Hair loss treatments can have serious side effects

If there is a story about men’s health that can press all of our buttons, it’s one. It combines male vanity, embarrassing sexual dysfunction, depression, inability to go to work, and being told your symptoms are not real. It involves a very disturbing, but luckily very rare.
The show’s star is finasteride, also known as Propecia and Proscar. It was originally developed by Merck, a U.S. drug giant in the 1990s, to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a noncancerous enlargement of the prostate that is very common in older men.
The researchers noticed interesting side effects. Some men who use this drug experience hair growth. The company sensed a huge market, created a lower dose of the drug to treat male baldness, and patented it as Propecia in 1997.
Now, it is widely regulated whether it is a family doctor or a dermatologist. Finasteride is also sold by Canadian websites that make “online access” and then ship drugs in mail. One such website claims that the drug “treats men’s hair loss in 90% of men. It can even promote hair regeneration.”
However, a small number of men experience sexual side effects from receiving this medication, ranging from erectile dysfunction to infertility and loss of sexual desire. Some have also reported serious mental health problems, including depression, insomnia and even suicidal thoughts. Some people suffer from a terrible disease called Anionia, which is completely unfeeling emotion.
Worse, these symptoms may last long after the cessation of the childbirth. Now, doctors call this “Posterior Venous Syndrome (PFS)” a controversial topic. Many family doctors are not aware of this, or it is difficult to believe that the symptoms may persist after a few months of stopping the medication.
“I suspect PFS is real,” Dr. John Dushinski, chief medical officer of the Calgary Prostate Care Center, told me in an interview. “I think this could make people vulnerable to actual depression in depression. If finasteride is stopped, not all of these people will ‘take it off’. I don’t think the underlying mechanisms of the drug have long-term side effects, but will trigger them.”
When it launched Propecia, Merck went out of his way to contaminate male baldness. They funded research that claimed that men with hair were more successful in love and workplaces. “There is no doubt that Merck is indeed trying to maximize potential patient pools by advertising male pattern baldness,” Dushinski said. “We see that there are a lot of medications right now. The ad doesn’t mention what they are going to treat, they just say “ask your doctor X (see Ozempic and his cousin). ”
Jeff Davison is CEO of the Prostate Care Center. He agrees that we need to stop stigmatizing normal body changes, such as male pattern baldness. He also felt that “as men, we are terrible managers of our own health.” He noted that men often overlook important issues in doctors’ offices and he provided a practical advice. “We always encourage people to work with you on a doctor’s visit. This is the best thing you can do because someone is there to write down a question and remind you to ask them.”
Sooner or later, almost all men will have a certain degree of BPH as they age. “Anatomical studies show that BPH starts at the microscopic level for most men in their twenties,” Dushinski said. “What should we do for this?” “Only those with symptoms in their minds that are severe enough can try the medication,” he said.
In other words, if you are a person who wakes up six times a night and uses the bathroom and can’t get a bad sleep, you should probably try something for nocturnal urine. Pelvic floor exercise, bladder training, and limiting nighttime fluid intake may be helpful.
Of course, if you do consult with your doctor, be aware that popular nocturnal drugs (such as Alpha-1 blockers) Tamsulosin (Flomax) and Alfuzosin (Uroxatral) (Uroxatral) may have side effects, although not as severe as fentanol.
And, if you want, well, I’ll take the herbal route and buy some over-the-counter medications, and that’s some news. According to Dr. Dushinski, they may contain saw palmetto, “a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor (5-ari), such as finasteride.” And, you guessed it, he said Saw Palmetto is related to PFS.
The moral of this story is that every human body is different, and what works for one person can be disastrous for another. The key is to be prepared and even eager to talk about symptoms and side effects, even if it means dragging your partner to a doctor’s office, these experts believe.