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Studies have shown that a single dose of finasteride can suppress DHT for 7 days. It must be .5 milligrams or higher to work. By the way, greater than 5 mg is of no extra benefit. I encourage you to read about post finasteride syndrome. The drug is excellent, although there is a potential for side effects that should be understood.Hope this. Good luck!
My first question is why are you wanting to do this?The product is most effective by taking 1 mg everyday.I would suggest getting some advice from the MD that prescribe the med to you since they know your history the best.
It is always a good idea to speak to your doctor before changing your medication regimen. Propecia is a medication you need to take daily.
Studies have not been done. Anecdotal reports would suggest that it is probably close but these studies have not been done. Finasteride is FDA approved for 1 mg daily. Any other uses are 'off label' and one should check with a physician for full review before proceeding down this path.
You can use this drug at half the dose by taking 1 mg every other day. It will be 80% as effective at half the dose.
The FDA has cleared finesteride 1mg for male pattern alopecia to be taken once daily. However, finesteride blocks the 5ar enzyme permanently. It takes 6 hours for the blood levels of finesteride to reduce by half but it takes over a month for a new 5ar to be produced. Therefore, I have some patients who experience side effects from finesteride to reduce the frequency of dosage. Some of my patients take finesteride every other day and still experience hair regrowth.
If you are looking for a solution to keep the hair you have without any side effects, you should take a look at laser technology.Typically 30 minute treatments every other day will help turn miniaturized hairs back to strong growing hairs and will also help halt the progression of future hair...
Topical solutions in general are great tools to combat hair loss if used properly but unfortunately most patients do not comply with the directions.With rogaine, you are to apply in the morning and apply in the evening. The same holds true with nanoxidil however, the proper dosage is 6 pumps 2 ...
If your hair loss is truly from iron deficiency anemia then you should treat the cause. Minoxidil will not cure hair loss. It only works as long as you keep using it.