So I started taking finastaride on Saturday the 22nd of June. And here is what I have taken.  Saturday 0.25mg Sunday missed a pill (hurt my leg playing football and was in hospital for scans) Monday 0.25 Tuesday 0.25 Wednesday 0.25

So here’s my question. I have taken in total 1mg of finastaride and last (Thursday)I have started to have an irrated nipple to the point where it feels like it has been chaffing on my T-shirt’s( I was wearing a rough embroider shirt) I’ve had no other sides (for now) and I am well aware that this could be in my head and I am a massive over thinker in these types of situations but the things that are swaying me to thinking gyno is:

1. I had gyno as a pubescent teenager (had the full lumps and everything during puberty, it wasn’t bad and it didn’t make it look puffy but it was there I think)

2. I had a doctors appointment today and i mentioned my symptoms and how I was feeling, I was had told my doctor I had been on finastaride for 2 weeks (obviously a lie, was a brain lag it’s not even been 1 week) and she felt around my pectoral area and she said my left hand side (which is the tender/irrated one) is slightly fuller than my right. But my right is also a bit fuller.

So my question is, do you guys believe this could be gyno? My doctor recommended to stop for 2 weeks and see what happens to the symptoms.  I’m just unsure how fast gyno can happen??  I really don’t want to lose my hair so I’m debating whether taking a SERM with finastaride??

Thanks a lot for listening and I’ll be very grateful to listen to anything

After a single dose or a limited dose, I doubt that the gynecomastia would get worse. Considering your history, I would think that you are too much focused on this side effect and .what you are experiencing may be a nocebo effect. Seeing your doctor is a good idea.

I’m considering to get a procedure done and was wondering if there are difference between FUE procedures or are they all about the same?  What are some important questions to ask when deciding on a doctor besides ‘how long have you been doing this’?

FUEs vary between doctors because each doctor uses a different type of hand ‘punch’ and smaller ones (up to a limit), leave smaller, less detectable scars. The problem with FUE is that the number of grafts removed safely is absolutely related to the density of the hair in the back of the head. The higher the donor hair density, the more FUE grafts can be taken, while in a person with a low donor density (a typical Asian, Indian or middle easterner) might have a normal lower hair density than a typical Caucasian from Northern Europe.  This rule also applied to the Hair Mass Index of the hair, the higher the index, the more FUE grafts can be safely removed.  If a doctor takes too many hair grafts out, then you can get balding in the back and sides of your head from the FUE (see here: https://baldingblog.com/collection-victim-photos-internet-harvested-depleted-donor-areas/ ) which is something that the doctors don’t have to live with, you do. Worst, 90% of the people doing the FUEs in Turkey are not doctor so that certainly with an non-professional person doing your surgery may be VERY common in people receiving surgery in Turkey.

I was the person who pioneered the FUE in 2002 when I published the first paper and presented it at the first meeting all in the same month. I gave out 600 DVDs showing what an FUE looked like. Then, within a week, doctors from all over the world started doing it and doing it very poorly. My video was only 2 minutes long and it was not made to teach the doctors all of the nuances of the FUE. Even today, many doctors don’t understand it well. I, with my partner Dr. Pak, also invented the robot that does the FUE holding two patents for the technology. We licensed it to the company that made the ARTAS robot. Here is our original article that opened up the FUE business: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mp-2002-fue.pdf

You must find a doctor who is skilled in the process and you can tell by asking to meet some of his patients and then look carefully at the donor area for the type of scarring that is evident (my link above shows it). Ask your doctor for his measurement of your original donor density and his assessment of how many grafts he believes you can support in your lifetime. Too many doctors take out too many grafts with FUE causing the problems I demonstrated above.

Problems with the recent Finasteride/Pregnancy posts from tressless

Washing your hair daily is never a problem–just be gentle with it. When you are too vigorous, you pull out the miniaturized hairs very easily.

If the doctor or his staff were not using a microscope, they would have missed the extra hairs in this graft, possibly killing it by cutting it out rather than leaving it in the graft when the hair transplant was done. This is probably a new anagen hair developing.

This seems like a powerful combination.  I am sure that the dermaroller adds value to the results.