Finasteride and heat

[Chris87]

Hey guys. So, I keep a bottle with some cut up finasteride pills in it in my car because my GF doesn't know I take finasteride (she doesn't even know I'm dealing with hairloss) and we live together so I wouldn't want her stumbling upon my finasteride in the house and asking me what it is. I live in california, so it gets pretty hot out sometimes. Would leaving the pills in the car when its hot outside on a regular basis somehow damage them or make them less effective? I know i've read that finasteride should be stored under 85F or something like that. I know that the car most likely gets hotter than that during the day and I'm worried that it might make it ineffective.

Anyone know anything about this?

 

[Cassin]

Medication does tend to degrade in heat.

Dude just bring it in the house. You live with her and such a petty thing as hair loss treatments shouldn't be an obstacle.

 

[malo]

Buy a bottle of vitamins specifically for men and put them in that.

 

[Chris87]

Medication does tend to degrade in heat.

Dude just bring it in the house. You live with her and such a petty thing as hair loss treatments shouldn't be an obstacle.

Well..I'm 25 years old..i started losing hair at 22. Thankfully I had really thick dark hair and my hair loss hasn't been extremely aggressive and i'd bet that none of my friends or girlfriend would think I was losing my hair. My girlfriend has made comments about how my hair is my best feature and that she doesn't like guys with shaved heads or who are bald (that may sound shallow to us hairloss guys but..hey..we all have our preferences right). I have a friend who is clearly losing his hair and some of my other friends give him sh*t for it. I don't want to be that guy getting sh*t for his hairloss...so i don't want people knowing i take finasteride. AS dumb as that may sound to some people...thats the way I feel.

My gf is also very against taking prescription meds (as am i in most cases) and especially against taking anything that fucks with hormones because she has had persistent side effects from taking birth control years ago.

I think what i'll start doing is keeping it in my office and then just taking the pill there or bringing it home..that way its stored in a cooler environment.

 

[Bob Chylan]

i agree. i think it is stupid you are living with someone who is shallow to the point of judging you because of your hair. what is she going to think when you eventually go bald? who cares what your friends think? find a better girlfriend/friends if they make you feel uncomfortable about who you are over something you can not control...they are not perfect either. life is to short to worry about what people think about you; and you should definitely not hang around with people who judge you over appearances..you are not in highschool and are not a celebrity; who the f*** cares.

i also think you should just put them in a bottle with a different label on them...your girl will not know whether they are vitamin d or finasteride (how nosy is this broad anyways)

 

[rtc84]

WHEN he eventually goes bald????????? I'm counting on finasteride to work, man!

 

[Bob Chylan]

im not sure of your situation, or really the powers of finasteride... but i from what i understand it may eventually lose its effectiveness (possibly due to the progression of the balding process)...but whats wrong with a bald 50 year old.. who knows, by then there might very well be a better solution-- but your shallow b**ch girlfriend/wife will find something else to b**ch about (probably your lack of self esteem)

 

[IrishFella]

What's up with attacking his girlfriend? Mate, get an airtight tablet container, the ones that anti-biotics come in, and tell here they are vitamins, but keep them "offside" so she doesn't find them.

The last thing should would suspect them as is hairloss tablets. I'm kinda in the same situation as you, no one knows I take finasteride at it will stay that way.

 

[Cassin]

My gf is also very against taking prescription meds (as am i in most cases)

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I get that. I used to be as well.

 

[Chris87]

i agree. i think it is stupid you are living with someone who is shallow to the point of judging you because of your hair. what is she going to think when you eventually go bald? who cares what your friends think? find a better girlfriend/friends if they make you feel uncomfortable about who you are over something you can not control...they are not perfect either. life is to short to worry about what people think about you; and you should definitely not hang around with people who judge you over appearances..you are not in highschool and are not a celebrity; who the f*ck cares.

i also think you should just put them in a bottle with a different label on them...your girl will not know whether they are vitamin d or finasteride (how nosy is this broad anyways)

Is it really shallow? Whats wrong with having a preference? A lot of guys prefer blondes or brunettes or girls with big boobs or whatever and we don't give them sh*t for being shallow..its just what they like. Would you be as willing to date a girl if she had a slick bald head? Probably not. Are you shallow? No. I can't blame her for not being attracted to the balding look. Looks are important..especially when you're my age...its a fact of life. I could just say "ya know what I'm gonna lose my hair and people are just going to have to deal with it and I won't let it affect my relationships, my ability to get a job, my self esteem, etc." But that isn't living in the real world. In the real world it WILL affect my relationships, possibly my ability to get a job, my self esteem etc.

I don't care what people think of me as much as I care what I think of me...and I don't want to lose my hair. I look good with a full head of hair...I would look terrible bald or balding and I would feel bad about myself. I'm not shallow..I just have a preference for how I look. If I was one of those guys that was comfortable with a shaved look..maybe I would just shave it and forget about it, but I'm not one of those guys that looks good like that.

