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I started taking pills for it a few years ago. It was ridiculously easy to do. I did it online, it auto-renews, and it's an easy chewable I take every morning.
I think a lot of guys have the impression that hair treatments are bullshit, because for a while there they were. But the new shit works, at least for me.
No side effects or downsides for me. My hairline is just paused, even rewound a little bit.
When I see people complaining about losing their hair to male pattern baldness I'm thinking "just take finasteride" or "why don't you just take finasteride" or "just block the DHT this isn't some inevitable thing and that'd probably help so why don't you just do that?" But I'm not a testosterone enjoyer so I lack their perspective on things
It's not that simple for some men, but for some other men it's exactly that simple. I'm sure I'm a little lucky, but it was such an easy decision for me with no downside.
This the stuff where 2% of users lose their boners, then 2% of that 2% don't get them back once they stop taking it? Nah I'll take the chrome dome.
Which med is that?
Everyone’s risk tolerance is different, but a 99.96% chance that I would not experience irreversible side effects feels like pretty good odds
Do you think maybe there's some kind of demographical overlap between people who take hair pills and people who were going to lose their boners anyway?
the pills are just zinc
Have you noticed a loss on libido? My understanding is that those pills reduce testosterone, which can reduce libido and everything else t does for men.
Definitely not. My libido is as high as it ever was (which is fairly high).
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Ok, but I'm not lying.
Do you think I'm advertising or something? What would be my motivation for lying?
I don't know anything about you or these pills but typically one would tell a "lie" like that as part of their overall campaign to cope. The point isn't to deceive others but to bulwark a worldview that emotionally benefits the person to hold in some way (ie, "I was smart to take these pills, wasn't taken advantage of at all")
Ok, well, no need for me to cope with anything. I'm not being taken advantage of. It's been working for six years.
It also kept tigers away for six years! Personal anecdotes are not meaningful when it comes to something like medical efficacy.
See, the simple fact that you're telling me those things when clearly I don't give a single fuck tends to suggest the contrary, but of course it's not conclusive and again, I don't give enough fucks to actually find out.
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