Finasteride: Hair loss drug was 'biggest mistake of my life'
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Some online sites prescribe a potentially risky hair loss drug without consistent safety checks, BBC finds.

I have considered this drug in the past but I thought the expense and the side effects would make it not worth it. Looks like maybe it is indeed not worth it, given how bad the side effects can be.

  • RobotToasterEnglish
    111·
    3 days ago

    James Davies, RPS director for England told BBC News: "It’s really important that regardless of whether it’s online or face to face, these thorough checks are taking place.

    “That means that a full medical history is taken, there’s an opportunity to understand the medication that may be prescribed, the side effects, the risks and the benefits.”

    Unless it’s available on the NHS, it’s inevitable that people will take shortcuts to save money. The NHS doesn’t generally take men’s health seriously though.

    • tankplanker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Its availability of treatment as well for mens health. TRT thresholds that the NHS applies to men are insanely low, almost like they do not want to spend the money rather than provide actual benefit to people with low test. Its pretty bad as the threshold for women to get HRT is almost non existent and its just given out without further tests.

      While I think TRT should only be issued once tested it should be at higher thresholds as it solves so many other issues. However like the new weight loss drugs we do not give the NHS enough money to stick it on prescription for everybody that would benefit from it, particularly as both are likely to be very long term to whole life treatments.

      • HelloThere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Er, male pattern baldness, and men’s hair loss in general, is caused by high T levels, not low, so TRT is irrelevant.

        • tankplanker@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          20 hours ago

          Low T also causes hairloss…

          Also, I used the difficulty in getting TRT when HRT is so widely available as a perfect example of how much harder it is to get medication for men from the NHS.