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  • themastercheaf
    Junior Member
    • Nov 2012
    • 11

    Doctor Apointment - propecia

    Good Day folks.

    I have booked an docs appointment for Monday to inquire about getting a prescription for propecia. I live in Scotland and was wondering if there are any other Scots on here that use it and is it a free prescription here. Also what should I say to the doctor? when I said to my last doctor 3 years ago I was concerned about hair loss, he sent me away.

    I been balding since I was 16, coming up for 24 in the summer. My hairline has been slowly receding back for years now and if I am totally honest, it did not cause me much concern. The reason being that because my hair was thick it was easy to disguise. A cheap investment of 50p for a plastic comb made my hair lost seem unnoticeable to the untrained eyed. However its only really been over the last 6 months that my hair loss is getting me down. It has thinned dramatically over the last year, and also continued to recede. Also at the weekend I noticed a small bald patch forming. So basically its the beginning of the end for me, no questions asked in a few years time (1,2 possibly 5 if im lucky) I am going to be a baldy git.

    Yesterday was the last straw, I was running late for a job interview and the wind was horrendous. I could not find the office I was meant to go to and as I was walking around aimlessly I caught my reflection in a car mirror. my hair was terrible looking the wind had just messed it up and worst it would not flatten. There was no way I could go into a job interview with ridiculous looking hair, I would be laughed out of the building. I was not that bothered about scrapping the interview as I never really wanted the job. However, this is just becoming a joke and it shows that it is getting in the way of my life.

    So yea I done my research and I want to get on propecia. I know the risks and I'm willing to test it for myself. I was warmed by some websites/youtube that if I touched saw palmetto I would be burdened with a limb D, but I can tell you straight off saw palmetto (for me personally) did not effect me in anyway. IT did not harm me and it certainly did not benefit me.

    cheers guys
  • Kirby_
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2012
    • 447

    #2
    I have seen a private dermatologist to get a fin prescription but my NHS GP just REFUSES to give me the blood tests for fin that the dermatologist said I NEED and any more fin

    The NHS will MAKE you go bald, no one is helping no one responding

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    • BigThinker
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2012
      • 1507

      #3
      Originally posted by Kirby_
      I have seen a private dermatologist to get a fin prescription but my NHS GP just REFUSES to give me the blood tests for fin that the dermatologist said I NEED and any more fin

      The NHS will MAKE you go bald, no one is helping no one responding
      Don't live in a country with shitty universal health care. If I had to see a gatekeeper/GP for anything medicine related, I'd just self-medicate or let my health deteriorate.

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      • Kirby_
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2012
        • 447

        #4
        How can I self medicate its impossible or plain illegal to get round GPs if they say no blood tests no fin, you are ****ed I can't exactly wander into a hospital and ask for blood tests directly or prescription

        Baldness is compulsory on the National Death Service

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        • clandestine
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2011
          • 2005

          #5
          Originally posted by Kirby_
          How can I self medicate its impossible or plain illegal to get round GPs if they say no blood tests no fin, you are ****ed I can't exactly wander into a hospital and ask for blood tests directly or prescription

          Baldness is compulsory on the National Death Service
          InHousePharmacy

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          • El Nino
            Senior Member
            • May 2009
            • 191

            #6
            Originally posted by themastercheaf
            So yea I done my research and I want to get on propecia. I know the risks and I'm willing to test it for myself. I was warmed by some websites/youtube that if I touched saw palmetto I would be burdened with a limb D,
            Och aye jimmy,

            I don't want to scare you but do you really know ALL the risks?

            Back in 2007 I thought I knew all the risks and that they were a limp D, ball ache and bitch tits. I only suffered a slight ball ache when I started which went away after a few weeks. Hence I thought I had no side effects from Finasteride.

            But I have suffered from brain fog, poor short term memory, muscle wastage, loss of strength in my hands, muscle twitches and dark circles around my eyes.

            Be aware that Finasteride can seriously f**k your Dick and/or your BRAIN up. My advice is to read a certain help website for Propecia and take it very seriously and know that PFS (Post Finasteride Syndrome) is not bullshit.

            Of course maybe you won't get any side effects or maybe you will have a much bigger problem than going bald. Is it worth the risk?

            As they say in Thailand...UpToYou.

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            • themastercheaf
              Junior Member
              • Nov 2012
              • 11

              #7
              ok, well kirby il let you know how i get on. El Nino I just dont care anymore, I'll try it whatever happens happens I just honestly don't care

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              • El Nino
                Senior Member
                • May 2009
                • 191

                #8
                Originally posted by themastercheaf
                El Nino I just dont care anymore, I'll try it whatever happens happens I just honestly don't care
                No worries mate, it is totally your decision.

                I just wanted to make you aware that there are more risks than just a limp D.

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                • WarLord
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2012
                  • 343

                  #9
                  Originally posted by El Nino
                  No worries mate, it is totally your decision.

