sorry to hear that you suffered from sides. Side effects are generally rare though. If you check out the other forums youll see that there is plenty of evidence to suggest that side effects are the rare rather than the norm, but caution is alaways a good thing!
I've been on Propecia for nearly 7 months, I'm in the - hopefully was in the - really early stages of hairloss, receding from the forehead, to the extent where no one has commented that I'm going bald. I've not receded any more in that 7 months so I fairly pleased. I'm lucky in that I've had no side effects so far, but I think it really helps if you buy the real Merck stuff - a good way to check out if you have the genuine stuff is a website called Propeciainfo.co.uk (.com). I've bought my Propecia from this website (Ukmedix) and it is the genuine stuff as they say.
The one thing that taking Propecia has made me do is exercise, as the last thing I want is Moobs (Man boobs) as pointed out by Thomas above. I've also read this could be a side effect so to prevent this I guess you've got to exercise (I run 6 times a week) and am getting back to the same fitness levels I had when I was 21 - that can't be a bad side effect I suppose.
This message was edited by StGermain78 on 7-30-07 @ 3:01 PM