Low Dose finasteride

[waynakyo]

Guys, who have tried can you share your experience ? I am talking about those who took, 0.5, 0.25, or even 0.1mg a day...

I never thought the day will come when I will consider it, but life is a b***. I am very concerned about side effects. so I was even thinking of dissolving finasteride in alcohol and take it in a way that I would be starting with 0.1mg. and work my way up to 0.5 max.

Where can I do this test that could tell me how much I MIGHT benefit from finasteride ?

 

[dpdr]

I tried 0.5 and 0.5 EOD and I side effects with the two, I recommend you try 0.25 mg, I used 0.25mg for 2 months and I had no side effects

 

[G k]

Same boat man.

I started taking finasteride about 9 months ago. I started with .5, and have never gone higher than that. I didnt get sides for about 7 months then it hit me, my balls started hurting, then my dick went numb. I still remember trying to f*** my GF with a numb dick. lol. I did it but it was no fun for either one of us.

I immediately stopped for 2 days, and I bounced back on day 2 and once again felt the pleasure of the raging male libido and full load.

I have been experimenting ever since. These are my results:

.25: I was still shedding on this dosage but feel it would be better than nothing.

.333: This is a good dosage. Hair was coming in at a good speed, but not the thick, dark fast growing hair of .5. Minimal shedding.

.5: Wow!!! THis is the dosage to see ALL my hair grow back like crazy! My full head of hair turned darker, and the hair was thicker than I ever remember seeing it! Too bad about the sides.

And I might add, this is all to treat frontal hair line, and it worked like a charm.

I am still trying to figure out a way to use the most finasteride I can while avoiding sides. Not sure if it is possible but I suuure look a lot younger when my hair was at its best on finasteride. I remember looking at my hair in the mirror and saying "wow, I barely have any hair loss at all! It would be hard to tell!!"

Now my hair is a lot thicker but I've lost some since I lowered my dosage, but it is still looking waaay better than before I started!

I just got some horny goat weed today. It seems like it will be a very good defense against propecia sides:

http://www.propeciahelp.com/forum/viewt ... 92e78e4366

Actually I just jerked it to "try it out" so to speak, and I had a good ammount of c*m and the orgasm was good!! Its way to early to tell but it seems to work. Also I take a lot of vitamin d(about 6000 iu a day).

Also topical finasteride and dutasteride are of interest, but there isnt enough concrete info for me to add anything else to my regimen.

Hope this helps, I am looking for clues to this mystery as well!

 

[xxenergyxx]

Hi G K ! Thanks a lot for your report, it was really great!

I would like to tell my story with finasteride, and I also appreciate that someone suggest me what to do!

Well, I was scaried about all the side effects' stories I heard about finasteride during the last years, so I decided to start using topical finasteride, expecially because some people though that the sistemical absorbition should be really low compared to take the pill.

I used a topica soluzione of 1% finasteride and suddenly, after just 3 or 4 days, I noticed a difference looking my nipples: the right one looked a little bit swollen.
Anyway I continued the therapy for 2 reasons: 1- I wasn't sure (and I didn't believe) that the cause should be finasteride
2- I thought that I also would have tolerate this problem if it hadn't become worse.

After 4-5 months I didn't look any result with this therapy, I cotinued losing a lot of hair and so I decided to start with 0.5 mg of sistemical finasteride.

Before beginning with it I did a mammal gland's ecography and the response was a phisiological difference of the right gland compared to the left. Just 2 mm difference, and the doctor who made the examination told me it should be impossible that topical finasteride should be the cause, that it should has been just a normal difference.

I begin taking 0,5 finasteride and I noticed that the right nipple continued looking swollen, but I didn't noticed great differences compared to the first month of assumption.

Now, after 4 months I had to stop the treatment: 10 days ago I felt a sort of pain touching the nipple and yesterday I did another ecography.
The mammal gland growed a little bit more and there was also a little fibrolipoma.


Now I will wait that the situation become normal again, but I'm really sad coz just in the last days my hair looked better, thicker, darker...

Reading a new article about lauric and miristic acids against prostate gland growth and about their action against dht, I began using pure virgin coconut oil, hoping this doesn't give me any side effect.

But I also think about start finasteride again (when the mammal gland will reach a normal size again), with a lower dosage (like 0,25 EOD or something similar).

Is here someone who had ginecomasty and using lower dosage didn't have it anymore?

Help me please!!

 

[waynakyo]

where can I do this test to see if I am a good responder to finasteride ? Any of you guys have done it ?

 

[G k]

Hi G K ! Thanks a lot for your report, it was really great!

I would like to tell my story with finasteride, and I also appreciate that someone suggest me what to do!

Well, I was scaried about all the side effects' stories I heard about finasteride during the last years, so I decided to start using topical finasteride, expecially because some people though that the sistemical absorbition should be really low compared to take the pill.

I used a topica soluzione of 1% finasteride and suddenly, after just 3 or 4 days, I noticed a difference looking my nipples: the right one looked a little bit swollen.
Anyway I continued the therapy for 2 reasons: 1- I wasn't sure (and I didn't believe) that the cause should be finasteride
2- I thought that I also would have tolerate this problem if it hadn't become worse.

After 4-5 months I didn't look any result with this therapy, I cotinued losing a lot of hair and so I decided to start with 0.5 mg of sistemical finasteride.

Before beginning with it I did a mammal gland's ecography and the response was a phisiological difference of the right gland compared to the left. Just 2 mm difference, and the doctor who made the examination told me it should be impossible that topical finasteride should be the cause, that it should has been just a normal difference.

I begin taking 0,5 finasteride and I noticed that the right nipple continued looking swollen, but I didn't noticed great differences compared to the first month of assumption.

