
Epedaphic
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Short answer "maybe, but more likely not, and most likely not for long". Highest quality studies find the sexual sideeffects go away even for people who keep using the drug. After 2-3 years of use there is no statistically significant difference in the occurance-rate of these issue to a control group.
Some people do claim it caused them to become permanently impotent though. This could be explained by simply assuming they would have gone impotent anyways, without the drug, but who knows. A larger than 0% risk exists.
*Should mention that the low risk profile is with low doses, if you increase the dosis the side effects become more severe.
Thanks for this info. The part about needing to take it forever worries me. Also with fin, I’d be much less worried if I could get a topical version of it.Finasteride is commonly used to stabilize the hair line before a transplant, but to save as much donor supply in the back of the head as possible it makes sense to take it as early as possible.
You don't want to transplant some hair in the front, and then the old hair keeps falling out behind the point where you transplanted in. So you need to first stop further receeding of the hairline, and that usually involves a combination of minodoxil and finansteride, two meds which both have to be taken for life or until something better arrives on the market, and which both have some side effects, though the severity of those varies a lot and is still being debated to some extent.