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Hims bugs me a lot with these compounded all in one masculinity drugs. We don’t know the effects of mixing the timing of these drugs in one shot.

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Hims strikes me as a giant liability lawsuit just waiting to happen. The things they are selling should never be advertised/sold that recklessly. All they're doing is playing on folks insecurities and potentially giving them serious medical issues down the line due to their willful negligence with prescribing/distribution

Truly I think male pattern baldness drugs are poison and hims is probably a net negative for society at this point.

Which?

The one (and only) time I filled a prescription for propecia a couple decades ago, one of the warnings said something akin to: pregnant women should not even touch a broken propecia capsule due to the risk of birth defect.

After that, I decided to just allow nature to take its course on my hairline.

> The one (and only) time I filled a prescription for propecia a couple decades ago, one of the warnings said something akin to: pregnant women should not even touch a broken propecia capsule due to the risk of birth defect.

Lots of drugs are bad for pregnant and/or nursing women. Propecia is not particularly special in this regard, nor is it especially dangerous compared to all the other drugs out there which are also bad for pregnant women.

"Do not handle" is a warning for topical formulations, just because those are intended to be absorbed transdermally.

I got finesteride from them and used it for a couple months. Stopped taking it and my nuts ached for almost 2 weeks.

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