What do you think is the minimum dosage you can use on finasteride?

[Jeju]

DIM, indole 3 carbinol, maca, high dose zinc...I don’t think these supplements do anything to counteract finasteride sides, but I highly doubt they’ll make you worse either so there’s no harm to try.

 

[Feelsbadman]

DIM, indole 3 carbinol, maca, high dose zinc...I don’t think these supplements do anything to counteract finasteride sides, but I highly doubt they’ll make you worse either so there’s no harm to try.

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ehh i feel so stuck.

i feel like my old self now (prior to finasteride).
i really dont want to go back on..I seem so sensitive to the drug.
low energy low libido
pale/dry /dull skin
subdued feeling

im 100% back to normal now
feel aggressive happier
more horny
skin looks way better
etc

what if someone took finasteride 1mg a week lol?

 

[Jeju]

true
ehh i feel so stuck.

i feel like my old self now (prior to finasteride).
i really dont want to go back on..I seem so sensitive to the drug.
low energy low libido
pale/dry /dull skin
subdued feeling

im 100% back to normal now
feel aggressive happier
more horny
skin looks way better
etc

what if someone took finasteride 1mg a week lol?

Nah can’t take it once a week lol
M(finasteride) T(cocaine) W(rest day) repeat

 

[Feelsbadman]

Nah can’t take it once a week lol
M(finasteride) T(cocaine) W(rest day) repeat

ill try again
i hated how dry and dull it made my skin and the mental sexual sides but ill give it one more shot.

should i take 0.25mg eod or 1mg 3x a week

 

[Jeju]

0.25 eod

 

[Norwoody]

Yeah 0.25 MWF is probably a good starting point at this juncture

 

[Feelsbadman]

Yeah 0.25 MWF is probably a good starting point at this juncture

Okay thanks man going to give it another shot before i give up and accept my fate.

The problem is though how long should i stay on 0.25mg MWF? how will i know if its even working etc? or am i just spinning wheels

 

[Isneezedsohard]

hmmm.. yea tough one. Do you know bout the supplement DIM? I'm thinking about buying tht and using that with finasteride?

I've seen some posts about DIM. What's it supposed to do/mechanism of action?

 

[Feelsbadman]

I've seen some posts about DIM. What's it supposed to do/mechanism of action?

I think it's a natural estrogen blocker so if you take DIM it can boost your free test, potentially off setting finasteride side effects as you have more androgens (free test) in the body
not sure if this is right... anyone else confirm?
I'm thinking about trying it when i start finasteride again.

 

[Norwoody]

Okay thanks man going to give it another shot before i give up and accept my fate.

The problem is though how long should i stay on 0.25mg MWF? how will i know if its even working etc? or am i just spinning wheels

If you've been off for at least a couple months then it'll probably take the standard 3-4 months back on to see some regrowth if it will happen.

 

[Norwoody]

I think it's a natural estrogen blocker so if you take DIM it can boost your free test, potentially off setting finasteride side effects as you have more androgens (free test) in the body
not sure if this is right... anyone else confirm?
I'm thinking about trying it when i start finasteride again.

Sounds good from a side effect standpoint, but maybe not so much for hair. One of the reasons finasteride might help with hair is because some of the excess testosterone aromatizes to estrogen - which is great for hair.

Personally, if you know that finasteride give you sides then I'd try oral minoxidil for a while and see how you handle that. No sexual sides but it can cause a bit of water retention if you take too much. IMO the most powerful individual hairloss treatment (aside from extreme HRT stuff)

 

[JohnSmith21]

I think it's a natural estrogen blocker so if you take DIM it can boost your free test, potentially off setting finasteride side effects as you have more androgens (free test) in the body
not sure if this is right... anyone else confirm?
I'm thinking about trying it when i start finasteride again.

Feelsbadman, you do have to admit that you are a bit of a hypochondriac though. I mean have you seen your post history. You consider every possible highly unlikely thing that finasteride might be doing, but never consider that you might be imaging sh*t. I highly doubt the last dose you were on would even do anything to be completely honest. So the fact that you feel SO MUCH better is proof that it’s in your head dude. There’s men who take it at 5mg per day for their prostate, and most of them get zero sides. That’s 35mg per week. You were taking less than 1 mg per week. Try to think about this. Your hair was still thinning too.... it probably was doing nothing. Try to think how you would look if you lost significantly more hair. You will most likely lose more if you do not take it, you are only 26. Then you are gonna start being OCD about your hair. Your never gonna be happy and content with a choice you make until you realize you have OCD, and try to focus on that instead. Don’t you notice that when you don’t take finasteride you bug out about your hair, and then when you do take finasteride you bug out about all the “sides” you get (some of which are impossible to get from finasteride). So moving forward, can’t you see you will continue being unhappy in either situation?