If I Quit propecia/finasteride will i finish puberty/masculine development?

[loselose]

Hello,

I am a month shy of 20, I have recently started taking finasteride 0.25mg ed. I am ambivalent towards the drug and I would sleep a lot better if I knew finasteride hadn't stunted my development in anyway. So say if I stopped taking finasteride after one months treatments and my dht levels returned to normal would my body carry out its development unhampered??

I haven't developed a beard yet, I believe I am fully grown height wise, I have always been quite muscular, unsure about sexual development, unsure about brain development- do androgens account for this? the sides i most fear are anything mental, I have quite a baby face, does dht affect jaw line development/facial masculine features?

Out of interest:

I have always read that once quitting finasteride after a long period of time say > 5 years that hair will quickly change to its predestined pattern as if you hadn't taken the drug. surely hair loss would happen at the same rate. say if you started finasteride at 20 and quitted at 25, your hair at 27 would be the same as it would have been at 22 if you hadn't taken finasteride.

 

[Spanishlad]

If you're unsure if you're fully developed and you want to know if its ok for you to take finasteride then I suggest you go and see your doctor. Theres no point just guessing at this.

If you quit finasteride then everything will go back to normal levels very quickly.

If you quit finasteride you will lose all the hair it has saved over time. So you will quickly progress to where you would have been without finasteride .

 

[Wolf Pack]

Out of interest:

I have always read that once quitting finasteride after a long period of time say > 5 years that hair will quickly change to its predestined pattern as if you hadn't taken the drug. surely hair loss would happen at the same rate. say if you started finasteride at 20 and quitted at 25, your hair at 27 would be the same as it would have been at 22 if you hadn't taken finasteride.

Funnily enough, I asked exactly that today.

Anyway, your main query, you are past 18 so it's safe to take Finasteride. Personally I would wait until my mid 20's though.

 

[loselose]

If you quit finasteride then everything will go back to normal levels very quickly.

So temporarily having low dht levels wont prematurely halt the end of puberty?

If you quit finasteride you will lose all the hair it has saved over time. So you will quickly progress to where you would have been without finasteride .

This is what I don't get. Surely finasteride blocks dht attacking those hair follicles. Why when stopping finasteride would dht attack these hair follicles at a faster rate as if it knew it needed to make up for lost time.

 

[shookwun]

pretty much done with the crucial stages of development. Wouldn't consider yourself to be in puberty still. Muscles, and bone have pretty much reached full development, at this age the bones may get more dense as the years go by, that's about it.

'Puberty wise' physical, social and emotional maturing is what you can expect. All your bones have reached their blue print development. Physically speaking, body hair will increase as for facial hair.


People will often say 'Oh such and such filled in as he got older'. Yah, he got fat from a reduced metabolism, and being sedontary. it wasn't muscle.

 

[pidda]

I wish I started at 20 instead of 22. I think 18 would be fine for most people.