Today marks the end of my first bottle with crushed tablets and I've decided NOT to continue with the experiment for the following reasons:
I've been on Avodart for the last 4 months and it has relatively given me no sides whatsoever, hence my decision to add finasteride 1% topically. Big mistake! :shock: Assuming finasteride works just like Avodart, I am sure double dosing has its dangers so this is why I am quitting. My original intention of trying to add something locally to knock out DHT apparently hasn't been working very well.
At the two weeks mark, I can safely conclude I have no noticeable shedding whatsoever, as opposed to major and significant shedding in the past when I begun other treatments. I sincerely doubt an additional month or two with the crushed tablet routine can initiate a healthy shedding cycle, which leads me to the other reason why I wish to stop this treatment. I am not sure what side effects Avodart + finasteride treatments may have, but I certainly don't want to stick around and find out.
In the last two weeks, I have noticed considerable side effects such as: significantly lowered semen count! (which has never happened to me while on Avodart :dunno: ), bad breath, sleep disorder, brain fog and etc. More than one family member has pointed out to me I've recently gained bad breath and guess what, nearly all agree, it started right after I begun the crushed tablet routine two weeks ago!
Of course, there are myriad of reasons why these sides could happen but I am attributing them primarily to using finasteride topically.
Now, concerning Nizoral, I've recently begin utilizing Nizoral shampoo daily, plus I also use Nizoral 2% cream so I can definitely do without them when I use my minoxidil treatment.