http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...itals-men.html
I'm worried about this. I've been on Fin for 4 months ish with no noticeable sides. I've been on 5% Min for about 3 weeks.
Is it DEFINITELY shrinking genitals and causing ED in the background? Or is it you either get hit (struck in a bad way) instantly or not at all?
Dr Irwig said roughly 5 per cent of men who take medicine will experience sexual dysfunction, and of those 'it’s hard to tell how many will experience persistent symptoms'.
So the answer to the question would be no.
No. If fin was guaranteed to shrink your genitals, I'm pretty sure no guy would ever even consider taking it. "Finasteride, guaranteed to shrink your penis" isn't the best selling slogan
You've been on it for a few months now with no problem..you'll most likely be fine
As far as I've seen the DailyMail isn't the most reputable source.
Just as Kirby says, this is a sensationalist article that contains no real useful or accurate content. What's most ridiculous is they blatantly are trying to ride Wayne Rooney's fame to try to garner some hits.
It doesn't look like they did more than a few minutes of homework, because if they did any searching at all they would find the US labels actually DO warn of persistent (or permanent, as the terms are often synonymous) symptoms.
The sources for this article include the single case of Kevin, the poorly conducted Irwig study and the sample of users from Propeciahelp. Not surprisingly for one of these sensationalist articles, they left out the dozens of placebo controlled studies involving tens of thousands of men that did NOT show any of these symptoms.
To this date, not a single controlled study has found that even one person experienced persistent symptoms. Furthermore, I haven't seen genital shrinkage, temporal or otherwise, even mentioned in a controlled study done on finasteride. Again, tens of thousands of men taking this drug for years, and not ONE of them reported that their genitals shrank. It just doesn't happen.
What about for guys like me who are too big?? We need a product like Fin ...Originally Posted by Chris87
:P
The Gentiles shrinking sound either bull**** or very very rare cuz it's the first time I heard of it
It is a little odd. Similar articles have been circulating US media as well:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/baldnes...ry?id=16758123
It does document that some people experience sexual side effects and that some of these appear to be long lasting or permanent. However, I think this is largely known at this stage especially as it further illustrates the low occurence of these:
On its website, the FDA said only 36 of 945 men who took Propecia in clinical trials reported any adverse sexual side effects. Irwig agrees that the number of men who will experience these long-lasting side effects is relatively small, likely around 3 percent of all men who take the drug.
My Story
Regimen:
1.25 mg fincar (daily) 5% generic Minox foam (2X daily), 1% Nizoral shampoo (2X week), generic dandruff shampoo (other days)
Please by all means don't look for sides. Live your life!
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Your political bias is likely showing. Asserting that one British tabloid is less accurate/more sensationalist than another is simply laughable and says more about the person saying it. And anybody who gets any scientific info from any mainstream media source is a fool.
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