                  I just wanted to make you aware that there are more risks than just a limp D.
                  Please, find a good head doctor and don't infect internet forums with your hypochondriac fabrications. Recently, I even read that some guys got impotent on minoxidil. I think that these psychotics should at least read leaflets carefully to know what "side effects" they should expect.

                  By the way, I have been on finasteride for 8,5 months and I have never observed any bad change that could be connected with this drug. Nothing. This is to be expected, because it suppresses a useless, nasty hormone that has no important function in the male body after the age of 18 years. I was taking anti-estrogens before and they influence hormones to a much larger extent than finasteride. Yet I didn't feel anything bad either. Therefore, I knew that there is nothing that I should be afraid of - except additional hairloss, which unfortunately really happened, and I currently don't know, what this stuff is doing with my hair.

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                  • El Nino
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2009
                    • 191

                    #10
                    Originally posted by WarLord
                    Please, find a good head doctor and don't infect internet forums with your hypochondriac fabrications. Recently, I even read that some guys got impotent on minoxidil. I think that these psychotics should at least read leaflets carefully to know what "side effects" they should expect.

                    By the way, I have been on finasteride for 8,5 months and I have never observed any bad change that could be connected with this drug. Nothing. This is to be expected, because it suppresses a useless, nasty hormone that has no important function in the male body after the age of 18 years. I was taking anti-estrogens before and they influence hormones to a much larger extent than finasteride. Yet I didn't feel anything bad either. Therefore, I knew that there is nothing that I should be afraid of - except additional hairloss, which unfortunately really happened, and I currently don't know, what this stuff is doing with my hair.
                    Wow.

                    There are so many guys on this forum who bury their heads in the sand and don't want to acknowledge that Finasteride can cause very serious side effects.

                    So I admit I am a hypochondriac and that Finasteride is perfectly safe and I have nothing better to do than troll this forum scaring people.







                    P.S. It took longer than 8.5 months for me..........

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                    • Kirby_
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2012
                      • 447

                      #11
                      Originally posted by clandestine
                      InHousePharmacy
                      EVERYONE is ignoring my problem. It is not lack of means to get finasteride,there are plenty of semi-illegal means like Inhouse Pharmacy and so on. The problem is 1. lack of GP recognition for MPB, or that it can be treated 2. GP refusing to give me the blood tests the non-NHS private dermatologist said I NEEDED, and can't get AT ALL without GP approval 3. I need GP recognition because I take loads of medications and worried about the finasteride interacting with other medication 4. I would like to see a dermatologist on the NHS, as I can't afford to see private sector doctors again, but the GP refuses to give me a referral so I can't see a dermatologist.

                      SUPPLY ISSUE IS *NOTHING* TO DO WITH MY PROBLEM!!!!

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                      • 25 going on 65
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2010
                        • 1476

                        #12
                        Basically you are worried about taking fin without doctor oversight/approval because of health concerns? I thought you were already taking it with no health problems for months?
                        I do not understand why the derm would say you must have blood tests to take more fin....if I were you I would just take more fin, if that is the case. Are there other factors I am not seeing here?

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                        • Kirby_
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2012
                          • 447

                          #13
                          Originally posted by 25 going on 65
                          Basically you are worried about taking fin without doctor oversight/approval because of health concerns? I thought you were already taking it with no health problems for months?
                          I do not understand why the derm would say you must have blood tests to take more fin....if I were you I would just take more fin, if that is the case. Are there other factors I am not seeing here?
                          The private dermatologist said I NEED to get liver function blood tests every 6 to 12 months and I NEED to inform my GP of taking finasteride if I want to use it for hair loss. I CANNOT get those blood tests without my GP agreeing. I have had no health problems yet, I think, but who knows about the future, particularly as I take lots of medications?

                          I CAN'T AFFORD TO SEE THE PRIVATE DERMATOLOGIST AGAIN AND HE CAN'T GIVE BLOOD TESTS, HE EXPLICITLY TOLD ME TO GET BLOOD TESTS VIA MY NHS GP.

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                          • Kayman
                            Senior Member
                            • Dec 2012
                            • 260

                            #14
                            Originally posted by BigThinker
                            Don't live in a country with shitty universal health care. If I had to see a gatekeeper/GP for anything medicine related, I'd just self-medicate or let my health deteriorate.
                            He doesn't. He lives in a country with first rate health care.

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                            • Kayman
                              Senior Member
                              • Dec 2012
                              • 260

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Kirby_
                              The private dermatologist said I NEED to get liver function blood tests every 6 to 12 months and I NEED to inform my GP of taking finasteride if I want to use it for hair loss. I CANNOT get those blood tests without my GP agreeing. I have had no health problems yet, I think, but who knows about the future, particularly as I take lots of medications?

                              I CAN'T AFFORD TO SEE THE PRIVATE DERMATOLOGIST AGAIN AND HE CAN'T GIVE BLOOD TESTS, HE EXPLICITLY TOLD ME TO GET BLOOD TESTS VIA MY NHS GP.
                              You're boring people now. You've been told you need to see another doctor.

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