…Propecia affects the prostate? Isn’t the serum half life of Propecia a few hours? It would make more sense then to do some sort of prostate/semen test, right?
Have a read through the Finasteride Studies section, Finasteride directly affects various blood hormones… Testosterone, Estradiol, DHT, prolactin etc… various neurosteroids (Allopregnanolone, THDOC), GABA-A… nitric oxide… you’ve been around here long enough, you know this already so I’m surprised by this question.
Prostate ultrasound can be done to check size/atrophy, semen analysis for fertility.
As for half-life of Propecia, the drug is LONG gone. Please stop bringing this up, as if it’s “still” in our bodies and is thus the cause of our issues to this day – it’s REALLY starting to get old.
Okay let’s say the drug is long gone, and then a guy recovers a year off the drug. What caused him to recover at that one year juncture?
If we knew the answer to that question we would not be here. Come on man, really.
Your response helped no one. If I knew, I wouldn’t be asking, but maybe someone out there has some insight. The number that keeps popping up for starting to feel better is 6-8 months.
The reason you’re getting vague answers is because it’s a vague question. Nobody really knows how or why this drug affects people long-term, otherwise there would be no ongoing purpose to this forum. Because the whole endocrine system is complex and involves a mutitude of hormones and glands, there’s no single answer for what the key cause is.
Some have gotten over the drug by addressing certain hormone imbalances (supplementing or suppressing), others once they found issues with the prostate, thyroid or the adrenal glands. I really think it’s wishful thinking that someone will eventually discover the “missing link” in what this drug does to people, at least in any simple sense. Deleting one major hormone from the picture for a long period of time can obviously cause havoc all over the place.
As far as the 6-8 month timeline for people having recovery success, I can’t say I’ve noticed that as being a standout number. Anything within three months to three years has been “normal” in the recoveries I’ve seen posted here and elsewhere. In fact, I’d say that two years has been more of a common point of improvement for a lot of guys, especially the ones who suffered adrenal burnout.