long term side effects of finasteride/avo

[Guest]

what do you know about long term side effects of finasteride (and avo) ?

please only say if you know. its a pretty important question i think because it tells if you should use finasteride or not.

if i dont get good answers to this, i will definatley ask my doctor about it. i hope he can say.

or what about side effects you dont realize? there may be some.

so what do we know. i think the best is to adapt them from proscar which is more clinically proved in long term.

thx for your answers. i like to hear them.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

nobody knows in the long long term....like after 30 years....no one has been on it that long...its your decision to take it...not your doctors.

 

[Guest]

no, i just want to ask him. not let him decide.

okay, i will probably only use it 10-20 years.

so what do we know about this time?

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

that its fine...have you seen anything reported that says otherwise...no one knows the long long term effects...but it seems to be a very safe drug.

 

[Wash n' Gone]

We know that people with a natural 5aR type 2 deficiency lead healthy lives other than the known sexual development problems. There is no real way of knowing for certain as the long term doesn't exist yet in general use, but there has been enough studies done to convince most regulatory authorities across the world that the drug is fit for use in sexually mature men.

 

[Guest]

sounds good.

though i will my doctor. i need to know everything about it.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

sounds good.

though i will my doctor. i need to know everything about it.

He is not going to know much...trust me.

Your better off doing your own research on the net.

 

[Guest]

okay then.

though i will ask him when im at him (a dermatologist) anyway, and askign doesnt hurt so i will do it though. but i dont expect to much of it.

thx for your advice guys. it already tells me much.

and i will ask another friend who got a transplant and who refuses to use finasteride. maybe he can tell me why he doesnt use it.

after that i will research more on this topic in the net.

like i said, its a pretty important question.

thx guys. keep the infos coming.

 

[Pondle]

Neo, like I said in the other thread, there's no reason to worry. Finasteride has a very short half life and DHT levels 'bounce back' within two weeks of ceasing treatment. I mentioned in the other thread, and as someone has pointed out above, there is a natural biological model for the effect of finasteride, men with 5ARII deficiency. No adverse clinical outcomes have been observed for these men other than the defects they had at birth.

finasteride and dutasteride can affect your sperm count while you're taking the drugs, but the levels of reduction do not reach that regarded as "clinically significant" (30%) and again, sperm count recovers when you cease treatment. Recovery takes longer with dutasteride because of the long half-life of the drug.

Some people are paranoid about finasteride (and dutasteride) and attribute all kinds of adverse reactions to them with absolutely no evidential foundation whatsoever. You will find many of these whingeing paranoiacs on the Net! :-x

 

[Guest]

Neo, like I said in the other thread, there's no reason to worry. Finasteride has a very short half life and DHT levels 'bounce back' within two weeks of ceasing treatment. I mentioned in the other thread, and as someone has pointed out above, there is a natural biological model for the effect of finasteride, men with 5ARII deficiency. No adverse clinical outcomes have been observed for these men other than the defects they had at birth.

finasteride and dutasteride can affect your sperm count while you're taking the drugs, but the levels of reduction do not reach that regarded as "clinically significant" (30%) and again, sperm count recovers when you cease treatment. Recovery takes longer with dutasteride because of the long half-life of the drug.

Some people are paranoid about finasteride (and dutasteride) and attribute all kinds of adverse reactions to them with absolutely no evidential foundation whatsoever. You will find many of these whingeing paranoiacs on the Net! :-x

thank you pondle. you calm me down much. because really worried about the toppik after these posts of some guys who appear here suddenly.

you know who i mean...we both posted in his thread and 1 or 2 weeks ago there was someone else who brought up the toppic.

and since i never was sure about this...i had to ask.

so thank you very much! i will go on researching since its really important. but this what you wrote already means much to me.

maybe someone else has other information? not that i think that pondle is wrong but if someone got other information it would be nice to post them.

thx very much!

 

[abcdefg]

Yeah most regulatory agencies including the FDA and many other countries have all approved finasteride. No one can tell you the long term effects other then the biologic model because no one knows for sure. I am worried I am not actually going bald or it will make my hairloss worse or speed it up.

 

[Pondle]

Why on earth would finasteride make your hair loss speed up? :?

 

[JonA]

YES DHT may normalise after a couple of weeks or watever, but i can assure you the sides do NOT go away,, well not for me even after 4 months of stopping. Im sure finasteride does not only affect DHT but other hormones such as LH, FSH and eostrogen. Thats why i still feel like my sex drive is so low! i hate it.

 

[Pondle]

From the prescribing information...

In patients with BPH, PROSCAR has no effect on circulating levels of cortisol, estradiol, prolactin, thyroid-stimulating hormone, or thyroxine. No clinically meaningful effect was observed on the plasma lipid profile (i.e., total cholesterol, low density lipoproteins, high density lipoproteins and triglycerides) or bone mineral density. Increases of about 10% were observed in luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in patients receiving PROSCAR, but levels remained within the normal range. In healthy volunteers, treatment with PROSCAR did not alter the response of LH and FSH to gonadotropin-releasing hormone indicating that the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis was not affected.

 

[JonA]

yes, that might be very well,, but im giving you my real experience with finasteride,,

Watever hormone or maybe something else has been effected,, its been detrimental to my sexual well being. And thats a FACT for me and many others. I just wish someone could do a little more investigating so that maybe one day there could be help for people like me... instead of being critical and how some think its not that bad or maybe all in the head. Its very real for some

 

[person]

Thanks to wash n' gone and pondle for the encouraging posts.