propecia question

[artvandaley]

Has there ever been any studies of a couple having children while the father is taking propecia? Did the baby come out normal?
I know that people have said before that there is such a small amount in the semen that it won't effect the baby, but has there ever been any documented cases of a father who was taking propecia.
I'm not planning on having a kid in the near future, but I will someday, and I don't want to risk any abnormalities in the child because of propecia.
I've read on some websites that you should go off the drug for at least 3 months if you plan on having a baby.
Anybody know of any studies done on this?


I also just ordered some proscar, let's hope it gets here.

 

[hopewas]

i was actually wondering the same thing

 

[Stingray]

The amount of finasteride in the semen is negligible at best. The risk is quite small. But it's still a good idea to stop all physical state altering drugs before conceiving a child at all. Just give it 3 or 4 weeks being off before trying to have a kid. You should be fine.

 

[artvandaley]

Well it's a pretty serious thing that I don't want to mess around and take a chance with. I was just wondering if there have been any reported cases of it.

 

[Healthy Nick]

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[HairlossTalk]

Sorry Nick, Im not going to even allow that statement to stay on the boards. It is completely false, reflects complete misunderstanding of the clinical data surrounding fetal development and finasteride, and quite honestly it has no purpose other than to scare the hell out of people with *wrong* information.

You need to stop saying things like this. You're back to spreading completely false information and you're making my job twice as hard having to follow you around and correct everything you say.

Here are the facts:

What do ya know, a clinical study was done on this topic. Thats how scientists come to conclusions in the real world.

The study injected 500 times the dose of a normal finasteride dose, in liquid form, directly into the uterus of a pregnant monkey with a MALE fetus. In that case, the development of the underside of the urethra remained incomplete during fetal development. Smaller doses of the same thing did NOT cause this effect. This was injected directly into the uterus.

Merck's statement is that pregnant women should not handle broken Propecia tablets. By making this statement, as any good legal organization would do, they went way beyond their call of duty and suggested something somewhat absurd "Just to be safe". Note that they didn't even bother suggesting that men should stop taking Propecia.

Using your Brain instead of herbal alarmist logic: Propecia is present in sperm. The danger with finasteride is during sexual organ development of fetus. The time period between sperm entering the vagina and the sexual development of the fetus is MONTHS. This simple logic shows us that it will have already been passed safely from the woman's body long before any risk to the baby could occur. Not to mention, you're getting TRACE doses in there, versus 500x the ingested dose like the Monkey got.

Peace of mind is valuable however, and as Stingray said, all you need to do is stop taking it for a week or two prior to conception, and you're going to be fine.

Merck would constantly be sued if women were having deformed babies due to the *male* taking Propecia. Why? Because they haven't suggested men stop taking it. You can be assured they did their homework on this, and the warning for *women* to avoid broken tablets was already extremely oversafe.

The value of clinical data is IMMENSE. It enables us to completely identify what is true and what is not, in no uncertain terms.

HairLossTalk.com

 

[youngguy_uk]

even still in the long term future it isnt something id want to have to worry about. i know what u mean though HairLossTalk.com. at the belgravia trichological centre they told me, when prescribing propecia, to stop taking it for a week before attempting to get someone pregnant.

 

[artvandaley]

Thanks HairLossTalk.com, that's all I wanted to know.

 

[HairlossTalk]

I wonder what would happen though, if you continued to have sex throughout the pregnancy, without a condom, and "released" inside her on a daily basis, while taking Propecia.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...........

Anyone wanna do a clinical study on this?

HairLossTalk.com

 

[Healthy Nick]

Sorry Nick, Im not going to even allow that statement to stay on the boards. It is completely false, reflects complete misunderstanding of the clinical data surrounding fetal development and finasteride, and quite honestly it has no purpose other than to scare the hell out of people with *wrong* information.

You need to stop saying things like this. You're back to spreading completely false information and you're making my job twice as hard having to follow you around and correct everything you say.

Here are the facts:

What do ya know, a clinical study was done on this topic. Thats how scientists come to conclusions in the real world.

The study injected 500 times the dose of a normal finasteride dose, in liquid form, directly into the uterus of a pregnant monkey with a MALE fetus. In that case, the development of the underside of the urethra remained incomplete during fetal development. Smaller doses of the same thing did NOT cause this effect. This was injected directly into the uterus.

Merck's statement is that pregnant women should not handle broken Propecia tablets. By making this statement, as any good legal organization would do, they went way beyond their call of duty and suggested something somewhat absurd "Just to be safe". Note that they didn't even bother suggesting that men should stop taking Propecia.

Using your Brain instead of herbal alarmist logic: Propecia is present in sperm. The danger with finasteride is during sexual organ development of fetus. The time period between sperm entering the vagina and the sexual development of the fetus is MONTHS. This simple logic shows us that it will have already been passed safely from the woman's body long before any risk to the baby could occur. Not to mention, you're getting TRACE doses in there, versus 500x the ingested dose like the Monkey got.

Peace of mind is valuable however, and as Stingray said, all you need to do is stop taking it for a week or two prior to conception, and you're going to be fine.

Merck would constantly be sued if women were having deformed babies due to the *male* taking Propecia. Why? Because they haven't suggested men stop taking it. You can be assured they did their homework on this, and the warning for *women* to avoid broken tablets was already extremely oversafe.

The value of clinical data is IMMENSE. It enables us to completely identify what is true and what is not, in no uncertain terms.

HairLossTalk.com

Oh, that's good to hear. Thanks for explaining it.

However, I wasn't really far off. It can cause birth defects.

 

[HairlossTalk]

Your comments that we took out were really far off.

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