I'm not a rat, but short-term finasteride use has impaired my cognition, so I think it's fair to say there's something to this.

'The symptoms of post-finasteride [syndrome] are no joke.'

Robert DW Stevens, MD
The Men’s Health Clinic
Ferndown, UK
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UK issues alert over finasteride's psychiatric and sexual side effects, including those that continue even after stopping the medication.

#pfs #postfinasteridesyndrome

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Total finasteride ADRs in WHO database just broke 20,000 for the first time. #PostFinasterideSyndrome Our epidemiological snapshot here bit.ly/2Cz1xrG

Finasteride destroys the sexual health of another young man.

#postfinasteridesyndrome #pfs #metoopropecia

When you play with hormones there are consequences. Sometimes good. Sometimes devastating.

Finasteride/propecia is no different

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We do not have a one size fits all cure for pfs.

The Economist John Phipps

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Team Melcangi Launches ‘Milano Project’ to Map the Basic Science of PFS so Research Can Move from an Animal Model to Human Clinical Trials #PostFinasterideSyndrome rb.gy/q6tq8m

Finasteride destroys the sexual health of another man.

#postfinasteridesyndrome #pfs #metoopropecia

Would you risk a breakdown to cure baldness? Thousands of men claim that finasteride has given them devastating and long-lasting side-effects #PostFinasterideSyndrome rb.gy/so8xid

'Once PFS comes to your life, your hair is not important to you.”

'If I had to lose all my hair to get my health back, I would do it.”

Carlos saying what every person with #PFS knows and what every person thinking about taking finasteride should know.

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'[Post-finasteride syndrome] is clearly a problem that is important to the general public.'

Giovanni E. Cacciamani, MD
Director, AI Center for Urological Research
Keck School of Medicine, USC
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Insomnia, low libido, depression...

Carlos describes how the persistent side effects of finasteride have left him 'dead inside.'

#postfinasteridesyndrome #pfs #metoopropecia

@moralmedicine

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Yet another important reminder that #postfinasteridesyndrome is more than sexual dysfunction.

#insomnia #metoopropecia

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Search for Sources of Major PFS Symptoms Pinpoints 186 Brain Genes #PostFinasterideSyndrone rb.gy/8arbmt

Always good to see another doctor showing caution with finasteride. The list keeps growing...

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Neurosteroids are potent modulators of GABAA receptors

That gives these molecules a direct anti-anxiety effect by increasing inhibition in neurons

Synthesis of these molecules is directly inhibited by Finasteride, resulting in overall more excitable neurons

Finasteride not

It's a sad state of affairs when prayer is the only option a person has for treating #postfinasteridesyndrome .

'[Post-finasteride syndrome] can be permanent and that’s the scary, scary piece.'

Thomas O’Connor, MD
Internist
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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