Effects of castration on dick size

[wanasoso2]

To be more precise about Finasteride, it reduce the production of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) by inhibiting the enzyme that produce it. DHT if made of course from T and act as an antiandrogenic. DHT is mostly responsible for secondary sexual characteristics as body hair, volume of prostate, consequently volume of seminal fluids. On the other hand it reduce the fall of scalp hair which is nice to avoid baldness. This last goal can be achieve with 1mg a day while 5mg day is you to reduce problem of enlarge prostate. For myself the 1mg a day did a good job for hair loss, with less leg hair, with the ones remaining being much thinner. Seminal fluids are greatly reduce too, to two drops (being vasectomized too) but no ED after two years. But who care when there is no penetrative sex.

[Castor]

You might try looking at Finasteride or Spiranolactone as those have on-label uses other than T-reduction, but have ED as a sided effect...

I can only warn against Finasteride. For years, it was touted as a cure not only for hair loss and enlarged prostate, but also for preventing prostate cancer. However, there are several indications that the drug may prevent harmless cancer (which may not even be cancer at all), but may cause higher-grade cancer. All I'm saying is that the drug is controversial, at the very least, because it directly interferes with the testosterone-dihydrotestosterone regulatory cycle and has significant side effects.

[WheelyFixed]

Thanks for letting us know about the controversial side of Finasteride Castor.

WheelyFixed

[wanasoso2]

It's a good comment made par Castor.
My urologist told me about that, as for my age the probability of prostate cancer is about 1%. With finasteride it can double or triple to 2 to 3% chance. Which is not high per say.
It's true also that there is many studies and some controversy about the consequences of using finasteride and here I found some relevant article for those who could find and interest in the subject.
I think the pdf of those article are accessible for everyone, no need to be link to a university or professional scientific career.

https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-a ... ogin=false

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa030660

https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/ful ... __A.8.aspx

https://aacrjournals.org/cancerpreventi ... sk-of-High

[WheelyFixed]

Thanks for those links wanasoso2. Interesting reads though possibly good insomnia treatments... My non-MD take on them seemed to be that it was somewhat of a mixed bag, that taking Finasteride seemed to reduce the overall risk of getting ANY prostate cancer. However if you did get PCa, it was more likely to be a serious case...

So definitely a trade off on the risks.

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[1smoothguy]

Finasteride was originally developed to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia and marketed under the trade name of Proscar. BPH is a significant enough medical condition of restricting urinary flow that warranted any slight increase in cancer risk since the the treatment would be by a urologist who would be monitoring. One of the side effects of the Proscar treatment was decreased hair loss from male pattern baldness. After extensive clinical trials Proscar was rebranded at a lower dosage and marketed as Propecia. The original interest in this area started in the mid 1970's with clinical trials in the 80's and approval by FDA in the 90's. It has been around and in use for quite a while. Use for BPH, benefit far outweighs risk. For the treatment of male pattern baldness, does vanity outweigh even slight risk? As I develop a small bald spot I'm still weighing that one

Of more interest is what I learned from my urologist. Once I was in my 50's my yearly physical by PCP included the digital prostate exam as well as PSA blood test. When I moved to a new area 10 years ago I learned that primary care docs here only use PSA to gauge prostate health. If you want a physical check you must see a urologist, which I do. The urologist stated that PSA can miss some of the more aggressive forms of prostate cancer in it's initial development but that can be detected better with the digital exam. So as usual if you ask 3 doctors a question you get back 6 different opinions.