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Does finasteride make your penis smaller by reducing blood flow to it? Have there been any studies on that?

I know that many men have complained of this, but you must recognize that a man’s penis size changes throughout the day. It is often larger at night, and smaller during the day when not in use. I don’t have any evidence one way or the other on any connection between penis size and finasteride, but if your sexuality is impacted by this drug, I would think that it would be smaller from less use.

Although there is few questions i have that cannot be answered somewere on this site i seem to have one in which i cannot find an answer. It is stated that the hair loss gene comes from your mothers genes(hence if your mothers father is bald you will be bald.)If this is fact i have a question with a certain situation. If my father started balding early(about the age of 23-24) But my mothers father started around the age of 55-60, what is in store for me? My hairline is as my mother’s father’s was but it is not the same as my fathers, also my hair color and texture is like my mothers fathers. What is your opinion?

Hair loss is genetic, but it does not follow a specific predictable genetic pattern. It has been observed that the hair loss gene seems to favor the mother’s side (about 52%), but this is not always the case. While scientists can say hair loss is genetic, they still have not found the specific gene for hair loss because it probably reflects a series of genes. In addition, carrying the gene does not mean that the gene will be expressed and you need to express the gene to be balding. So when we get smart enough to learn how to control the ‘expression of the gene’ then the solution to hair loss may be at hand.

There is an old joke known in this industry — A bald father with a heavily balding son complains to his wife, “Look what you and your family gave him” (pointing to the son’s hair loss). In our male dominated society, we tend to blame women for every conceivable problem with the children, because we know that as men, we are just perfect.

I hope the sarcasm comes through to the casual reader.

I experienced further thinning one year on fin and stopped it. Im 32 years old NW1.5, should I give Fin a second chance risking 1 more year?

It’s not a good idea, assuming no side effects from finasteride, to stop it. That allows you to lose more hair. I tell everyone that finasteride is always working at the least to slow down the hair loss and at the best it may reverse it (common in men under 25). I would go back on finasteride and stick to it. You should be managed by a good hair doctor.

These results speak wonders for themselves. He has an almost complete reversal of his thinning hair.

In a 2009 article written by Dr. David Perez-Meza reflecting upon Dr. Tony Mangubat’s two cases of problems following a hair transplant, the connection between smoking and complications from a hair transplant or any plastic surgery to the face, is significant (see attached article below).

Still a other article mirrors these claims: J Surg Res. 2009 Apr;152(2):224-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.02.066. Epub 2008 Mar 31 concluding that: “Nicotine has a limited vasoactive effect in the skin and subcutis unlikely to be explained by smoking, which distinctly decreases tissue blood flow, oxygen tension, and aerobe metabolism independent of smoking status“.

This does not negate the effects of smoking just the direct connection between the causes seen and the presence of nicotine suggesting other causes in the cigarette smoke produce problems in wound healing.