Hello. Would be glad to hear your opinions. Little background- 25, male, no deficiency on any vitamin and testosterone came high on the blood tests, although it might be not accurate because hair loss drugs increases free T. I’m experiencing low T symptoms: fatigue, general weakness, and brain fog from using Ru58841. Do you think it would be wise to start TRT alongside the Ru58841 to counter those symptoms? Thanks.
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Not at your age; particularly considering your blood test results (would be better to determine this with actual blood tests posted). How’s your sleep? Diet? Are you under a lot of stress? I would address all of these before considering exogenous T.
Moreover, it’s probably not the smartest decision to be using a compound that has only ever been tested on mice with human skin-grafts and 10 monkeys, but I imagine you already know this. Curious why you chose the scientifically unproven method instead of Finasteride + Rogaine.
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Ru58841 has shown antiandrogen activity in animals, so androgenlevels can be optimal and symptoms present because you lose the ability to process the androgens.
This is where the symptoms come from. If I were you I would stay away from hair loss drugs!
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I have used finasteride before Ru58841. my penis shrunk and i had bad insomnia even with micro dose.
Finasteride is an endocrine disruptor and some of the worst cases of PFS see an increase (double and even tripling) in Total T and Free T.
DHT is needed for so many functions (skin, sexual health, brain) within the body, it’s insane to me that anyone would consider taking such a drug knowing how important this hormone is to the body.
If you have PFS, no level of androgens may fix the problem because of the loss of ability to use these hormones, which might explain why these hormones increased in the first place.
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No. Did you check prolactin levels?
So how to maintain the hair
Yes. Came normal as well
Outside of development (adulthood), which functions specifically are dependent on DHT?
I will say perhaps the sexual health in regards to libido. My libido was so high when I first started Finasteride, that it was honestly too much. It has leveled out to back to normal TRT level in the last couple months, but my dick was honestly getting sore from sex and whacking the first month or so on Finasteride.
You can try special shampoos to help regrow hair.
This shows finasteride is an endocrine disruptor and how you are playing with fire and some actually get burned.
It will be interesting to see if anything happens to the guys on finasteride long-term with no symptoms as of now.
The long-term studies are clear. Finasteride also hides prostate cancer and is also associated with an increased risk of high-grade prostate cancer.
TRT disrupts the endocrine system (a lot).
That PFS has never occurred in any well set up study. That those that got side effects on Finasteride no longer had any side effects after a month or so of ceasing the drug.
It is also interesting that many guys over a course of time develop ED or low libido with no drugs being used. Kinda at about the same rates as the ones claiming PFS out of the total amount of users of Finasteride. Maybe they have low T, depression, etc.
There are long term studies on people taking Finasteride and it doesn’t look good.
The issue here is long term lots of guys get sexual issues on their own. Sorting out which ones are directly caused by Finasteride isn’t an easy thing to do, especially since the rates of naturally occurring sexual dysfunction are very close to those of guys taking Finasteride long term.
I don’t dispute some guys get sexual issues when starting Finasteride. Most of those who get sides on it initially say that after a month of so of taking it consistently that the sides went away. The ones that get persistent sides while on it, have the sides go away after about a month of stopping the drug.
It just doesn’t make sense that if lower DHT caused you side effects, that stopping the drug that lowered DHT and allowing your DHT to come back to normal wouldn’t make those sides go away over time.
There are studies that suggest all sorts of things. There are studies saying TRT causes prostate cancer. The size and methodology of the study matters. The studies that are unbiased (not paid for by PFS foundation), and have large sample sizes do not suggest PFS is a real thing. PFS is an unproven assertion.
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Dr. Rob Kominiarek puts guys on TRT and high dosing, some temporarily when wanting to come off finasteride, so the DHT receptors don’t atrophy due to crashed DHT levels.
Then they come off once the drug is out of their system. Some guys don’t get p f s until after they stopped the drug.