Finasteride(hair growth success)

repmks · 09-04-2008, 01:14 AM

last year my hair started thinning in the crown area. it was getting ridiculous so i decided to try finasteride.

for the past month, i have been taking roughly .5mg of finasteride a night just before i sleep. i have not noticed any loss in strength. sex drive is slightly less. other than that everything looks good.

repmks · 09-04-2008, 01:17 AM

**Rugger** · 09-04-2008, 01:30 AM

watch out or it will make you an estrogen crazy psycho *****

repmks · 09-04-2008, 01:38 AM

are you speaking from personal Experience?

Flyboy · 09-04-2008, 07:36 AM

estrogen can make you crazy?

haha - just throw some I3C and/or DIM and maybe even some resveratrol into your daily diet and that should mitigate any increases in estrogen.

congrats on it working for you though.

**Rugger** · 09-04-2008, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by repmks

are you speaking from personal Experience?

I am.

I stopped because my nipples were getting bigger and I was an emo *****. That and i couldn't sell my plasma while I was taking and I need to do that for my beer money.

repmks · 09-04-2008, 10:05 AM

what dosage were you running and for how long?

**Rugger** · 09-04-2008, 10:36 AM

1mg ed and I probably ran it for 3.5-4 months.

Flyboy · 09-04-2008, 11:50 AM

Rugger - did you try any means of controlling excess estrogen?

I've been on fin for about... 8 months now. Started off 0.5mg ED then moved to 1mg ED at about month 6. While I haven't had any estrogen related sides as such (no ***** titties, no emo **** as you put it lol, no decreased sex drive etc) I have noticed that when I included sustain alpha and some standalone resveratrol i did find it easier to drop fat and it gave me a harder look, so there was defo a bit more estrogen floating around than ideal.

currently I'm intending to carry on using it and will be adding I3C/DIM at some point too to help with mopping up excess emo juice...

Unfortunately Fin certainly isn't for everyone... some people get pretty bad sides, others more mild, some none at all. Seems like a lottery.

**Rugger** · 09-04-2008, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Flyboy

Rugger - did you try any means of controlling excess estrogen?

I've been on fin for about... 8 months now. Started off 0.5mg ED then moved to 1mg ED at about month 6. While I haven't had any estrogen related sides as such (no ***** titties, no emo **** as you put it lol, no decreased sex drive etc) I have noticed that when I included sustain alpha and some standalone resveratrol i did find it easier to drop fat and it gave me a harder look, so there was defo a bit more estrogen floating around than ideal.

currently I'm intending to carry on using it and will be adding I3C/DIM at some point too to help with mopping up excess emo juice...

Unfortunately Fin certainly isn't for everyone... some people get pretty bad sides, others more mild, some none at all. Seems like a lottery.

I didn't, but I'm sure it would have helped. Biggest reason I wanted to stop is that I wanted to be able to sell my plasma. If I could do that while taking propecia I would just have used a low dose 0x0 or something.

**mrchristian** · 09-04-2008, 01:24 PM

It is a neverending battle for me to decide whether or not to jump on the fina wagon. I tried it once for a month and I felt pretty crappy. Felt like I had an awful flu and was real weak. I was dosing it at 1mg ED, perhaps I should try at .5mg ED with some Trione?

**Rugger** · 09-04-2008, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by mrchristian

It is a neverending battle for me to decide whether or not to jump on the fina wagon. I tried it once for a month and I felt pretty crappy. Felt like I had an awful flu and was real weak. I was dosing it at 1mg ED, perhaps I should try at .5mg ED with some Trione?

I'd go cheaper with some inhibit-e and take a half dose every day or every other day.

repmks · 09-04-2008, 01:53 PM

im going to try .25mg see if i still reap the benefits. i have read that .5mg was almost as effective in lowering dht in the scalp as 1mg, while not suppressing dht overall in the body was much as 1mg.

repmks · 09-04-2008, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Flyboy

I've been on fin for about... 8 months now. Started off 0.5mg ED then moved to 1mg ED at about month 6.Seems

is there a reason you upped the dosage?

JBerto · 09-05-2008, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Rugger

watch out or it will make you an estrogen crazy psycho *****

I'm taking Finasteride 1mg ED from YEARS without any problem with estrogen.

Flyboy · 09-05-2008, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by repmks

is there a reason you upped the dosage?

mostly cos i got fed up with cutting those bloody pills... so much easier to just pop a 1mg tab out and take it.

fin has an very flat response to dose, dht remains within a few % whether the dose is 0.1mg or 5mg... given that, there should be minimal advantage to be gained from a lower dose as the inhibition effects are very similar, equally there's not much to be gained from a higher dose.