Propecia, Liver Deposits, and the Harshness of Winter

December 29th, 2009 admin

Thank you Dr. Rassman for maintaining a wonderful blog and for being a generally nice guy. My history is a bit checkered: Seven Years ago I was told by Dr. Bernstein (another really nice guy by the way) that based on family history I might have diffuse pattern alopecia although only the vertex was thinning. He put me on Propecia and refused to operate till some time passed. The Propecia worked well but I had elevated liver enzymes from fatty liver deposits and stopped it … [ visit site to read more ]


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