Decreased low back pain while on finasteride...

ladysmanfelpz · Apr 16, 2015

So I took finasteride for about a year and discontinued as I thought I was over analyzing my situation and didn't need it. I quit for a year and am now back on it as I know I will go bald without treatments. I have had a history of lower back issues from injury and athletics. My most significant injury occurred at 21 and I jumped on finasteride shortly after doing thorough research on the drug and hairloss. Studying health sciences you learn most everything is controlled through feedback mechanisms and I speculated on if my poor lower back may had been causing decreased prostatic function and it made it up by increased DHT. Through brief overview of the nervous system it appeared to me that the prostate is too ventral in the body to even be affected by nerves of the L5 and S1 location and quickly debunked it and thought I was overthinking things again. Now I do have to say while on finasteride I followed PT and other exercises to the book to better my health, so much that I stopped doing them, and noticed my back pain returned to a worse state, but was also off finasteride at this time. Now this go around on finasteride I had a hard weekend of boozing with friends and missed some workouts and woke to terrible low back pain, but I also missed 3 days of finasteride as I forgot my bottle. Soon as I got back on finasteride and working out again it decreased, but even on stretches where I get caught up with work and miss my exercises my back feels fine, not that extreme pain where I missed a stretch. Now I am sure there is a multitude of health theories about this that a chiropractor or osteopathic physician would be able to tell us more about. But it appears it comes to a chicken or the egg debate with me; was it back injury that caused decreased prostatic function, or decreased prostatic function that manifested into poor low back health. Or of course it could all be psychosomatic :$. Either way it gives me one more reason to treat as like most on here I see hairloss as a health issue to be dealt with and not simply a poor draw of the cards.

So does anybody else notice decreased low back pain or feel finasteride has helped their prostate in a good way even at a young age?

And don't need long scientific answers here, just a simple report. I thought I'd just share my whole story on the matter. Thanks guys!

g.i joey · Apr 17, 2015

finasteride raises estrogen... etrogen promotes good bone and muscle health... could be a correlation.. i noticed my leg gave out less while on finasteride... but i also did more cardio while i was on finasteride so im really not sure

smyth01 · Apr 19, 2015

Am I right in thinking DHT can actually dry out joints? I remember reading that DHT based steroids can cause this pretty severely.

ladysmanfelpz · Apr 19, 2015

I think I've heard that too smyth. But either way I've decided it has helped my low back pain in some mechanism I have yet to understand. I've had too many experiences where its like whoa I feel way better than just staying healthy and exercising. This is pharmaceutical level pain relief from a drug that should have nothing to do with the musculoskeletal system. But like I said I'm sure chiro's or other physicians can tell you theories on how organ failure/imbalance manifests itself into the musculoskeletal system.