Is Finasteride Worth Another Try I’m My Situation?

[1212]

I’m 25, diffuse thinning bad all over scalp where you can see the horseshoe pattern underneath my hair. My Temples are also pretty receded. I’ve tried finasteride before but I had no libido 2 months in and was feeling depressed mostly from the drug I think.

On the other hand, my libido was sky high when I first started taking finasteride (higher than usual) before it dropped off completely so maybe over time it could have evened out? Also my hair appeared noticeably to be thickening up in that short 2 month period before I quit. people even commented that it looked darker and thicker.

I think My hair was responding well in a short amount of time but I ultimately quit because of the side effects. I’m thinking of trying it again to thicken up my hair, possibly at a 0.5 mg instead of 1mg to neutralize sides.
Any thoughts on taking a half dose or even a quarter dose at 0.25 mg to mitigate sides? Topical finasteride is also an option but it’s 3x as expensive I believe and much harder to find.

 

[Michael1986]

Was your libido completely gone when taking finasteride, or was it still there a little bit? Did finasteride also cause erectile dysfunction in your case? The depression you experienced might not have been caused by the finasteride. There are so many other things that can cause depression, after all.

Reducing your finasteride dosage to reduce sides is a bit tricky, because even a dose as low as 0.2mg inhibits almost as much DHT as a dose of 5mg, and there's only a very narrow dosage range between the upper limit dose that finasteride will not inhibit enough DHT to help your hair, and the lower limit dose that finasteride will inhibit nearly all of your DHT. Also, this dosage range is different for each person. Finding this sweet spot where you will still get enough DHT inhibition to noticeably help your hair, while not enough to cause sides to the same extent as those caused by the 1mg dose, is tricky, and to find it you have to experiment with different doses. But it might be worth going down this route in your case. I know that some guys on this forum have attempted going down this route of micro-dosing to reduce sides. I don't know how much success they had.

Alternatively, you could look into using topical finasteride. Its side-effects are significantly milder than those of oral finasteride, but it is also less effective as a hair loss treatment.

 

[1212]

Was your libido completely gone when taking finasteride, or was it still there a little bit? Did finasteride also cause erectile dysfunction in your case? The depression you experienced might not have been caused by the finasteride. There are so many other things that can cause depression, after all.

Reducing your finasteride dosage to reduce sides is a bit tricky, because even a dose as low as 0.2mg inhibits almost as much DHT as a dose of 5mg, and there's only a very narrow dosage range between the upper limit dose that finasteride will not inhibit enough DHT to help your hair, and the lower limit dose that finasteride will inhibit nearly all of your DHT. Also, this dosage range is different for each person. Finding this sweet spot where you will still get enough DHT inhibition to noticeably help your hair, while not enough to cause sides to the same extent as those caused by the 1mg dose, is tricky, and to find it you have to experiment with different doses. But it might be worth going down this route in your case. I know that some guys on this forum have attempted going down this route of micro-dosing to reduce sides. I don't know how much success they had.

Alternatively, you could look into using topical finasteride. Its side-effects are significantly milder than those of oral finasteride, but it is also less effective as a hair loss treatment.

Thanks for the response.
My libido seemed to be completely gone. I didn't suffer from ED but unless I was trying to get hard, nothing would happen for days which is not normal for me. It took a few months for it to fully recover to where now my libido is back to being pretty high.

I'm curious to know if anyone here has had success micro-dosing finasteride.. The only way I'd be willing to take it is if there were virtually no sides, which I'm hoping would be the case with a lower dose. Topical sounds like the safest option, but I don't really know where to get it without minoxidil compounded in. If you or anyone have any online sources, that'd be legit.

 

[Kambrira159]

Get on topical finasteride. 0.25-0.5mg a day. Just buy it online or crush the pills yourself. It's genuinely not that expensive I'm paying about 20 dollars a month. Never had a side effect.

 

[1212]

Get on topical finasteride. 0.25-0.5mg a day. Just buy it online or crush the pills yourself. It's genuinely not that expensive I'm paying about 20 dollars a month. Never had a side effect.

Where do you buy it online?

 

[Kambrira159]

Where do you buy it online?

Minoxidilmax (essengen-6 plus 0.5ml-1ml a day), or you could buy morr-f from ebay, or some US pharmacies will make it for you or that Italian pharmacy Farmacia Paratia (rip off artists).

 

[1212]

Minoxidilmax (essengen-6 plus 0.5ml-1ml a day), or you could buy morr-f from ebay, or some US pharmacies will make it for you or that Italian pharmacy Farmacia Paratia (rip off artists).

Thanks. Are there any non-minoxidil finasteride solutions? I just want the topical finasteride, topical min gave my forehead wrinkles

 

[Who Farted]

Yes, the issue is going to be finding someone to compound it for you. That of course, depends on where you are located.

 

[Kambrira159]

Thanks. Are there any non-minoxidil finasteride solutions? I just want the topical finasteride, topical min gave my forehead wrinkles

Yes minoxidilmax have finasteride only topical as well.