Propecia (Finasteride) "Transition" Theory

[chrisis]

philippe is your dose 1.25mg then? If so you need to try to cut down to about 0.25mg, so buy some 1mg tablets and quarter them.

If you can't tolerate the drug at 0.25mg then you should discontinue because that's about as low as you can go.

[philippe]

hey chrisis--i have been actually cutting the 5mg proscar tablets into eight peices--this gives me roughly .60mg per daily dose. i have been doing this for a few months now and cannot say my sides are gone. i am thinking about taking .60mg every other day at this point.

i think if you can find the right dosage for your body's sensitivity level then you may be able to get the benefits and have no sides...but it is not an exact science getting there...just experimentation.

[Folly]

Nice post Spex,

Sorry to change the topic slightly, but i was wondering about doing a similar thing with Minoxidil to prevent an 'initial shed'. Do you think something like the routine below is overkill to prevent an initial shed ?

Month 1 - Apply minoxidil once a week
Month 2 - Apply minoxidil twice a week
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Month 7 - Applied once daily

Cheers.

[Spex]

I dont know if that would work, give it a go and let us know

[Folly]

Ok mate, will do. Cheers !!

[Maradona]

Very good advice Spex.

I'll try this after replicel results.

[philippe]

@ Spex,

I've read so many conflicting things about how to take a lower dosage of Propecia and it makes me wonder how much discrepancy there can be? If it's true that Propecia's half life in the body is only a matter of hours (the time in which it is actively suppressing dht formation) then doesn't logic deduce that it makes more sense to take a lower dosage daily, then to take a slightly higher dosage every other day?

Like just about everyone else on this post I am lowering my dosage because of side effects-I am hoping to at least minimize the sides and still block some dht.

[sausage]

23 days and counting, for the first week I took half a dose every day from then on its been the full 1mg everyday and I am fine, No sides.

Its all good in the hood.

[VictimOfDHT]

To those who are taking Proscar, are you guys taking 1/4 pill every day or every other day? Been taking 1/4 every other day since I got on it more than 12 years ago but I'm wondering if I should try every day instead of every other day.

[VictimOfDHT]

OK. So nobody here uses Proscar !!