Propecia, baldness cure, can cause man breasts and sexual dysfunction

[Elmore Furth]

Oh, jeez. Anti-viagra.

A new study announced on January 12 reports that men using the hair loss treatment Propecia may experience some seriously bad side effects: loss of libido, erectile dysfunction, and growth of man breasts.

In addition to Propecia (finasteride), the study cites drugs such as Avodart (dutasteride) as having similar side effects. The new study, currently published online in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, examined drugs belonging to a group called 5a-reductase inhibitors (5a-RIs), which have been approved to treat lower urinary tract symptoms due to enlarged prostate, and may also prevent hair loss. Propecia is one of the drugs approved to treat hair loss examined in the study.

Yet US researchers issue "extreme caution" for those taking these drugs for either hair loss or urinary tract infections, due to side effects such as sexual dysfunction, the development of breast tissue in men, and depression brought by on by these side effects, researchers claim.

"Honest and open discussion with patients to educate them on these serious issues must be pursued prior to commencing therapy," urged study researcher Abdulmaged M. Traish of Boston University Medical Center in a statement. "In some patients, these adverse effects are persistent and may be prolonged and patients do not recover well after discontinuation from drug use."

Hair loss treatment may wreck your sex life

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Wasn't this Propecia shit one of the original salvo of drugs with the STUPID ads?

The ones we hear 53,253,678,207 times daily now, where the list of side effects is mumbled during the whole second half of the ad?

It's been how long now? Almost 20 years?

How time flies....

[DavidDvorkin]

2. One of the advantages of having closed captioning turned on

is that we catch all of those side effects, no matter how the voiceover handles them. The list always amazes us. Whatever the drug being advertised, the potential side effects are horrifying.