Someone uses finasteride, but he never needed it. What would happen?

[ihatethis]

Not talking about the sides. Say someone that had a hormonal imbalance, something wrong with the thyroids, or some underlying other cause to his hairloss. Would it do more harm to his hair than good?
Could it mess up his hormones even more, and as a result give him more hairloss?
Thank you..

 

[Hoppi]

Erm... well...

Ok like, if you hair loss has like NOTHING to do with DHT whatsoever and you use finasteride, it's not gonna help anything, there'd be no point in using it, it would chuck your sex hormones out of whack and run the risk of sides.

I fall into the camp that believes that the thyroid can make male pattern baldness worse or trigger it though, so in my case even though I believe my hypothyroidism is causing my hair loss, I use finasteride anyway as I believe my thyroid is simply making my follicles more vulnerable to DHT by increasing inflammation and weakening them.

So by taking a bit of finasteride, I'm giving them an easier time, in theory

Besides, I've got curcumin, resveratrol and lignans in there too to mop up my sex hormones and keep them in some kind of vague balance!!

 

[Mens Rea]

Hoppi - what can/do you take for your thyroid issues?

 

[Hoppi]

Hoppi - what can/do you take for your thyroid issues?

I'm looking into this. I've had symptoms of hypothyroid since I was in my mid-teens I think, I'm mega curious about it. I'm hoping it's something nice and simple like a food sensitivity, or a chemical sensitivity or my fillings or something (leaking mercury). God knows, but I don't wanna increase my T4 with drugs... not unless I really have to

So at the moment I'm just still learning