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Have you developed any urinary symptoms with your regime? I did a couple of weeks using bicalutamide, raloxifene and finasteride, but I developed urinary outflow symptoms and had a constant feeling of a full bladder and weak urine stream. Apparently a shrunken prostate can lead to symptoms...

Dr Cole, if a patient came to you with temple points that are still present, albeit genetically small and also very thin with blonde hairs, making it seem like the temple point itself is straight/non-existent when hair is any longer than a 1-2 shave, would you feel comfortable augmenting and...

Really? Not even a slight hint of puffiness or firm nodules or ache? Gee I had all that just after 2 weeks of starting 1mg finasteride...

Didn't you only just start using it 3 days ago? In my opinion, it takes longer than that for finasteride sides to start. I didn't notice any changes at all until 2-3 weeks, and that was on oral finasteride 1mg.

These are just baseline results. It's really hard to draw any conclusions from these, other than normal male, with regards to balding. This is due to people responding differently to different levels of compounds. Some people's follicles are highly sensitive to androgen receptor (AR) function...

finasteride (and I believe dutasteride, but not certain) are suicide inhibitors. They form a stable enzyme/substrate complex that is an irreversible bond, rendering both the original enzyme and substrate non-functional. Whilst it's true that some competitive inhibitors can only form reversible reactions, I...

Been on finasteride for 3 weeks, and in just the last 2 days i've developed a slight nipple ache that comes and goes. I have also noticed some firmer lumps around the areola area, but thankfully it's not visibly noticeable yet. If it stabilises at this state, i'll be happy to continue finasteride, but if it...