Finasteride & Weightlifting

[richardd1972]

I've been taking both Propecia and Avodart off and on for about 15 years but never at the same time. I've never noticed any sexual side effects and progress at the gym did not seem to matter whether on or off these meds. The anecdotes that these meds increase your testosterone levels comes from their action of preventing testosterone from converting to DHT. This in theory would make you have a higher T level. I agree there is a lot of conflicting stores on the net. A few years ago I met with a HRT doc and asked him about this and his answer was that these meds probably would not affect my T levels in any noticeable way but if anything they would probably result a little in having higher levels of Total testosterone versus Free which is what really matters. If you're curious I would ask my doc to get a lab order for your T levels now so you can have a baseline then get them checked again in 6 months or a year. You can actually get a lab order online and print it out if you don't want to bother with an appointment and or keep it private.