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No, this is absolutely false. Provide me a valid study. Any one of the persons here claiming finesteride has these side effects, I need a study supporting this
by smittywerben 8y ago
No, this is absolutely false. Provide me a valid study.
Any one of the persons here claiming finesteride has these side effects, I need a study supporting this.
- ekianjo 8y agoHere you go. It's in the label of the drugs these days. https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20120418finasteride.html https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20120418finas...
- brailsafe 8y agoWorth noting that this article does explicitly denounce the existence of a causal link being supported by science.
- ekianjo 8y agoYou would need to do explicit clinical trials to look exactly at that kind of adverse events to prove the link. Nobody is going to do that.
- smittywerben 8y agoThe FDA also uses black-box warnings for antidepressants. It's an association closely tied to a high risk population.
- smittywerben 8y agoDownvote all you want, but this is a classic case of a nocebo. "the group informed about the sexual adverse effects of finasteride reported increased incidence of ED, when compared to the group without information" Ironically, all the fear mongering has made the issue worse. "To date, there is no evidence-based data substantiating the link between finasteride and persistent sexual side effects in the numerous double blinded, placebo controlled studies using finasteride 1 mg for hairloss." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/
- phaemon 8y agoThis is the UK NHS take on it: http://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/hair-loss-drugs-linked-with-erectile-dysfunction/ http://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/hair-loss-drugs-linked-wit...