Not sure why she offered me oral. Maybe because insurance will cover it.
I started to use minoxidil a long time ago. At the time I was shedding a lot but also greying. I thought I would end up like Clooney but minoxidil foam just sped up the growth cycle. All my my weak wispy and grey hairs fell out. But the growth cycle seemed to accelerate with my remaining hair.
As minoxidil is proven to be absorbed through the skin in decent quantities (from the studies by the company that started Rogaine) you can skip some of the drug side effects by not having it going through the rest of your veins.
This is not the same with finasteride where there isn't a proven study that applying it topical has the same effect (yet).
Is that the one that has ED as a side effect? So you are trading good boners for good hair?
Yes. But my sex drive was declining before I started it anyway. Alcohol certainly didn't help. I discovered that when a stripper was grinding me and she was mildly unamused she had no effect (versus my ex work mate who was having a super reaction to his girl...as reported by his girl). I did a baseline test of all my male and female hormones before I started it. This was in case I needed to figure out what to fix if it all went tits up.
So far I'd say my sex drive is at the level it was going to be without it. I still get nocturnal erections during the night. I don't have any inadvertent breast enlargement. It takes longer to take a piss even though I think this pill was supposed to fix that. But I think it was going to take longer to take a piss even if I didn't take it. I would say any sense of brain fog and lack of attention to details (which Thruth always cites about my article links) is the same as before. If anything cutting alcohol, sleeping more, ditching smoking cloves and recreational drugs gave me back more clarity than abstinence from finasteride. As I'm not a porn star I'm not worried.
I did get a dull testicular pain in the first day or two but it went away. It felt like wearing very tight briefs and being strapped with a seatbelt into a vehicle for hours on end. You can ignore it and there wasn't a need to put a bag of ice on it like someone who throws a baseball into your crown jewels.
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