Author: Dr. William Rassman

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,

I was wondering if fin restores pre-thinning hair, if caught early. Will it give you the hair you had as a teenager, for example. Is this possible? I’m 21 years old.

Sometimes, if you catch the hair loss early, finasteride can restore it to pre-loss levels. This occurs only for the mature hairline, not your juvenile hairline.

Yes, some people get changes in mood on finasteride. That is a problem for men with depression as it could exacerbate it.

I have been seeing my hair go back every year since I was 17. I am scared that I will lose all of my hair. What can I do?

I would go on the drug Finasteride for a year and see if you can stop or reverse the loss. You have lost the frontal corner hairline as it is going up and the temple peaks are also gone. If this does not work, then a hair transplant would solve the problem very nicely.

Can Finasteride help recover my hair loss?

If you are having hernia pain it is probably due to the hernia and you should see your doctor. Finasteride will not effect the hernia

I have thousands of patients on finasteride and it is clearly holding on to their hair. When and if they stop it, the lose huge amounts of hair and then we have quite a conversation. Most want to get back on finasteride but some don’t fully go back to their hair status from before they stopped it. I have seen this effect in young men in there 20 and 30s and in men in their 60s and 70s as well.

Can fin work by itself ? from tressless

After stopping minoxidil, have u seen a story where someone maintained these hairs with finasteride?

If the hairs that grew are minoxidil induced, then they are minoxidil dependent hairs that will disappear when stopping minoxidil. Finasteride will not hold those minoxidil dependent hairs.

Dr. Robert Bernstein wrote this up here: https://www.bernsteinmedical.com/answers/propecia-and-beard-growth/ The answer is that finasteride doesn’t impact beard growth.

There seems to be a lot of different opinions floating around regarding it’s long term effectiveness … With consistent use, does it maintain it’s therapeutic effects, or does your genetically predetermined Norwood level eventually develop as you age despite taking it? I’ve seen some people state that it continues to have it’s effects for as long as it’s taken but then others state that it only delays the inevitable and if you are let’s say genetically programmed to be Norwood 5, that you are going to eventually go there despite finasteride use? What is the actual case? (I know there’s different variables and there’s a small percentage of people who are non responders, but I just mean in general).

Finasteride always works to (1) slow hair loss (2) stop hair loss or (3) reverse hair loss. The aggressiveness of the body’s genetic hair loss is a variable. Apoptosis (cell death) occurs with genetic alopecia. We believe that each hair on the head is programmed to grow only a certain number of hair cycles. Once those cycles are reached, the hairs die. Finasteride seems to alter the duration of these cycles, possibly the number of hair cycles you can achieve, but this is just a guess. Good question.

This is an interesting hypothesis that finasteride might reduce the symptoms and possibly severity of Covid 19 symptoms

Finasteride & Covid