What's the risks of Finasteride? Is nuking your DHT below normal levels safe? Do you lose athletic ability if you have low DHT? What's the point of DHT post puberty?
Took it for three years (worked perfectly for the hairloss) but it fucked up the nerves in my dick and balls by slowly desensitizing them at a rate i couldnt detect. I finally stopped taking it cause i had persistent UTI like symptoms for a few months, after which my whole dick and urethra blew up into a swollen, itchy, painful rash that took over a year to completely heal and regain sensitivity. So i wouldnt personally recommend it, but apparently some guys are fine with it for decades.
>>77173233I’ve been on finasteride for over a year now. I haven’t noticed any side effect. The only reason for not using finasteride would be the existence of post-finasteride syndrome. However theres no evidence of its existence and what its believers pose as evidence has been debunked repeatedly. Haircafe on youtube has great content on the topic. If PFS is not real then theres absolutely no downside to using it, if you experience side effects just stop using it and they go away.
>>77173244>>77173250desu, I've been taking for a month, and my dick feels like it can get fully erect while before I couldn't....however, like in OP, i don't understand DHT that well and to be nuking it sounds scary
>>77173254All I can say is to stop taking it if you experience lasting negative effects to any degree. Also dont spend loads of time on forums fussing about it, because I still believe many of the sexual impotence side effects and "post finasteride syndrome" are mostly mental issues cause by anxiety over the matter.
>>77173233will you chrome dome manlets fuck off somewhere else with these 10x day hair tonic threads
>>77173274i mean, having more full erections isn't negative but noted
>>77173233The risks are minimal. If there were significant risks then it wouldn't be so easily available after this long. Finasteride is one of the oldest drugs on the market and the side effects are heavily documented for anyone who cares to look into them but the long and the short is that there basically are none for over 99% of users..
>>77173254Testosterone gets turned into DHT by the enzyme 5-alpha-redactase. Finasteride blocks that enzyme, not dht directly. Since that part of your testosterone that was being turned into dht is no longer turned into dht you have more testosterone, which explains your fuller erections. Many people report an increase in libido starting finasteride. Just take it like an aspirin, and forget about it, don’t obsess or even think about it. And avoid forums about it, they are full of fear mongers
>>77173233turning into a tranny. do chlorine dioxide protocols instead. they actually work and dont troon you out.
killed the use in my penis after 2 days. Took 2 weeks to recover after I stopped it. It also made me a bit emotionally numb
Many people starting to take fin do it among a myriad of other self-improvement lifestyle changes which often includes calorie reduction That’s what makes people lose their bonersAnd nocebo effectIn actual studies side effects are so rare that many come to the conclusion that DHT really does nothing useful anymore
I didnt take fin cuz i dont take hard drugs, i rawdawg life. But im also bald and women dont date me
It makes you more happy, less anxious, and more intelligent. And generally just more masculine. Without DHT you become neurotic and literally start thinking like a woman.
>>77173233>What's the risks of Finasteride?Not being part of the Dutasteride master race
>>77174070Literally no one balding at a young age is happy, cope
>>77173254>>77173912Debunked by objective studies (nocturnal penile tumescence)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41249877/Baldies slapheads literally can't stop losing. You gave up your hair because of a nocebo effect. HAHAHAHAHA
>>77173233Dht is the most androgenic hormone for men. Low libido, lack of drive, depression are all side effects of reducing your most androgenic hormone with hormone blockers and everyone gets them to varying degreesI was full blown norwood 6 at 23. I had a transplant with lot of grafts and do oral minoxidil and 0.01% topical dutasteride with microneedling once a week and have decent hair when knocking on 30
>>77173233It depletes your neurosteroids.
>>77173254That's normal reaction to killing your androgensSome people's genes have low cag repeats(high ar sensitivity) so are less sensitive to losing erections. But they do lose some amount of it regardless
>>77173233You're not 'nuking' anything, you are slightly decreasing the level of a hormone that has no function after pubity. If you take a low concentration topically on your scalp, then you are just slightly reducing the concentratikn of DHT in a very small part of your body.>>77173244This is troll post in case anyone couldn't tell.>>77173254Thats normal, some of your testosterone is turned to DHT, finasteride stops some of that from happening, so it just stay ast testosterone meaning your testosterone will go up if you take fin. Being more horny with stronger erections is a normal symptom of finasteride, as well as enhanced muscle growth and a feeling of being alive.
