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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

I’ve been taking generic finasteride for around 5 years (since I was 25) and I’ve maintained the hair that I had when I started taking it. I also only had a minor side effect (orgasms seem to be a bit weaker, not too much but enough to notice) but the plus of keeping my hair outweighed this negative.

I read a scientific paper yesterday about the long term effects of neurosteroids and 5a alpha reductase inhibitors and it got me a little worried. Then I went down the rabbit hole of posts on places like Medium and Vice about how the drug ruined their lives and it was difficult for me to get some sleep last night and I was seriously considering just going cold turkey but even there you get people saying that stopping finasteride could give you PFS symptoms as well.

Not really sure what to do now, as much as I like having my hair I don’t want to screw up my brain and body over the long term.

Currently, I’m thinking of dropping down from 1mg to 0.25mg a day as I saw a graph showing that DHT inhibition only goes from 68% to 62% but what do you think?

Almost all of my patients who were on finasteride for years and who have stopped the drug for man y reasons, have often seen significant hair loss and regretted stopping the drug.

I’ve seen a lot of your messages on reddit being very helpful for people combating baldness. If you have a moment I hope you could help me with a small question. In my mid 20’s I noticed my hairline begin to recede and went on Finastride. It seemed to work great. My hair recession slowed down significantly. However, when I turned 34. I began to notice my hair line was receding again. I’m aware that drugs like Finasride, more or less, just slow the process down. But I was alarmed at how quickly my hair seemed to be receding all of a sudden. It was like the drug simply stopped working. I panicked and with some research I found that Dutasteride was an alternative that’s been shown to be slightly more affective. So I switched, from 5MG of Fin(quartered) to 0.5 of Dutasteride. That was approximately 10 months ago and my hair continues to recede and thin, at what feels like an alarming pace.

So here is my question. Have I made a huge mistake in switching? Will I lose all the hair that I kept on Finastride even though I’ve switched to Dutasteride? I thought that if Dutasteride worked it would keep the hair that Fin was holding back. Or perhaps there was no slowing these effects any longer, whether it was Dut or Fin? I don’t know what to do.

Dutasteride and finasteride can be interchanged without negative effects. What you are describing is the inevitable changes in progressive hair loss and I doubt with the history you gave, that any medication will help you at this stage. If your hairline bothers you, a hair transplants is the only option.

Read the article here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/baldness-cure-hair-loss-treatment-sandalwood-perfume-sandalore-smell-a8543391.html

This disease, more common in women than men, is responsible for considerable hair loss in women. Too often, hair transplant surgeons who don’t understand the diagnosis will transplant such patients and when the do, the transplant always fails. An experienced hair transplant surgeon is critical because he/she detects this disease which can be devastating. It is easy to see why surgeons get excited about transplanting this type of patient (see photo of female below) but careful examination would show that this patient is missing vellus hairs and has skin abnormalities that are not reflective of genetic balding. This article shows a treatment which has proven successful in 78% of patients:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29036252

I am a 24 years old guy with a clear cut norwood 3. My hairline receded obviously, I am not so sure about all around density but I guess the hair are thinner (cannot tell visually but it feels off). So it is pretty clear that I will follow my father’s pattern of balding which means I am headed to norwood 7. The thing is, my father only lost hair on top at 35-37. Also , he had an afro which means his density loss was hard to notice until it really advanced. My hair were always thinner than his, they are straight so I feel I might be noticebly bald faster.

Just out of curiosity, does on follow your father’s pattern and timeline regarding baldness? Would be nice to know if it is wise to look at when my pops lost his hair.

Some people do and some don’t, I just saw a man yesterday who has a very bald father and brother who were bald before they were 28, but he was like you with a Class 3 pattern at 30 years old. He was worried he might go like his dad, but I told him that very bald men are always bald by the time they are 30, so not to worry.

Scalp reduction is the answer to your question. This is when there is a bald area in the back of the top of the head, and the surgeon removes the bald area and leaves a large scar running down the excision area. This is a permanent scar, and the bald area’s removal usually returns or worsens too quickly and makes the person more bald. Most of the time, in those days, the surgeon chased the recurrent balding with more and more Scalp Reductions. I know from personal experience because I had three of them done on my head, which left me scarred and with a paper-thin scalp that used to bleed regularly. I then figured out that if I transplanted it, the transplants would restore the infrastructure to the scarred area. I was lucky because I only had crown balding and a lot of donor hair. Still, I suspect that Donald Trump was not so lucky and ended up chasing his hair loss with the old type of plugs, leaving his donor area heavily depleted, as seen in this video.