PROPECIA Reviews (FINASTERIDE)Average Rating: 2.3 (500 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PROPECIA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PROPECIA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | thinning/thin hair | dramatically decreased libido, erectile disfunction near to the point of impotence possibly breast elargment(though i have been eating more lately) decrease in cum volume, testicular pain during and after sex | made my girlfriend of 2 years very unhappy... for the last two months i thought i wasn't attracted to her any more even though i know i am! i didnt know what was wrong with me, i am going to stop taking it | M | 22 | 4.5 months | 5/18/2006 | 3 | hair loss | Libido decrease. Panic attacks | I have defenitely seen a big decrease in my sex drive after 2 years. I'm getting off of this shit and hope it returns. Erections are OK although I think it's a small issue as well. | M | 32 | 2 years | 5/16/2006 | 3 | Hair Loss | In the first few weeks I noticed lots of acne poping up everywhere. It did eventually go away. Another side effect I have been having is a dull ache in my prostate. | Conisendtly I have found that having anal sex with makes the pain in my prostate go away. I think the thrusting in in out of my ass massages the prostate and keeps the pain at bay. | M | 22 | 9 months | 5/15/2006 | 1 | Hairloss | The side effects were like day and night. Before starting Proscar I was sharp, witty, an avid reader and full of ambition. Two weeks after taking the medication getting out of bed was a challenge. I turn from bookworm to movie buff as books are too challenging and I have to re-read everything 1000 times. I find myself dozing into space, but not only in appropriate situations (on the bus, at home alone) but with friends, at parties/clubs! I also become severely depressed and even felt myself turning into a bit of a nihilist. Life just seemed completely redundant. When I stopped the medication (after 3 months in the summer of 2004) things got better but I'm far from the way I was before taking it. I'm 22 and feel like my mind had been aged by 40 years. I watch my grandma at 87 zone out at family functions and get exhausted in a few hours of socializing and hate that I can actually relate to her. Before taking proscar I had a limitless amount of energy..Does anyone have advice as to what | As much as I hate this product and cannot even begin to fathom how it was given the green light by the FDA, I'm not going to lie. It did benefit my hairloss. However, as much as I wanted to credit the side effects to something else, they were undeniable. I quite the medication after 3 months and lost the hair I grew. I didn't lose much, however, as 3 months isn't really long enough to grow much hair back anyway. | M | 22 | 3 days | 5/15/2006 | 1 | Hair Loss | Side effects were pain in my testicles that started after a couple of months taking it. Seemed to keep my genitals in the state of feeling as if they had been in cold water. Loss of sex drive, difficulty getting erections, loss of semen. | Though I wasn't on it long. The side effects were painful and embarrising. Not worth the money to put up with that. Probably does work for hair loss to an extent, but again, not worth the terrible side effects. | M | 28 | 4 months | 5/12/2006 | 4 | general hair loss | I can't believe people who say the sexual side effects are you in your head... come'on, that's like saying the Hair Re-growth is just imagination (for goodness sake). Sexual side effects are a definite, it's harder to have an erection, keep an erection, and ejaculate. Meanwhile it does work for hair soooo ehh? | SEVERAL of my friends with excellent results only take 1/4 a pill, this is an efficient way of reducing some side effects, but still get results.. In other words: feel free to experiment (1/4 a pill has worked fine for myself and 2 other guys I know, one who was losing quite a bit of hair). | M | 25 | 3 months | 4/30/2006 | 1 | thinning all over head | took for about 3 weeks and woke up one day with red bumps and whiteheads. my neck was beat red and stayed that way for days. it was embarrassing. | this drug is more powerful than you think so be carefull. | M | 26 | 3 days | 4/21/2006 | 5 | Thinning hair | Very mild form of testical pain,but I find only if bump them where in the past it would hurt for a min then go away... Now I find it starts slightly hurting again the next morning,, but only mild and for a short while.. The other thing I noticed was a drop in ejaculant volume,, (I've had all my kids,,so Big Deal !!) .. Pleasure or sensation of sex has not changed.. I think thats all in your head.. If anything,, I think its better now then 7 years ago.. The mind is a powerfull organ ! | Worked for me... filled in my crown area that was just starting to get the MUNK look.. Also made the rest of the top feel and look a little more fuller.. Didn't really do anything for the temples though ,, but that's fine.. Overall I'm very pleased.. And will continue use until something better comes along.. | M | 48 | 7 years | 4/19/2006 | 3 | receding / thinning hair | first few months testicular pain, brain fog, huge adrenalin rush for no reason (ie: panic attack if you panic) | After increased shedding initially hair seems to be thickening at crown.No improvement at temples. Have had headaches all day for last 5 weeks, as well as blurred vision and ringing in ears. Last week had swollen left teste. Ultra sound and blood tests normal - doc said stop riding bike for few days. Nuts ok now but headache, vision and ears ringing still. Doc's got me seeing neurologist in 8 weeks. I'm going thru diet in meantime - stopped nutrasweet lite coffee: no change. Tonight i'll stop propecia for a week. I'll get back if this works. | M | 35 | 5 months | 