Will dutas stop me having children?

[ajax]

["plently of research" :lol: if you did you could answer the question yourself!!! :lol:[/quote]

As stated I did lots of research and couldn't find anything about this, hence posting the message to ask for others findings on the issue. Thats what this forum is for isn't it, to help and advice?

 

[harold]

As stated I did lots of research and couldn't find anything about this, hence posting the message to ask for others findings on the issue. Thats what this forum is for isn't it, to help and advice?

Well I think one mans plenty of research is another mans hour on the net. And a lot of this stuff can get kind of technical leading to a huge knowledge gap between someone like Bryan whose been looking at this for years and some guy who got freaked out, found out about dutasteride, read it was safe and startedd taking it. Not to say that is what you did but there is a lot of info out there and the exact concentration of dutasteride needed to inhibit or adversely affect spermatogenesis is not something that is discussed much because for one thing nobody really knows and the fact that it seems to be pretty safe is good enough for most. Going from those animal studies it would seem that a lt would be necessary but from looking at the study I posted there does seem to be a significant role for DHT in sperm production and its possible that for some people (those who may have borderline viable sperm counts particularly), dutasteride may be having an adverse effect on fertility. Especially at doses that are eliminating over 90% of serum DHT.
At any rate yeah this place could do with a few more helpful comments and a bit less mocking of people aking questions.
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[SkylineGTR]

the study done that harold posted shows that fertility was effected but they said that "Progeny outcome was unaffected" so there weren't any mutant babies.

So you might have trouble knocking up a girl but thats probably it.

 

[falkor]

Correct me if im wrong, but if your worried about it, couldn't you just go to the hospital and get your pre-dutasteride infected sperm stored in a freezer or somthing? Then go on dutasteride, and if it turns out your sperm count is so low that you can't have a baby just say, hey Doctor, give me my healthy sperm. Bam, you still have enough sperm to have a crap load of kids. I have no idea if this is even possible, or if they allow it, or where they would store it, but it would be a good safety precaution if possible. Just an idear, sorry if it is stupied, just trying to help fellow balders. :lol:

 

[Skaff]

dutasteride is a fair bit stronger than finasteride....... I'm not saying you can't father children either.... just that it CAN have certain effect on people (and drawing from my own personal reactions to it).

the sides I had from finasteride took 4-6 months to appear... the sides from dutasteride took less than 4 weeks (there was a good few months gap between taking the two as well).

Really? What were the sides that eventually appeared and did they go away?

 

[SkylineGTR]

they have sperm banks. most guys that get vesectomy's get a bottle of soldiers stored away for them.

 

[Guest]

damn i should have thought of that before starting.

 

[oni]

I told you JayMan......................... good job CCS stalks you and keeps your used condoms in the freezer! :hairy:

 

[Guest]

Ive been on dutasteride for 0 days and have had no side affects. So it's working great for me. Ontop of that, it feels like I'm taking nothing at all.

 

[1750]

considering one of the side effects of dutasteride is testicular shrinkage I would have thought a decrease in the volume of sperm would be a given.....

personal experience ... why would I announce to the world my balls have shrunk if I didn't legitimately feel they had?

 

[1750]

dutasteride is a fair bit stronger than finasteride....... I'm not saying you can't father children either.... just that it CAN have certain effect on people (and drawing from my own personal reactions to it).

the sides I had from finasteride took 4-6 months to appear... the sides from dutasteride took less than 4 weeks (there was a good few months gap between taking the two as well).

Really? What were the sides that eventually appeared and did they go away?

I had the same symptons on dutasteride that I got on finasteride only much worse...
Puffy nipples went into overdrive and there is still some tissue below the nipple that I can't dissolve - despite trying novaldex, dim, rebound reloaded and a host of other crap...
Limp old fella that was impossible to get up (even with the best DVD material and a gut full of sildenefil)
Headaches (admitedly didn't get this on finasteride)
Haven't touched finasteride or dutasteride for a good while now...
Sex drive has recovered to a degree but is noweher near the previously.
Ejaculate volume has not been the same since.

 

[1750]

the study done that harold posted shows that fertility was effected but they said that "Progeny outcome was unaffected" so there weren't any mutant babies.

So you might have trouble knocking up a girl but thats probably it.

You may not get a mutant but you will get a swimmer who has won a race against a smaller field......... not idealic IMO

 

[Pondle]

There was a study on finasteride and dutasteride's effects on semen characteristics over a 52 week treatment period. In both treatment groups, total sperm count compared to baseline was significantly decreased at 26 weeks (D -28.6%, F -34.3%) but less so at 52 weeks (D -24.9%, F -16.2%). There's a rebound effect after you cease treatment, obviously it takes longer to recover from an extended period on dutasteride because of the drug's very long half-life.