Eeshh be careful man.. this is anecdotal but I don't think you should up your dose just to lower it.. that extra dht u get when u go back to 1mg may effect you negatively. Good luck though!
Thanks gi.joey I appreciate your concern. Remember though, I am a medic and looked into this. It could back fire of course as far as hair is concerned once I lower it.
In terms of DHT inhibition the difference is slight between 1 mg and 5 mg - like 1%! Even then in some clinical trials 1 mg managed to get up to 71% after 40 odd days of dosing if my memory serves me well.
Main reason is 5 mg grows a bit more than 1 mg. Like 90 odd hairs to 70 odd as more finasteride is in your blood. For BPH 5 mg is prescribed despite no extra DHT inhibition than 1 mg so the amount in your system can make a difference.
In the clinical trials people were taking 80 mg of finasteride per day, if you tolerate it well it's all good.
There is eventually a point where there are diminishing returns and it's probably around the 5 mg mark. 1 mg is indeed best long term/0.625.
Spencer Kobren was on 7.5 mg daily for a while.
Definitely my right temple is going from Norwood 3 to 2.5 like the one on the left. Forelock growing too. Nothing massively changing yet though as expected.
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No sorry that is wrong. Look at the finasteride dosage curve. If you are taking .5mg every other day, essentially .25mg a day you are short changing yourself. You should be taking at least .5mg daily for best chance of finasteride working. How the OP can be upset at 10 months when the majority of it was on such a low dose and suggest jumping to dutasteride is beyond me.
Give 1mg of finasteride daily a chance, try if for a year before before coming out guns blazing with dutasteride. Like I said it took me about 1-2 years before I notice my hair thickening. I've jumped on dutasteride now for the last 6 months after 10 years on finasteride as I was creeping back to baseline. dutasteride is a last resort IMO.
0.2 daily is 80% effective as 1 mg. OP wants growth so definitely worth trying a higher dose. In terms of "halting powers" of finasteride I believe 0.2 daily and above will be enough for people at least for a while. Anything above 0.2 mg reduces DHT to castrate levels and we all know how effective that is from the study population of pseduohermaphrodites.
I was on 1/8 proscar daily (0.625 mg) for the first 6 months, stuff was working real well.