>>77174145https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su1JqxphaMs&https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TRiMwzMMDY&How come bald shills cant stop getting debunked?
the only thing that happened to me was my semen got thinner, but that improved over time
>>77174165Its not a troll post. Im sorry it offends you, but that was my genuine experince with finasteride. If i was trying to troll i would have made up some "pfs" bs about my dick never getting hard again.
>>77174165>no function after peubertywhy are you just lying? There are a million studies showing that DHT is active in the brain post peuberty see >>77174070
>>77174229>>77174165he fell for the fin youtube jew who parronts muh DHT is useless after puberty
>>77174124I'm not actually bald, I just read about it and thought I could get on it prematurely. It 100% killed my libido and generally made me feel pathetic. As someone who actually has sex and leaves the house this was enough to get me to stop it almost immediately. Funnily two people I know irl also told me it did the same to them (unprompted)
>>77174183are you actually posting slop vidoes like this as a form of proof? How many discords are you part of my man?
>>77174165I don’t have a baseline but I’m pretty sure I was normal DHT serum in my body prior to fin and I tested my DHT after a few weeks of fin, my DHT is 15 and my T is 600 (no other drugs involved) I mean, no noticeable side effects yet except that my dick gets really full and sensitive on erections while before I felt like I could never get full erections. My one side effect is a positive change, hopefully it stays this way
>>77174270Haircafe is the best source for anything hairloss related>>77174229Post a study, not an ai answer that makes its response from Reddit where thousands of hypochondriacs post that finasteride made their anus numb >>77174145Le neurosteroids are made by the type 1 5-alpha redactase enzyme. Finasterida almost exclusively eliminates type 2 5-alpha redactase enzyme in humans, thus it doesn’t affect bran neurosteroids in humans.
It makes you impotent but for a lot of people, it is worth it in exchange for keeping their hair.
>>77174295I have never needed to watch anything 'hairloss related' so I guess I've already won. Someone posting tranny meme images as a thumbnail is retarded but not as retarded as those that watch him. Are you le blackpilled sigma male?
>>77174312>I have never needed to watch anything 'hairloss related' You will.
>>77174300>for a lot of peopleit's not a lot of people. it's a very small amount of people
>>77173233i've been on fin/min for probably 3-4 years. my hair has stopped receding and gained a small amount of density.my dad & both gpas are bald. I'm 30 and have more hair than any of them did at my age. I also routinely have sex with my gf.
>>77173233>>77173244>there's a cheap pill that prevents balding, improves your skin, AND increases testosterone>it's somehow been vilified on the internet to the point where millions of men go bald for no reasonIf you ever needed any further proof that humanity is cursed and deserves to be nuked into extinction, there you have it [spoiler]Also how the fuck is this thread on page 2 when the last post was almost 20 minutes ago? Is /fit/ dying?[/spoiler]
>>77174390this site is dead amigo
>>77174390Sharing a negative personal experience is not "villifying" something. It works for many men and thats great, but it doesnt for others.Trying to create a bubble devoid of discourse is simply dishonest and reeks of insecurity.
I took it since last April and stopped at the start of this month. Hard to tell but I'm pretty sure I've increased my hair volume, it definitely is growing faster just not certain about the problem areas. However, my dick has slowly gotten worse over that time and so I stopped taking it a couple of weeks ago to see if it gets better. By worse I mean, the feeling orgasm is definitely reduced and it ends super quick, staying hard is quite difficult without constant stimulation.
