I appreciate your candour. It’s just that when I am presented with someone who chooses not to do the survey I feel that I have to in turn try and convince you otherwise. Even if you don’t believe in it I and others would appreciate it a lot if you did it. Our lives are filled with stuff we don’t like doing for numerous reasons, whether it’s because we have to get paid, or just to help out a friend. A lot of our lives is also given away to frivolities like watching the telly, or the mundane essentials like housework or flossing your teeth. The survey represents a tiny portion of what makes up our lives, and although mundane, it isn’t unnecessary or frivolous. I’m really sorry that you are so hard on yourself with regards to your choice in taking finasteride. @borax is absolutely right. You cannot blame yourself. All of us to various degrees zoned out the negative. I didn’t pay due heed to the limited side effects which were being acknowledged at the time I started taking it, probably in part because I already had a history of taking anti-depressants which were accompanied by a much more comprehensive list of side effects and which I hadn’t as yet fallen foul of. Call it complacency through a combination of you don’t really believe it unless it happens to you (or that I thought that they listed every which side effect to cover themselves) and also that I hadn’t as yet had my eyes opened to the fact that the drug industry lies and therefore had trust in the prescribing leaflet. You also can’t blame yourself as the drug industry took wholesale advantage of our understandable desire to keep our hair and banked on us making an emotional decision that would overrule any niggles. For that alone it should have been black boxed, but we now know that they manipulated the original data as otherwise for them it would have been a financial non-starter.
You can’t say definitively that there won’t be a cure. Isotretinoin may have been around since the 70s, but the admins here have been active in joining the dots between that and other endocrine disruptors. The survey would act as a jumping off point for future research. Sometimes things move forward because of a lot of accumulative small acts. Even if you don’t do it for yourself, this may help others in the future.
And you and all of use here most definitely deserve a cure.
Would you please reconsider taking the survey?
Thanks.