After Taking Finasteride for a Month, I Felt Numbness Under My Eye

Hi,
I’m 19 and i have currently been taking proscar cut into 4 for nearly a month now. i have no real problems apart from the top of my cheek on the left side of my face under my eye feeling a bit weird like it is numb. at first it was really annoying so i stopped taking the proscar until it went away, which was about a week. After it went i started to take the drug again to see if it came back, which it did, but it is less noticeable and it fades off a bit during the day.

I have looked around on the internet and i have seen little on this side effect so was wondering if any of your patients have had this and if they ended up getting more serious side effects later due to this or not? I cant go to my doctor about this because i order off one of them online sites and he does not believe any hair loss drug such as finasteride or Minoxidil work anyway, so would be wasting time. so wondering if you know anything about this?

It would be highly unusual in my experience, but there are very rare reports of mild neurologic sensory side effects reported. I personally have never seen it at my practice in thousands of patients whom I have treated.

Whenever you have a complaint, you need to see a doctor, as it would be wrong to attribute your symptoms to the drug alone. For example, a brain tumor could present this way. I did not mean to scare you, but just to show you that this is not a mix and match (symptoms and disease) on a random basis. Doctors significantly add value to the analysis of complaints such as yours.