I'm hoping that finasteride will do for me what it has done for many others, which is hold the hairloss process at bay for the next 10 or even 15 years. Hopefully by then something better will be available, and if not then I'll just be starting to lose my hair again in my mid 30s or early 40s..and at least at that point it'll be age appropriate.

As far as the original topic is concerned I think I'm going to keep the finasteride at my office and just pop it before I go home everyday. I cut my 1mg tablets into 4ths (started at .25mg EOD moved to .25mg a day plan on bumping to .5mg then 1mg eventually...did this due to having sides the first time i tried taking finasteride) so having it in the house in another bottle is risky because I'd have a bunch of cut up tablets in a bottle haha Plus I wouldn't want my girlfriend accidentally taking them thinking they were Zinc or vitamins or something.

 

[gh05]

Not sure about the original question but just to say that it would make me feel REALLY uncomfortable if my girlfriend flat out said she didn't like guys with shaved heads or bald heads. Honestly it would make me not want to be with her.

Although you're treating your hair loss there's no guarantee that it will work long term (finasteride only slows it down) and I'd want a girl who would find me hot no matter if i went bald or not. Is that unrealistic? I don't know, but that's the way i feel. I'd run from a girl in panic that one day i could wake up losing hair again knowing she hated it.

 

[brian liles]

its funny how some girls dislike guy losing hair, and yet most of those girls as they age end up being fat with saggy tits and cellulite. chicks should look in the mirror first before judging us.

 

[Chris87]

Not sure about the original question but just to say that it would make me feel REALLY uncomfortable if my girlfriend flat out said she didn't like guys with shaved heads or bald heads. Honestly it would make me not want to be with her.

Although you're treating your hair loss there's no guarantee that it will work long term (finasteride only slows it down) and I'd want a girl who would find me hot no matter if i went bald or not. Is that unrealistic? I don't know, but that's the way i feel. I'd run from a girl in panic that one day i could wake up losing hair again knowing she hated it.

She's never flat out been like "Bald guys are ugly" shes just made comments about how she doesn't like the shaved look on a guy and how she loves my hair and its one of my best features. Most girls, given the choice between a guy with hair and a guy with no hair are going to choose the guy with hair... hairloss guys need to come to terms with this fact..i see denial of it all over the place on forums like this...and its like..just accept it... Of course you can get in great shape and develop your game with women and of course that may make it a non issue for you....but its a whole lot easier with hair. Guys in the hairloss community often scream "WELL THATS SHALLOW AND ANY GIRL THAT FEELS LIKE THAT IS A c*** AND IT SHOULDNT MATTER BLAH BLAH BLAH"...but they need to realize that its a preference..and thats ok..it doesn't make a girl a shallow c*** to want a guy with hair. Those same guys probably have preferences of their own. Would they date a really fat girl? Would they date a girl who was bald? Probably not..but they don't consider themselves shallow.

 

[gh05]

Not sure about the original question but just to say that it would make me feel REALLY uncomfortable if my girlfriend flat out said she didn't like guys with shaved heads or bald heads. Honestly it would make me not want to be with her.

Although you're treating your hair loss there's no guarantee that it will work long term (finasteride only slows it down) and I'd want a girl who would find me hot no matter if i went bald or not. Is that unrealistic? I don't know, but that's the way i feel. I'd run from a girl in panic that one day i could wake up losing hair again knowing she hated it.

She's never flat out been like "Bald guys are ugly" shes just made comments about how she doesn't like the shaved look on a guy and how she loves my hair and its one of my best features. Most girls, given the choice between a guy with hair and a guy with no hair are going to choose the guy with hair... hairloss guys need to come to terms with this fact..i see denial of it all over the place on forums like this...and its like..just accept it... Of course you can get in great shape and develop your game with women and of course that may make it a non issue for you....but its a whole lot easier with hair. Guys in the hairloss community often scream "WELL THATS SHALLOW AND ANY GIRL THAT FEELS LIKE THAT IS A c**t AND IT SHOULDNT MATTER BLAH BLAH BLAH"...but they need to realize that its a preference..and thats ok..it doesn't make a girl a shallow c**t to want a guy with hair. Those same guys probably have preferences of their own. Would they date a really fat girl? Would they date a girl who was bald? Probably not..but they don't consider themselves shallow.

ok fair enough...the way you said it made it sound that she really found it unattractive. Either way I wouldn't want to hide something like that from a partner and i wouldn't feel comfortable knowing that she found bald a turn off or whatever but good on you for not caring so much.

My ex (unfortunaetly) gf specifically liked guys with shaved heads. I shaved mine originally just because she liked shaved heads. That was when i became self conscious about losing my hair though because of all the derogatory comments i got from other people so it didn't work out too well! still it was nice to know that she didn't care...maybe that is why i'd struggle and worry about finding a new gf who also doesn't care. finasteride or not, i know i'll be bald eventually and don't wanna feel ugly in ten years time to my partner. hair loss is natural and genetic...thats why it pisses me off how its seen as such a bad thing by our sh*tty society.