Author: Dr. William Rassman

This chart shows that the longer an elderly man takes finasteride, the less the risk of prostate cancer over a 20 year time-frame. Like everything in medicine, there are always disputes, but less people die of prostate cancer if they are on finasteride.

 

 

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They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. He is one of the best surgeons in Brazil and he learned SMP here at our office. In addition to learning, he was one of our patients and we repaired some very old work of the plug era hair transplants. The SMP he had done wiped out all of the scars he had from the old surgeries.

 

 

 

I’ve been on finasteride for a little over 6 months now and so far up until yesterday I haven’t been experiencing any sides. But yesterday I was getting frisky with my girlfriend but couldn’t get my dick to get hard. This was the only time that this has ever happened, and there’s also other factors such as me not getting enough sleep the past few days. Was wondering if anyone knows when finasteride side effects supposedly happen. Thanks!

Maybe you are reading too much into it. Most men have days that they are off and maybe this was yours. Most men don’t get sexual side effects out of the blue. Give it some time and stop thinking about it, because you can make it happen

A 10 months Finasteride shed is unlikely. It is more likely an acceleration of your primary genetic hair loss.

Absolutely huge finasteride shed 10 months in has anyone recovered from this? from tressless

My hairline has receded at what I’d call an accelerated rate since I began finasteride. Would that be a bad sign or considered natural?

It should stop shortly, but that is assuming that the shed is the result of the medication and not your balding process itself.

Hey Doc- I had a quick question. Have you seen any patients have hair loss worsened by Fin? I took fin from roman for maybe a week and had such extreme shedding immediately that I stopped. Shedding continued for 8 weeks or so and stopped but I went from a NW2 to a NW4 in that time. Do you think this will grow back? I tried Min, but the sides were bad for me and made it extremely uncomfortable. Thanks!

I have heard about shedding, but I haven’t seen it myself in my patient population so it must be rare. I gather that those who have it should stay on the medication as their is a delayed response but the response usually does happen in a couple of months.

I started using a higher dose of topical finasteride about a month ago and ever since then I have been noticing more hairloss. I do know the so-called “finasteride shed” (initial period where hairloss temporarily increases) but I am surprised that it started literally the day after my first application (I thought it should take some time to start working). I have been monitoring the amount of my hairloss (after washing my hair) for months and nowadays I see about twice as much hair in the bathtub than before. I know that this is probably happening due to finasteride and that it should be a good sign but a part of me still worries that it might be just my hairloss getting more aggressive.

Could you please advise me on how long the increased shedding period should approximately last

How long after stopping finasteride did it take to recover from sides?

Everyone seems to take a different amount of time to reverse finasteride side effects when stopping the drug. The range in my experience relates to how long you have been on the drug. The range is between 2 – 16 weeks.

I started fin 13 months ago 1mg /daily. At first I had sides, loss of sex drive, runny ejac, and shitty boners. I’m a vain man, I work in sales and I figured this was all worth keeping my head of hair. Fast forward 3 months and they went away. I was hesitant to celebrate but it’s been 9 months and they haven’t come back. Fin not only stopped my balding dead in its tracks, also got some regrowth. I’m 31 so hair loss is pretty normal at this age but I still get the “you lucky bastard” comments from the less hairy lol. This might sound dramatic but good looks are an insane advantage in our society and finasteride saved my life lol.

This is a positive story, something about side effects one doesn’t hear often

Basically, my question is if you experience side effects right away on Finasteride, what percentage of people have them go away, and is there an increased chance of prolonged ED? Thanks for your help!

Some people see the side effects within the first week of taking Finasteride, and some men see the side effects subside over a few months. I do believe that the long-term sexual side effects may be real, but it is difficult to filter between those people who see profit from filing a legal action against the drug company by making up complains and real complaints by ordinary men not interested in lawsuits. In some countries where there is no significant risk of class action lawsuits against the drug company, the reports of permanent sexual side effects are not present. If they are real, they are very rare, I suspect significantly less than 1%.