My Finasteride progress

[JJacobs152]

Z, are you noticing a decrease in the efficacy of your fin at all? it seems like my hair isn't as thick or consistent as before. i started fin on nov 2nd...

[drybone]

I started fin on Jan 30th and I swear my hair is thinner or basically the same. But now I am upping my dose to 2.5mg . They say it takes a year.

[z06guy]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been growing my hair out a long longer than before and just simply trimmIing it on the edges to keep it looking neat. I haven't grown my hair out this long in years... It doesn't look that bad overall especially with some toppik or nanogen added. I'm hoping with the

I can't exactly say I'm seeing any results. I'm still not getting any side effects. Still have my abs, my strength and my intelligence. I still don't have any visible crown or temple regrowth. I started just about 5 months ago... I don't expect to see any true results for another few months. In the meantime it feels good growing out my hair, applying a bit of nanogen or toppik with some hairspray and almost having the perfect look I desire. Even without the concealers it looks okay. I'll have to snap a pic one of these days.

I still have a lot of thin hairs on the edges of my hairline by the temple and at the crown. if Finasteride doesn't thicken them up I may actually consider dutasteride..I don't know yet.

[PatientlyWaiting]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been growing my hair out a long longer than before and just simply trimmIing it on the edges to keep it looking neat. I haven't grown my hair out this long in years... It doesn't look that bad overall especially with some toppik or nanogen added. I'm hoping with the

I can't exactly say I'm seeing any results. I'm still not getting any side effects. Still have my abs, my strength and my intelligence. I still don't have any visible crown or temple regrowth. I started just about 5 months ago... I don't expect to see any true results for another few months. In the meantime it feels good growing out my hair, applying a bit of nanogen or toppik with some hairspray and almost having the perfect look I desire. Even without the concealers it looks okay. I'll have to snap a pic one of these days.

I still have a lot of thin hairs on the edges of my hairline by the temple and at the crown. if Finasteride doesn't thicken them up I may actually consider dutasteride..I don't know yet.

If finasteride does not thicken them up, you can just add Rogaine twice a day. Fin and rogaine work really well together. Using only one of them can't really get me any results. When I use both that is when I get thickening and some regrowth. Leave Dutasteride for when Fin+Rogaine are not working that well anymore.

[Pentarou]

Yes, I agree, leave the Dut well alone for at least several years, and only then if you don't do great with Fin. Dut is basically our long term safety net once using Fin loses effectiveness.

[BigThinker]

I started fin on Jan 30th and I swear my hair is thinner or basically the same. But now I am upping my dose to 2.5mg . They say it takes a year.

2.5mg already?

[drybone]

2.5mg already?

Once every 2 days. Sorry forgot to clarify. tired of chopping the pills on 4. chop them in half instead.

[BigThinker]

Once every 2 days. Sorry forgot to clarify. tired of chopping the pills on 4. chop them in half instead.

Interesting.

I'm starting to think I should increase my frequency. Typically I take it at ~8am, and by 8 or 9 pm at night "the itch" settles back in.

[z06guy]

Yes, I agree, leave the Dut well alone for at least several years, and only then if you don't do great with Fin. Dut is basically our long term safety net once using Fin loses effectiveness.

Thanks that makes sense.

If finasteride does not thicken them up, you can just add Rogaine twice a day. Fin and rogaine work really well together. Using only one of them can't really get me any results. When I use both that is when I get thickening and some regrowth. Leave Dutasteride for when Fin+Rogaine are not working that well anymore.

Thanks. I've tried Rogaine (kirkland signature drops) and it did nothing but give me side effects. Scaly and flaking scalp, swollen ears, wrinkles all over my forehead when I woke up. And I'll be damned but i do firmly believe my hair got thinner on the temples after using it and I never regrew that hair. Then again I stopped taking it after a month... This is due to the collagen depletion. Collagen and minoxidil in the google search brings up interesting queries. Anyway Rogaine is likely a no go for me. =/ A shame...

[z06guy]

Sorry for the lack of updates.

So I've been on finasteride for about 8 months. I'm not seeing an improvement. I think I still may be losing the good fight. I may need to jump to dutasteride from inhouse. Any other suggestions for dutas would be helpful.

I'm cutting out hairomega 3 in 1. I think that's been a waste of money.

[z06guy]

So I've decided to purchase Dutasteride 0.5 mg from inhousepharmacy.biz



On inhousepharmacy I can buy 180 capsules of Dutas 0.5 for $194

On 4rx I can buy 365 for $224. However, I think 4rx gave my email and info to advertising companies. I get so much spam mail daily asking me to renew my prescriptions and such from so many different email addresses.. Also received telemarketer calls from people with indian accents a few months back. They were trying to sell me random supplements.

So I can't really recommend 4rx to anyone anymore...

[DanWS]

So I've decided to purchase Dutasteride 0.5 mg from inhousepharmacy.biz



On inhousepharmacy I can buy 180 capsules of Dutas 0.5 for $194

On 4rx I can buy 365 for $224. However, I think 4rx gave my email and info to advertising companies. I get so much spam mail daily asking me to renew my prescriptions and such from so many different email addresses.. Also received telemarketer calls from people with indian accents a few months back. They were trying to sell me random supplements.

So I can't really recommend 4rx to anyone anymore...

Hmmm thats interesting, I've never seen Dut so cheap. I'm currently on 0.5mg Fin daily, but from that website I can get 2 months worth of Dut 0.5 (Duprost) for just £10 more than the price I'm currently getting fin at.

[z06guy]

Yeah it's odd.

and to revise my last statement, I'm not on any prescription meds except for fin. So I don't know why 4rx (or whoever they gave my info to) keeps emailing me to 'renew prescriptions' with so many different fake email addresses with different names.

For example here is one of them with a random name like Jude Maley

Hello ____________
I am checking up regarding the last Script pack processed using the referral recently dispatched at your private address

To make a Re-Order visit "puts a fake website here"

Ready when you are,
Jude

I can't be the only one that this has happened to using 4rx?

[mpb47]

Yeah it's odd.

and to revise my last statement, I'm not on any prescription meds except for fin. So I don't know why 4rx (or whoever they gave my info to) keeps emailing me to 'renew prescriptions' with so many different fake email addresses with different names.

For example here is one of them with a random name like Jude Maley



I can't be the only one that this has happened to using 4rx?

I don't remember which company it was, but I once had that same kind of experience you are having. Never ordered from them again and have just stuck with inhouse.

You'd think they would know this would annoy the customer and they would not use them again, but I guess they are not too smart.

Even Walgreens, to a lessor degree, is starting to do the same darn thing.

[z06guy]

I just received 180 soft gelatin capsules of 0.5mg dutasteride.

Here's hoping that this will help stop the hairloss and possibly reverse it! I'll start a new dutasteride thread in the coming days once I take a few pics of my hair.