Very sad story -- CBS Philly News Article & VIDEO: Propecia Suicide - Propeciahelp member :(

Very sad…It comes to a point where a person gets fed up living this lifestyle…Especially at a young age…This condition has been plauging me for almost 9 years…It’s sad that the media is finally realizing how catastrophic the drug is.

I took the drug when I was 20. I was young and very healthy…I’ve submitted a complaint to the FDA a few months after I started having the side effects and they gave me a very lame letter. Merck does not care, and they still do not care. They are going to defend the case “vigorously”, but how can they defend a case when they have changed the label on their drug last month citing of these long term side effects?

Fortunately, if scientists work together and experiment, this is a unique condition that can lead to medical breakthroughs. People on this forum who tried TRT and Clomid/HCG and has high levels of testosterone, thus still suffereing the effects, will motivate scientists to try other types of experiments, to isolate what the problem truely is centered around. Perhaps looking at DHT receptors, GABA Receptors, and Neurotransmitter receptors.

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RIP Randy. He was the same age as me right now, in the same state of mind as me. I think about suicide every single day because of what Proscar has done to my body. My heart goes out to his family… it’s like watching what could have happened if I had done it. It took months of counselling and calling the suicide help line to even begin to try to gain some strength, but the thought will always be there. The pain is unbelievable. The sexual side effects, the physical side effects, the anhedonia… It angers me that my lawsuit can’t include all the other side effects that are just as devastating. But, the exposure and evidence has been only about the sexual side effects thus far. I hope that more studies will be included to show proof of all the other side effects.

The only thing that keeps me going is fighting against Merck in this lawsuit and giving everyone who is suffering a voice they didn’t have.

We have a thread on this in the Law section. It happened about a year and a half ago I recall. Glad this has gotten press because it is a tragedy.

To anyone that is “ineligible” for the lawsuit because they took generic or saw palmetto or whatever, go to any GP, get a script for propecia.
Simple. Now in a few months time say it was propecia that has fucked you up. Now you are eligible.

Everyone of us on this site should be signed up for the lawsuit, so if you are not, do it. If u werent on propecia, get a script. Thats all the evidence you need.

These greedy heartless bastards need to pay badly for what they have done to us.

Maybe to late as the label has been changed … dont know how it works?

I just saw this video for first time today. Wow, really sad. I hope Randy’s family gets justice.

I hope we all do.