I think the site is fine even if it hasn’t been updated. It saved me personally a lot of headaches reading about others’ experiences with finasteride. I knew what to expect and that’s a big relief. I didn’t need to have my blood levels checked to know that even if they were normal I would still have lasting side effects.
I do think that some of the attitudes around here to change though. Hair loss isn’t just a cosmetic disease, a lot of people who go bald early when they’re young also get enlarged prostate issues, I’m in my 20’s with an enlarged prostate and every prostate drug out there is an androgen inhibitor. The only safe treatment for it seems to be Cialis, it has its own side effects which puts some people off using it but I’m not aware of it having permanent side effects. But if Cialis doesn’t work for you what are you supposed to do then? When I see posts here of people having kids and saying “We shouldn’t have taken this drug when we already had girlfriends” or that guy who said his kids were healthy when he had them post PFS. It makes me realize the attitude is no better than the pro-fin people who disregard people who have side effects. You’re passing on this disease when you have children that are male. It’s as bad as the parents who let their kids take accutane. Yeah finasteride ruined your life but you keep ruining your children’s lives too. My father doesn’t have hair loss or prostate issues, but my maternal grandfather did and here I am decades later down the family the tree suffering because of their negligence.