>>77173233Why is this board still obsessed with 30-year-old troon droog monotherapy? My topical tricho-chemo stack is 50 chems deep...>polygonum multiflorum ethanol extract>angelica sinensis ethanol extract>salvia miltiorrhiza water extract>malva verticillata hexane extract>zingiber zerumbet ethanol extract>glycine max isoflavone extract>mulberry root CO2 extract oil>ecklonia cava ethanol extract>milk thistle ethanol extract>oryza sativa water extract>chuanxiong ethanol extract>chlorine dioxide solution>triamcinolone acetonide>raspberry water extract>licorice water extract>extra virgin olive oil>ephedra water extract>apple cider vinegar>mint water extract>piroctone olamine>2-deoxy-D-ribose>hyaluronic acid>ginseng extract>glycolic acid>singlet oxygen>hydrocortisone>ketoconazole>zinc sulfate>azelaic acid>latanoprost>phenol red>sesame oil>cetirizine>vitamin B3>vitamin B6>vitamin C>vitamin D3>vitamin E>adapalene>melatonin>bromelain>arginine>caffeine>turmeric>hemp oil>coal tar>fisetin>KX-826>DIM>NMN
>>77174454Dude I think you made some of those things up
>>77174458No, they just modulate all kinds of signaling pathways way beyond androgens that sound made up until you research them enough, kek.
>>77173233You do know that Anavar, Masteron, Primobolan, Anadrol, Winstrol, Proviron and Superdrol are all DHT analogs; hormones that chemically look and act like DHT. Why would you lower your DHT levels voluntarily?Stay lean, get jacked and if youre bald, youre bald.Weaselly politicians take FInasteride so they can get their hair - see Ted Cruz. Men just go bald.
>>77174458Soon there will be a good word for people like him. Essentially he is a retard who has figured out how to use AI to super charge his retardation instead of becoming smarter
I took it for 1,5 years. Stopped it now because it made me depressed, killed my libido and motivation. Was always tired, had no interest in anything. The whole point with fin is that the side effects build up over months so you don't really feel any sides until they took over. Off for 3 weeks. Depression is gone, wake up early full of power and motivation. I am horny AF and my dick can get diamonds again. Full mojo Fuck fin, safe for a hair transplant
>>77173233ive been taking it for years no problem. 99% of so-called "side effects" are a combination of nocebo (i.e. obsessing over side effects and believing there's something wrong with you when there isn't) and blaming the side effects of aging on fin. the average hypochondriac retard here on /fit/ could get cancer and go "it must have been the fin that did this!"
>>77174569Right but you could just as easily argue that people are in denial of all the side effects it causes which is also a thing for things people are attached to. Talking about being "within normal limits" of dht is just nonsense. If it were the case that people with hairloss had a huge amount of dht and taking fin dropped it down, fine, that is the only way it would make sense. I don't think people would be ok with bringing their testosterone down to the lowest it can be while still above the minimum deficiency point, so I advise against it for fin/dht. It's your life, your choice, personally I would never touch it but then my hairline is still reasonably fine for now.
>>77173233I got serious depression from it. I was on it for a few months.
>>77173244>some guys are fine with it for decades.They already trooned out. I'd rather go bald and still be able to cum. Then get hair and turn into a eunuch.
>>77174611>Right but you could just as easily argue that people are in denial of all the side effectsuh, no you can't. all of the medical studies/clinical trials on fin point to it having an exceptionally low occurrence of side effects, particularly when contrast to the insane amounts of men online insisting it broke their dick.
>>77173233kills your beard and all body hair
>>77174657Maybe it needs to studied by a third party. Or maybe men don't want tor isk breaking their dick for science, so there aren't genuine studies on it.
>>77174657I bet you took all six vaccines.
>>77174660what are you even babbling about? there have been countless third party studies on fin for decades, it is an extensively studied drug.>>77174662and i bet you've gone to the doctor, had medical treatment, or taken pharmaceutical drugs at least once in your life. don't take aspirin bro, it'll make your balls fall out of your sack (source: me)
>>77174534>Weaselly politicians take FInasteride so they can get their hair And famous actors and models, and anyone who actually is attracted to womenBut yes if you're gay, by all means go bald. Gay men will fuck anything
>>77174547>nocebo victim >too stupid to know that you still need meds post-HT Checks out.
>>77173233I tried taking it for a while and my ejaculations started looking like oil. That was enough for me. I quit and it came back normal. If I lose it I lose it.
