This is just kind of ridiculous. This guy takes a medication to block the action of his own sex hormones, and then is like "I didn't even want to play football or drink beer with my mates anymore ๐ญ"
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Finasteride sucks. Estradiol is the superior choice for hair loss.
Side effects may include: booba
James Davies, RPS director for England told BBC News: "It's really important that regardless of whether it's online or face to face, these thorough checks are taking place.
"That means that a full medical history is taken, there's an opportunity to understand the medication that may be prescribed, the side effects, the risks and the benefits."
Unless it's available on the NHS, it's inevitable that people will take shortcuts to save money. The NHS doesn't generally take men's health seriously though.
Its availability of treatment as well for mens health. TRT thresholds that the NHS applies to men are insanely low, almost like they do not want to spend the money rather than provide actual benefit to people with low test. Its pretty bad as the threshold for women to get HRT is almost non existent and its just given out without further tests.
While I think TRT should only be issued once tested it should be at higher thresholds as it solves so many other issues. However like the new weight loss drugs we do not give the NHS enough money to stick it on prescription for everybody that would benefit from it, particularly as both are likely to be very long term to whole life treatments.
Er, male pattern baldness, and men's hair loss in general, is caused by high T levels, not low, so TRT is irrelevant.
Low T also causes hairloss...
Also, I used the difficulty in getting TRT when HRT is so widely available as a perfect example of how much harder it is to get medication for men from the NHS.
The side effects of finasteride can include suicidal thoughts
How?
It is a hormone, so it has the potential to give rise to mood disorders.
I'm not sure, but the UK's National Health Service mentions depression as a potential side effect.
Drugs can have all sorts of side effects through mechanisms that we might not fully understand (maybe scientists do understand this particular mechanism though, I don't know).
The rates of the side effects listed are highly blown out of proportion. Humans are inherently pretty terrible at assessing risk on such scales.
Why would you take a drug that facilitates hair loss?
Ask every insecure old man on T