Success with 0.5mg of finasteride daily?

[imissmyhair]

anything more than 0.5mg of finasteride daily and my sides are too much to bear, with 0.5mg my sides are bearable :?

according to that chart it is nearly as affective as 1mg daily but realisticaly has anyone seen results on their head?

 

[jeffsss]

ive seen studies taht show .2 mg is good enough to show improvment/maintiance.

unless you have sides you should go with the reccomended amount of 1mg.

so to answer your question... it depends on the person..

ive seen .2 mg help regrow hair on humans heads.. yet I've seen 1.25 mg supposidly cause more hair loss..

depends on how you respond to the drug. search google etc.. before starting anything.. consult your Doctor.

 

[biff]

I also couldn't handle the sides and am currently taking 0.25mg. It's only been around 3 months since I started and I haven't had any positive results as yet.

 

[TheOliviaTremorControl]

In around 50% of people who experience side effects, the side effects go away.

Also, I've read some articles that indicated 0.5mg can be as effective as 1mg

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http://www.gourmetstylewellness.com/faq/#13

 

[joseph49853]

I've had great success on .5mg daily. It's *almost* as effective as 1mg. I would recommend anyone who's experiencing side effects to give it a try.

 

[rkim]

Does cutting down finasteride from 1 to .5 mgs cause you to re-experience side effects? How about shedding? I cut down to .5 at about the 2.5 month mark. The sexual sides picked up again shortly after that, and I'm having another shed a little over a month after the decrease. Is a second shed normal or is it from the change in dose? What are some other experiences people have had lowering their dose?

 

[Dinzy]

ive seen .2 mg help regrow hair on humans heads.. yet I've seen 1.25 mg supposidly cause more hair loss..

C'mon you know this statement is a load of crap and as it is it is meaningless. How can you see something supposedly cause something? Do you really want someone to read this and be too scared to take finasteride because of it?

Seriously don't post BS like this. Besides the word is supposedly. If someone loses hair while on finasteride it is because they have male pattern baldness and that is what male pattern baldness is.

 

[Britannia]

ive seen .2 mg help regrow hair on humans heads.. yet I've seen 1.25 mg supposidly cause more hair loss...

Ha Ha Ha . Nice one jeffsss that statement really made my day. Got anymore ground breaking scientific statements to make?

 

[Weepy]

Does cutting down finasteride from 1 to .5 mgs cause you to re-experience side effects? How about shedding? I cut down to .5 at about the 2.5 month mark. The sexual sides picked up again shortly after that, and I'm having another shed a little over a month after the decrease. Is a second shed normal or is it from the change in dose? What are some other experiences people have had lowering their dose?

I cut down to 0.5 mg/day due to side-effects, and did not re-experience side effects. Shedding seemed to actually slow, but it never stops.

As to the 0.2/0.5/1 mg/day controversy, the fact is, there is a paper that shows clinical endpoints (hair count) as being best for those who took finasteride @ 1 mg/day. The least efficacious dose was 0.2 mg/day. So you will see some improvement either way. I suppose it's a matter of deciding how much hair you want back.

The issue of receptor upregulation was also brought up.

 

[momo]

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1. I see this "scientific research" everywhere. Where was it taken from? I don't buy it.
2. Suppose it's true. It shows the change in DHT levels, and not the hair condition. Maybe the slight change in DHT between taking 0.5mg and taking 1mg (about 5ng/dl) is enough to trigger hairloss.

Only way to know is to experiment.

 

[joseph49853]

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1. I see this "scientific research" everywhere. Where was it taken from? I don't buy it.
2. Suppose it's true. It shows the change in DHT levels, and not the hair condition. Maybe the slight change in DHT between taking 0.5mg and taking 1mg (about 5ng/dl) is enough to trigger hairloss.

Only way to know is to experiment.

There was also a recent Japanese study that confirmed these results. I personally tried to find a reasonable dosage between maintaining/restoring hair and and possible bad side effect. I see nothing wrong with this approach.

 

[momo]

There was also a recent Japanese study that confirmed these results. I personally tried to find a reasonable dosage between maintaining/restoring hair and and possible bad side effect. I see nothing wrong with this approach.

That's exactly what I meant by "experimenting".

And can you tell what's your conclusions?
What is this b-dose which maximizes success with minimum sides?

(It's probably 1/pi or somthing )

 

[joseph49853]

There was also a recent Japanese study that confirmed these results. I personally tried to find a reasonable dosage between maintaining/restoring hair and and possible bad side effect. I see nothing wrong with this approach.

That's exactly what I meant by "experimenting".

And can you tell what's your conclusions?
What is this b-dose which maximizes success with minimum sides?

(It's probably 1/pi or somthing )

Over a 1.5 year period, I personally found absolutely no difference between .5mg and 1mg, except for a substantial decrease in side effects. This was after my taking 1mg of finasteride for exactly a year previous.

However, there was a slight difference in shedding between .2mg and .5/1mg. So, for me, the happy medium is exactly .5mg.

 

[strikernr]

anything more than 0.5mg of finasteride daily and my sides are too much to bear, with 0.5mg my sides are bearable :?

according to that chart it is nearly as affective as 1mg daily but realisticaly has anyone seen results on their head?

How do you manage to cut the tablet in half? It's so small to begin with. Some times i feel how could thi pill which is so small could some play around with your hormones and do what it suppose to do?

 

[Weepy]

I use a pill spliter with real propecia, not proscar. Proscar would be a lot tougher to split from 5 mg => 10 X 0.5 mg finasteride.

Propecia 1 mg => 2 x 0.5 mg finasteride.

 

[kosmo]

for those who have gone down to .5mg/day....

before you cut the dosage were you seeing results? or did it start to work after you cut down to .5mg?

im wondering if i should wait till im sure that its working for me before i cut the dosage in half?

 

[joseph49853]

for those who have gone down to .5mg/day....

before you cut the dosage were you seeing results? or did it start to work after you cut down to .5mg?

im wondering if i should wait till im sure that its working for me before i cut the dosage in half?

I cut my dosage after exactly one year at 1mg to .2mg. I noticed just a slight more amount of shedding, enough to force me to eventually settle on the dosage I use today, .5mg.

 

[momo]

How can you cut 0.2mg? Or you mean 0.25mg (quarter of a pill)?

 

[joseph49853]

How can you cut 0.2mg? Or you mean 0.25mg (quarter of a pill)?

I got lazy, sorry. That should have read .25mg. It's hard enough cutting proscar into 1/20th pieces, much less 1/25ths.

 

[kosmo]

for those who have gone down to .5mg/day....

before you cut the dosage were you seeing results? or did it start to work after you cut down to .5mg?

im wondering if i should wait till im sure that its working for me before i cut the dosage in half?

I cut my dosage after exactly one year at 1mg to .2mg. I noticed just a slight more amount of shedding, enough to force me to eventually settle on the dosage I use today, .5mg.

what kind of results are you getting with .5mg/day? are you seeing any regrowth?

also, what side effects were you having that made you cut down?