Need Advice on Propecia Dosage and Gyno Sides

[Tiger's Bald Spot]

Hello,

Long story short: I am a 25 year old and just started losing my hair last year.

I took .5 mg of finasteride/day for approximately one week last month. At the end of the week, I developed pain in both pecs and came off the drug, believing it to be gyno. The pain subsided 3-5 days later.

Last week, I decided to try finasteride again, but this time with some arimidex (anti-estrogen on hand). I did .25 mg/day of finasteride, but once again developed pain in my pec by day 4. Although the pain didn't seem to be as bad this time, I went off the drug and began taking the arimidex.

Anyways, I have noticed that I developed a small pebble under each nipple. Obviously this is some glandular development and a precursor to gyno.

Whatever finasteride is doing to me, it is extremely effective. Besides the gyno, I noticed that each time I went on the drug I developed 5-7 thick black hairs in and along my hairline. I know that the drug isn't supposed to work that fast, but I am extremely certain that the hairs only showed up when I took the drug, and the hairs that came in from the first treatment only began to grow again when I started taking it for the second time.

Anyways, I am looking for some advice on my options going forward. Does anyone have that graph that showed serum DHT levels from the various finasteride dosages 48-72 hours out from the dose? That might help.

Here are what I believe are my options. Any advice would be much appreciated:

1. Try taking .05 mg finasteride per day.
-I believe that this is the lowest dose that does not have a full DHT suppression effect. Anyone know how I could get a dose this low? How would I go about diluting the finasteride, or should I get a liquid version from a research site?

2. Take .25 mg every third day
-This might be more tolerable to my system, but I am not sure where my DHT will be at by the end of the third day. Anyone have any guesses?

3. Take .25 mg every other day, take Nolvadex (anti-SERM) in order to combat gyno.
- See whether hormone levels stabilize after 3-6 months, try to come off Nolvadex.


I don't mind developing some tiny gyno lumps, but obviously I don't want to take finasteride if it will make them large or particularly noticeable. Does anybody know whether finasteride gyno only reaches a certain size or can it become large?


Thanks!

 

[follicle84]

There are few who go into this teritory you are in with mixing drugs. All i can advise is try to get some blood work done by your doctor on a frequent basis to make sure your estrogen levels dont go above normal range. Since gyno is your concern, a SERM like tomaxifen (Novadex) maybe the answer to this problem. The good news is i took finestride 2months ago and quit due to sides (i too got breast pain) and about 90% of the gyno has dissapeared since. This means most of it isnt permanent and is just fat and water retention. It takes weeks maybe months to produce real gyno.

Try taking .05 mg finasteride per day.
-I believe that this is the lowest dose that does not have a full DHT suppression effect. Anyone know how I could get a dose this low? How would I go about diluting the finasteride, or should I get a liquid version from a research site?

That might be tricky im not sure if a pill cutter will cut such a low dose. I can cut close to a 16th of a pill (0.0625mg) but theirs no way i can be sure thats accurate. Why do you want to liquidize finasteride? Do you want to use it as a topical? I do this now and can honestly say side effects are much less. Too early to report on results however.

 

[Tiger's Bald Spot]

The adding in of anti-e and SERMs troubled me at first too, but it is extremely common in bodybuilding circles and these drugs have been used in clinical settings with finasteride to treat sides.

The only problem is that Nolvadex isn't a permanent solution - I am rather certain that it loses effectiveness within a few years of use.

I only thought about diluting finasteride in order to get the smaller dose. If I could cut it down to .125 that might work.

Anyone have any educated guesses as to which might be the best dosing option? An every other day or every third day?