chicknlittle
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was on it for 5 years - no side effects
Why'd you come off it?
I switched to dutasteride years ago, to see if I could get better maintenence re: diffuse thinning. Tollerating that too...
was on it for 5 years - no side effects
Why'd you come off it?
I've been taking propecia daily for about 11 years now. No side effects except potentially for dry skin/dandruff, which I can't prove is linked to propecia.
I think it's impossible to say whether it has worked or not since there's no way of knowing about the condition of my hair if I never took it. What I do know is that my father became bald around age 23, my brother at 27 and I still have a full head of hair with a slightly higher hairline than normal at age 30.
After reading some studies about the minimum effective dose of finasteride, I decided to reduce by daily dose to half a pill of propecia and reduced it again to a quarter pill. I did not observe any noticable difference between taking 1mg vs. 0.5mg or 0.25 mg.
This is just my story. Everyone reacts to medication differently. Just try not to get too freaked out by reading these forums. Make sure you keep what you read online in perspective and talk to your doctor.
I never had any until I doubled my dose to over 2mg a day I had a little watery semen but I went back down to 1 and never had any problems again.
3 years now.
I wouldn't take .5 mg. I took .75mg for a while I wanted to reduce my chances of problems, but .75 wasn't effective at all I maintained for about 6 weeks but on the 7th week my hair started falling out like a waterfall. I was really glad going back to 1mg I got all my rewgrowth back within about the same time frame. I actually eventually went up to 1.25 because of this just to be safe and have been there ever since.
I have friends who have been on finasteride for 5 years and maintained perfectly and never gave a thought to posting on an internet forum they don't even knwo they exist they have no reason to come here. And they are the majority.
6 years in, 3 of them at .5mg and the last 3 at 1.25mg.
No sides to report, except for some ball ache when I started, and then again when I went to 1.25. Lasted for a week or so, then went away...never to return.
Actually, if you want to know about ANY CHANGE WHATSOEVER, then my semen is fairly watery if I do a quick jerk (perfectly normal if I have sex). But, you know what that did for me? It clued me in when I got a batch of bad finasteride from overseas. All of a sudden my semen was "normal" looking. Got legit finasteride (generic Proscar) soon after and it went back to watery.
Don't worry, I've had my sperm motility tested, and it's perfectly normal....so I really don't count it as a side effect.
There are certain foods you can eat that will supposedly make your semen thicker