OK i'm going to tell you guys the whole story as none of my friends know the slightest thing about my medical regimens and they dont know this stuff like the people on the boards do... so please help if you can.
extreme male pattern baldness runs in my family. i asked my dad about what age did he lose his hair and he said "late 20s." At 26, i still have a completely full head of hair but i can sort of feel that it isnt as full as it used to be though not one person in history as commenting that they thought i might be going bald. I had my barber inspect my scalp like a surgeon and he said, "well maybe... just a little." That was all i needed to hear so i talked to my dermo. about "preventative" propecia soon after.
On Feb 15 i begin taking Proscar (divided up into 1/4ths = 1.25mg of Propecia (finasteride) daily. No sexual side effects at all. none. Within a month it seemed like I grew chest hair over night. I've always had hairy arms/legs/private/head but i was noticeably pretty hairless (but definitely NOT bald, just thinner/finer hair) everywhere else i.e. chest/underarms. I don't think many guys get chest hair during puberty around 13 so i guessed that it comes later in life around 25-ish and now was my turn to grow. I did find it weird that it would happen a month into my finasteride since the drug has a side-effect of thinning hair on other parts of your body besides your head. Or the timing of my new chest hair was just a coincidence. The DR. says it takes about 3 months for finasteride to kick in and start working.
Between March 15 and April 15, months 2 and 3 of finasteride treatment, i notice that my gym routine is giving me way better results than what i was previously used to. Not that I was lifting more (and i'm NOT getting any bigger or putting on Muscle Pounds), but my chest area is definitely, and noticeably, more ripped than before to me. However, though it looks "firmer" in the mirror than before, it feels softer to the touch than before. This is weird to me. Before I looked softer but felt firmer. Now I look firmer but feel softer. Cannot explain it.. but i'm generally pleased with the appearance. I chalk it up to the finasteride upping my testestrone levels and it's making my body more cut like a steroid or something. Because I dont have noticeable hair loss, I cant tell if the stuff's working on my head or not... looks the same.
I read hair loss message boards to read about positive and negative side-effects because i am EXTREMELY neurotic about these things.
Now that month 3 is coming to a close, and I have read a ton of panic stories about gyne on the Finasteride boards, and seeing a CNN story about male breast cancer, one Friday night, i'm inspecting my pecs and notice that looking down on them, not in a mirror, there's some NEW droop to my nipples. I look in the mirror and they look normal. I look down, and they look droopy on each side in pretty much equal measure. I squeeze on them as hard as i can and i can feel glandular tissue behind the nipples. I did this test a month prior and did not feel anything. I am VERY panicked. So much so I called in sick the next day to research it all day long, ending up making myself MORE nervous and neurotic by the minute. I immediately dropped my daily finesteride from 1.25mg a day to about 0.83mg - 1.0mg a day thinking my body might be overly sensitive to the effects.
Additionally, I started having nipple sensations. I dont know if they are just in my head because I have already diagnosed myself, or they are in slight pain because I had just squeezed and proded them every 20 minutes for a whole day and they are now swollen or what. A week later, when i push on them, or pinch them, i dont feel any pain. Yet i can feel a tingle sensation from them. I poke around yet I cant feel where the tingle is coming from. Is it in my head..? or can you feel them growing? I think i remember my nipples itchin around the time i started the finasteride but it could have been before. Not sure. I'm driving myself insane because whereas before I panic over bald, now i panic over breasts.
i am trying to make sense of this before I go overboard. wondering are they growing or not. could it be that i've had them all along and did not notice until i became obsessed with the side-effects of everything? as a kid, i did get pudgy during puberty and always kinda had a fleshy chest but nothing that kept me up wondering. Or could it be that the extra testestrone is... how can I say this and make sense... could it be the testestrone that is making my body more ripped, and revealing my abs better, etc., is peeling away the fat on my pecs that have covered the Gyne all these years and revealing my GYNE gland for the first time? If so, that is fine, and i will sleep easy. I just dont know how i could make sure that is it and that they are not just starting to grow. If it stays like this, I would be perfectly fine with them. Actually, they are kinda sexy, but i dont want them to grow ANYMORE.
Can ANYONE shed some light on this for me? Is this brand new gynecomastia Or is this old gynecomastia that's more visible because extra testestrone has stripped away a lot of pec fat?
i should also mention that i am very mentally unstable about all things health and disease and my mind often creates the symptoms i think i should have. I routinely think i have contracted STD's from the slightest sexual encounter and worry myself to the point of actually having the symptoms. Infection Disease Dr's have routinely told me i dont have anything. i think a lot of us might be like that (with the over-worry), but dont let my neurosis affect your response.... gyne is gyne is gyne, regardless of my mental capacity. from the side my pecs definitely loook more GYNE-y to me.
I'm going for a complete Physical by my GP/internist in August.
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