Hasson & Wong Update on Topical Finasteride

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It just seems very very strange that we are basically left to making this topical finasteride by ourselves!

Why isn't there a big medical company that sees the potential and wants to make money out of this?
There would be potentially millions of men around the world that would be interested in proven, effective topical finasteride with less sides compared to the pill version. If this topical version was branded and available in normal pharmacies globally!
Can somebody explain this to me, please?

[diffuse]

Here is a thread about topical fin: https://www.baldtruthtalk.com/thread...-you-need-help.

Jazz did a lot to find someone to make topical fin.

[RU58841]

I've used topical fin at a low dose and still got sides. I could be extra susceptible to sides however.

Did you have the same sides as you did on the oral version?

[RU58841]

Hey guys, I just came on to write about Topical Finasteride and came across this thread.

We have actually came up with a decent formula to make Finasteride topical foaming solution. Our pharmacy is making the first batch this week for 2 patients.

I can't send it overseas to anyone but I can do 2 things:
a) if you are in Australia, let me know if you'd like some and I can make it for you. We just need a prescription from an Australian prescriber.

b) if the guys overseas, the best I can do is provide everyone with the formula and ingredients necessary and you can make it yourself. Albeit it may be a tad bit didficult.

I'll keep an eye on this thread. Let me know

Cheers.

Desmond

Desmond! I logged into this thread today expecting no replies, then saw a bunch of bad news, then your reply! Nobody else I would have rather seen show up with good news.

But yeah, please tell us everything. If you need any help, let me know and I'm on it.

Once we have the formula and ingredients, maybe we can find a trustworthy pharmacy to make this a bit more standardized.

[warner8]

I just e-mailed them and got a reply saying "I am sorry but at this time the doctors have decided to only prescribe the topical Finasteride to their surgical patients."

So basically, H&W are completely useless.

so basically unless your paying them lots of money to do a hair transplant, then they wont give you the topical fin.....like i said, they are just trying to make money. i would avoid them like the plague. just stick to oral fin, topical or not, you will get sides regardless

[inbrugge]

I've used topical fin at a low dose and still got sides. I could be extra susceptible to sides however.

[Desmond84]

Topical finasteride

Hey guys, I just came on to write about Topical Finasteride and came across this thread.

We have actually came up with a decent formula to make Finasteride topical foaming solution. Our pharmacy is making the first batch this week for 2 patients.

I can't send it overseas to anyone but I can do 2 things:
a) if you are in Australia, let me know if you'd like some and I can make it for you. We just need a prescription from an Australian prescriber.

b) if the guys overseas, the best I can do is provide everyone with the formula and ingredients necessary and you can make it yourself. Albeit it may be a tad bit didficult.

I'll keep an eye on this thread. Let me know

Cheers.

Desmond

[efedrez]

I just e-mailed them and got a reply saying "I am sorry but at this time the doctors have decided to only prescribe the topical Finasteride to their surgical patients."

So basically, H&W are completely useless.

Gave them a call and same answer...maybe we can find someone on the forum who is a patient, get a detail compounded prescription, and then find a dermatologist and a pharmacy to get it for our self

[burtandernie]

Its kind of silly they never actually reformulated finasteride to be a topical in the years after the patent expired. I mean the chemical itself is the most important part of it going systemic, but I still think less would go systemic topically than orally.

[nohawk]

I just e-mailed them and got a reply saying "I am sorry but at this time the doctors have decided to only prescribe the topical Finasteride to their surgical patients."

So basically, H&W are completely useless.

[Reign]

But is it the same? What is H&W telling the pharmacist? I don't know the concentration or vehicles used to make the solution that they're claiming is showing positive results and no side effects.

It would not be the same if a local dermatologist is writing a compounded prescription that is being filled by a local pharmacy. However, that local dermatologist could send the script to the same pharmacy that H&W uses (which I believe is in Europe) and you would get the same medication - would just need to ensure that the prescription is written as H&W would write it.

[efedrez]

But is it the same? What is H&W telling the pharmacist? I don't know the concentration or vehicles used to make the solution that they're claiming is showing positive results and no side effects.

Has anyone here used the topical from H&W? it sounds like worth trying but not too sure about simply asking a pharmacy like Murray Avenue Apothecary. I understand maybe there are just doing the same (asking a local pharmacy to mix it) but still will feel better using theirs

[nohawk]

Are you located in the states? There are dermatologists who will prescribe it for you - prescribing compounded medications is common in dermatology.

But is it the same? What is H&W telling the pharmacist? I don't know the concentration or vehicles used to make the solution that they're claiming is showing positive results and no side effects.

[Reign]

Thanks for the reply RU. This is extremely annoying, I'm right at the border between NW's and because I responded well to FIN but got sides, I KNOW that if I had a topical it would do wonders for my hairline. Yet, I have to sit here and watch these people play their games. You can't even do an online consult for the script..

Are you located in the states? There are dermatologists who will prescribe it for you - prescribing compounded medications is common in dermatology.

[nohawk]

There's more information here:

https://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthread.php?16592-Hasson-Wong-now-prescribing-topical-Finasteride/page2

Basically, Joe said that Merck owns the patent to topical finasteride even though they don't make or sell a topical finasteride, so the only legal way to get it from H&W is with a prescription. Although I don't know why they require an in-person visit when Murray Avenue Apothecary accepts online evaluations/prescriptions (whatever that means).

Not sure why there's a new formulation, they didn't tell me. I wonder if it's the topical dutasteride they were talking about? As for liquid or cream, I'd like to know the answer to that too. Obviously I'll be emailing them again in 2 months and will keep everybody here apprised.

Thanks for the reply RU. This is extremely annoying, I'm right at the border between NW's and because I responded well to FIN but got sides, I KNOW that if I had a topical it would do wonders for my hairline. Yet, I have to sit here and watch these people play their games. You can't even do an online consult for the script..