A popular hair loss drug destroyed my ex-husband’s sex drive — and ended our marriage

A bestselling writer has shared a heartbreaking communicative astir really a celebrated hair nonaccomplishment drug led to nan demise of her ex-husband’s sexual function — and their marriage.

Speaking precocious connected nan podcast “Moral Medicine,” Thammika Songkaeo said she noticed they had nary emotion life to speak of while they were still dating.

Her then-boyfriend told her that it was because he had taken Propecia — nan marque sanction of finasteride, which is commonly utilized to dainty hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment successful men. One of nan imaginable broadside effects is intersexual dysfunction.

At nan time, she thought it was conscionable a impermanent rumor — aliases that it would only beryllium a problem intermittently.

“I did not astatine each recognize that it was permanent, superior [and] devastating,” she said.

They sewage joined and stayed together for 7 years, pinch Songkaeo convincing her ex to return an erectile dysfunction supplier to amended intimacy.

The mates welcomed a daughter, but Songkaeo’s loneliness worsened.

Ultimately, she decided to locomotion distant from nan sex-starved marriage.

Noting that her ex was a awesome partner extracurricular of nan bedroom, they remained awesome friends — and Songkaeo went connected to constitute a caller astir her experience, “Stamford Hospital,” which became a No. 1 bestseller connected Amazon Singapore.

Now, she’s trying to dispersed nan connection not only astir really post-finasteride syndrome (PFS) — a information successful which personification experiences terrible broadside effects aft they extremity utilizing finasteride — affects its victims, but besides nan ones they love.

“The extent of nan loneliness I felt was to nan constituent wherever I, myself, was becoming suicidal aliases having suicidal thoughts,” Songkaeo said.

“I had to telephone nan termination hotline because it became that bad for maine — and, usually, I’m a beautiful happy person.”

She questions nan morals of distributing a supplier that tin person specified perchance devastating consequences.

“Finasteride has nan capacity to dissolve 1 personification truthful overmuch that it becomes this domino effect…there’s conscionable truthful overmuch demolition astir it — and it feels for illustration unnecessary destruction,” she said.

Songkaeo was interviewed by podcast host Mark Millich, who made headlines earlier this twelvemonth by telling the Wall Street Journal that he knowledgeable debilitating broadside effects aft buying finasteride.

Some of his broadside effects included anxiety, dizziness and slurred speech. His activity thrust besides plummeted, and his genitals shrank and changed shape.

Millich previously interviewed a 28-year-old man who reported a roller coaster of broadside effects owed to PFS, including intersexual dysfunction, insomnia, terrible weight and musculus loss, tegument rashes and pelvic pain.

“Every month, I consciousness for illustration there’s a caller broadside effect,” nan man said. “It’s really changed my life completely.”

In April, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about topical finasteride products distributed by telehealth companies, citing respective reports of adverse events specified arsenic erectile dysfunction, anxiety, suicidal ideation, encephalon fog, depression, fatigue, insomnia, decreased libido and testicular pain.

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