Could finasteride purchased from pharmacy be fake?

[shuji123]

Hi guys, would like to hear your thoughts on this one.
Could finasteride purchased from pharmacy be fake? I've the slightest suspicion, maybe i'm a worry child.

 

[beaner]

It could be fake but chances are highly in favor that it's not.

Why do you think it might be?

 

[shuji123]

Mainly because I still lose a fair bit of hair everyday and no visible improvement in my crown and frontal area after 1 year of use (8 months of 1mg EOD, and 4 months of 1mg daily currently).
and I feel that some batches of the drug seems to reduce my libido more than other batches from another pharmacy, but that could just be my imagination. :whistle:

How does the pharmacy get their supply of the drug anyway? through MSD directly? How could there still be a chance that it's fake?

 

[beaner]

Mainly because I still lose a fair bit of hair everyday and no visible improvement in my crown and frontal area after 1 year of use (8 months of 1mg EOD, and 4 months of 1mg daily currently).

You may be a non-responder. Has your hair gotten worse or have you maintained?

and I feel that some batches of the drug seems to reduce my libido more than other batches from another pharmacy, but that could just be my imagination. :whistle:

It probably is your imagination.

How does the pharmacy get their supply of the drug anyway? through MSD directly? How could there still be a chance that it's fake?

I don't know how pharmacies get their supply but I can assume it's done in a reliable manner assuming you're talking about real pharmacies. I should have clarified that the chances of your finasteride being fake are astronomically small in my opinion. While there is a small chance of fake drugs finding their way into legitimate brick and mortar pharmacies, I don't think finasteride would be one of them simply because it is not a "popular" drug. I saw a list once of the most prescribed drugs and finasteride wasn't even in the top 100. I highly doubt that finasteride has ever been counterfeited.

 

[shuji123]

hey beaner,

thanks for your reply. I guess that rules out the fact that finasteride I bought could be fake then.

Yeah, I may be a non-responder.. My thinning on the crown has been the same by the naked eye as when I first started finasteride, which is around a year ago. But I don't know if that means I've maintained, could be just a gradual thinning process that takes longer to notice.
I kind of judged finasteride being not that effective for me from hair falls per day hasn't declined at all, maybe even increased a bit. And that the problem area is still itchy. I don't know if that is the right mindset to judge.