What's the lowest dose of finasteride you have had success with?

[Diesel]

Just wondering, what is the lowest dose of finasteride you have had success with? Some seem to think that a dose as low as .2mg daily can still stop hairloss (according to a few studies and graphs).

Has anyone had experience with a dose lower then 1mg daily or 1mg every other day (.5mg daily).

Thanks

 

[Britannia]

Theres no evidence to suggest using less than 1mg is any more or less efficient than using the recommended 1mg. When Merck develped propecia it is believed that 1mg was a comprimise between effectiveness and side effect likelihood. Having said that there are people on here who claim success using less than 1mg, and quite a few who use 1mg every other day.

 

[Diesel]

Thanks for the info

 

[Zim]

I used to cut proscar into 8ths and personally found little diffirence between that and a 1mg dosage.

 

[Diesel]

8ths, so that would be .625 mg. Did you take it daily?

I am taking 0.125mg daily of finasteride, same as .25mg every other day. I split a propecia tablet into 8ths.

Will see how I do with this. I took Propecia for a year with no problems, then bumped up to 5mg finasteride daily and started RU. Within 2 months I started developing Gyno so dropped everything. I started back on RU and am now slowly weening back onto Propecia, but am also now taking .5mg Arimidex twice a week. I am hoping to get back up to .5mg every other day with no sides. The sad part is that my hair was doing extremly well when I was on the 5mg finast and RU back in the day.

 

[Britannia]

Diesel if you were doing so well with 1mg, why the hell did you suddenly jump to 5mg??? No wonder you got gyno!
And now you want to start less than 1mg? Why - just go back to 1mg and stop messing around. Constantly messing with your dosage is BAD news for your hair and health. If propecia stopped working or didnt give you the results you wanted you could try dutasteride, but DONT keep changing your finasteride doses.

 

[Zim]

8ths, so that would be .625 mg. Did you take it daily?

I am taking 0.125mg daily of finasteride, same as .25mg every other day. I split a propecia tablet into 8ths.

Yes it was approx .625mg as with the difficulty of cutting that size its never accurate and a little is always lost when cutting. Ive always taken finasteride daily.

 

[SE-freak]

I took Propecia for a year with no problems

no problems and no results?

 

[biff]

I'm currently taking 0.25mg a day but it has only been for just under three months so it's too early to tell if it's working. I'm still getting just as many hairs falling out, maybe more, so I'm not sure if it's working. I initially started with 0.5mg, which I took for a few days, but 0.5mg gave me permanent achy balls and a loss of libido. I haven't had any such problems since I've been on 0.25mg. Perhaps I should have tried to ride out the initial sides, but I just couldn't take it.

 

[ACT10Npack]

You should only take less then 1mg of propecia if your getting side effect with 1mg. The lowest you should take is .5mg. If your only doing this because of the cost then which over to procair. If you want to say your hair then will are going to spend some money to do so. If you dont want to spend the money then shave your hair and move on.

 

[SE-freak]

You should only take less then 1mg of propecia if your getting side effect with 1mg. The lowest you should take is .5mg. If your only doing this because of the cost then which over to procair. If you want to say your hair then will are going to spend some money to do so. If you dont want to spend the money then shave your hair and move on.

Hey Action, is propecia still keeping you in shape? Any changes?

 

[hairfin]

well i started on 1/6 proscar every other day (0.42 a day), then after about 3 months moved up to 1.25 evey other day (0.75 a day) but got gyno so moved back down to 0.42 a day. been 4 months and i think it has slowed hair loss down, although its still happening im hoping after a few more months itl totally stop and might get some improvement

nipple tenderness is there though and the little gyno i got is annoying but livable

 

[Diesel]

I think I permanently screwed up my body in terms of hormones. Just to recap.

I took Propecia for 1 year, no sides, seemed to help my hair, then at 8 months it went downhill. This was right around the time I switched to Proscar and started quartering, probably just a coincidence that my results slipped. Anyways, at around 11 months I was panicking and went up to 2.5mg twice daily for the next month (no sides). Then, started RU, hair really started to thicken and I got growth at the hairline too. Then I started to get gyno after 2 months of RU and finasteride 5mg daily. Dropped everything.

Used minoxidil for the next 6 months. Started RU again at 8 months. Used RU and minoxidil for the next 2 years.

Recently started Propecia. Took 1mg pill, had some slight irritation in my nipple (seriously). Have gone down to .25mg of Propecia about every third day. Anything above that and I get a little irritaion in my nipple area (itchy, little burn etc.). Hoping I can stay on this extremly low dose and move up very gradually to .25mg daily or consistantly every other day.

Something is screwed up somewhere, maybe the RU maybe the finasteride but I cannot tolerate the finasteride any longer, even after a 2 year hiatus. Perhaps the RU is being absorbed somewhat systemically and the addition of finasteride is just too much and pushes things over the edge. I will never toss RU for finasteride, RU has helped me to pretty much maintain for the past 3 years (knock on wood).

Hope this was clear. Thanks for reading. Any comments or thoughts welcome.

 

[Diesel]

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