Female Post-Finasteride Syndrome: It’s Not Just A Man’s World
Fiuk et al., 2016
“Female PFS represents a small but real subset of finasteride-related long term adverse outcomes. Further investigation of etiology and potential treatment is crucial for this devastating syndrome.”
Through obtaining finasteride-related adverse events catalogued by the FAERS reporting system between April 2011 and October 2014, Fiuk et al. identified 105 women with finasteride-associated adverse events following use.
Symptoms included dry eyes, sleep disturbances and suicidal ideation as well as hearing loss, renal failure, urosepsis, new incidences of breast cancer, haemorrhagic diathesis, and temporal lobe epilepsy.
They concluded female PFS patients represent a small but real subset of long term finasteride-related adverse events, and that further etiological investigation of this devastating syndrome is crucial.
