Proscar and coffee!!

[haunted-ballroom]

Hey, might be a bit of a wierd question but is it ok to be taking proscar with coffee in the morning? lol Just wondering would this have any bad effect on the drug, like would the coffee be er.. melting it or something?
Thanks in advance lol

 

[Sean68]

lol.

i take dutasteride with a cup of tea - maybe thats why it doesnt work! i was always sure to take finasteride with water though and...that didnt work either.

 

[Aplunk1]

lol.

i take dutasteride with a cup of tea - maybe thats why it doesnt work! i was always sure to take finasteride with water though and...that didnt work either.

Sean, so you're at about 12 months? I'm really sorry you feel that dutasteride hasn't worked well for you. If anything, do you think that it has maintained your hair better?

I got loads of regrowth on dutasteride, and now I'm shedding so many hairs on Proscar-- It makes me want to throw up.

 

[Sean68]

mate i really dont know. i dont think so. i know that sounds daft but i have good days and bad days with it. my hairline recession hasnt stopped but the rest does feel thick though it was thick before i started. without having a 'control' result of what my hair would look like without dutasteride its hard for me to say. the main reason i got on it was to halt my hairline and it hasnt done that. still time maybe - ill give it two years i think. cheers man.

are you getting back on dutasteride soon then? bet youre sick of being asked that.

 

[Aplunk1]

are you getting back on dutasteride soon then? bet youre sick of being asked that.

Absolutely. It's going to be tough trying to afford this stuff without health insurance, but I'm going to dig into my credit cards and birthday money. It's kind of depressing, but so is the rapid thinning and thousands of hairs on my pillow.

Goodluck with stopping the hairline. The best treatment that I've ever used for my hairline was not even dutasteride. It was 5% spironolactone lotion from Dr. Lee. I also used American Crew Revitalize on it, too. And I was down to my juvenile hairline in no time.

I'm hoping for the best.

Goodluck on your regimen, man. I hope you start to see a slow in the hairline loss.

 

[Lucky_UK]

Aplunk, sorry its off topic but I love your avatar!

I take my proscar at night with a bucket of coffee :shock:

 

[CCS]

I'm finally old enough that the time I've been NW3 is equal to the time it took me to get to NW3. I got on finasteride just a little after I reached NW3. Now I may have thinned a bit since then, and maybe my male pattern baldness was destined to slow down anyway. But I think my 1/4 proscar has been working, and has dramatically slowed the loss.

 

[eddy_simpson]

just a thought sean if you dont mind. it seems to be becoming the consensus that blocking dht is fairly effective for vertex and diffuse thinning but of limited value in tackling a receding hairline. i believe this to be because testosterone and/or estrogen are capable of sparking the cascade of destruction to frontal follicles, which is why I would advise you to take internal aromatase inhibitors and a topical receptor blocker like spironolactone or eucapil.

 

[Aplunk1]

Aplunk, sorry its off topic but I love your avatar!

I take my proscar at night with a bucket of coffee :shock:

Thanks, brother! I'm diggin' your avatar, too. Did you photoshop that? How can you drink coffee at night? You must be a madman. :lol:

I often take my Proscar with coffee or grapefruit juice, usually straight before bedtime.

 

[Beethoven]

I often take my Proscar with coffee or grapefruit juice, usually straight before bedtime.

Maybe that's the reason finasteride is not effective for you? Grapefruit is well known to interact with many drugs, and proscar is in the list!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/20/health/webmd/main668105.shtml

During the time I used to be on finasteride (now I'm on topicals only), the pharmacist specially warned me not to take it with grapefruit.

 

[Aplunk1]

I often take my Proscar with coffee or grapefruit juice, usually straight before bedtime.

Maybe that's the reason finasteride is not effective for you? Grapefruit is well known to interact with many drugs, and proscar is in the list!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/20/health/webmd/main668105.shtml

During the time I used to be on finasteride (now I'm on topicals only), the pharmacist specially warned me not to take it with grapefruit.

Good save!

No more grapefruit for me!

 

[Guest]

I often take my Proscar with coffee or grapefruit juice, usually straight before bedtime.

Maybe that's the reason finasteride is not effective for you? Grapefruit is well known to interact with many drugs, and proscar is in the list!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/20/health/webmd/main668105.shtml

During the time I used to be on finasteride (now I'm on topicals only), the pharmacist specially warned me not to take it with grapefruit.

Good save!

No more grapefruit for me!

This is not a concern aplunk. The reason that pharmacists tell people not to take finasteride with grapefruit is because it can raise the concentration of finasteride in your system, which can only be good for your hair. it could be bad for your body, but don't listen to people who tell you that that's bad for your hair.

 

[Beethoven]

I often take my Proscar with coffee or grapefruit juice, usually straight before bedtime.

Maybe that's the reason finasteride is not effective for you? Grapefruit is well known to interact with many drugs, and proscar is in the list!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/20/health/webmd/main668105.shtml

During the time I used to be on finasteride (now I'm on topicals only), the pharmacist specially warned me not to take it with grapefruit.

Good save!

No more grapefruit for me!

This is not a concern aplunk. The reason that pharmacists tell people not to take finasteride with grapefruit is because it can raise the concentration of finasteride in your system, which can only be good for your hair. it could be bad for your body, but don't listen to people who tell you that that's bad for your hair.

I had no idea whether it good or bad interaction. Maybe the best thing for Aplunk would be to consult his Doctor so he can decide what's best.

 

[JWM]

Aplunk

If spironolactone cream worked so well on your hairline, why aren't you still using it?

 

[Sir Guy of Frizzbourne]

Good question. I wanna know too.