A Reader’s Early Finasteride Results

Dr. Rassman,

I’m sure you get plenty of repetitive questions and whining but I just wanted to share more good news from people out on the Internet.

I started taking generic proscar 4 months ago to help my diffuse thinning and hope for some nice reversal. The thing I was scared most of was side effects. I did get a strange aching in the testicles for about a week, it was annoying, but it went away. However, after that, I continued to get some strange groin/testicle aches. I made sure it wasn’t a result of an injury exercising. If I stopped taking my finasteride for two days, it went away.

However, right around the 3 month mark it went away completely and I have had no more side effects. I have started to see tiny hairs sprout up all around my hairline and I am hoping for minor regrowth and at least stabilization of my hair.

Finally, the “itching” a lot of people with MPB seem to have has went away completely within the last two weeks. It has been very a very plesant month for me on finasteride and I do not regret taking it at all!

Thanks for telling people to take it. It really does seem to be a safe medication.

As I’ve said before, when finasteride/Propecia works well for a patient, he isn’t likely to bombard internet forums with his positive results (they just go about their daily lives)… but if he feels like he’s been wronged or cheated, he might have no problem going out of his way to let everyone know on every website he can find. That’s why the complaints can be more in your face than the positive messages and can give a skewed impression of the actual statistics. So it’s good to have a balance.

What I’m trying to say is, thanks for writing about your experience and I’m glad the medication has worked out. I always like reading good news.