Propecia Is Not Your Last Resort - It Should Be Your First
When you start noticing signs of male pattern baldness, you can have a miniaturisation study done to confirm it. Personally, I didn’t bother with this. I could tell just fine that my hair loss was male pattern baldness.
When I finally decided I had to do something about my male pattern baldness, it didn’t take me long to find out about Propecia, and how it was the most effective and one of only two ‘proven’ effective baldness treatments.
You know what I did? I ignored this. I kept looking, and looking, and looking. My hair kept on getting worse, and worse, and worse. Eventually, it was months before I finally got on the Propecia band wagon – when things got even worse.
Why did I do this? Why did I wait for so long?
Because the idea that I had to rely on a pill to keep my hair felt too unnatural for me.
But, what a stupid thought: rubbing an onion on my head (ok, I didn’t do this – but you get my point) every day for the rest of my life is just as unnatural… and far less convenient. Minoxidil is far less convenient… and the result is DHT is still not being blocked, and things can only progress: you can’t bail a boat out without plugging the hole first.
Then I thought of possible side effects. Lack of libido, gynecomastasia, depression. I certainly didn’t want those things.
Then I thought, what a fool…
The fact is, each of these side effects (if you get them at all, and only approximately 1% of people experience any of them) are completely reversible upon stopping Propecia. What did I have to lose in trying?
I’ve now been on Propecia for around 4 months in a couple of weeks. It’s very early in the game so far as results go, but I have no signs of side effects so far.
Yes – I jumped on the Propecia bandwagon, and I’m glad I did.