When did finasteride begin to work for you? Also, experiences with Dr.Singh?

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I've been on Proscar for 6 months now. My hairline has continued to slowly recede at the same rate it did before I began taking the drug. IMO there could be 3 reasons for this:

-The Proscar I purchased was not legitimate. I bought it from a UK website that was trusted by Spex and run by Dr.Singh (not sure if I'm allowed to mention the name of the site). Has anybody else made progress with drugs bought from this site?

-I am not responding properly to Proscar. I'm going to try and convince my GP to conduct hormone tests tomorrow so that I can see if my DHT levels have fallen or not.

-I have not given the drug enough time. However, plenty of people say that, at 6 months, you should begin to see results from finasteride. Has anybody had to wait longer than this to yield noticeable results?

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Diffuser44

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Fake finasteride has been around since 2007 if not earlier. It's not like it went away. The only way to know you have real stuff is to get a doctors prescription and get it at a pharmacy. Or take your fake pills to a drug lab testing place and find out what's in it. The latter is not cheap.
 

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Someone with a success story who had good regrowth said his hair was worse then ever at around like month 5 and then he started to see regrowth at month 7. I have heard others say they started to see regrowth at a year
 

Plan C

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Why don't you just go to a doctor and get a prescription for generic finasteride?

If the issue turns out to be that I'm not responding correctly, then I would be wasting money buying more finasteride.

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Fake finasteride has been around since 2007 if not earlier. It's not like it went away. The only way to know you have real stuff is to get a doctors prescription and get it at a pharmacy. Or take your fake pills to a drug lab testing place and find out what's in it. The latter is not cheap.

In this case I was assured by a number of people that the merchant who sold my Proscar was legit. However, their website was recently taken down due to 'illness'. I'm not calling Spex etc. liers but I haven't made the progress I hoped I might.

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Someone with a success story who had good regrowth said his hair was worse then ever at around like month 5 and then he started to see regrowth at month 7. I have heard others say they started to see regrowth at a year

What worries me is that if I continue to wait for regrowth when in fact the finasteride isn't having any effect, my situation could get pretty bad.
 

Agahi

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Patients, some dont get results until 14 or more months in or more. Just tell yourself the recession is halted or greatly slowed, that in itself is results.
 

Plan C

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Patients, some dont get results until 14 or more months in or more. Just tell yourself the recession is halted or greatly slowed, that in itself is results.

I'm trying to stay patient but considering my recession has barely slowed, it is difficult.
 

Agahi

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got nothing to lose then right? If you where gonna have sides you would have already. Stick it out for at least a year.
 

zzzzz

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Nothing to lose? Erm... more hair?


finasteride isn't speeding your hair loss up, that is impossible. So you have nothing to lose
 

Agahi

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Good point. Add a small bit of dutasteride 1/week, or switch to it up to you.

Had I known you where wiling to try it I'd have offerd as an alternate.
 
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