Hi,

Thank you for posting the query,

Thats a interesting question you have asked.

I went through the article you had posted with great interest .
It does talk about persistence of erectile dysfunction after discontinuation of treatment with Finestride.
Other than this there have been few regulatory agencies who have reported the same .
But I would also like to share one of the literature I recently read(by journal of american academy of dermatology) which said that the incidence of sexual dysfunction is more in patients who were already aware of such side effects and thus psychological reason also comes to play in such situations.

So this would mean that there is no one reason for such side effects ,but there are other adjoining reasons also which may lead to sexual dysfunction.

I've been prescribing this medicine for last 12 years for male pattern hair loss and in my clinical experience ,I have not come across any patient complaining of persistence of sexual dysfunction after discontinuing the medicine.Even though I have had patient with similar problems during the course of medicine.
Basically these side effects are temporary (if at all seen) and this is what we convey to our patients while counselling.

Having said all this I leave it to the patient to decide whether they want to take it or not.

Hope I have answered your query. Should you have additional concerns regarding this issue I would be happy to address them.

Regards,
Dr.Bharat chawda

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