paximperia
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I think that Finpecia is real genuine Finasteride. However...
I must have spent two months paranoid about whether I was taking fakes. I would browse these forums at work, look up everything I could about Cipla, pace back and forth wondering if I made a huge mistake purchasing generics. I switched from Propecia to Finpecia at about 4 months, and right afterward started a light shed. This certainly didn't help my dilemma. I probably spend countless hours looking at my hair from 50 different angles, trying to figure out if I was taking real Finasteride. In the end, it wasn't worth it. $840 for one year will save you all of this paranoid stuff we see on the forums.
IMO buy a year's supply of Propecia FROM A REAL DOCTOR. Once you know what results to expect, and the worst of the sheds are over, then switch to generics (for the rest of your life if you want). If you lose a ton of hair, they're probably fakes. However, if you (more likely) don't lose any hair over the next year, you know that they're real. And better yet, you know what real Propecia results do look like, so you have a basis of comparison.
Just my two cents...
On a side note: If everyone orders generics in the US while the brand-name is still covered under patents (like Propecia is until 2013), it means that the pharmaceutical companies don't make as much money. What that means is that instead of researching hair-loss medications, they're going to research other more profitable medications. In other words, it's stealing all that research away from Merck. They're not going to put as much effort into researching new and better ways to treat male pattern baldness, for what it's worth.
I must have spent two months paranoid about whether I was taking fakes. I would browse these forums at work, look up everything I could about Cipla, pace back and forth wondering if I made a huge mistake purchasing generics. I switched from Propecia to Finpecia at about 4 months, and right afterward started a light shed. This certainly didn't help my dilemma. I probably spend countless hours looking at my hair from 50 different angles, trying to figure out if I was taking real Finasteride. In the end, it wasn't worth it. $840 for one year will save you all of this paranoid stuff we see on the forums.
IMO buy a year's supply of Propecia FROM A REAL DOCTOR. Once you know what results to expect, and the worst of the sheds are over, then switch to generics (for the rest of your life if you want). If you lose a ton of hair, they're probably fakes. However, if you (more likely) don't lose any hair over the next year, you know that they're real. And better yet, you know what real Propecia results do look like, so you have a basis of comparison.
Just my two cents...
On a side note: If everyone orders generics in the US while the brand-name is still covered under patents (like Propecia is until 2013), it means that the pharmaceutical companies don't make as much money. What that means is that instead of researching hair-loss medications, they're going to research other more profitable medications. In other words, it's stealing all that research away from Merck. They're not going to put as much effort into researching new and better ways to treat male pattern baldness, for what it's worth.
