Help me in moon face caused by Propecia

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#1

HI guys ,

I am glad that I am here to get the best answer for my side effects cause by Propecia.

I am taking Propecia for almost 5 year 1 mg per day. The moment I started taking this I felt my face stores more fat, but I did nt take it as serious issue but after a year I noticed my face became round and my facial bone was not visible, but I was not ready to stop taking this because it gave good hair and shredding also stopped completely.

BUt now I wanted my old face back. I stopped taking this drug ,it is almost a month now. I suspect moon face is due to adrenal insufficiency so daily I am taking hydrocortisone tablet 30 mg and gradually reducing the dose weekly by 2.5 mg, now it been 2 weeks but I don’t see any changes in facial face.

Cortisol is the only thing which will give Cushing syndrome. My Cortisol morning sample is 18.7 i think is quite higher so i am taking hydrocortisone but still i don’t know if i am in right track …

so please help me in reduce fat in face

Please help me in this. Please check below for test report of my blood work out.

1.Below is my Cortisol test result

Immuno Assay : Cortisol - Morning Sample (Serum/CMIA)
Observed value Biological : 18.7
Reference Interval : 3.7 - 19.4 mg/dl

  1. Below is my Tyroid test :

Test Description
Immuno Assay : Free T3 (Serum/CMIA)
Observed value Biological : 2.96
Reference Interval : 1.71 - 3.70 pg/ml

Immuno Assay : Free T4 (Serum/CMIA)
Observed value Biological : 0.92
Reference Interval : 0.89 - 1.76 ng/dl

Immuno Assay : T S H (Serum/CMIA)
Observed value Biological : 0.85
Reference Interval : 0.35 - 5.50 mg/dl

Total Testosterone (Serum/CMIA)
Observed value: 1,265.83
Biological Reference Interval :142.39 - 923.14 ng/dl

E2 - Estradiol (Serum/CMIA)
Observed value : 37

Biological Reference Interval : 11 - 44 pg/ml

Thanks in advance guys

#2

have you attended an endocrinologist. I would seek their opinion first. I haven’t heard of anyone else with this symptom but I’m sure others have experienced it.

#3

THanks for your reply bro. Actually the problem is : in my place, no doctor , endocrinologist are aware of this hair loss medicine and it s side effects, only my money is getting wasted. That is the reason why i posted here , hoping to get best solution from experts . I started taking finesteride only after reading in hairloss forum.