Headaches and finasteride?

[evildude]

without going into all the details, have headaches ever been reported as a possible side effect of finasteride?

 

[retropunk]

From http://www.drugs.com/cons/finasteride.html

Less common or rare
Abdominal pain; back pain; decreased libido (decreased interest in sex); decreased volume of ejaculate (decreased amount of semen); diarrhea; dizziness; headache; impotence (inability to have or keep an erection)

This explains my diarrhea.

 

[Pondle]

With any side effect, you have to compare the incidence in the treatment group to the incidence with placebo.

 

[evildude]

reason i ask, is that i did experience some fairly nasty headaches a week or after starting finasteride. it lasted for about a week, before i decided to take a break from finasteride. have now been off of it for about a week and the headaches are gone. i will try to give it another go, to see if it really was the finasteride that caused them.

so i just wondered if anyone else had experienced this. felt like this massive pressure build up in my forehead, just above the eyes. made it hard to focus and concentrate.