How high of doses have people taken?

[GeminiX]

It's fairly common among male to female transsexual prescriptions to block testosterone allowing feminisation to be more effective, and particularly to reduce body hair.

You would need to be suicidal about your hairloss to take this as a hair loss treatment, regardless of how effective it might be.

If anyone is interested, I have some medical information on what blood tests are required on these kinds of medications, my problem is that I in *no way* want to encourage anyone to take these just for hair loss.

I'm pretty sure that if you are someone considering Androcur just for hair loss, then you're probably better off seeking psychiatric support

 

[IBM]

It's fairly common among male to female transsexual prescriptions to block testosterone allowing feminisation to be more effective, and particularly to reduce body hair.

You would need to be suicidal about your hairloss to take this as a hair loss treatment, regardless of how effective it might be.

If anyone is interested, I have some medical information on what blood tests are required on these kinds of medications, my problem is that I in *no way* want to encourage anyone to take these just for hair loss.

I'm pretty sure that if you are someone considering Androcur just for hair loss, then you're probably better off seeking psychiatric support

I've been taking Finasteride and Spironolactone more than one year. I see no difference in body hair.

 

[GeminiX]

Is'nt Androcur considerably more aggressive than spironolactone though? I have a few friends who started on spironolactone then switched to Androcur if they didn't get the desired results with spironolactone.

 

[Bryan]

In early testing of finasteride, volunteers took as much as 80 mg/day for a few months with no problems (I emphasize here that it wasn't part of a hairloss trial, it was just to test the safety of doses that large). So I certainly wouldn't refer to 20 mg as being a "crazy" dose!

Wow, that's interesting. Too bad no actual hair counts were taken. Do you have any opinion as to whether large doses like 80 mg would be significantly more powerful in preventing hairloss not just on the crown but in frontal areas?

I don't really have much of an opinion on that. I would expect it to be slightly more effective, especially if broken-up into more than one dose per day, simply because it would start to approach the kind of DHT suppression that you get when taking dutasteride. But how much more "significant" it would actually be at preventing hairloss, I'd only be guessing.

 

[Bryan]

There is a study with hair count as well, 1mg grows the most, although 5mg did grow more sooner, eventually the 1mg caught up.

Reference or citation, please.