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Baldness can make Male Libido Low?

Posted at April 7th, 2011.
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Women will feel insecure when the stomach or large thighs, men also have a feeling insecure against several parts of his body, for example, around the head and hair. They were most confident baseball when his hair started thinning or balding. Different ways to maintain the “crown” was also performed.

But now men are faced with a dilemma: better to be a bald head, or loss of sexual desire? Therefore, a new study shows that men who do the treatment for hair loss turned out to also be decreased libido. The study, published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, said, 5-23 percent of men taking the drug finasteride (or commonly known as Propecia) may experience impotence, low libido, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, and inability to orgasm.

These symptoms are also mentioned will still be held after treatment is stopped. It is known 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 experience persisted at least three months after no longer taking the drug. Apparently, some men even feel the effects until 10 years!

Some 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 experience this libido issue for 40 months. Fuss, when a man stops taking the drug, hair loss will occur again. While libido is not going to quickly recover.

Evidence that this drug indeed provides less pleasant side effects that, in Britain and Sweden finasteride has been given a warning label. However, keep in mind also that the respondents involved in the study were not taken at random. The researchers selecting them from site that specifically addresses problems with finasteride.

So you have to do is to discuss between you and your partner. Better to see him bald, or loss of sexual desire for a long time? It would be better to ask him to shave his hair bald just like Chris Daughtry or Bruce Willis.

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