>>77174732This is probably the strangest anti-finasteride side effect anecdote that I see around. Even if your ejaculations "look like oil" or become "watery", who cares? Are you being graded on how they look or something? Btw, ejaculation volume/texture can naturally fluctuate day to day regardless. You were probably just paying more attention while on the medication due to hypochondriac mental illness
>>77173233Been on finasteride for about two years now, and it actually increased my free testosterone. My balls got noticeably larger and some vellus hair on my chest and back converted to pigmented ones. Other than those changes nothing has changed for me regarding sexual function.The effect finasteride has on your depends on your ratios of estrogen, testosterone, and DHT. One anon here years ago wrote up a detailed paper on what happens to your body depending on your ratios prior to taking fin, but most dudes don't experience anything, some experience feminization and some experience masculinization.
>>77174762I think there might be truth to the idea that only low test people get side effects from 5ARis. My test is like 98th percentile naturally and I've never had any, I take 1.5mg of dutasteride daily
>>77174764nah retard your test is so high because of the dutasteride
>>77174732bro if I nutted some oil I would immediately go to the emergency room
>>77174764>I think there might be truth to the idea that only low test people get side effects from 5ARis.Low test correlates with negative side effects but the ratio of your estrogen, test, and DHT levels are what actually determines how your body reacts to DHT inhibition. You can have a guy with really high test AND estrogen and he'll experience bad side effects despite being a really masculine guy. That's a rare hormone combo, but not non-existent. I really wish I saved anon's write-up because he goes into such scientific detail that you can know with 100% certainty what your effects will be based on a blood test.
>>77174781I'm gonna say Allopregnanolone the real mechanism here.
>>77173233Who cares about risks. Do you want to live until 70 with hair and a fun life, or live until 80 bald and invisible to everyone for the whole time?
>>77174832NOP, but I had both grandfathers and an uncle live into their 90s, and find it crazy we're postin' a bread bout a tranny med a third as old as their lifespans in the big...>2026
>>77174454Are you the same dude with the level 9999 peppa pig chemowizard I spoke to before 1 year? If so any before/afters?
>>77174832What a fun life to be had with limp dick.
>>77174787>I'm gonna say [unverified LLM summary] is the answer >I are smart
Been on a fin/min pill for a year now, head is noticeably fuller and stopped the hair loss. Dick works fine, though I do occasionally take tadalafil if I know I’m going to be hooking up multiple times over a weekend and want to give my best wienering, but I was doing that before I got on fin/min anyways.
>>77175668>abbreviating the names of medications >introducing minoxidil systemically when you could just put it in your head So what’s it like having a sub 100 iq?
>>77175700What kinda autism is this?
>>77173233Maybe 5% less reduction in erections and horniness after being on and off the last 4 years but I think its moreso due to aging and stress. Other than that no, anyone who says otherwise is a fat no lifter redditor type.
Took it 7-8 years ago because I had some shedding, didn't know anything about hair loss so I just tried it cause my friend was taking it, I stopped it after a month because I felt that my sleep was bad (waking up every 3 hours) and I felt kind of depressed and fatigued or whatever, I don't think I had any other side effects, thankfully my hair loss was from stress and not actually balding. I was taking the 5mg btw because only that was available at the time in my country.
>>77173233I'm early 30s and I've been taking it for three years and can't get full throb erect anymore. My penis used to actually be rock hard, thick, veiny, and have a curve when I was throbbing peak erection, and I'd have to wait 3-5 mins after cumming so I could piss right. My head would also swell up at full throb and look fat and juicy.Now even when I cum, my penis is solid but doesn't have that fat throbbing look (I measured it and it was only 5.75 inch around), plus it has very little curvature and my head is barely bigger than when I'm soft. It has the consistency of a plump sausage, and gets soft shortly after it's not being used.
>>77173233Well, you're on 4chan so it's very likely the use of a penis is not necessary for you, so go ahead.I'll be Walton Goggins'sing my way into the grave, thank you very much.
>>77173233You're impairing a lot more than "just" DHT synthesis by taking these poisons.Finasteride blocks 5ar type 2/3, dutasteride blocks all 3. You are completely raping your neurosteroid synthesis as well.
