View attachment 41766 View attachment 41769 I agree with gi joey about people's actual experiences with finasteride being at odds with all the studies on the drug that everyone loves to cite. I was .5 mg for six months and I was more or less stable, I didn't notice any changes. finasteride did nothing but accelerate my hairloss and destroyed the quality of my existing hair. I have read a few accounts of hair improving somewhat after quitting and I have been slowly moving in that direction. Last month I took .5mg eod for a week, then dropped it to 3/8 of a 1 mg pill ed for a week, then 3/8 of a pill eod for a week, and then to .25 mg ed. I had been on .25 mg for one week when I buzzed to a two guard like I do every two weeks. The devastion was immediately apparent. I was shocked at how bad things had become so quickly. My existing hair had even become finer. After a buzz cut I always run my hands of my hair to feel the spikey resistance but there wasn't any. So much for the 'flat dose response' .05 mg being almost as effective as 1 mg in dht reduction. I didn't even make a radical reduction in dosage (btw, i recommend lowering the dose the way I did as it was a whole lot easier on my body. Previous attempts at reducing dosage affected me negatively, severe insomnia for a night or two). Anyway, what this shows me is that 1) finasteride isn't necessarily a flat dose response drug. 2) finasteride has made my follicles WAY more sensitive to androgens, given that a small increase in DHT over a very short period of time caused so much damage. 3) I can't quit finasteride because I would be effectively bald within a couple months and I know I couldn't handle that psychologically. The first pic (hair is slightly longer) was taken three weeks ago and the second pic one week ago.