Now, after 4 months I had to stop the treatment: 10 days ago I felt a sort of pain touching the nipple and yesterday I did another ecography.
The mammal gland growed a little bit more and there was also a little fibrolipoma.


Now I will wait that the situation become normal again, but I'm really sad coz just in the last days my hair looked better, thicker, darker...

Reading a new article about lauric and miristic acids against prostate gland growth and about their action against dht, I began using pure virgin coconut oil, hoping this doesn't give me any side effect.

But I also think about start finasteride again (when the mammal gland will reach a normal size again), with a lower dosage (like 0,25 EOD or something similar).

Is here someone who had ginecomasty and using lower dosage didn't have it anymore?

Help me please!!

Hey,

I would give .25 ED a try. You should be fine. Also I read a lot that the gyno will dissappear after discontinuation. Wait for it to go away and then try again with .25. Maybe start eod, then work up to ed.

 

[xxenergyxx]

Thanks a lot!
I hope I will be able to follow your advise!

Did you also read something about the time it should be necessary before a gyno disappear?

I took 0,5 finasteride just 4 months, so the mammal gland grew just a little bit, it's the beginning of a gyno.

It's really hard to think that you have to accept to going bald and begin shaving. :shakehead:

 

[Brandon Mthson]

For the commenter who's taking 6000 IU daily of vit D, that sounds a bit high.

These are what seem to be the soundest recommendations I've seen:

Conclusion: take 5,000 IU per day for 3 months, then obtain a 25-hydroxyvitamin D test. Adjust your dosage so that blood levels are between 50–80 ng/mL (or 125–200 nM/L) year-round.

4000 IU/day is the normal "best dose" for women and 5000 IU/day for men, but it's the blood levels that really matter, not the dose. Some people only need 1000 IU/day, while others might need 12,000 IU.

Vitamin D Council.org/

Same boat man.

I started taking finasteride about 9 months ago. I started with .5, and have never gone higher than that. I didnt get sides for about 7 months then it hit me, my balls started hurting, then my dick went numb. I still remember trying to f*** my GF with a numb dick. lol. I did it but it was no fun for either one of us.

I immediately stopped for 2 days, and I bounced back on day 2 and once again felt the pleasure of the raging male libido and full load.

I have been experimenting ever since. These are my results:

.25: I was still shedding on this dosage but feel it would be better than nothing.

.333: This is a good dosage. Hair was coming in at a good speed, but not the thick, dark fast growing hair of .5. Minimal shedding.

.5: Wow!!! THis is the dosage to see ALL my hair grow back like crazy! My full head of hair turned darker, and the hair was thicker than I ever remember seeing it! Too bad about the sides.

And I might add, this is all to treat frontal hair line, and it worked like a charm.

I am still trying to figure out a way to use the most finasteride I can while avoiding sides. Not sure if it is possible but I suuure look a lot younger when my hair was at its best on finasteride. I remember looking at my hair in the mirror and saying "wow, I barely have any hair loss at all! It would be hard to tell!!"

Now my hair is a lot thicker but I've lost some since I lowered my dosage, but it is still looking waaay better than before I started!

I just got some horny goat weed today. It seems like it will be a very good defense against propecia sides:

http://www.propeciahelp.com/forum/viewt ... 92e78e4366

Actually I just jerked it to "try it out" so to speak, and I had a good ammount of c*m and the orgasm was good!! Its way to early to tell but it seems to work. Also I take a lot of vitamin d(about 6000 iu a day).

Also topical finasteride and dutasteride are of interest, but there isnt enough concrete info for me to add anything else to my regimen.

Hope this helps, I am looking for clues to this mystery as well!

 

[G k]

Is here someone who had ginecomasty and using lower dosage didn't have it anymore?

Help me please!!

For gynomastia you want to look into taking some supplements. I am not an expert, but from I've read gyno from propecia is do to dominant prolactin. Vitamin B6 is supposed to regulate excess prolactin. Try taking a vitamin B6 supplement. You might find that your diet is otherwise lacking in the vitamins that help regulate some of these hormones that are now being altered by propecia.

http://www.uk-muscle.co.uk/steroid-test ... my-gp.html

You will find most of the gyno info in body building sites. Most of these guys are on steroids AND propecia lol...

Just do some serious reading, but don't jump to any conclusions before you find something that is suitable for oyu to try. There are some hardcore gyno meds out there, I would try some vits first.

I would suggest high dose vit b6(200mg 3 times daily), and if you like you can reduce your propecia dose(it likely wont make too much of a difference to go from .5 to .25 or soemthing like that). Stick with it for a few weeks and see what happens. Everyone is different and can expect different results.

 

[waynakyo]

I was wondering if anyone tried 0.1 mg ? maybe that s quite good for hair with less sides ... ???

 

[Mopless]

Well, 0.05 mg finasteride reduces DHT about 50%. So 0.1 mg in theory should still be affective. Now getting one that mg size? You tell me. lol

 

[waynakyo]

Getting that is not difficult.
Mix x mg of finasteride with X mg of Vodka and you get approx. x/(X+x) concentration.
I was even thinking of topical way...at least as a way to start. mix a capsule of finasteride with 60ml of minoxidil..
The question is if anyone has seen side effects from very low doses...
and whether one can minimize side effects by starting VERY low dosages and increasing that slowly over time. I would guess this would even minimize shedding.

 

[Hoppi]

I dunno man I mean I really wouldn't worry yourself TOO much over this.. I mean some guys do get permanent side effects yes but that seemed to be on higher dosages. Also, if you get sides just stop it dead (or decrease significantly) and you should be fine