>>77173233I've been using fin (just half a tablet) since Oct 2025. I have experienced zero side-effects. I still get rock hard each morning. I wanted to take it for 12 months before pairing it with min, but I'm gonna scrap that and start min in April.
>>77174709How did I get neurological effects if the only negative side effect I'd heard of prior to use was ED? (which I didn't get)
>>77173233I started with fin, it works ok. Now i'm on dut and estradiol enanthate.
>>77176679there's a weird dynamic around finasteride users both past and present where there's basically a feedback loop - the people who take it and get sides and get up their own ass about it feed the fin users who don't get sides in their irrational conviction that it is a completely harmless drug. also, there's emotional attachment to it from people who were extremely insecure about balding who managed to reverse their hairloss. don't get me wrong, i get the controversy around PFS and personally am skeptical of it's plausibility and fin+min combo does seem to be the best treatment for hairloss for better or for worse. but the visceral reaction from people who use fin to reports of side effects besides erectile dysfunction is more of a highlight of how psychologically debilitating it is for some men to start losing hair, which is a sign of their complete and total faggotry btw.
>>77176827yeah tressless is a cult, even if you describe your own negative experience you get downvoted/mocked ect, I think that guy Haircafe has a lot to do with that
>>77176827I don't bother sharing my experience anymore because it sounds so contrived that I come across as a bitter baldie trying to crab bucket people. I'm not, and I'm genuinely happy for the people that get no sides and regain/keep hair but I was so neurologically fucked that I thought I had a brain tumour. I had never heard of such sides and my Dr. denied that they could be from fin so I stayed on it months longer from first symptoms, and as a result it took a good long while to totally clear up.
>>77173233Fucks with your GABAa levels, which is the absolute killer.
Anytime somebody says something negative about fin they are attacked or silenced. " Less than 1% bro" " Crab in a bucket bro" "Works for me bro" Anytime a positive testimonial is commented on by somebody who experienced negative effects it's "I'm glad it worked for you man but it's just I hand a bad experience" or rather reasonable arguments like DHT playing some role in mens body post puberty because why else would it be there if it has no use? Naysayers don't side with authority or milk the status quoThis should tell any reader here a lot, fin discourse is massively policed and most of the time it's not by shills but by other guys who take it or subscribe to muh basedience ideology TM. The scale of it is astounding. I'm speaking as a guy with a full head of hair (now) that doesn't take fin but I do take min and did a lot of research into this shit
>>77176827I went from a 9/10 looking guy down to a 6.5/10 once I lost most of my hair. Feeling the difference in the way I was treated is eye opening to the nature of the vast majority of people and it's depressing as fuck at first at least. I got my hair back and now people are way nicer to me, just now I hate them because I understand how superficial they are.Call it faggotry if you want, but I feel better because I look better and people treat me much better too.
>>77178485>but I do take min and did a lot of research into this shitWont this stuff stop working eventually and you are gonna lose the hair and even more?
>>77179194That's what some people experience, but others don't. This is the staple reddit tier fear funnel into getting people to take the pills
>>77173233>another thinly veiled finasteride scare thread>usual suspects claiming terrible side effects in first few posts>no, no these threads are totally organicThis board is dying because stupid bots and shills and obsessed trannies keep spamming the same shit, day after day, and nobody does anything.
>>77178485Why do you care so much about "discourse"? What matters is the actual clinical data, which does indeed show that>" Less than 1% bro" And among that 1%, a lot of those could go away with time, adjusted dose, topical application, etc. There's literally no reason not to consume a 5ARi in some form in 2026.>rather reasonable arguments Most people against taking Finasteride or Dutasteride are "post-finasteride syndrome" shills, literally the pinnacle of insane hypochondria and anti-scientific drivel
>>77173233>>77174087>>77179319If Finasteride, Dutasteride, Minoxidl, etc. actually worked, balding wouldn't be a major problem anymore. People wouldn't be flying to Turkey too. Clearly all this jew shit doesn't work.
>>77178504>9/10 looking guy down to a 6.5/10How much did you lose? I'm Norwood 2/2.5 and there's no difference in how people treat me.
