The Far Side
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The End
So after 9-10 months side effect free on finasteride I am coming to the end of the road due to the recent onset of sides. Twice in the last month I experienced a “nipple chaffing†feeling most commonly experienced by people who do lots of long distance running, which I hadn’t been doing. This drew my attention to the way things looked and I had the suspicion that gynecomastia was developing. Things were complicated by some recent weight gain, but I am far from overweight. A trip to the GP led to them confirming that in their opinion gyno is forming.
The sensible thing is obviously to stop taking finasteride…
I am incredibly disappointed, bitter and pissed off at the moment. I was well on my way to a “success story†and now I have to watch as that progress disappears before my eyes. For the first time I felt like I had an element of control over this, and now I suddenly have no options. I’m back to being resigned to a life of being treated differently (worse) personally and professionally. Needless to say if I looked at all decent with a shaved head I wouldn’t have made these efforts. I have a terrible head shape, weak jawline and weak facial features. Maybe with all the mega compensating balding people are just supposed to do I might manage to be on par with the ugliest, laziest and thickest people who have hair. I’ve had noticeable hairloss since I was 16 years old, absolutely disgusted.
As far as practical steps go I guess I will drop down to 1.25 mg EOD with a view to stopping finasteride and combine that with an attempt at rapid cutting down to single digit body fat. All I can hope for is that in the period before I drop off finasteride completely I get a miracle recovery from the beginnings of gyno and can put it down to fat or decide that finasteride EOD is viable.
Basically though – it’s over. I have no motivation to carry on with minoxidil or keto shampoos either. In fact this has killed my motivation for every aspect of my life in general.
So after 9-10 months side effect free on finasteride I am coming to the end of the road due to the recent onset of sides. Twice in the last month I experienced a “nipple chaffing†feeling most commonly experienced by people who do lots of long distance running, which I hadn’t been doing. This drew my attention to the way things looked and I had the suspicion that gynecomastia was developing. Things were complicated by some recent weight gain, but I am far from overweight. A trip to the GP led to them confirming that in their opinion gyno is forming.
The sensible thing is obviously to stop taking finasteride…
I am incredibly disappointed, bitter and pissed off at the moment. I was well on my way to a “success story†and now I have to watch as that progress disappears before my eyes. For the first time I felt like I had an element of control over this, and now I suddenly have no options. I’m back to being resigned to a life of being treated differently (worse) personally and professionally. Needless to say if I looked at all decent with a shaved head I wouldn’t have made these efforts. I have a terrible head shape, weak jawline and weak facial features. Maybe with all the mega compensating balding people are just supposed to do I might manage to be on par with the ugliest, laziest and thickest people who have hair. I’ve had noticeable hairloss since I was 16 years old, absolutely disgusted.
As far as practical steps go I guess I will drop down to 1.25 mg EOD with a view to stopping finasteride and combine that with an attempt at rapid cutting down to single digit body fat. All I can hope for is that in the period before I drop off finasteride completely I get a miracle recovery from the beginnings of gyno and can put it down to fat or decide that finasteride EOD is viable.
Basically though – it’s over. I have no motivation to carry on with minoxidil or keto shampoos either. In fact this has killed my motivation for every aspect of my life in general.
