Is Finasteride Dangerous for Mental Health?

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@missdenim6590 9 күн бұрын

My 19 year old son went from top of his class in college , to not able to finish final exams after 4 months of taking this. I told him, after reading a reddit comment, to throw it away! 6 weeks later he was starting to feel normal again. Thankfully he got a medical extension on his exams, regained his normal personality and is now a senior. Thank God he recovered. It was absolutely not worth the risk. I'm trying to spread the word. Looking at your son and not recognizing who is looking back at you is something I'll never forget.

@RICHARDFLORES2100 Күн бұрын

This drug does cause depression and anxiety. I’m glad he is off of it and feeling better.

@sarahchong9616 Жыл бұрын

Dr Gary I am taking my last final of my undergraduate career. I wish to be as knowledgeable as you one day. I just took my MCAT and will apply for medical schools in Tx this cycle. Thanks for all you do

@tanujsoni852 11 ай бұрын

Do u take finestride?

@d.akhtar9080 7 ай бұрын

Ur a weirdo dude

@anixes 5 ай бұрын

@@tanujsoni852 finasteride is for men only.

@veilmontTV 8 ай бұрын

Finasteride was the best drug ive ever taken for my mental health besides Adderall for my ADHD. The depression i had from losing my hair was nuts and it took that away

@hfud11 4 ай бұрын

Fina can cause depression and a lot of other permanent damages. Good luck.

@veilmontTV 4 ай бұрын

@@hfud11 I'm not a hypochondriac so I'll be fine

@hfud11 4 ай бұрын

@@veilmontTV Fina destroyed me and I was not hypochondriac.

@kacper5021 4 ай бұрын

@@hfud11can u tell more? I was thinking about taking it because so many people tell it only affect 1% of people but I start to think they are bots payed by big farma

@josephjohn4769 4 ай бұрын

@@veilmontTVthat’s such an arrogant thing to say. I’m not a hypochondriac at all, never have been, but fin destroyed me. To imply that anyone who suffers from side effects of fin is a hypochondriac is so ignorant of you

@mihirpatel3010 4 ай бұрын

Finasteride does make depression worse.

@adrianw0w757 14 күн бұрын

So does balding

@dralessandrotaranto8028 13 күн бұрын

I got every side effects, including a hard episode of depression. I was using topical finasteride 0,25% 1-2 ml /d. I used for about 30 days. It returned to normal after 3 weeks stopping use. I am 47 and when I was 22, I tried 1 mg of oral fin and got all my hair back. But I got great reduction on libido, sperm volume and my eyebrow fall apart and my bear. It took me 2 years to get back again. Now I am going to topical fin 0,01% and see what happens.

@RevDog777 7 ай бұрын

Sadly it made me depressed and anxious. I’m going to restart at a lower dose.

@aidanvarela823 7 ай бұрын

I reallly wouldn’t. Eventually, whether it takes months or years, the meds will have the same effect. And it’s risky becuse sometimes the side effects can be permanent

@RevDog777 7 ай бұрын

@@aidanvarela823 "sometimes"==extremely rare if at all according to multiple studies

@kxni122 5 ай бұрын

no side effects cannot be permanent 3 months is max post finasteride syndrome is clinical not proven its all in your head@@aidanvarela823

@hfud11 4 ай бұрын

This drug destroyed my life and many others

@mihirpatel3010 4 ай бұрын

@@aidanvarela823100%

@Meggie1031 Жыл бұрын

Dr. Gary!!! You now have eyebrows and a mustache? How awesome for you!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊

@jacksonh2083 8 ай бұрын

It’s the lighting. He just has light colored hair but his hair is more visible in this lighting. I have light colored hair too and this same issue so I dye my eyebrows. Works wonders

@vishwaraghavan8101 Жыл бұрын

I was experiencing some low energy and drowsiness with 1.0mg finasteride. So I stop taking it for a month and felt great again. I have recently been taking 0.5mg and even went down to 0.25mg (with help from a pill splitter) and I have found that my hair loss has minimized, and mentally I feel great. If you’ve been taking 1mg finasteride for a month or two, try lowering the daily dose.

@grko6439 8 ай бұрын

Any update?

@ryanjack_1 8 ай бұрын

6 months on how you feeling bro?

@grko6439 8 ай бұрын

@@ryanjack_1 rip

@chrisladouceur4093 8 ай бұрын

How long were you taking 1mg for? I hear a lot of that goes away after a couple months. Also, why the drop to 0.25?

@zyzzuschrist3410 6 ай бұрын

@@ryanjack_1he’s gone….. 😞

@sepchabock5549 Жыл бұрын

Dr Gary , can you please answer my question , i read an article which says Minoxidil increases the risk of age related macular degeneration(AMD) by 72%, is this true ?

@RevDog777 4 ай бұрын

@haircafe

@tyleralexander5187 6 ай бұрын

Ive taken finasteride for about 2 years now. A little bit of my hair grew back, but i noticed an INCREASE in libido and even stronger erections. Anyone else experienced this? Im 30 but i have the libido like when i was 18

@dtegg91 6 ай бұрын

I've been taking 0.5mg fin 6 days a week for 4 years or so. I'm now 33 and feel the same as you. I think a big part has to do with general confidence and less so with the medication. Just becoming more comfortable in your own skin as you age helped me the most.

