. But research has also found that 5 percent of those affected were between 20 and 39."

"But research has also found that 5 percent of those affected were between 20 and 39."
"But research has also found that 5 percent of those affected were between 20 and 39."

Sorry bro when half the placebo in finasteride studies get it and 5% of the population between 20 and 39 get erectile dysfunction, chances are it was your own fault.

 

[Exodus2011]

finasteride helps marginally but don't overestimate it. if nature has male pattern baldness in store for you, dht is going to overcome your meds. finasteride may put up a resistance for 3-5 years, but if your hair loss is aggressive you're going to end up with a rat's nest anyway.

buying yourself a couple extra years may be the time it takes to meet somebody and get your foot in the door with dating though, something you can't do if you've thinned. there are pros and cons. life is full of tough decisions.

from the little research i've done, when its caught in beginning stages with crown loss can maintain for a long time. i've seen cases of 5-10 years.

 

[PappinAce]

from the little research i've done, when its caught in beginning stages with crown loss can maintain for a long time. i've seen cases of 5-10 years.

that's always good to see. i would question what percentage of them would have maintained most of it without finasteride. virtually every dude "thins" a little in their 30s and 40s without having full blown male pattern baldness. compare for example billy crudup's hair in his teens to now.

i agree it's not worth the risk to NOT take it though. so it's hard to say. for me it didn't do sh*t so i just stopped taking it and the hair didn't get any worse so w/e.

 

[Exodus2011]

that's always good to see. i would question what percentage of them would have maintained most of it without finasteride. virtually every dude "thins" a little in their 30s and 40s without having full blown male pattern baldness. compare for example billy crudup's hair in his teens to now.

i agree it's not worth the risk to NOT take it though. so it's hard to say. for me it didn't do sh*t so i just stopped taking it and the hair didn't get any worse so w/e.

it was a famous story on here kinda, dude also posted his story on reddit, he caught a hole in his crown, and he was likely destined for norwood 5+ looking at his dad and brother, but he jumped on finasteride the moment he saw crown thinning and maintained full head for liek 5-10 years

i mainly remember some pics of him at a wedding, where he started to use finasteride cuz his front was thinning a bit , but this was like after 5+ years

 

[Saurabhaj]

Settling out of court does not mean their case was legitimate. Companies settle out of court as it is often easier than going to trial even if they don't believe there is a legitimate case.

I cannot say this page is authentic.
If you live in US,you can confirm by asking some advocate friend.

Another link to confirm 2012 revised warnings issued by FDA for Finasteride.
https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/ucm299754.htm

 

[Stanx22]

I cannot say this page is authentic.
If you live in US,you can confirm by asking some advocate friend.
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Another link to confirm 2012 revised warnings issued by FDA for Finasteride.
https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/ucm299754.htm

Who gives a sh*t about side effects, they are nothing compared to being bald. Even death is better than going bald.

 

[SmoothSailing]

I thought getting weed is easy in South America.

Columbia, everywhere. Peru, everywhere. Bolivia, only in major cities and it's dodgy as f***. Ecuador was easy enough but nothing compared to Columbia.

 

[blackg]

I'm not a beta cuck...

This makes me laugh, son.
Who are you so desperate to convince with this statement?

 

[blackg]

Even death is better than going bald.

A life lived on the sidelines, viewed as a potential pedophile?
Is it a reasonable life?

 

[rclark]

I'm just going to break these Finasteride side effect numbers, with a youtube video from a Pro Finasteride doctor.

He believes the side effects happen to one out of twenty (five percent) of men. But he also thinks that it made
it happen to them faster, but they would have had ED probably without it.

At one time this doctor allowed comments. Now he no longer does.

Then there's a different youtube video with a guy who bought the "wrong dosage" in another country (Mexico).

He claims he suffered side effects, but they stopped when he went down to one milligram. He bought the Proscar (five
milligram) dosage in Mexico.

On the other hand, there are guys who had ED in their early thirties.

I believe the guys who have permanent ED, after stopping Finasteride. The reason is they still hold onto their hair AFTER STOPPING FINASTERIDE, which means some permanent change probably occured.

But I do think it's only five percent of men.

 

[shookwun]

I suffer from anxiety, panic attacks and sometimes depressive episodes. I self medicate with xanax, weed, alcohol, music, chess, tv and internet forums.


Right now I feel terrible, no particular reason, I just feel sh*t, anxious, like everything is pointless, so I pop 3 xanax, drink a few cans, no weed here in shitty Bolivia, music and chess for a few hours, then probably fall asleep while watching latest south park. Hoping that tomorrow it's gone. If not a few more xanax, and I'll walk for a few hours possibly crying whilst walking. Crying helps for some reason.

Strange thing is that in general I'm happy, I just go through phases started by the dumbest sh*t.

Anyway this is terrible advice, just the truth of my, drug addicted, situation.

At least I don't smoke cigarettes I say to myself as I spark up a joint and crack open a can of beer.

Also try chess.com, it's like a form of meditation for me, all is forgotten during a game.

Stop taking all that junk and maybe you will start feeling normal again.


I didn't realise how detrimental ssri, and add medication was until I took it and stopped.

Absolute garbage

 

[Saurabhaj]

Who gives a sh*t about side effects, they are nothing compared to being bald. Even death is better than going bald.

You are not even Bald,and you are comparing baldness with death!

 

[g.i joey]

Who gives a sh*t about side effects, they are nothing compared to being bald. Even death is better than going bald.

Says the dumb 17 year old who isn't on finasteride. Stop saying sh*t to look cool online you f*****g pansy, death is not better than going bald, you really need help mentally man, I wouldn't be surprised if you end up being a terrorist 10 years down the line, your outlook on life is complete sh*t, I hope you get the wake up call you need one day.

 

[Stanx22]

Says the dumb 17 year old who isn't on finasteride. Stop saying sh*t to look cool online you f*****g pansy, death is not better than going bald, you really need help mentally man, I wouldn't be surprised if you end up being a terrorist 10 years down the line, your outlook on life is complete sh*t, I hope you get the wake up call you need one day.

If i had the courage to kill anyone, i would kill myself first. And my outlook on life is sh*t because i hate nothing more than life. I would give my "life" for free and i want nothing in return. In fact, i would have to pay something with it because my so called "life" is too worthless.

 

[Xander94]

If i had the courage to kill anyone, i would kill myself first. And my outlook on life is sh*t because i hate nothing more than life. I would give my "life" for free and i want nothing in return. In fact, i would have to pay something with it because my so called "life" is too worthless.

you are heading into self hate territory. and that will only consume you. I cope by not looking in the mirror. and imagining everything is fine lmao

 

[Stanx22]

you are heading into self hate territory. and that will only consume you. I cope by not looking in the mirror. and imagining everything is fine lmao

Hatred is the best cope tho.

 

[Xander94]

Hatred is the best cope tho.

not for long term