How should I best prepare for finasteride?
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Be sure you work your way up with dosing to avoid hormonal fluctuations and to best learn just how much your body can take. Other than that, a generally healthy lifestyle of average to decent diet, minimal exercise when possible, should do it in most cases.
So when I start I should take maybe 0.5 mg or?
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I am going to start again soon.
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Or even 0.25 if you have to. Just slowly make sure you can handle that, then 0.5 then 1mg. Your body is much better off gradually getting accustomed to the treatment as opposed to jumping on 1mg right away. Too sudden of an exposure could potentially subject you to side-effects.
I would advise you give a month or two to 0.25 then increase it to 0.5mg and give that another month or two then finally 1mg and in the meantime you keep all your fingers crossed that your body reacts calmly.
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Month 1 - 0.25 eod
Month 2 - 0.25 ed
From here asses your hair situation. Increased/decreased shedding. Both are good. Stay at 0.25 if either happen. If nothing happens make month three 0.5mg.
Month 1 - 0.25 eod
Month 2 - 0.25 ed
From here asses your hair situation. Increased/decreased shedding. Both are good. Stay at 0.25 if either happen. If nothing happens make month three 0.5mg.
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Exactly like @Jeju said!
I believe a lot of ppl potentially give themselves sides by starting too high too suddenly so you've got an advantage of knowing better.
An equally important note is that you should NOT fear any initial shed, or even seeing one several months into treatment. It will eventually stabilize. I'd been on 0.5mg EOD for two years until I recently switched to 1.25 ED and guess what? Shedding. Your hormones being kicked into fluctuation will always cause telogen effluvium.
Keep us posted.
I believe a lot of ppl potentially give themselves sides by starting too high too suddenly so you've got an advantage of knowing better.
An equally important note is that you should NOT fear any initial shed, or even seeing one several months into treatment. It will eventually stabilize. I'd been on 0.5mg EOD for two years until I recently switched to 1.25 ED and guess what? Shedding. Your hormones being kicked into fluctuation will always cause telogen effluvium.
Keep us posted.
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Do people with naturally fatty chest have a tendency to develop gyno while taking finasteride?
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If you are fat, start losing weight. Start weight training ideally twice a week, if you can't access a gym buy a pull-up bar and start doing sets combined with pushups. Start eating healthy. Get strong enough so that you can do at least 10 pull-ups and 30 pushups in a row.
Make sure you go running at least once a week to keep your circulation good.
Make sure you go running at least once a week to keep your circulation good.
Naturallly fat or lazy?
Hey man you seem to know a lot, my finasteride also came with minoxidil spray, It says apply twice a day 6 pumps, if I'm starting 0.25, should I also lower my minoxidil spraying?
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I started EOD 0.5, did this for 3-4 months before bumping up to ED then eventually 1mg ED, I think its good to start this way but make sure its convenient as you could get sloppy and hinder results.
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haha thanks but I'm strictly just reporting my own experiements and sharing common sense, none of which will I take any credit for..
Depending on your hair loss situation, I would consider just finasteride alone at first. Especially if you were a norwood ~2 or so. For all you know it just might provide the stability (or perhaps even VERY slight regrowth) you need. minoxidil is great for regrowth but its efficacy will wear off over time and you will only be able to maintain what it regrew for you. Oh and let's not forget - were you to stop it at any point, you will lose any hair it ever grew you...immediately. Keep that in mind before committing yourself to 2x a day treatment on it. Even lowering your dosage from twice to once a day can shake your ground. Hell I've even read of people losing minoxidil hairs to simply switching brands so really, weigh the pros and cons carefully beforehand.
If you're going to use minoxidil anyway you don't have to lower your dosages. It's relatively safe to use compared to finasteride. Though some people do experience cardiovascular side effects, baggy eyes, accelerated skin aging etc but try not to overthink those.
Lastly if you're really committed about minoxidil - for all things holy, please use a microneedling device alongside it. For example a dermaroller/dermapen once a week. It will damn near double your results by enhancing absorption in the scalp tissue and it's beneficial for your skin as well. Start at a lower (0.5) mm needle length then work your way up to 1.5 mm.
Best of luck.
I've already taken a 0.25 dose, is this a problem? I'm about to order a blood test now.
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Naturally. I'm a skinny guy with some chest fat.
Skinny fat? Lift weights.
I agree that finasteride alone at first is a good way to go. Compliance is the name of the game in successfully treating hair loss and patients are much more compliant with finaateride than with minoxidil. Seeing how you do with finadteride first can make your decision on what to do about minoxidil and how committed you are going to be to it much easier.