@conversationsindesign1 6 ай бұрын

@@dtegg91 you werent worried about the potential side effects before starting? how?

@conversationsindesign1 6 ай бұрын

you werent worried about the potential side effects before starting? how?

@dtegg91 6 ай бұрын

@@conversationsindesign1@MrSteezy1542 I was, but I looked into the occurrence of side effects, and it was quite low (2-4% of users following 1mg dosing), and figured that was fairly low risk.

@khabiblalochka328 24 күн бұрын

Same, I had the opposite of less libido. It happens because testosterone turns into DHT hormone which u know causes the hairloss and all that. So then when taking finasteride stopping testosterone to turn into DHT u then end up having more testosterone cuz of that

@devonmahoney2334 3 ай бұрын

The side effects are not common. If you look at the percentages of people who are affected by the side effects. One study of around 11,000 people a little over 1% of people experienced side effects. A placebo group reported also around 1%.

@hfud11 3 ай бұрын

Damages are underestimed

@cn5095 9 ай бұрын

At age 46 looking to do hairtransplant for receding front hairline. I am a norwood 2, strong crown and dense hair. Do i even need finasteride and or monoxil for maintaining a new hair transplant ? Or I can do without at this age?

@TankDavisConquers 6 ай бұрын

I rather be bald.

@sdkid294 Жыл бұрын

Yo Gary if you are really passionate about this you should stop giving advice from a medical hand book and look at all the people suffering from taking this drug

@jacksonh2083 8 ай бұрын

You could use this logic to argue that like everything is bad. It’s almost like anecdotal evidence isn’t that valuable

@peteralmond8169 7 ай бұрын

He is using information from the results of scientific studies. I’d rather go off that than some random guy who’s had a bad experience

@tomaszkiryk556 8 ай бұрын

Finasteride is actually relieving for stress; you just have to know when to take the 1mg.

@hfud11 3 ай бұрын

Bwahahahhahahahhaha

@jahanzebkhan6576 Жыл бұрын

Hi doctor plz can u tell me if selenium sulfide shampoo cause hair fall + is it permanent hair Loss or temporary. Bcoz ketoconzole shampoo irritated my scalp I can't use ketoconzole. Now am using selsun blue shampoo

@Re-Destro Жыл бұрын

Doc seems very sad and tired lately.

@tired_of_everything0 10 ай бұрын

@@AC-LING666wish I had seen them before taking this poison

@Josh-fp2qn 5 ай бұрын

He’s on finasteride

@Re-Destro 5 ай бұрын

@@Josh-fp2qn Finasteride is a King drug. He’s probably doing a lot of content that’s why.

@danyfalcon7315 Жыл бұрын

Hey Doc, can you talk about Blephoplasty?

@drerfanrasti 9 ай бұрын

I'd rather stay bald 😊

@GSIN24 Жыл бұрын

I literally have been taking it again for like two weeks and oh lord I was so depressed , literally crying at everything .. haven't taken it in two days not sure if the topical version would have less effects

@hellojoshua3287 Жыл бұрын

It will be less effective, but worth a try

@asdasd-os5vk Жыл бұрын

Hey how are you now?

@GSIN24 Жыл бұрын

@@asdasd-os5vk took about a week to feel normal again thank god! I'm okay, I started taking Zinc & vitamin d 3 instead for my hair loss and dude within 12 days I got 10x as much hair growth as I did with finasteride

@sonofsanto 5 ай бұрын

@@GSIN24Capitalize that G my dude

@kxni122 5 ай бұрын

thats the biggest bs if ever heard lmao@@GSIN24

@thomasd1076 6 ай бұрын

Question to the public: i have been taking 1 mg every day for about 3 - 4 years now. I for sure notice decreases in libido and some ED. My hair has not gotten any worse in that time , and possibly has gotten better. But i personally feel it can cause a bit of depression considering you have little drive to seek out a partner then if you do you have the paranoia of not everything working when the time comes. Has anyone else experienced the same feelings? I dont necessarily want to stop taking it because im single and would like to keep my hair but the double edge sword to this is really a problem. Wondering if i should take a few months off and or change my dosing/schedule.

@TankDavisConquers 6 ай бұрын

Man just go bald and chill. You don't have a reason to take it.

@thomasd1076 6 ай бұрын

@@TankDavisConquers lol part of me would love to

@Sunnyjim725 9 ай бұрын

Hello I been taking fonesterdie and minxodile for 5 months and got all my hair back. But I want to reduce taking finesterdie from once per day to 4 times per week will that still work?

@HealthyWealthy808 9 ай бұрын

Any side effects?

@khabiblalochka328 24 күн бұрын

Switch to dutasteride, just do more research about that on a channel called hair cafe

@iamrobertoconnor Жыл бұрын

Is it possible that finasteride causes eye floaters? I’ve had them for three weeks now and I’m on 1mg finasteride every second day for one month.

@antoneckhart4010 Жыл бұрын

Yes thats common..as well as night blindness

@deepwashington499 Жыл бұрын

@@antoneckhart4010source?

