Back acne from finasteride - anyone else?

[BuyingRuneScimitar]

I'm 2 weeks in on 0.25mg every day, getting a ridiculous amount of spots on my back and shoulders. Is this just a stage or am I gonna need accutane.

Seems like I get 2-3 spots a day now, had 0 off finasteride.

 

[losingbattle88]

I'm 2 weeks in on 0.25mg every day, getting a ridiculous amount of spots on my back and shoulders. Is this just a stage or am I gonna need accutane.

Seems like I get 2-3 spots a day now, had 0 off finasteride.

Bad news. Its upregulation ur gonna bald fast.

 

[corkmeister]

I get this too, it doesn't get talked about a lot though, I think it's pretty rare. It's managable thankfully, no acne on the face or anything. But in my case it doesn't seem to be temporary or a stage

 

[corkmeister]

Bad news. Its upregulation ur gonna bald fast.

I was worried about some kind of adverse reaction but it never happened, fortunately. Had some regrowth on my hairline and my crown seems to have stopped thinning

 

[BuyingRuneScimitar]

accutane it is then

 

[Moz5x]

I'm 2 weeks in on 0.25mg every day, getting a ridiculous amount of spots on my back and shoulders. Is this just a stage or am I gonna need accutane.

Seems like I get 2-3 spots a day now, had 0 off finasteride.

I experienced a mild increase in acne and a moderate increase in libido when I first started Finasteride. Both subsided sometime around the second or third month from what I recall. I’ve read about many others experiencing this over the years.

 

[BuyingRuneScimitar]

Could it be that generic finasteride pills don't have the 1mg dose evenly spread?

So me cutting them into quarters is giving me 0.1mg one day or 0.4mg another?

I've had acne from using aromatase inhibitors before and generally changing t and e gives me acne

 

[Moz5x]

I don’t think any brand nor generic drug ever has a perfectly uniform distribution of the api. As long as you consistently take all the quartered pieces within the course of a week it should be fine. If you let the cut up pieces get exposed to air/moisture for too long a time then some degradation will occur.

If you are still having acne flare ups 3 months from now then I’d start to get concerned. Still early days for you.

 

[PRIMEN]

I get lots of acne on my face when I try to use finasteride and my face is becoming more oily in general, even when I use finasteride 2 times a week (Mon, Thu). I don't know why. Also I get acne on my chest, but less than on my face. No back acne though.