finasteride and depression

[hoople]

Apparently a side effect can be depression.
http://www.hairsite4.com/dc/dcboard.php ... &mode=full

Has anyone experienced depression as a side effect?

 

[Pondle]

Studies into the depressive effect of finasteride could easily be affected by a confounding variable - hair loss! Many men who lose their hair get depressed by it. Many men who don't respond (or who think that they don't respond) to finasteride get depressed.

 

[Mew]

Yea, cuz those scientific studies linking finasteride use to depression are absolutely meaningless, right Pondle? Right.

You're like a broken record, always trying to find ways to put the blame elsewhere instead of on the drug, and it's seriously getting old and annoying. Stop ignoring the evidence.

 

[Pondle]

Yea, cuz those scientific studies linking finasteride use to depression are absolutely meaningless, right Pondle? Right.

You're like a broken record, always trying to find ways to put the blame elsewhere instead of on the drug, and it's seriously getting old and annoying. Stop ignoring the evidence.

I don't think you can ignore confounding variables. It's a common problem in both science and social science research. I sometimes think you have a very partial view of the world Mew... you accuse me of always "putting the blame elsewhere", but you always do the exact opposite! :lol:

BTW taking another look at those studies, they are only posit a circumstantial link, and neither has a control group. Hardly watertight stuff.

 

[bubka]

finasteride decreases dht and slightly ups testosterone, i have never seen one cause and thus a treatment for depression that involved increasing dht or lowering t

 

[hoople]

I dont' think these studies can be denied. They were well conducted.
Its something people need to be aware of really.

 

[The Gardener]

Paranoia.

 

[Pondle]

I dont' think these studies can be denied. They were well conducted.
Its something people need to be aware of really.

They weren't controlled trials, they don't meet the scientific 'gold standard'.