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Figured I'd give my own insight to potentially help some of ya'll after I've been lurking here for months. I'm just a regular guy, with regular hair loss from Male Pattern Baldness.
So, a little background about me. I'm 25, my hair is -getting thin- across the entire top of my head, and my hairline is starting to thin out as well. I'm extremely active, I work on my feet every day and go to the gym daily and don't consider hair loss to be the "end of the world". I'm not excited that I could be bald within years but I'm also not going to act as if it's the only thing that contributes towards my confidence or my image.
So with those variables at play I figured I'd be a good candidate for Finasteride. I went to a hair loss clinic and went in for a free consultation full-well knowing I was only interested in the Finasteride, I'm not judging anyone but hair transplants just aren't my thing. So someone who I'd define as a "salesperson" and was NOT the doctor on site told me Finasteride was great and had some side effects but only effected like 2% of people. He assured me that he himself has been taking it for years and never experienced any side-effects. So after a quick phone call follow-up from the actual doctor I was quickly shipped my 3-month supply.
I finally receive the Finasteride and before taking it I do some "last second research". That's when I started stumbling across all the horror stories about these guys who have had these awful experiences on it. So the bottle sat there for a month or so before my girlfriend and I decided it couldn't hurt to be on it for a week and see how I felt.
****The Important Part****
I finally take the Finasteride and on Day 1 I felt great, better than usual and I could only account that to the fact I felt in control of something that I previously had not. As I got through Day 3 I noticed I felt a little sluggish/dizzy and not quite myself and my girlfriend even mentioned that she noticed it. On Day 7, I decided to stop taking it because I couldn't shake the sluggish feeling I had. I felt weaker/less coordinated at the gym as well. Never once did I experience any Erectile Dysfunction, lack of sex-drive or anything of that sort. This isn't a horror story, and I wanted to give some reasonable context for people out there who were like me, tired of the drama on one side saying it's the end of the world and then the ignorance from the other side saying "nothing to see here". I'm sure Finasteride is like every other drug out there, some respond fantastic to it and have great results where others don't have the same success. After being off it for 5 days now I feel back to normal as well.
So the deal-breaker for me was rooted in my own experience with it, don't let others scare you into being afraid of it and don't the people convince you that it's a miracle drug. Also, I'm certain Finasteride does what it intends and I would've kept my hair. This post isn't about whether or not it works, I'm sure it does.
So, a little background about me. I'm 25, my hair is -getting thin- across the entire top of my head, and my hairline is starting to thin out as well. I'm extremely active, I work on my feet every day and go to the gym daily and don't consider hair loss to be the "end of the world". I'm not excited that I could be bald within years but I'm also not going to act as if it's the only thing that contributes towards my confidence or my image.
So with those variables at play I figured I'd be a good candidate for Finasteride. I went to a hair loss clinic and went in for a free consultation full-well knowing I was only interested in the Finasteride, I'm not judging anyone but hair transplants just aren't my thing. So someone who I'd define as a "salesperson" and was NOT the doctor on site told me Finasteride was great and had some side effects but only effected like 2% of people. He assured me that he himself has been taking it for years and never experienced any side-effects. So after a quick phone call follow-up from the actual doctor I was quickly shipped my 3-month supply.
I finally receive the Finasteride and before taking it I do some "last second research". That's when I started stumbling across all the horror stories about these guys who have had these awful experiences on it. So the bottle sat there for a month or so before my girlfriend and I decided it couldn't hurt to be on it for a week and see how I felt.
****The Important Part****
I finally take the Finasteride and on Day 1 I felt great, better than usual and I could only account that to the fact I felt in control of something that I previously had not. As I got through Day 3 I noticed I felt a little sluggish/dizzy and not quite myself and my girlfriend even mentioned that she noticed it. On Day 7, I decided to stop taking it because I couldn't shake the sluggish feeling I had. I felt weaker/less coordinated at the gym as well. Never once did I experience any Erectile Dysfunction, lack of sex-drive or anything of that sort. This isn't a horror story, and I wanted to give some reasonable context for people out there who were like me, tired of the drama on one side saying it's the end of the world and then the ignorance from the other side saying "nothing to see here". I'm sure Finasteride is like every other drug out there, some respond fantastic to it and have great results where others don't have the same success. After being off it for 5 days now I feel back to normal as well.
So the deal-breaker for me was rooted in my own experience with it, don't let others scare you into being afraid of it and don't the people convince you that it's a miracle drug. Also, I'm certain Finasteride does what it intends and I would've kept my hair. This post isn't about whether or not it works, I'm sure it does.