I can’t see him being connected to Merck. He’s actually a good guy, very approachable and will at least listen to what you have to say (or so he says anyway). He’ll tell you he assesses things on a case by case basis.
The key thing i always tried to emphasise with them was the crash i had 3 weeks after stopping the drug. Which is the timeline quoted on this website and seems the most common point at which we crash. You can mention that’s when DHT is returning to our bodies.
You can describe the very obvious side effects when we crash, which i would say is: the sudden shrinking and desensitising of genitals, the disconnection from genitals, erectile dysfunction, the brain fog, inability to sleep, inability to piss properly, the weird draining feeling that seems to last for hours and fatigue.
And then if you refer him to propeciahep.com, this is pretty much the exact set of events experienced by hundreds/ thousands of people on this site. I just don’t think he would ever bother about reading this site. If he did i just can’t see how he could not recognise this problem a genuine.
When i asked him about the MHRA he said something along the lines of ‘they must be sitting there pretty smug with themselves because i’ve told them about these patients coming to my office every week’.
He also recognises that the 2% quoted by Merck as the number of users that will be affected by erectile dysfunction while on the drug, is more like 20%.
He does give up some of his time for free and will even go for a beer with you.
That’s what so frustrating, that he’ll listen to you but then you feel he hasn’t really listened to you. In the end you feel like if it isn’t a documented illness that can be measured by his hormone tests, then the illness doesn’t exist.
But i very much doubt he has any interest in Merck, he’s only got an interest in his own methods as the King of Endocrinology in the UK.