Taking finasteride for 6 months only worth it?

[uphillbattle]

Hey guys I was just wondering if taking a small dose of finasteride weekly for 6 months would be worth doing. I am considering taking 1mg of finasteride per week, since I'm trying to get a small amount of temple hair back on the left side(the rest of my hair is reasonably thick).

Also I have really oily skin and have read about hyperandrogenicity and such and don't want to make anything worse, would this be a problem?

And if I stop finasteride after 6 mos use would I retain any of the new hair? Are there any stats on baseline hair levels and post finasteride hair levels?

 

[elephant_knight]

Taking finasteride for only six months is not worth doing at all. Finasteride needs to be used permanently in order for it to work. You drop it and you star loosing hair again, as easy as that.

 

[uphillbattle]

Man I'm scared of losing my existing hair on finasteride too. Maybe I'll have to consider topical spironolactone or something then. Anybody retain even a little of what they gained after stopping finasteride?

 

[Primo]

Man I'm scared of losing my existing hair on finasteride too. Maybe I'll have to consider topical spironolactone or something then. Anybody retain even a little of what they gained after stopping finasteride?

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If you stop any treatment, finasteride, spironolactone, minoxidil you will lose all of the hair you have regrown, you can't just take these treatments one off for few a few months and expect permanent miracles you will only mantain your progress if you carry on taking them daily, much as they might suck. Espcecially if like me, you're targeting the temple area where male pattern baldness is most aggressive and it's hardest to get results.

Also you're extremely unlikely to lose existing hair on finasteride, the worst you can expect is to retain what you already have. Sure there's a bunch of ocd-suffering people on this forum complaining about apparent hair loss from finasteride and there are few other genuinely unlucky people who have had an adverse reaction, but the only thing that matters here is the clinical stats data which proves indisputably that the vast majority of people have success with finasteride treatment.

I've been taking finasteride for nearly 9 months now and yeah the first 6 months were rough, you get a couple of heavy sheds and you hairline looks like sh*t, but now at the 9month mark the regrowth and thickening has finally kicked in and my hairline hasn't looked this good since 2008.... not bad for 9months work.

The full results don't generally kick in until 12-18 months, so patience is key.

If you're serious about saving your hairline, get on a finasteride and minoxidil combo because nothing else out there right now will work effectively apart from a hair transplant, lol. Like I said the clinical data proves finasteride is far and away the most effective, sure-thing, treatment we have.

spironolactone is an unproven treatment and taken in oral form is proven to cause nasty feminizing side effects and wouldn't waste your time and yourself at risk for a treatment that doesn't even have a proven success rate like the finasteride+minoxidil combo.

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[Quantum Cat]

spironolactone is an unproven treatment and taken in oral form is proven to cause nasty feminizing side effects and wouldn't waste your time and yourself at risk for a treatment that doesn't even have a proven success rate like the finasteride+minoxidil combo.

but used topically spironolactone is safe right? Or could it absorb into your bloodstream and cause the nasty feminising effects?

 

[Primo]

but used topically spironolactone is safe right? Or could it absorb into your bloodstream and cause the nasty feminising effects?

Well if topical finasteride/dutasteride/ru can be absorbed systematically then i see no reason why the same can't be possible for topical spironolactone.

There is one study where people smeared their whole bodies in spironolactone cream and had no sides, but the sample size was 6 people if I remember correctly, so hardly conclusive evidence there.

I wouldn't risk it, especially when you consider it's primary side effect when taken orally is bad gyno, which suggests its causes massive elevation in estrogen levels and probably plenty of other nasty knock on feminizing side effects... all that for a mediocre anti androgen which is much less effective than finasteride.

 

[uphillbattle]

If you stop any treatment, finasteride, spironolactone, minoxidil you will lose all of the hair you have regrown, you can't just take these treatments one off for few a few months and expect permanent miracles you will only mantain your progress if you carry on taking them daily, much as they might suck. Espcecially if like me, you're targeting the temple area where male pattern baldness is most aggressive and it's hardest to get results.

Also you're extremely unlikely to lose existing hair on finasteride, the worst you can expect is to retain what you already have. Sure there's a bunch of ocd-suffering people on this forum complaining about apparent hair loss from finasteride and there are few other genuinely unlucky people who have had an adverse reaction, but the only thing that matters here is the clinical stats data which proves indisputably that the vast majority of people have success with finasteride treatment.

I've been taking finasteride for nearly 9 months now and yeah the first 6 months were rough, you get a couple of heavy sheds and you hairline looks like sh*t, but now at the 9month mark the regrowth and thickening has finally kicked in and my hairline hasn't looked this good since 2008.... not bad for 9months work.

The full results don't generally kick in until 12-18 months, so patience is key.

If you're serious about saving your hairline, get on a finasteride and minoxidil combo because nothing else out there right now will work effectively apart from a hair transplant, lol. Like I said the clinical data proves finasteride is far and away the most effective, sure-thing, treatment we have.

Yeah I've read a lot of threads that have made me weary of finasteride. I read on another forum that one user retained like 50% of what he had gained with finasteride after stopping, but it is just anecdotal nevertheless.

Also I've read that people who have oily skin might have hormones that counteract the effects of finasteride by upregulating test and making you hyperandrogenic, hence leading to increased hair loss?

Maybe I could do a year on it and taper off and stop. I'm still not entirely sure whether my hair loss was telogen related or if I just hadn't noticed male pattern baldness for years, so I'm sorta scared that if I go on finasteride and come off my body might get hyperandrogenic on it in a way and aggravate any male pattern baldness when I come off it. Sorry to importune you, I have BDD...

 

[Quantum Cat]

taking 1mg per week is absolutely pointless. And unfortunately finasteride needs to be taken indefinitely, unless you find it doesn't help (After about 1-2 years) in which case you might as well stop

 

[008]

DHT levels will drop for around 7 days before they return back to normal this is of one dose of finasteride.