My experience:
30 y.o. at onset of hair loss, rapid initiation of finasteride (1mg) treatment (< 2 mos. after hair loss onset). Treatment continued for 11 months. Results: I will not comment on hair results, as there is no 'control' experiment (i.e., me without the finasteride treatment) to compare to. I can say, however, that shedding while I was on finasteride was as intense as before initiating treatment and my scalp was incredibly itchy in spite of Nizoral use.
What I really need to share with everyone are the NASTY SIDE EFFECTS, which started almost immediately with the treatment and got only worse with continued use of finasteride. These HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS of finasteride (PROPECIA) are a complete DESTRUCTION of my sexual life, with all that that implies to one's overall personality. Namely, I had no desire, and if I had it, my capacity to perform was severely compromised. When performing, I felt no joy, it was like robotic action. When finishing, I was more relieved than satisfied, and my ejaculate was a meager shadow of what it used to be.
Those obvious physical manifestations of my messing with my male hormones were just what I could see. What I couldn't see then, but I see clearly now that I stopped that silly habit of popping a castrating pill every morning, was the damage to my personality. After removing the chemical castration that Propecia really is (c'mon, folks, let's face it) I very shortly started to feel like my old self. And I don't mean just sexually (I feel and desire and perform normally now, only weeks after stopping finasteride), but also generally as a human being who is not blocking anything inside of his own organism. Who knows what we are doing with ourselves when we block THE hormone that orchestrates the differentiation AND maintenance of our MALE CHARACTERISTICS (physical as well as psychological).
SIMPLY PUT: DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF. DON'T TAKE THIS DRUG LIGHTLY. WHAT'S THE PLAN, TO LIVE NEUTERED THE REST OF OUR LIVES WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST IDEA OF THE LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES?
In the trade-off between my stupid hair and the rest of me, the rest of me wins by a million.
-Cheers to all.
30 y.o. at onset of hair loss, rapid initiation of finasteride (1mg) treatment (< 2 mos. after hair loss onset). Treatment continued for 11 months. Results: I will not comment on hair results, as there is no 'control' experiment (i.e., me without the finasteride treatment) to compare to. I can say, however, that shedding while I was on finasteride was as intense as before initiating treatment and my scalp was incredibly itchy in spite of Nizoral use.
What I really need to share with everyone are the NASTY SIDE EFFECTS, which started almost immediately with the treatment and got only worse with continued use of finasteride. These HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS of finasteride (PROPECIA) are a complete DESTRUCTION of my sexual life, with all that that implies to one's overall personality. Namely, I had no desire, and if I had it, my capacity to perform was severely compromised. When performing, I felt no joy, it was like robotic action. When finishing, I was more relieved than satisfied, and my ejaculate was a meager shadow of what it used to be.
Those obvious physical manifestations of my messing with my male hormones were just what I could see. What I couldn't see then, but I see clearly now that I stopped that silly habit of popping a castrating pill every morning, was the damage to my personality. After removing the chemical castration that Propecia really is (c'mon, folks, let's face it) I very shortly started to feel like my old self. And I don't mean just sexually (I feel and desire and perform normally now, only weeks after stopping finasteride), but also generally as a human being who is not blocking anything inside of his own organism. Who knows what we are doing with ourselves when we block THE hormone that orchestrates the differentiation AND maintenance of our MALE CHARACTERISTICS (physical as well as psychological).
SIMPLY PUT: DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF. DON'T TAKE THIS DRUG LIGHTLY. WHAT'S THE PLAN, TO LIVE NEUTERED THE REST OF OUR LIVES WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST IDEA OF THE LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES?
In the trade-off between my stupid hair and the rest of me, the rest of me wins by a million.
-Cheers to all.