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[chrisis]

Chrisis, i'm just listening to Spencer on the 3/11/2012 show and he said something that really suprised me. He said 99.9% of the people who don't have side effects from propecia in the first week, usually dont get any side effects. He said it at around 25 minutes into the show. You suprised at that ?

To be blunt I think it's bullshit.

I was fine for 2 months or more before side effects creeped in. For others it's longer. Some don't even realise how much finasteride has affected them until after they stop it and their libido shoots back up.

I'm getting tired of people plucking figures out of their air, whether it's 2% have side effects or 99.9% don't experience them if they're fine after the first week. It's completely unacceptable when the stakes are so high. Why can't everyone just be honest and say we don't know the actual figures, because ultimately we don't. Would these hair loss veterens bet their hair on being right about how widespread and prevalent side effects are? If they're actually reading the forum then I doubt it. It's easy to trumpet the safety of finasteride when it's other people's sexual health at stake because you've been fine.

I also heard Spencer say he'd have chosen his hair over side effects if it was a choice between the two (or words to that effect). This is a pretty frivolous and careless remark. Unless you've experienced the side effects, you have no idea how it feels both physically, and psychologically. His co-host further added towards the end of the show the tired line that side effects are mostly in men's heads. You'd be better off waving a red rag at a bull than tell a guy whose dick died on finasteride that he possibly imagined it. No wonder there are so many angry men on these forums if this the best we can expect from these self-appointed experts.

To be honest, until the show starts to present this issue respectfully, compassionately and with integrity I will probably stop listening. I just get angry every time I hear an instance of ignorance and bad advice. I thought the point of the show was to protect vulnerable men.