Sensitive System? You May Be Able to Take Less finasteride FTW

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Ok,
Here's my story. I have always had a sensitive system when it comes to taking prescribed medications. I think people know at a certain point whether they have a sensitivity to meds. That means smaller dosages work the same for these people as higher dosages work for the rest of the population. Again, I think at a certain point you figure out if you fall into this category. I do, low doses of about every medication I have taken over the years has worked the same as higher recommended doses. In fact, sometimes the recommended dose of prescribed drugs is too much for me, to the point of being a problem. To cut a long story short, I had this same issue with finasteride.

For the general population, 1mg is fine and has no big sides. But for the rest of the people who have a greater sensitivity to meds, I can see why they are experiencing sides. I couldn't do 1mg, it killed my drive and ability, and that was in my 20's. Now I am back on it in my 30's, at .25 a day, with no sexual sides. Just as before, it has slowed my hair loss down. I don't know if it is going to work as well as 1mg per day, but it might be enough. If it isn't, the furthest I could go is .5mg a day, but figure I will give it some time.

Anyway, the point is that if 1mg is getting you for sides, you probably are more sensitive than the guys who don't have any problems. The plus of this could be that you can get away with less dosage and get the same results. Certainly would be more economical. Thoughts?

 

[el longhorn]

I am trying this "lower dose" theory as well because quite frankly I'm terrified of sides. This is my first time taking finasteride and I started 5 days ago at .25mg and will probably stay at this dose for a while. I still have a fullish head of hair and the way my balls have been aching since starting, I feel pretty confident that my hair can improve at this strength..

 

[Ende]

The difference between 0.25 mg and 1 mg is small, but to support some of what you're saying; I'm very sensitive to drugs in general too.

 

[Bryan]

Considering the pretty "level" effect of finasteride doses, I would consider it astonishingly good luck to eliminate sexual side effects and maintain a favorable effect on hair, just by dropping from 1 mg to 0.25 mg. The original poster is soooo lucky, I think he should try out his State Lottery!

 

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The one thing I do have is the knowledge from my last experience. 1mg caused sides, which luckily went away extremely fast when I stopped (within 2 days). Wouldn't recommend quitting cold turkey though, ease off you are going to.

At .25mg, no sides. Not sure if it would be the case for .5mg per day, but wouldn't personally go further than that. That's the thing, it comes down to each person's level of sensitivity to the medication. I have a hyper sensitive system, so low doses are noticeable. It doesn't have to be a case of taking the good with the bad (ie, treatment works, but you lose sexually), it's just tweaking to find a balance between the two. 1mg might have been helping my hair, but it killed me sexually. I would like the maximum effects without sides, still trying to find more info about the dosage strengths and differences. I have read two standpoints to date;

*.25 is as effective as 1mg
*.25 isn't as effective as 1mg, but .5mg is.

Guess you have to feel it out.

 

[Bryan]

The one thing I do have is the knowledge from my last experience. 1mg caused sides, which luckily went away extremely fast when I stopped (within 2 days).

Even though it takes a week or two for DHT levels to get back to normal, after the last dose of finasteride? :dunno:

No offense to you personally, but I find very questionable many of the statements and claims you've made in this thread. Since side effects go away so quickly for you (just a couple of days), I'd like to see you put yoiurself to the test more scientifically, just to see if these things are real, or (more likely) due to your imagination. One way that would be convincing to me would be to do a trial on yourself that uses one of two different doses of finasteride: 1 mg, or 0.25 mg (you'd have to get the help of a friend to fix the doses for you in private, so you'd have no knowledge of which dose was which). If you could take one of the two doses randomly for a week or so, then switch to another random dose for another week, keeping that up for, say, a month or two; then be able to correctly identify by the way you felt during that time which dose you were getting for each week, then I would consider that to be pretty convincing evidence.