Recent content by LaboratoryRat

No, I'm trying to understand. And the people who will stumble across this thread in the future will be just as confused as me if you claim that finasteride doesn't lower blood DHT, when in common knowledge that's what happens, and it's the cause of side effects when they happen. Or at least most...

Farmacia Parati and H&W say it's different because they use special silicones that make finasteride stay on the scalp, but they've only been tested in vitro at University of Milan as far as I'm aware. Are we talking about the one from H&W and Farmacia Parati? I'm not disagreeing with you but I...

Thank you for sharing your experience. How bad are your sides on 0.5 and 1 mg Propecia? If you stopped RU and only took 1/4th of the topical finasteride gel, would that be useless? Do you think the gel is still a good alternative? Tbh I don't know what to do anymore. LabRat

Ok I will do a PSA test aswell. Why do I need to test all the other hormones though? And how do I read the results? I mean how do I know that it's time to stop and that I should not continue the treatment? Have you done research on this finasteride gel by farmacia Parati or have any anecdotes or...

Will do Why is it useless to measure blood DHT? People want to know if the topical finasteride lowers DHT levels only in the scalp or also in the whole body, where it's needed. It's the whole point of topical finasteride.... from my understanding all sides effects are due to the fact that finasteride...

Hello there, I've been lurking on this forum for some time now and today I decided to post. I am a 22 year old guy living in Europe, and it's been a while since I've noticed that I've been losing my hair at a fairly bad rate. I've been lurking on this forum, french forums and italian forums...