What you posted is "reports of infertility". Reports are NOT facts. The only fact in your post is "people who were planning to father a child were excluded from study". So what? It has not been tested and it remains UNKNOWN.
Look, I realize there are some mentions of "reports of infertility have been received post marketing" and "reports of persistent erectile dysfunction have been received post marketing" etc. For many, those alone will be of concern.
However, the original point of that post, and why I highlighted it in RED, was the FACT that "male patients who were planning to father a child were initially excluded from clinical trials". You and I both agree on that point, and that is what the original 2 posters had requested clarification on.
So, the question has been answered, yet you still seem to have taken issue with it based on your initial response claiming "People don't care because Mew only mentions "reported cases" and "unproven". They hold ZERO weight". Again, what I highlighted in red is FACT, in response to a specific question asked by the previous posters. It seems you took issue with that, despite it being truth, yet later agree that it is in fact, a fact.
Either way your initial response comes off completely uninformed and is simply mudslinging opinion.
I've yet to see ONE SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN FACT from you.
For me, the FACT that these adverse events are even being published by the agency is enough to be of concern. For you, obviously not so much. Either way, I'm just the messenger, the agencies are the ones publishing this information so you are free to evaluate it according to your own criteria.
They've also now listed male breast cancer as an official potential outcome from use. Are you going to disagree with every single new adverse event they add to the label based on the skewed Merck/FDA trials from 1997?
I'll bet 99.9% you will -- and that's your perogative. For those who choose to be informed, no matter how "rare" the risk, such information will help them in making a decision about wether to take the medication or not.
In the end, the information is out there and people are free to ignore it if they want, in their quest to save hair.
Thank you Mew for answering the question about the studies involving Fathers that were expecting as it was indeed a good question.
You're welcome, hope the information is of use to some people.
) would be bad, but maybe it isn't really transferred in sperm, and if it was like, it would only last for a few days before it wore off anyway, so I would imagine the zygote would still be too small.