Easing in - finasteride dosage?

[treeshrew]

I'm hoping to start propecia soon and am considering quartering the pills and starting with .25mg every other day. Then changing over time to .5mg every day, and finally the regular dosage of 1mg/day if I don't notice any bad side effects. Does anyone have any experience or opinions with weening onto the drug in this way? I've heard others hypothesize that introducing finasteride can shock the system, so I'm wondering if a plan like this might help my body adapt more gently. What do people think?

 

[cal]

Good plan in general.

I take 1/4th of a Propecia every day and it works fine. I've gone to half but the sides increase.

But be aware that finasteride's knockdown of DHT levels is probably gonna still be lowering them farther for a long time even at a small dosage. Even the small hits, when take daily, will probably knock the levels down at a faster rate than the body can replenish the DHT. Probably causes a gradual, continual lowering of the DHT levels the longer you're on it.

I find this is true even at my low dosage -- If I don't take a day or two off it once in a while, it gradually starts acting like a higher dosage than I was taking. A short break tends to return things to normal.