Hair loss drug finasteride 'biggest mistake of my life'

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SleafordMod@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05p1pnvymvo

I have considered this drug in the past but I thought the expense and the side effects would make it not worth it. Looks like maybe it is indeed not worth it, given how bad the side effects can be.

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frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is just kind of ridiculous. This guy takes a medication to block the action of his own sex hormones, and then is like “I didn’t even want to play football or drink beer with my mates anymore 😭”

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RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

James Davies, RPS director for England told BBC News: "It’s really important that regardless of whether it’s online or face to face, these thorough checks are taking place.

“That means that a full medical history is taken, there’s an opportunity to understand the medication that may be prescribed, the side effects, the risks and the benefits.”

Unless it’s available on the NHS, it’s inevitable that people will take shortcuts. The NHS doesn’t generally take men’s health seriously though.

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- tankplanker@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Its availability of treatment as well for mens health. TRT thresholds that the NHS applies to men are insanely low, almost like they do not want to spend the money rather than provide actual benefit to people with low test. Its pretty bad as the threshold for women to get HRT is almost non existent and its just given out without further tests.
  
  While I think TRT should only be issued once tested it should be at higher thresholds as it solves so many other issues. However like the new weight loss drugs we do not give the NHS enough money to stick it on prescription for everybody that would benefit from it, particularly as both are likely to be very long term to whole life treatments.
  
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  - hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Er, male pattern baldness, and men’s hair loss in general, is caused by high T levels, not low, so TRT is irrelevant.
    
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Hestia@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Finasteride sucks. Estradiol is the superior choice for hair loss.

Side effects may include: booba

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NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why would you take a drug that facilitates hair loss?

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- DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ask every insecure old man on T
  
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nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The side effects of finasteride can include suicidal thoughts

How?

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- SleafordMod@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m not sure, but the UK’s National Health Service mentions depression as a potential side effect.
  
  Drugs can have all sorts of side effects through mechanisms that we might not fully understand (maybe scientists do understand this particular mechanism though, I don’t know).
  
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- Chuymatt@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The rates of the side effects listed are highly blown out of proportion. Humans are inherently pretty terrible at assessing risk on such scales.
  
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- apis@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It is a hormone, so it has the potential to give rise to mood disorders.
  
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