shouldnt finasteride stop/slow facial hair?

[abcdefg]

This is a question for someone like bryan. First though let me start with a story. A guy at my work is 30 years old and he has a teenage hairline. No widows peak but literally every hair on his head maybe like brad pitt or whoever you want to imagine. He has no facial hair at all.
Now on to my question. If androgens are responsible for male sexual characteristics then if male pattern baldness is caused by androgens and so is the developement of facial hair then both must be affected to some degree by finasteride right? so facial hair should be decreased or stop altogether if you finasteride in theory?

 

[Cassin]

It did for me. And massively decreased my body hair.

 

[dresden]

i did not notice any change in my body hair or facial hair. could be that minoxidil on other hand did the counter effect.

 

[PersonGuy]

Cassin, how long did it take before you saw a significant difference in your body hair?

 

[Cassin]

Cassin, how long did it take before you saw a significant difference in your body hair?

Hard to tell. After about 4 years or so I saw a picture of me at the lake with some friends before I had ever taken finasteride and I was stunned at the lack of body hair I now had. I never had a lot before but my chest and legs had a very noticeable amount of hair

 

[GeminiX]

I've gone from having body hair comparable to a gorilla, to less than most of tha natal girls I know. However, it's had almost no impact on my facial hair

 

[phish]

finasteride def reduced body hair i was on it for a year and i had not a single hair on my chest at the end of the year, then went off for 5 months while i did steroids and my chest is full of hair. Some people are very sensitive to dht and when you suppress 90 percent of it like finasteride does they lose a ton of body hair. I think the human body as it ages gets more and more senstive to dht and other hormones thats y as you get older you get hairer and lose more.

 

[Bryan]

Finasteride _does_ slow the growth of body hair on average to some modest extent, although the significance of that effect obviously varies from one person to the next. I remember reading the transcript of an FDA meeting back during the approval process for finasteride, and even those FDA doctors were expressing puzzlement over why it doesn't seem to have any stronger an effect on body hair than what most people would expect.

 

[GeminiX]

I wonder if it's the comination of finasteride and Androcur which gave me the dramatic changes to body hair?

 

[abcdefg]

It just seems to me that body hair would have to be affected or the androgen theory is far from the truth. Facial hair should also decrease although the role of testosterone still needs to be understood. We need something to lower all androgens and not just dht so we can see how important other androgens are we cant rule out other androgens as playing a role in all of this.

 

[phish]

i think body hair can use all dif androgens not just dht. I do think that if you put some one on finasteride before they hit puberty though they wouldn't have chest hair. I think once the follicles in the body respond to a hormone and grow its hard to kill them off. This of course is all thoery and no one really knows for sure, but when i took tester one for a few months without a dht blocker my whole body grew hair even my back, its only now starting to disappear because im off testerone and on dht blocker.

 

[GeminiX]

For what it's worth, all the specialists, friends, information I can find etc. seem to have the same information on beard growth in male to female transsexuals; body hair and beard growth are unrelated.

I don't know what the science behind it is, but during feminisation body hair is generally easy to shift while all the experts and experience say only laser/ipl/electrolysis can take care of a beard.

 

[FreeloaderUK]

i think ive grown more chest hair since ive started taken finasteride

 

[Guest]

It doesnt stop facial or body hair,but for me atleast it made my facial and body much less,About half.

 

[lovemyhair]

No changes in facial or body hair for me. I'm asian btw, and we tend not to have much facial hair (i do thu) or body hair.

 

[abcdefg]

Well in theory finasteride would be better at preventing the hair from growing in the first place and not really reversing it once it has become terminal hair. Once hair becomes terminal or even growing in the first place could have something to do with testosterone not just dht.

 

[phish]

ill be willing to go back in time and be a guinee pig and start finasteride a day b4 i start puberty, and see if it could hold off acne and any body hair or hairloss. I firmly belive the sooner you start it the better it will work at keeping body hair away as opposed to starting it when you already have body hair. Im suprised there wasnt a study on merk testing bodyhair of guys for 5 years. Im prety sure it would show the ones in had no increase in body hair and some slight decrease while others on the placebo continued to gain body hair, and lose head hair. Nowadays with half american men being metro sexual and shavin their body i bet you could tap into a marker if you could prove that a pill slowed body hair or stoped you from every geting back hair.

 

[masculineyourheart]

I found a boost to facial hair after starting finasteride. I hadn't made a point of looking out for it but did notice that I'd gone from being able to get away with shaving once every 3 or 4 days to having to shave every second day. It wasn't much but I found it would grow out much thicker once I let it alone a few weeks as well. This was from ages 23 to 24.

There's some anecdotal evidence to the contrary for ya.

 

[Nathaniel]

I fuckin hate body hair. Too bad finasteride has not rid of it for me or even decreased it. Im jealous of the guys who experienced a decrease in body hair.

 

[beaner]

Finasteride thinned my body hair somewhat. It did nothing for my beard---if anything it seems to come in quicker these days.