Age limits?

[Esprit]

What age is it not worth taking Propecia?
I'm now mid 40s, is it worth doing still?

 

[curiouscharles]

I`ve always thought I wouldn`t care about my hair as much by that age - it`s definitely worth trying, but if your hair loss is already far progressed it won`t do much more than maintain (maybe slight regrowth), and the side effects are likely to be amplified...

 

[Petchsky]

It's not really about age, more about how much hair you have left to save.

The only age limit is to be 18 or older...when I was researching hair transplant's I found quite a few of the docs who are 40+ take propecia, all depends at one point you start losing and how fast...

 

[Esprit]

Thanks guys, well I saw the Doctor today and she said give it a try for a month. This stuff is like £1.00 a day for 28 days, when bought for one month supply. I didn't realise how pricey but..... am desperate.

I kind of figured if I had all my hair past 35 I'd be OK. WRONG! In the last year it's gone mad, which is why I went for blood tests last week. She prescribed Propecia to me today and obviously I'm wary but have to do something. I've never had an expanding crown like this before so It's not like I can say it's something I've got used to since my 20s. I am pretty desperate to regrow

When you say the 'docs' were taking it, was it more prevention than cure?

And side effects amplified? Really!!!?? Tell me more.........

 

[knowingyou]

I have just read from other forum, a guy is also in his 40+ I read it somewhere, and with a very good result by using the big 3, so I guess it is worth to try and see if you can get result as well.

http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/mess ... TMP=Linear

 

[Esprit]

Thanks for that, I'll have a read, does he say how old he is?

 

[knowingyou]

I guess he is 50+ years old, because he said he was a Norwood 6 by 28 years old, and NW6 for 20 years, and he has been using the big 3 to achief the result he has now for 2 years and 2 moths. So by add all those number together, then he must be over 50 years already!!

 

[DoctorHouse]

I kind of figured if I had all my hair past 35 I'd be OK. WRONG! In the last year it's gone mad, which is why I went for blood tests last week. She prescribed Propecia to me today and obviously I'm wary but have to do something. I've never had an expanding crown like this before so It's not like I can say it's something I've got used to since my 20s. I am pretty desperate to regrow

When you say the 'docs' were taking it, was it more prevention than cure?

And side effects amplified? Really!!!?? Tell me more.........

I felt the same way Esprit, and once I started using Propecia my hair starting to go faster than it normally did before taking it. Don't understand why that happened but maybe just a late bloomer with losing hair. I thought Propecia would have at least help me keep what I started with but never did happen. Good luck to you.

 

[Esprit]

Thanks for your replies guys.

DocHouse, sorry to hear that. That's lousy. There are more mixed opinions about this drug than anything else I've ever heard of. It's a mine field out there with this drug. Some are very lucky and some are very unlucky. It's either great or causes a lot of problems. How old are you Doctor, is it not just a shedding phase before the good stuff kicks in?

 

[HT55]

YOu need to be on Propecia for at least 6 months. Ask ehr for a prescription for generic proscar and you can get a years woth of finasteride for around $120

 

[Optimistic]

I have just read from other forum, a guy is also in his 40+ I read it somewhere, and with a very good result by using the big 3, so I guess it is worth to try and see if you can get result as well.

http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/mess ... TMP=Linear

If that claim is true. The pictures he produces are not reliable enough to draw a positive conclusion that the Big 3 have worked and if they have worked then it seems they are very rare indeed.

 

[Esprit]

YOu need to be on Propecia for at least 6 months. Ask ehr for a prescription for generic proscar and you can get a years woth of finasteride for around $120

Sorry, .... generic proscar? That's different to Propecia, but the same, but cheaper? Sorry confused. The one I have a prescription for is about £1GB per day. Says 1MG Propecia tablets on the prescription

 

[Spanishlad]

propecia contains 1mg of finasteride the active ingredient. proscar contains 5mg of finasteride so you can cut it in to 4 or 5 pieces and take one of these daily it works out alot cheaper this way.

 

[Esprit]

Ahh gottya, so if my prescription says Propecia are they able to give me finasteride or Proscar if it was only 1mg. For what reason do people get the ones that aren't Propecia if they just cut them down?

 

[monitoradiation]

If I remembered correctly, finasteride is commonly prescribed also for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplaxia. I'm guessing the dosage in propecia would not be efficacacious for the treatment of BPH - hence proscar.

As for why a 1mg version of the drug is more expensive than the 5mg version... Ask Merck, though I'm sure it's because Propecia is for a cosmetic purpose and proscar is for an actual disorder - figured they'd get away with it.

 

[Esprit]

Good shout, I'm sure that's exactly why, they know people like us will do anything for a head of hair!!!!