I came home with a bottle of finasteride which was prescribed to me for a medical issue (not for hair loss - finasteride is really the same as propecia or proscar).
I took the first pill, but then went online, and saw the tragic stories of so many men who suffered permanent sexual performance issues even after just 10 days of it.
So I threw the bottle away, and decide to seek another route for my issues.
What does one pill do, do you think? Is it enough to cause permanency of anything ?
I took the first pill, but then went online, and saw the tragic stories of so many men who suffered permanent sexual performance issues even after just 10 days of it.
So I threw the bottle away, and decide to seek another route for my issues.
What does one pill do, do you think? Is it enough to cause permanency of anything ?
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It wouldn't have built up in your system yet to have long lasting damage.
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Its possible but not likely. Rather than throw the medication away, I would have asked my doctor about the percentage of sexual side effects. Online stories always overdramatize everything.
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Finasteride does not cause permanent sexual performance issues. People with BPH have sexual performance issues, and finasteride is used to control BPH.
There recently was a study claiming to find that the sexual side effects of finasteride lasted long after the drug therapy was stopped. This was the worst study design I have ever seen in my life, and I am ashamed that it got printed. (It wasn't printed in a peer-reviewed journal for a reason.) It put out an ad seeking people who were taking finasteride and experiencing sexual dysfunction. The study found that many of the men continued to have sexual dysfunction after the med was discontinued. As any first year statistics student can tell you, if you seek people who are taking a drug and having a problem and then ask them what happens when they stop the drug, you're going to see a large number of people continue to have a problem because the drug was never causing their problem.
Go fish the bottle out of the trash. Your BPH has a good chance of causing permanent sexual dysfunction if not treated.
There recently was a study claiming to find that the sexual side effects of finasteride lasted long after the drug therapy was stopped. This was the worst study design I have ever seen in my life, and I am ashamed that it got printed. (It wasn't printed in a peer-reviewed journal for a reason.) It put out an ad seeking people who were taking finasteride and experiencing sexual dysfunction. The study found that many of the men continued to have sexual dysfunction after the med was discontinued. As any first year statistics student can tell you, if you seek people who are taking a drug and having a problem and then ask them what happens when they stop the drug, you're going to see a large number of people continue to have a problem because the drug was never causing their problem.
Go fish the bottle out of the trash. Your BPH has a good chance of causing permanent sexual dysfunction if not treated.