I am totally against finasteride. I have had so many patients come to me who that medication has destroyed their life. There’s a Yahoo forum for the finasteride sufferers and there have been several suicides on that forum. For some reason some men have endocrine systems that are all set to get broken. And they take finasteride, even for as short as a week, and they become depressed, weak and impotent. The problem is, when they go off the drug, their symptoms remain.
—Annual Conference of the Age Management Medicine Group: August 2012