My experience with Finasterid subject of article in Daily Mail of 23rd July.
Male age 85
In 2002 I was prescribed Finasteride to shrink my enlarged prostate. After a few weeks, I was alarmed to find I had breasts growing which were painful around and under my nipples. On consulting my GP she said to me yes we get young girls also complaining of similar pains. I stopped taking Finasteride and all appeared to go well, no pain and my breasts did not increase in size.
In late autumn 2018 I had a change of medication for my prostate and I again had pains in my breasts, my wife commented that my breasts were growing again. I consulted my GP and I was fast tracked to hospital to see a breast surgeon. I had mammograms and other tests and was told that no sign of breast cancer but if the pain continued to take Tamoxifen tablets for 3 months but first to wait to see if pain went away.
I January of 2019 my GP gave me a prescription for Tamoxifen, which I started taking. Within a month, I was starting to become very ill. As these problems appeared to be associated with my taking Tamoxifen I immediately stopped taking them Nothing specific but by the end of February I was suffering so much I consulted my GP and after blood test I was immediately sent to Hospital with fluid retention I suffered with all the possible side effects of Tamoxifen including bleeding in my bladder and after a while alarmingly my eyesight started failing, my optician found I had cataracts in both eyes which were rapidly increasing. No sign of these cataracts were found during routine eye test in August 2018. All my problems and subsequent illness due in the main to Finasteride which if I were not allergic to would not have given me breast problems.so no cateracts etc