How do you frequently assess the effect on hair loss of your stack?

[Realwood]

Just want to chime in, the reason so many people seem to complain of ED (fixable with viagra) or loss of libido (only time may fix) is bc these drugs affect way more people than are being reported.

This is due to the fact that there is no big Pharma company that wants to invest in a study like that. Further, the makers of these drugs are strongly disincentivized to look into this issue.

They should be expected to do everything they can to prevent info like this from being reported so they can continue making money.

So it’s not that there’s a small fraction of users being the loudest about it, it’s truly a MAJOR concern that is being actively covered up.

 

[trtbuilder]

Just want to chime in, the reason so many people seem to complain of ED (fixable with viagra) or loss of libido (only time may fix) is bc these drugs affect way more people than are being reported.

This is due to the fact that there is no big Pharma company that wants to invest in a study like that. Further, the makers of these drugs are strongly disincentivized to look into this issue.

They should be expected to do everything they can to prevent info like this from being reported so they can continue making money.

So it’s not that there’s a small fraction of users being the loudest about it, it’s truly a MAJOR concern that is being actively covered up.

Nah

 

[Ghoul]

Just want to chime in, the reason so many people seem to complain of ED (fixable with viagra) or loss of libido (only time may fix) is bc these drugs affect way more people than are being reported.

This is due to the fact that there is no big Pharma company that wants to invest in a study like that. Further, the makers of these drugs are strongly disincentivized to look into this issue.

They should be expected to do everything they can to prevent info like this from being reported so they can continue making money.

So it’s not that there’s a small fraction of users being the loudest about it, it’s truly a MAJOR concern that is being actively covered up.

There are over 100 peer reviewed studies involving finasteride published in the last five years, and a significant portion of them focus on "post finasteride syndrome".

TLDR. Crashing DHT levels causes ED and depression in some people, and it takes some time, weeks, sometime a month or two, after stopping for it to return to normal levels and symptoms to resolve.

Meanwhile the majority of patients taking 5mg a day for enlarged prostate, 5 times the usual hair loss dose, and 40 times the .25mg dose I use, do not experience any symptoms.

 

[trtbuilder]

There are over 100 peer reviewed studies involving finasteride published in the last five years, and a significant portion of them focus on "post finasteride syndrome".

TLDR. Crashing DHT levels causes ED and depression in some people, and it takes some time, weeks, sometime a month or two, after stopping for it to return to normal levels and symptoms to resolve.

Meanwhile the majority of patients taking 5mg a day for enlarged prostate, 5 times the usual hair loss dose, and 40 times the .25mg dose I use, do not experience any symptoms.

BU BU BU BIG PHARMA DOESNT WANT US TO KNOW DA TRUTH!

 

[Ghoul]

BU BU BU BIG PHARMA DOESNT WANT US TO KNOW DA TRUTH!

Well, it does cost 9¢ a pill (without insurance) in the US....so there's some big money behind this conspiracy.

It's been generic for a long time now, and you'd be hard pressed to find a cheaper med.

6¢ a pill at PCT24X7 for my favorite brand, Proscalpin.

I cut them into 4 so I'm able to keep the cost down to a more reasonable 1.5¢ a day, or about $5 a year.

(Remember, I was hit HARD by these symptoms before the "syndrome" was even a thing. I was a one man anti-Finasteride crusader for years. So I'm not unsympathetic.

My irrationality cost me a good amount of hair. And some avoidable prostate
enlargement too.

Let me tell you, if you think a few weeks of feeling down because you're sensitive to finasteride and used too large a dose is bad, you don't want to know the effect on your psyche watching your hair disappear...)

 

[gainslol]

That's pretty good news then! I must search about it because I'm interested, mostly for my back since I can't do it myself and always have my gf shaving me.

So what might be the explanation then for the pros who don't do laser and most of them use the one blade to shave their bodies? If this is doable and they already spend in a year 50-100K for their aspirations, what's the reason to spend 1-2 hours a week to fill a bucket of hair? Honest curiosity.

I can see it be what @Ghoul explains here, when you do your entire body, it becomes very time consuming because you would basically have the 8 or 9 sessions for every body part. The clinics often charge per body part and you'd be uncomfortable, depending on a person's pain threshold, for hours if you did them all at the same time. They might not even allow it all at once.

So worst case scenario it would be 8 sessions for every part:

- Legs
- Arms/armpits
- Groin
- Head
- Beard
- Back
- Chest

So that's 56 sessions, not including the finishing electrolysis.

I've seen many people do it for just their heads though and that makes more sense in my opinion. Just the 8 or 9 sessions and then maybe electrolysis.

They were all happy with it. Average cost was between $500 to $1200 total in the end.

 

[Ghoul]

I can see it be what @Ghoul explains here, when you do your entire body, it becomes very time consuming because you would basically have the 8 or 9 sessions for every body part. The clinics often charge per body part and you'd be uncomfortable, depending on a person's pain threshold, for hours if you did them all at the same time. They might not even allow it all at once.

So worst case scenario it would be 8 sessions for every part:

- Legs
- Arms/armpits
- Groin
- Head
- Beard
- Back
- Chest

So that's 56 sessions, not including the finishing electrolysis.

I've seen many people do it for just their heads though and that makes more sense in my opinion. Just the 8 or 9 sessions and then maybe electrolysis.

They were all happy with it. Average cost was between $500 to $1200 total in the end.

I think it's a very appealing option btw, the kind of thing I'd have done in Thailand where the cost is much lower and time is plentiful.