4/19/2006 | 3 | Receding Hairline at 21, Familial | The only negative side effect I experienced between months 2-5 were painful bulges from ingrown hairs in my underarm which I had never experienced before during the summer. It would be one, last about a week, and go away. This occurred 4 separate times. It may not have even been caused by Propecia. As for hair loss prevention, I am mildly satisfied. I also use Rogaine in combination, but the front scale has continued to thin and lose hair (albeit, I believe, at a slower rate than before I started the medicine). My grandfather on my mother's side was completely bald in his late 20s, and my father has a deep widow's peak. The grandfather's loss was exasperated by psoriasis on the scalp, and though my general physician said my scalp looked fine, I have not had a dermatologist conduct testing -- and the Rogaine causes mild itching. | M | 23 | 10 months | 4/19/2006 | 5 | Recession of hairline | Ok.. Its been a month and I have noticed alot of shedding. I heard this was good but I thought it took a couple months before the shedding would take place. I HAVE AN INCREASE IN SEX DRIVE, HARDER ERECTIONS, AND FEEL STRONGER IN THE GYM... I am wondering if it is possible if I am one of the few with a bad reaction to the medicine called reflex androgenecity? I am hoping the shedding stops. | M | 24 | 1 days | 4/17/2006 | 5 | thinning and hair loss | No side effects. I still horny as always and I never had difficulty achiving an erection. I can ejaculate and go right back to business in a couple of minutes. | I had some testicular disconfort after a few months of usage, but it went away in a couple of weeks. Everyone noticed that I have grown alot of hair, specially people who had not seen me for a year. (By the way, I am also using Monoxil 5%). | M | 34 | 1.2 years | 4/14/2006 | 3 | hair loss | Mostly less desire to have sex, other than that, im fine | I've been taking perpecia for 27 days now i think its helping out but its not worth the money, Im gonna stop taking it and see what happens. Hopefully nothing 2 drastic | M | 19 | 27 days | 4/5/2006 | 2 | Receding Hairline and thinning | Softer erections, Decrease in the amount of semen, Seems as if the penis doesnt wanna grow to its full size, Headache, Shortness of breath, dizziness, Laziness, tiredness, lack of ability to concentrate etc | It stopped my hair from falling but caused a lot of other side effects and i wonder if its worth it? | M | 24 | 8 months | 4/5/2006 | 1 | Thinning Hair | After only a few days of taking the medicine I noticed an acne-type rash on the back of my neck around the hairline. I stayed on the medicine for several months but tried different acne treatments to clear up the rash. I stopped taking Propecia but the rash persisted for more than a month. Finally, the rash cleared up and I wanted to see if the Propecia was the cause. So I took ONLY two pills and over two weeks after taking the pills I'm still fighting an uphill battle with the rash. I'd rather be bald, at least people don't look at you funny if you're loosing your hair!! | It's definetly not worth the side effects! | M | 30 | 3 months | 4/5/2006 | 3 | hair loss | increased blood pressure, some anxiety and inablity to make decisions, as well as decreased libido | it did help with my hair but the sex drive loss sucks. | M | 24 | 4 years | 3/26/2006 | 3 | hereditary baldness | watery semen during first 6 months. Semen is fine now. Libido is fine. Initially had a bit of gyno, but not as bad after 1 year. Have experienced intermittant anxiety and depression for the first time in my 36 years of life. Wierd. I stopped taking it for one month at one point and the anxiety and depression was non-existent. Pretty sure they're Propecia related since I'm experiencing those again. | Did a good job at the crown. Original bald crown was 95 square centimeters. Now bald area is around 58 square centimeters, so yea it turned the vellous hairs into terminal hairs. Mainly got vellous hairs (if anything) on top and front. (I'm a Norwood 6 and just trying to stabilize my hairloss until I can get in for the FUE and BHT transplants). After transplants I will definitely STOP using this drug. | M | 37 | 15 months | 3/19/2006 | 1 | Hair loss | Well, I wrote on this forum about 5 months ago(one of the "27 M"'s listed below) that I had stopped taking propecia due to fatigue, tiredness, difficulty concentrating, remembering things and so on. I can now say without a doubt that since stopping the propecia I have made a full mental recovery. It definitely was the propecia. It really, really screwed up almost a year of my life. Not cool, not cool at all. | M | 27 | 3.5 years | 3/13/2006 | 2 | thinning | negative thoughts, shortness of breath, HEAVY dreaming (I wake up exhausted) after one month. i wasn't looking for any of these as side effects, but all of them led me to search the web for other people's experiences. very glad i found this page. i could completely see that if these symptoms kept up, i could very easily start having panic attacks. i won't take another pill. the thinning isn't worth and i'm 40, so what the hell, it's time to go bald. | it may work, but the side effects, going on for a couple of weeks now, don't work for me. | M | 40 | 30 days | 2/22/2006 | 4 | Thinning Hair | No doubt about it, this drug cuts down on my sex drive. At first, I thought I must be getting old, but then I began to research side effects and realized that Propeica is known to cause decreased libido. What a hobson's choice: Get to date the hotter women because you're not bald, but don't get to have much sex. Or...have plenty of sex with a lesser woman; that is a chick that has to settle for dating a bald or balding man. | Love the hair. Hate the lack of sex drive. | M | 31 | 4 months | 2/16/2006 |