Finasteride: long term users / quitters

[Mribby1]

The fin debate is pretty old. Here is my last cent into this. There's documented and anecdotal evidence on one side and then there is opinion on the other.

[Age30 NW3]

Well whatevers clever. Enjoy being on drugs!

[Mribby1]

Sigh you breathe in and eat worse things. How do those fruits you buy get preserved? We could actually be here all day but seriously I've seen your other posts on here I agree with your stance on balding and accepting it and owning it. I think you're one of the few who have looking at a picture you posted Good on you for that

[Age30 NW3]

It would just be so glorious if bald guys stepped up and owned it. But everyone here seems so terrified of having to be labeled as "bald" that they all want to run and hide. That ends up making it worse for those of us trying to be kickass bald guys. It would almost be like a black guy in the 60s getting surgery to become white instead of owning his blackness. It would have set the movement behind.

[Dan26]

It would just be so glorious if bald guys stepped up and owned it. But everyone here seems so terrified of having to be labeled as "bald" that they all want to run and hide. That ends up making it worse for those of us trying to be kickass bald guys. It would almost be like a black guy in the 60s getting surgery to become white instead of owning his blackness. It would have set the movement behind.

did you just compare baldness vs non baldness to being black vs being white??

[Mribby1]

I hate to say it but it's like saying embrace being fat. The black thing is not related at all though. Completely
separate issue

[ryan555]

I had the exact same experience as the OP. I did not notice side effects during the 12 years I was on Fin, but soon after I stopped my erections became undoubtedly stronger and my morning erections returned. My girlfriend at the time who did not even know I was taking it made many comments about it as well, so I know it was real and fairly substantial. I also saw a significant increase in body hair and a thicker beard within the first three months off the drug.

[Age30 NW3]

I hate to say it but it's like saying embrace being fat. The black thing is not related at all though. Completely
separate issue

Wrong, entirely.

Being fat is a character issue...you can get in shape. You're not born fat. You're fat because you eat what you want and you don't exercise.

Being black in the 50s is related to being bald in that they're both immutable characteristics that people have deemed inferior. Being black or bald has nothing necessarily to do with what kind of person you are, but people marginalize you because of their own shallow issue.

[Age30 NW3]

I had the exact same experience as the OP. I did not notice side effects during the 12 years I was on Fin, but soon after I stopped my erections became undoubtedly stronger and my morning erections returned. My girlfriend at the time who did not even know I was taking it made many comments about it as well, so I know it was real and fairly substantial. I also saw a significant increase in body hair and a thicker beard within the first three months off the drug.

This is exactly what I'd expect would happen if you reduced your strongest sex hormone by 60percent.

[Mribby1]

You can live a normal life bald. Whilst you were treated as subhuman being black in the 50s. No one is going to torture you like Emmet Till or hang you from a tree for being bald. As you see in terms of marginalisation there is no comparison that is appropriate to even suggest. With the fat thing I meant as in society doesn't find fat attractive neither does it find baldness as it shows age etc. It's just one of those things that isn't going to change any time soon. Paticularly with the obsession with youth and beauty which we all are guilty of.

[Age30 NW3]

Oh for Christ's sake, bro. Don't take it so literally. There is no perfect comparison because it is its own entity. No one's gonna call the PC police, you can calm down.

[Diffuser44]

Did you start taking finasteride again? Any issues with restarting? If so what dose, etc. Details

[mixedbaldy]

Being black in the 50s is related to being bald in that they're both immutable characteristics that people have deemed inferior. Being black or bald has nothing necessarily to do with what kind of person you are, but people marginalize you because of their own shallow issue.

Black guy here, terrible comparison there. Also, I think you should reevaluate whether you are using immutable correctly.

[Diffuser44]

I had the exact same experience as the OP. I did not notice side effects during the 12 years I was on Fin, but soon after I stopped my erections became undoubtedly stronger and my morning erections returned. My girlfriend at the time who did not even know I was taking it made many comments about it as well, so I know it was real and fairly substantial. I also saw a significant increase in body hair and a thicker beard within the first three months off the drug.

Did you ever start taking finasteride again?

[g0910]

I've been taking Finasteride (1mg daily) for over 10 years without a layoff. My results were great. My hairline filled, top slick patch smaller and overall thicker. I experienced the usual sides in addition to losing pretty much all of my body hair including beard thinning, underarm thinning, chest, stomach, etc. (It's all androgen hair- from legs to beard.) I also experienced gradual muscle loss. Before taking Fin, it was so easy to gain muscle from working-out, but now it's very difficult. (Total & Free T and DHEA are in normal range and I'm 50.)

As a result, in the last 2-4 years I've slowly weaned my dose from daily to .75mg twice a week because I really would like to get off of it eventually. Sure I lost a some ground but this DHT blocker really chisels at everything man little by little.

As I'm weaning off Fin I really would like to get on some topicals.. I JUST started Minoxidil 5% YESTERDAY (as per hellouser's suggestion) and in time, I want to start RU if it's not too systemic. What other topicals are REALLY worth looking at that REALLY work? Thx.