Male pattern baldness Make Low Libido?

KOMPAS.com - When women feel insecure when the stomach or large thighs, men also have a feeling insecure against some of its parts. For example, around the head and hair. They were most confident baseball when his hair started thinning or balding. Different ways to maintain a "crown" was also performed.

But now men are faced with a dilemma: mending the head to be bald, or loss of sexual desire? Therefore, a new study shows that men who do care for the hair loss it will also decrease libido. The study, published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, said, 5-23 percent of men taking the drug finasteride (Propecia or so-called) could experience impotence, low libido, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, and inability to orgasm.

These symptoms are also said to still be held after the treatment is stopped. It is known that after Dr. Michael S. Irwig from George Washington University medical school interviewed 76 men aged 21-46 years. He tried to find out whether the symptoms they experienced at least three months persisted after no longer take the drug. Apparently, some men even experience this effect up to 10 years!

A number of participants also reportedly began to experience this problem after taking the drug within a few days. On average, men who are taking the drug for 28 months will have libido problems is for 40 months. Unfortunately, when a man stops taking the drug, hair loss will occur again. While libido will not quickly recover.
Evidence that these drugs do give unpleasant side effects that, in Britain and Sweden finasteride was given a warning label. Even so, keep in mind also that the respondents are involved in the study were not taken at random. The researchers selected them from a site that specifically addresses the problems with finasteride.

Well, now living a compromise between you and your partner. Better to look bald, or loss of sexual desire for a long time? It was hell, better ask him to shave his hair bald just like Chris Daughtry or Bruce Willis.
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