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Joe Tillman says that “Propecia is not as dangerous as people online will have you believe”.
He also says that people who “spread rumours” about Propecia should “just stop” and that Doctors who speak out against Propecia are speaking from a position of “ignorance or greed”.
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I find his videos so cringe.
Did you notice a guy in the comments, David Anderson? He wrote:
Great video Joe, you are such a resource of great information for people loosing their hair.
But the guy has Joe’s photo on his profile. So he created a fake account to compliment himself. What a moron.
The true effects of Propecia are difficult for men to comprehend. If you say it makes your dick shrink or stops you getting an erection then men can visualise and comprehend these actions. If you give men a list of symptoms like tiredness, advanced aging, anxiety conditions they don’t understand then these men don’t build a connection and think that won’t happen to me that will happen to someone else. If you are a young guy then you think you’ll live forever there’s no chance some drug could ruin your life. Now tiredness is not a scary word and constant tiredness is awful to live with but you can’t know this unless you have experienced it yourself day after day. But a man cares about his dick and anything that can mess up his best friend is noticed. Many of the guys who say they won’t take Propecia post that it’s because it can affect their erections, they never say it’s because Propecia can make you permanently tired. I raised these concerns when the Petitions against Propecia started up. The Petitions simply didn’t contain the right wording that people could relate to.
Men will continue to take this drug on mass because the power of vanity and the desire to look good is more meaningful than a video which puts down Propecia. People still trust Big Pharma, they still trust Corporations. People still think the human race is the most important thing on the planet and that Big Pharma would never do anything to hurt them. People still believe that cures don’t exist because they haven’t been found rather than cures don’t exist because there’s little money to be made in them and a whole lot more in treatments.
The people who bang on about Propecia being safe are in some way correct, the % of those who get PFS is so small it belongs in the ‘that will never happen to me category.’ On the flip side the more people who get PFS the more people join these forums, look for cures and fund research through the Foundation. I wonder what % of men who got PFS did so when coming off the drug, I have to wonder what would happen if Propecia was suddenly band tomorrow, would we be facing a pharmaceutical catastrophe as men’s hormonal systems rebounded from the suppression of DHT?
A wise man learns from the mistakes of others, an intelligent man learns from his own and a fool never learns. Very few men who approach the idea of taking Propecia are wise enough to learn from the mistakes of others while the rest of us have been intelligent enough to learn from our own but by then it’s too late.
There is a young man on a cosmetic procedures site that is posting about his positive experiences with finasteride, which in my mind acts as no more than an infomercial for the drug as we all know that it works for hairloss, why provide your own testimony. When I posted a reply to warn both him and others he was actually moderate in his response and conceded that he had been harmed by accutane, but because losing hair in your late teens/early twenties can feel like the end of the world then he was willing to take that risk, even considering his past experience with pharmaceuticals. Young men need support to either accept their hair loss or look for safe management, not be encouraged to mess with their bodies for the betterment of a corporation and a system that doesn’t give a flying fuck about them. I’ve already had another on the same thread quoting fda approved etc. It is a battle.