>>77179207for how many years have you used it, people say that it stops working after 3-5 years
>>77179483I didn't really norwood, I'm barely a 2 but I had diffuse thinning. Once it gets to the level of people being able to see my scalp in sunlight and wind being my enemy that's when people started to treat me noticeably differently
I took fin for 5 years. The side effects were subtle at first but it eventually killed my libido and killed my dick. It took about 2 years after qutting to get regular morning wood and diamonds hard erections. Strangely, my hairline has stayed the same so maybe I didn't need the drug in the first place.
>>77174753Huh? I'm just relaying what I saw. I never saw my ejaculate look like that before and I've been ejaculating for quite a long time. Don't try to gaslight me on this. I started fin and my cum got thin and almost clear and came out very weakly. No, that never happened before and after I quit taking fin it never happened again.So pretty solid proof for me.
>>77179602can you give an example of what the difference in treatment you've noticed? because it honestly seems like something a "looksmaxxer" would be gaslight themselves into believing.i have transitioned to basically norwood 3 over the past decade and haven't noticed any difference at all
>>77179653Idg this, I’ve never had any side effect except no more hair loss. Dude, you know if you’re trying to knock her up, you can just go off fin for a while and nothing bad will happen. It takes a few weeks to clear out of your system, and you’ve probably got 1-2 months or so before the dht starts affecting hair cycles again.
>>77173233I started topical fin like 5 days ago.Eventually will move to 1mg fin.So far so good.My theory is that only low test dysgenic fags have symptoms
>>77179636Same guy here, forgot to mention that it made my anus numb, atrophied my muscles and shrank my balls. Also, it made me sweat 24/7 and gave me dementia.
>>77179929You never got pussy in the first place so how would you notice a difference you bald faggot
>>77180219It’s your fault for being dumb, you should have used topical broccoli
Androgenic is not the only variety of alopecia. Other types of hair skill issues include:>Al Awadi-Farag-Teebi Syndrome>Alopecia Areata>Alopecia Epilepsy Oligophrenia Syndrome of Moynahan>Alopecia Mucinosa>Alopecia Totalis>Alopecia Universalis>Bazex–Dupré–Christol Syndrome>Biotinidase Deficiency>Birt–Hogg–Dubé Syndrome>Björnstad Syndrome>Carvajal Syndrome>Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia>Christ–Siemens–Touraine Syndrome>Clouston Syndrome>Conradi Hunermann Haple Syndrome>Crandall Syndrome>Folliculitis Decalvans>Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia>Graham Little-Piccardi-Lassueur Syndrome>Hallermann Streiff Syndrome>Hereditary Hypotrichosis Simplex of the Scalp>Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome>Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia>Hypotrichosis with Juvenile Macular Dystrophy>Involutional Alopecia>Keratosis Lichenoides Chronica>Lichen Planopilaris>Loose Anagen Syndrome>Marie Unna Hypotrichosis>Marinesco–Sjögren Syndrome>Menkes Syndrome>Monilethrix>Naxos Syndrome>Netherton Syndrome>Odonto-Onycho Dysplasia-Alopecia Syndrome>Phakomatosis Pigmentovascularis>Pili Trianguli et Canaliculi>Perniola-Krajewska-Carnevale Syndrome>Pseudopelade of Brocq>Pseudothalidomide Syndrome>Rothmund-Thomson Syndrome>Salti-Salem Syndrome>Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome>Setleis Syndrome>Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome>Telogen effluvium>Triangular Alopecia>Tricho–rhino–phalangeal Syndrome>Trichothiodystrophy>Tufted Folliculitis>Wolfram Syndrome>Zinsser-Engman-Cole Syndromeprotip: studying reasons why hair fails gives u insight into new growing methods
>>77180284>protip: studying reasons why hair fails gives u insight into new growing methodsOr gives you actual mental illness.
>>77173233i have none, would probably feel worse without it. your body adapt to it kind of
>mfw im 30 with a bald crown and hairline higher than vegeta im so fucked dude this wouldnt help at all
>>77180891Just shave it, bro
>>77180222nice projecting, you know how i can tell that you'll never procreate?
>>77173233The risk is that you will feel like shit and no you can't avoid it.
