Month: January 2023

No, finasteride can not cause thyroid problems.

I’ve been taking fin since August. Lately I’ve been noticing that I’ve been experiencing memory loss… Like if a prof tells the class something important, I might not recall what it was if I don’t take any notes. I also feel as if words come slower to me. I’ll lose my train of thought so easily!

I could just be crazy. Or I could be sleep deprived. Stressed. Idk. I’m in grad school and I read a lot…like I’m able to complete my assignments well, but I feel like I just lose my train of thought sometimes and words come slowly sometimes. Also I’ll forget certain things that people say.

Maybe I’m crazy! This could just be normal…like people don’t always retain everything they hear, and sometimes people don’t think clearly for whatever reason.

Brain fox is a rare but significant complication of finasteride. You described it perfectly. You should speak with your doctor to find out if you should stay on the drug

because i always see posts on hear of people saying they loss density on fin cuz of the shed and it didnt get better is this possible because im worried that may happen, Ive seen other ppl say its impossible to lose hair on it.

In my practice, I have never seen finasteride cause hair loss but I have seen genetic hair loss move rapidly evolve while a person is on finasteride.

There is no known relationship with people taking finasteride and the appearance of diabetes. If you developed diabetes while on the drug, I suspect it is related to both your diet and heredity,

The answer is no. In an analysis of 500,000 people in Europe (ref:new Scientist August 19th issue), people who were fat, controlled their blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and exercised, still had a 26% increase in the risk of heart disease and heart attacks. The message is clear, being overweight can kill you!

I want my eyebrows transplanted. A new plastic surgeon just came to town and is offering eyebrow transplant. Should I trust him?

Eyebrow hair transplants are very difficult to perform. The hair grafts for the eyebrow must to placed flat against the upper bone of the eye socket. Unfortunately getting this done correctly, is not easily accomplished and should not be attempted except for the most experienced surgeons who have created many of these reconstructions with good results. I have seen the eyebrow hairs stick out forward as they were not placed flat or in the correct direction. Plucking them out work, but why should you have to pluck after having it done? Good question!

Restoring eyebrow hair is a rewarding endeavor, as this structure is so important to a person’s appearance, perhaps even more so than scalp hair. The secret to eyebrow transplantation (as in other types of hair restoration) is to closely observe nature. Unlike scalp hair, the eyebrows consist of only one-hair follicular units, so that if the source of hair is the larger follicular units obtained from the permanent zone in the back of the scalp, these units (of 2, 3, and 4-hairs) must be carefully split up into individual follicles under the microscope.

Replicating the unique directional changes of eyebrow hair is also critical to a successful restoration. The hair points upward in its medial aspect (near the nose) and then fans outwards as one moves towards the temples. However, the angles are not quite so simple. As one moves laterally (towards the temples), the hair in the upper half of the brow points to the side and down and the hair in the lower half points to the side and up. The upper and lower hairs interdigitate causing the central part of the eyebrow to slightly rise and form a gentle ridge which gives the eyebrow its unique shape. This interlocking also keeps the eyebrow hair orderly and “neat” in appearance. All of the eyebrow hair emerges from the skin at a very acute angle (almost flat), so the recipient sites must be made with the needle actually lying on the skin surface.

Just as the outer edge of the female hairline is often comprised of finer hair, so are the outer boarders of the eyebrows. In a sense, each eyebrow can be viewed as a cosmetic unit, just as the scalp, with transition zones of fine hair around much of the perimeter. As with the frontal hairline and temples, this fine hair may be replicated by removing or producing controlled, intentional damage to the bulb (cutting off part or all of the bottom) of a normal terminal follicle. The practice of using all fine hair for the eyebrows is incorrect since the eyebrows, like the scalp, require a central area of greater density, and bulk, and this is best accomplished with intact (but in this case individual) hair follicles. In all cases, multiple sessions are needed for a complete eyebrow restoration.

Your story is pretty typical from what patients tell me. Many people don’t know that they have a decreased sex drive and some even report an increased sex drive.

Finasteride – 1 month from tressless

See this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setipiprant

Phase two clinical trials for drugs are kept a secret, so we will not know the results of this until this drug completes its cycle.

Setipiprant Phase 2 Trial results? from tressless

The way this should be approached, is to analyse your hair with respect to its hair thickness (fine, medium or coarse, the coarser being better than fine hair), and the donor density. The number of grafts that can be safely moved in a Class 6 pattern of balding depends upon the donor density. The higher the donor density, the more grafts you have to move. A typical Caucasian male has ~110,000 hairs on their head with 50,000 Follicular units, or 2.2 hairs per cm square. There is a difference between FUE and Strip surgery maximum numbers as you can see in this chart: https://newhair.com/resources/#tab-id-4 so your doctor should measure your original donor density so that a plan for both the first transplant and the potential to cover the entire balding area with an additional transplant can be determined. A typical Caucasian with an average weight hair (thickness) can get reasonable coverage of a Class 6 balding pattern. Body hair is never as good, because the growth cycles are short and the length and thickness never matches the donor hair from the scalp in quality and length. If you don’t have enough hair, then Scalp Micropigmentation can make up the difference very nicely as shown in this article I wrote last year: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Combining_Follicular_Unit_Extraction_and_Scalp.98621.pdf