I’m Worried About Initial Shedding from Finasteride

June 24th, 2010 admin

Hi there, Thanks for this blog it really is so helpful to many of us! I am 24 and definitely going bald, all the men in my family on both sides have MPB. Although I am going bald, at the moment I am hiding it pretty well with what I have but it’s getting to the point where I can’t hide it any longer, so I plan on going on Finasteride in the hope I can conserve what I have. My only concern is that I have heard some awful stories about


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