Finasteride-induced Pancreatitis

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#1

Finasteride: First report of acute pancreatitis: case report
ingentaconnect.com/content/adis/rea/2001/00000001/00000849/art00027
– anyone have access to this?

Acute pancreatitis possibly related to finasteride.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=11246366&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
– anyone have access to this?

Drug-induced pancreatitis
pharmacists.ca/content/cpjpdfs/nov_dec06/DrugInduced_Etookhy.pdf
– See page 2, lower right of table under “miscellaneous” category… Finasteride is listed.

Proximal Migration of a 3 French Pancreatic Stent in a Patient with Pancreas Divisum: Suggested Technique for Successful Retrieval
joplink.net/prev/200503/10.html
– “The patient had been using finasteride daily for the prior 3 years but no other medications, over-the-counter products, herbs or supplements.”

Here is another article detailing increased risk of pancreatitis in Proscar users:
journals.lww.com/jcge/Abstract/2004/03000/Risk_of_Acute_Pancreatitis_in_Users_of.15.aspx

#2

Wow, thank you for posting this… I have been having upper right abdominal pain and all along I have thought it was my liver, though the doctors seem pretty certain my liver is fine (though only based on bloodwork – no ultrasounds or CTs yet), but nobody has thought to check my pancreas.

Still, it sounds like pancreatitis is more an annoyance than a life-threatening condition, which would be good news compared to some scary alternatives (like cancer)

#3

Also… something to consider:

joplink.net/prev/200409/06.html

Pancreatitis can be caused by excess estrogen (by raising triglyceride levels), which it seems pretty certain is the cause of a lot of the symptoms we are reporting…

Basically, it looks like Propecia is basically a pill that turns you into a eunuch (by the way… eunuchs never went bald)