What are the side effects of Proscar?
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is, Proscar’s most common side effect isn’t threatening to your health. The bad news is, it’s most common side effect is threatening to your sex life! At hairloss doses, less than 2% of individuals using Proscar experience sexual problems such as impotency when they first use Proscar. Usually even in this small percentage, the problems are temporary and go away after a while, however, they will stop is treatment is stopped. The cause of this problem is that the way Proscar works is by reducing certain male hormones in your body which enlarge the prostate and also cause hairloss. The fluctuation in male hormones when first taking Proscar can cause sexual problems since male hormones are what controls sex drive. However, the primary sex hormone that is reduced is not a primary hormone for sex drive, so permanent and long term sex problems should not occur. Another side effect may be a reduction of male hormone related hair, such as hair on th
