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[NeverEndingBattle]

If someone was a good responder to finasteride for many years and then it lost it's effectiveness and you quit for a year or so and then started it again will it be effective again?

 

[killbill123]

If someone was a good responder to finasteride for many years and then it lost it's effectiveness and you quit for a year or so and then started it again will it be effective again?

It'd probably be similar to someone with a high alcohol tolerance...say, a college student...who enters the job market and puts the partying behind him. A year or so later he may go to a wedding and finds his tolerance is way down and he's drunk after 3-4 beers. If he were to pick up drinking regularly again, it wouldn't take long for his tolerance to get back up to those college-day levels.

The body has a good memory. It will eventually able to recognize stuff you put into it no matter how long an absence, and it will deal with it as it remembered. That's essentially how some vaccines work (not a doctor, just generalizing here for the purposes of an analogy)...the body remembers how it fought off a similar attack, and immunity kicks in.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

If someone was a good responder to finasteride for many years and then it lost it's effectiveness and you quit for a year or so and then started it again will it be effective again?

It'd probably be similar to someone with a high alcohol tolerance...say, a college student...who enters the job market and puts the partying behind him. A year or so later he may go to a wedding and finds his tolerance is way down and he's drunk after 3-4 beers. If he were to pick up drinking regularly again, it wouldn't take long for his tolerance to get back up to those college-day levels.

The body has a good memory. It will eventually able to recognize stuff you put into it no matter how long an absence, and it will deal with it as it remembered. That's essentially how some vaccines work (not a doctor, just generalizing here for the purposes of an analogy)...the body remembers how it fought off a similar attack, and immunity kicks in.

nice little story you wrote up...but your body DOES NOT build up a tolerance to finasteride so you can throw your analogy out the window.

male pattern baldness continues b/c of other androgens / the remaining dht that finasteride. doesnt inhibit / increased androgen sensitivity at the receptor / possibly more androgen receptors

stopping and coming back to it will not help, you need to find a way to block more androgens OR block the receptor sites.