Hair Thinning… Transplant? Finesteride?

[BackInTheGame78]

People report it, but the same people reporting it are also of the age to be going through andropause... and all the symptoms they list are andropause symptoms....

Post-Finasteride Syndrome MAY be real, or it may be correlation to the age of which these things would be happening anyways. Hard to tell, take it with a grain of salt.

Possible, but it's never really a smart decision to add lifelong synthetic pharmaceutical products to your body for non health related reasons in my opinion.

It's like these people that end up dying from elective plastic surgery procedures. Was trying to look better really worth it now that your body is rotting in a coffin? Pretty sure they aren't looking too good there.

They all say "it will never happen to me..." until it actually happens to them.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Aren't you on TRT?

That's a normal hormone produced by the body. Same as people who take melatonin if they can't sleep well or vitamin D if they don't get enough sunlight or any other supplementation of something naturally produced by the body that isn't being produced well enough.

Last I checked nobody who has ever lived has produced Finesteride naturally in their body.

 

[Billtx49]

I keep hearing about bad side effects produced by finasteride use, yet most men fail to recognize that it prevents prostate enlargement and cancer which becomes a concern as men age.…
My dad developed prostate cancer, so it’s a dna concern for me…
20 years finasteride use here, no probs yet, switched to oral dutasteride and minoxidil tablets 6 months ago. It’s working much better…

 

[BackInTheGame78]

The amount of "yeah but" answers I get from you is exhausting. Exogenous Testosterone is still a synthetic drug/hormone.

I mis-spoke earlier. Finasteride inhibits the conversion of Testosterone to DHT as a competitor to 5a-reductase. OP read here:

Finasteride-Its Impact on Sexual Function and Prostate Cancer - PMC

Finasteride, a specific and competitive inhibitor of 5α-reductase enzyme Type 2, inhibits the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT). In adults, DHT acts as primary androgen in prostate and hair follicles. The only FDA-approved ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Billtx49 this article supports what you say about significantly reduced risk of prostate cancer.

The various forms of Testosterone that are attached to esters which are used to control the rate of breakdown in the body are considered to be bioidentical to testosterone produced in the body.

You trying to compare Test E and Finesteride in terms of being synthetic drugs is a laughable attempt that I will take as a joke because you can't really be serious and if you are, I have no idea even how to respond to that.