My story: About 6 months ago started finasteride at the regular 1mg dose.
2 weeks in, painful burning nipples. Noticed lumps a bit after that but who knows, I may have always had lipomas there, but may have been coming out more due to the weight loss. I have lipomas elsewhere on my torso.
Finally stopped after 3 weeks, because it was too painful.
About 3 months after that with hair thinning more every month, I was desperate again. The lumps had mostly gone away, and the pain was no longer there, so I decided to try 0.5mg of finasteride again hoping that my system could cope with that. Made it all of two weeks before the pain came back and I had to stop.
That’s more than 2 months ago now, and the lumps haven’t gone away although they did stop hurting. In the last week though they appear to be getting bigger, and my right breast is VERY painful. My left is also hurting.
I wish to god I’d never touched that horrible stuff and curse my luck at my horrible diffuse thinning and this awful punishment at trying to do something about it. I think the 1 in 200 number for finasteride gyno is a bald faced lie, and it going away in all cases between 2 and 6 months, doubt that very much as well.
Looks like the equivalent of less than 4 weeks of finasteride have given me permanent, painful gyno and I don’t know what to do.
I am getting the lumps looked at by ultrasound but was embarrassed to tell my doctor about my misadventure with finasteride. I am tempted to try nolvadex or something else but after my horrible experience with self-medicating and screwing with my hormones I am deathly afraid of what that might do. I wish I was honest with my doctor, maybe after I get the ultrasound results.
In terms of my hair loss, I am using revivogen now, and although it has not stopped or slowed my shedding after 2 months I am going to stick with it because I am desperate and don’t know what else to do. I even wonder if that could possibly be making the gyno worse, I am just so sick of being worried and in pain.
Can anyone help or share a similar experience? I am glad to be off this poison but this pain is horrible and I want these lumps to go away. It’s probably worse right now than any time when I was on it, except that my nipples aren’t burning (but the lumps underneath are).