I feel that the worst part of PFS was reading all the scary web pages/blogs that keep reiterating 'irreversible', 'permanent', 'for life' side effects. Almost all of us part of swolesource first hit, and read through ph.com for weeks to months before coming here. One of the biggest reasons for this is that the words I'm currently writing dont show up in google, as apposed to other blogs they do, the keywords show up in googles search term. This has to be changed. If we change this, there are lives that literarily can be saved, (people commit suicide) as the biggest thing you need here is 'hope'. PH.com was designed for pre-finasteride, not post, I believe thats why we are seeing the most negative comments ever there, and they remove users who claim to be recovered, since their goal is to prevent users from taking it, and it does a great job at that.
I have seen a top PFS doctor before coming to this site, and he has written a research study on this, and even he says 50% of PFS patients are simply just to depressed, once given anti- depressants they come out of it.
alan jacobs md's blog
This is the only non-negative blog there is on PFS out there in the whole world. - Thats a powerful statement.
If I would have found this site before PH, I could have suffered a lot less.