@ethanbaggoo1513 11 ай бұрын

It messes with your meibomian glands in your eyes which are hihly depedent on dht, good luck taking this poison long term

@chrisladouceur4093 8 ай бұрын

Can’t cause eye floaters

@iamrobertoconnor 8 ай бұрын

Says who though? People are experiencing this, and it's not reversible, like many other Fin sides sadly.@@chrisladouceur4093

@MegatronNEMO 3 ай бұрын

Can you stop Finesteride cold turkey safely?

@ballaboi9183 2 ай бұрын

yes

@Jjjjj-gh2pj 11 ай бұрын

Hi dr Gary does finestride shrink the genitals? Can u plz answer that

@aidanvarela823 7 ай бұрын

It can

@hfud11 4 ай бұрын

Yes

@Josh-fp2qn 15 күн бұрын

Omg the side effects get crazier and crazier

@Abdullah-mt9ns 11 ай бұрын

Finasteride ruined lifes

@tired_of_everything0 11 ай бұрын

did you recover?

@alberto8991 11 ай бұрын

why

@longlostaudio8247 7 ай бұрын

Finasteride and eventually Dutasteride saved mine

@Toniraa 7 ай бұрын

Side effects are permanent right?

@longlostaudio8247 7 ай бұрын

@@Toniraa no

@paulpaigo1444 Жыл бұрын

Because of finasteride's 30 day shelf life, can I go to a three day per week dosage and get the same results?

@PostFinasterideSyndromeNorway 20 күн бұрын

It fucked my life

@Jonathan-gy5hk 3 ай бұрын

I am in propecia for over 2 months, and I do not observe decent results yet. As a matter of fact, I am continuously shedding resulting to thinning. I am losing hope that is why I am searching for an inspirational and authentic message for someone who also uses this drug to keep me go through this process :(

@dhiooo7552 3 ай бұрын

i planned to start taking finasteride tmrw bro, i am tired loosing this shit hair

@Silverpump 2 ай бұрын

@@dhiooo7552are you talking finasterid now?

@khabiblalochka328 24 күн бұрын

Hey hey hey so if you experience more shedding when starting finasteride that is a good thing it means that is working it is getting rid of the hair with the weak folicles that were about to fall to replace them with stronger hair, don't do the mistake of stopping it now

@itaydahan1 4 ай бұрын

It's very dangerous, it ruined my life as well after I stopped taking the medicine

@davgondos6676 3 ай бұрын

Why if i may ask?

@elfmancheetoz2569 Жыл бұрын

it inhibits a major neurosteroid precursor which inevitably leads to post finasteride syndrome in all of its users to differing degrees. Whether the depression from balding is worse than the depression from this neurosteroid inhibition is up to the individual to decide in my opinion

@strangerthings88 10 ай бұрын

Even at .25 mg?

@chrisladouceur4093 8 ай бұрын

That’s a load.

@whoareyou6854 7 ай бұрын

Definitely not true . Maybe a very small portion of people but definitely not everyone.

@hfud11 4 ай бұрын

@@whoareyou6854 damages are underestimed

@asdasd-os5vk Жыл бұрын

Oh yes.

@catface101 Жыл бұрын

Finasteride depletes neuronal pregnenolone. Low neuronal pregnenolone levels are seen in postpartum depression and MDD. 5AR inhibitors block the synthesis of this corticosteroid. I respect you and your work here doctor but I don't think oral medication is worth the risk of severe depression - which if you're seeking treatment for MPB you'll probably have low self-esteem and mood anyway. Topical is the only thing I would personally trust.

@Mo_ducky Жыл бұрын

Well there are people who have been using it for more than 5 years they haven't experienced depression or any other side effects . It doesn't cause depression it increases it if u already have it

@MorawskiGRK Жыл бұрын

I take it and have absolutely no issues. I was scared at first but in the end I realized that people on the Internet are not the best source of information lol

@TopiHamalainen Жыл бұрын

ok mr doctor

@jeanne-marie1186 Жыл бұрын

With all due respect, it is going to be very unlikely that encounter “severe” unipolar depression as a side effect of this alone. Most cases of MDD in later life are going to be greatly in due in part to social and psychodynamic factors, or, very commonly actually, due to traumatic life events such as bereavement. MDD ( non-recurrent ) is, after all, an acute episodic disorder ( not the case for recurrent mdd ) with a good chunk of the human population going to experience at least one episode of if throughout their lifetime. Major depressive disorder along with all the mood disorders are very complex conditions and finasteride by itself is not going to cause severe major depressive disorder. It does come off as dramatized on your part. we are not saying it can’t contribute to it, it shows that it can especially in those with a predisposition, but saying you’re going to have “severe” depression because of finasteride, something like MDD with melancholic features, or that it’s going to cause a depression that is going to cause heavy dysfunction comparable to severe presentations of MDD or any other type of unipolar depressive disorder is simply a flat out exaggeration. Remember, MDD has levels of severity, ranging from mild and moderate to severe enough to cause psychotic features.

@Step74776 Жыл бұрын

True. Fina is a poison