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Finasteride: First report of acute pancreatitis: case report
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/adis/rea/2001/00000001/00000849/art00027
-- anyone have access to this?


Acute pancreatitis possibly related to finasteride.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=11246366&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
-- anyone have access to this?


Drug-induced pancreatitis
http://www.pharmacists.ca/content/cpjpdfs/nov_dec06/DrugInduced_Etookhy.pdf
-- See page 2, lower right of table under "miscellaneous" category... Finasteride is listed.


Proximal Migration of a 3 French Pancreatic Stent in a Patient with Pancreas Divisum: Suggested Technique for Successful Retrieval
http://www.joplink.net/prev/200503/10.html
-- "The patient had been using finasteride daily for the prior 3 years but no other medications, over-the-counter products, herbs or supplements."

Here is another article detailing increased risk of pancreatitis in Proscar users:
http://journals.lww.com/jcge/Abstract/2004/03000/Risk_of_Acute_Pancreatitis_in_Users_of.15.aspx

Wow, thank you for posting this... I have been having upper right abdominal pain and all along I have thought it was my liver, though the doctors seem pretty certain my liver is fine (though only based on bloodwork -- no ultrasounds or CTs yet), but nobody has thought to check my pancreas.

Still, it sounds like pancreatitis is more an annoyance than a life-threatening condition, which would be good news compared to some scary alternatives (like cancer)

Also... something to consider:

http://www.joplink.net/prev/200409/06.html

Pancreatitis can be caused by excess estrogen (by raising triglyceride levels), which it seems pretty certain is the cause of a lot of the symptoms we are reporting...

Basically, it looks like Propecia is basically a pill that turns you into a eunuch (by the way... eunuchs never went bald)