Federal US Agent reveals the problems he developed after taking Propecia

Text from the examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/article/ice-agent-ravaged-by-propecia-striiped-of-badge-holds-merck-ceo-responsible

If not for Propecia, Steven Rossello would still be playing a critical role in protecting America against terrorism.

In June 2010, six months after earning special-agent status at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security, he was dispatched to Harlingen, Texas. Armed with a SIG Sauer pistol, M4 rifle and top-secret federal clearance, he spent most nights patrolling the Mexican border.

Among his targets were al-Qaeda operatives being smuggled into the U.S. by Latin drug cartels. Stopping these shadowy figures made for fewer threats to the safety and freedom of Americans from Harlingen to Houlton, Maine. It was a job Rossello took pride in, excelled in, and planned on doing for at least the next two decades.

But today the 29-year-old New York City native sits in a cubicle at the ICE office, stripped of his special-agent title, his badge, and his firearms. His duties have been reduced to running computer checks on suspects and completing paperwork for other agents—while earning $15,000 less per year than he did as a criminal investigator.

Rossello's transformation from a healthy, happy, outgoing young man on the verge of a six-figure income to one whose life was turned upside down by Propecia can be traced back to 2006, when he was completing his bachelor's degree in international politics and business at the State University of New York-Albany.

"I first took Propecia in college, at 22," he tells The Examiner of Merck & Co.'s popular hair-loss medication (generic name finasteride). "But I stopped after using it off and on for three months because I couldn't afford it. And I got hit with anxiety and insomnia, which also played a role in my decision to quit.

The Post-Finasteride Syndrome Foundation

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Propecia victim starts hunger strike in front of Merck headquarters in the United States.

Update: Kevin O'Malley ended the hunger strike on 05/29/2012. He got the attention of some media during the protest. Merck did not comment, but the company asked the police several times to remove him from the area. However, hunger strike is a legal form of protest in the U.S. and the police could not do anything.

A 30 year old man, who claims his life was destroyed after taking Propecia for hair loss, initiated a hunger strike in front of the pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharp & Dohme headquarters in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.

Kevin Malley (baseball hat, pictured), a former public health researcher, flew to New Jersey on May 10th and has not eaten since the 13th. He says it is a protest at the failure of Merck  to recognize Propecia's role as the cause of persistent and devastating sexual side effects, which don't cease after stopping the medication.

"I want to see Merck step up to the plate. Its medicine is destroying lives, and i know that I am only one of thousands of victims worldwide who are suffering" - said Malley.
Parents of another Propecia victim, the emergency physician John Santmann (pictured), and the cardiologist and medical malpractice attorney Rosemary McGeady (pictured),  joined Kevin Malley in the protest. Their son, Randy Santmann, committed suicide in 2008, alleging persistent effects from Propecia which he could not live with.