ttwarrior1 said:
Doctor here wont give me a prescription, first off he will charge 200 just to see me and thats if he does nothing. Name something else i can get
ttwarrior1, Proscar, Finpecia and Fincar are cheap and proven.
They can be aquired without a prescription quite legally.
ttwarrior1 said:
i will not risk side effects, its all i read here. I read more side effects posts than anything
It is true that you will often read about side effects here, you will also hear about people feeling unwell in a doctors waiting room and a few hours in a oncology department of a hospital will turn up a suprising amount of people with cancer.
Sexual side effect run at about 2%, you read more about these side effects because if people do get side effects they will post about it, often looking for advice, I have never had side effects and have never started a thread to inform everyone that I have not got side effects.
The FDA trials conducted for Merck reported sexual side effects at 2%, this figure is likely to be close to the actual number experienced in the general population, Merck cannot influence the FDAs figures.
Those that do experience side effects will generally seem them subside with continued use.
If you are fixed on not touching finasteride, your options for reducing DHT would be spironolactone, azelaic acid, revivogen and at a push Nizoral shampoo. I would also recommend Proxiphen, but as you say you have not got a buch of money to burn at the moment, I would avoid this as it is very expensive.
Best of luck.