Note to New Users

General Discussion
#1

If you are new to this site and are experienceing some of these side effects, please take this site seriously. Dont scare yourself, just protect yourself from getting worse. I didn’t when I first had symptoms and now things have gotten worse and I’m not sure exatly why.

When I stopped Propecia, I started other hair loss treatments (Nizoral, tee tree, laser comb) and didn’t really change my lifestyle. So if you have recently experienced side effects, stop all your hair loss treatments until you are sure that you have recovered. Exercise, eat healthy, and maybe try some sort of body cleanse right away.

Regreting that you took propecia is bad enough but regretting that you took other treatments that may have made things worse is even more difficult to deal with.

*Mew I think it would be helpful to have a link for new users that explains what other treatments can make side effects worse. Another one I discoverd after searching on this site is that my multi vitamin contains Saw Palmento.

#2

UGH… thank you for this post - I just realized that the multivitamin I’ve been taking for the past two months or so had 100mg Saw Palmetto per serving. Fortunately, it also turns out that I was only taking 1/3 of the serving amount. Time to switch either way.

I wonder what kind of effect this will have/was having… :imp:

#3

While I agree with your point to a certain extent, I also think it’s important not to scare guys. You’re going to find good and bad for every single drug out there, so you have to be responsible about the information you say here. Becoming obsessive is just going to exacerbate ongoing side effects and stifle recovery.

For example, sghcnt, I wouldn’t worry too much about the saw palmetto. There’s one reported case on here by kermangd about Saw Palmetto’s persistent side effects. And he took what, almost 700 mg of Standardized Saw Palmetto every day for 8 months straight? You’re taking 100 mg of Saw Palmetto mixed in with a lot of other crap and I’m even skeptical how effective its dose is. Compared to an individual, standardized Saw Palmetto gel cap, the potency is the difference between night and day. I seriously doubt it’s had any adverse affects on you.