One of the first times I got finasteride from the pharmacy (in the UK it's marked prominently on the box '"FOR USE BY MEN ONLY") the 20 something male assistant marched up to the counter with the box of medication in his hand and loudly asked me if my doctor had prescribed the right medication whilst pointing to the bold warning on the box. At this point he had drawn the attention of most of the people waiting in line for their turn.
When I told him that it was the right medication, he asked me, right in front of the line of people, if I was having a sex change!
I told him, calmly and with as much dignity as I could scrape up off the floor, that I wasn't having a sex change and that, thanks to a medical condition, I probably had more testosterone in my blood than he had in his. He turned an impressive shade of deep crimson and, if my wish comes true, his penis will have fallen off by now.
I also sent a howler of a complaint letter to the store manager and changed to another pharmacy. |