Little introduction:
I'm 19 years old, thinning temples in a Norwood 2.5 pattern with huge family history so i know where i'm headed. (Check story for details)
I was on Fincar Cut into 1.25mg for over 6 months and suffered (What i thought to be, could be wrong) pretty bad mental sides - Almost depression, but i don't think it got THAT serious yet. Anyways i couldn't take it anymore as i was in my first year of studies (This could have easily done it, maybe it wasnt the finasteride but i didnt want to take chances) and eventually i started feeling better : Once again, it could be because i got used to school and maybe had nothing to do with finasteride, but i didn't want to gamble.
Anyways, the hairloss has been progressing like i thought it would, so now i'm going to make one last ditch effort to incorporate Finasteride into my regimen.
Heres the idea:
WE KNOW finasteride has an ALMOST flat dose response so therefore i am going to try to take .05 MG finasteride EOD.
Normally this would be a practically impossible feat with a regular pill-cutter, so i'm going to take a different approach. What I'm going to do is first of all use my chemistry departments analytical balance (.00001 G accuracy) and measure the weight of ONE Fincar pill (It's not possible that each pill weighs 5mg, that would mean 200 pills would equal 1 gram, yeah right).
Once i have the mass measured, i will know what Mass % of active ingredient is contained within each pill (Probably like 1% or something - So 5mg Finasteride in 500mg of pill). I will then take a bunch of said pills and grind them up into as fine a powder as i can get (smashing the sh*t out of them with a hammer would probably work). I will then use a .01 g accuracy pocket scale and fill up the proper amount of powder into empty capsules (Can buy them anywhere) so that i know i will have .05 +- .01 Mg of finasteride in each capsule. This means that it would be roughly 5 MG of powder in each capsule -- a very minute ammount.
Hopefully this will alleviate or completely abolish all sides, i am seriously going to try this. The data makes sense :
http://www.physics.upenn.edu/facultyinf ... index.html
As you can see from the graphs : the ammount of SCALP DHT lowered with a .05 mg finasteride dose and a 1mg dose is practically identical....HOWEVER serum DHT inhibition is about a 20% difference, which can be significant for many people. For me, its enough to justify the work i'll put into this (Realistically shouldnt take more than an hour to make a months supply), plus it would be UBER cheap.
If my reasoning behind this is faulty, please let me know so that i dont try something impossible, lol. Thanks for reading.
I'm 19 years old, thinning temples in a Norwood 2.5 pattern with huge family history so i know where i'm headed. (Check story for details)
I was on Fincar Cut into 1.25mg for over 6 months and suffered (What i thought to be, could be wrong) pretty bad mental sides - Almost depression, but i don't think it got THAT serious yet. Anyways i couldn't take it anymore as i was in my first year of studies (This could have easily done it, maybe it wasnt the finasteride but i didnt want to take chances) and eventually i started feeling better : Once again, it could be because i got used to school and maybe had nothing to do with finasteride, but i didn't want to gamble.
Anyways, the hairloss has been progressing like i thought it would, so now i'm going to make one last ditch effort to incorporate Finasteride into my regimen.
Heres the idea:
WE KNOW finasteride has an ALMOST flat dose response so therefore i am going to try to take .05 MG finasteride EOD.
Normally this would be a practically impossible feat with a regular pill-cutter, so i'm going to take a different approach. What I'm going to do is first of all use my chemistry departments analytical balance (.00001 G accuracy) and measure the weight of ONE Fincar pill (It's not possible that each pill weighs 5mg, that would mean 200 pills would equal 1 gram, yeah right).
Once i have the mass measured, i will know what Mass % of active ingredient is contained within each pill (Probably like 1% or something - So 5mg Finasteride in 500mg of pill). I will then take a bunch of said pills and grind them up into as fine a powder as i can get (smashing the sh*t out of them with a hammer would probably work). I will then use a .01 g accuracy pocket scale and fill up the proper amount of powder into empty capsules (Can buy them anywhere) so that i know i will have .05 +- .01 Mg of finasteride in each capsule. This means that it would be roughly 5 MG of powder in each capsule -- a very minute ammount.
Hopefully this will alleviate or completely abolish all sides, i am seriously going to try this. The data makes sense :
http://www.physics.upenn.edu/facultyinf ... index.html
As you can see from the graphs : the ammount of SCALP DHT lowered with a .05 mg finasteride dose and a 1mg dose is practically identical....HOWEVER serum DHT inhibition is about a 20% difference, which can be significant for many people. For me, its enough to justify the work i'll put into this (Realistically shouldnt take more than an hour to make a months supply), plus it would be UBER cheap.
If my reasoning behind this is faulty, please let me know so that i dont try something impossible, lol. Thanks for reading.
