I took finasteride for almost 30 days exactly around june last summer, but quit due to noticing gyno coming on, once i hopped off the gyno has stopped progressing but i still have a slightly watery semen and just last week i started having ball ache, it started very mild but it’s just been getting worse and worse. i’m going to try to get recommended to a hormone specialist or something on monday. has anyone else had a new side effect come on this late after stopping fin use? should i be very worried or is this just something minor? i haven’t had any ed problems or libido problems that i can notice, but i’m afraid that’s next

There are many causes of testicular pain and if you are off finasteride for 7 months, it is likely that you have one of these other causes. See your family doctor

If you are losing hair, you should meet with a good doctor and develop a Personalized Master Plan for your long term hair loss problem and its treatment. Be strategic and don’t mess with being your own doctor. There are good drugs for you that work very effectively such as finasteride and minoxidil.

PFS patients often don’t follow up with their original doctors (as was the case here). There’s not much of a point really other than to inform the doctor what happened. Sometimes they do and the original doctors downplay the situation, tell the patient it will go away, and when it doesn’t they don’t bother following up. The doctor will often assume the problem went away even though it didn’t. Even worse they say the problems weren’t caused by finasteride and they should seek help from a specialist. Here are just some of the dynamics that play out when patients get PFS. It is getting better now that people are more aware but it is taking far too long and it is all because Merck lied to doctors, the public, and maybe the FDA over 20 years ago.

I never followed up with my original doctor beyond an initial email because he didn’t know any more than what was on the product label. This was over a decade and he probably thinks I’ve recovered. Merck’s warning label basically encouraged doctors to keep patients on the drug because it said side effects discontinued in “most” cases for men who continued the drug and “men who discontinued”. They just lead you to believe it was “all men”.

I make sure to bond with my patients. For example, I will often spend 30-60 minutes with each patient who comes in and it is always free. That establishes a bond between doctor/patient and I believe almost every patient follows up with me because they know that I listen to them.

How old are you? There appears to be some early miniaturized hair along the right hairline and the corner seems to be going upward. Without a full view of your hairline with your eyebrows lifted high so that the forehead creases can be seen, I can’t help much more.

There is no relationship between an oily scalp and male pattern balding.  These are old wives tales that have been around for centuries

I am 44 years old so this is an important question for me, “How important is Propecia post-FUT?”

Finasteride is less important because shock loss is less of a problem following hair transplants in a 40+ individual; however, the value of finasteride also includes slowing progression of the hair loss process. Your call. Many times, I go forward with a hair transplant on a 40+ man without finasteride on board.

I’m 20 years old and I’ve noticed the corners of my hair falling a bit, nothing serious but I plan to keep it that way. As soon as I noticed some unusual hair fall I did immense research and came upon these drugs and decided to pull the trigger.

Anyways, I’ve used Finasteride for about a month and got heavy sides upon the first week. I’ve been diagnosed with Major Depression my entire life and don’t take antidepressants but, damn. I had so many suicidal thoughts the first week. I had little to no boners, trouble sleeping and loss of appetite, I even had really bad nightmares. So, a month passes and I push through (probably a bad thing) but I run out of Finasteride because I bought one box of Propecia (thankfully). So, I go back to the pharmacy hoping to get more and they say they ran out. I don’t take any DHT blockers for another month or so, little to no hairloss. I go back and ask a for Propecia and they still don’t have it. I eye a box of AvoDart which is Dutasteride (0.5 mg) and buy it immediately.  So far, I’m 15 days in with little to no sides, no improvements but I’m only half a month in. My main concern; is my body immune to Dutasteride? With Finasteride, I got a reaction albeit a negative one from my body but that somewhat confirmed that the drug is working. With Dut I’m half a month in with no sides and I don’t know if I should be concerned or not.

You should get a HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ) and then once you establish metrics on your hair, if you are balding and it is proved by such measurements, then finasteride is the drug to use not the non-approved Dutaasteride.