Oh, so you think the drug left you with a PERMANENTLY decreased androgenic activity body-wide, huh?
Yes, I most certainly do, have the bloodwork to prove it, and have the changes in muscle mass, loss of libido and overall loss of androgenic action that goes along with becoming hypogonadal. Same goes for many others with permanent problems from finasteride who end up with hypogonadal levels of Testosterone within weeks of quitting the drug.
BTW, permanent erectile dysfunction is now listed as an official side effect in the EU and UK. None of that was "supposed" to happen from quitting a 5AR inhibitor, either, despite what your "studies" from the guy who researched 5AR2 deficiency in the 70s says.
Look, I think you just had a skin condition which you eventually grew out of, and you're erroneously attributing it to the finasteride.
You can "think" whatever you want, but I have first-hand experience with this medication and its effects while YOU do not, since you will not take it (and just why is that, Bryan?).
I know my body, and how I was before, while on, and since quitting the drug.
I am giving you my first hand clinical experience with the medication, effects which have continued for myself and a minority of others who seem to have longterm issues even after quitting the medication (a condition you also disbelieve exists, despite officially published information to the contrary). I have also provided studies in this thread mentioning Finasteride's effects on 5AR1 and 5AR2/sebum production which you also conveniently overlooked.
Either way, overproducing sebum and oil, and then experiencing the complete opposite within weeks of taking a potent drug with anti-androgenic effects in the male body, which decreases the most potent androgen, DHT, which is implicated in androgenic sebum and skin activity... it's quite obvious what occurred here, for me... but I know you will beg to differ till the bitter end.
Anyway, this banter is getting old. You'll continue to claim Finasteride is some harmless medication that cannot possibly have effects which have not been documented, or that go beyond those some researchers have claimed it is not attributable to, while I will disagree.
In the end, we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.