If I Took 5mg Finasteride Would That Make Me Go to the Bathroom More Often?
Dear doctor how are you doing. I love the website and you have helped me with a lot of my hair loss problems that my regular doctor hasn’t been able to answer. I am 30 yrs old and have been taking finasteride for a decade.
At first, when I started taking the drug, I was shedding a lot and almost thought I would go bald within a month. Thankfully I didn’t. However, now I am not shedding as much so does that mean the drug is losing its effectiveness?
2nd question is, I took 5 mg of proscar the other day just to try it out. If i take 5 mg which is meant for prostate, wouldn’t that make me want to go to the washroom more often? It didn’t, so does that mean the drug is losing its effectiveness.
Thank you very much.
So you just decided one day for the hell of it to take 5mg of finasteride instead of 1mg? I’m not sure I understand why you’d do that, but it won’t cause excess urination, nor would excess urination mean anything about finasteride’s effectiveness on hair loss. And if you’re not shedding while you’re on finasteride, it sounds like it’s being quite effective. Am I missing something here?
Talk to the doctor who prescribed the medication to you. It sounds like you need advice from someone who can examine you and form opinions on your hair situation, since you’re clearly concerned about effectiveness and willing to experiment on yourself.
The lack of basic understanding among posters is extraordinary
Prostate medication for men with enlarged prostates who have difficulty urinating as a symptom of their disease = ? increased urination in a normal male who takes the medication
Dr R has the patience of a saint.
just for the hell of it!!! :D. That’s some funny sh*t right there! Where did this guy come up with his idea about urination??
I read on this website one time, if when taking finasteride you start shedding or have massive sheds, that means new hairs are growing and pushing the old ones out. Can anyone explain that?
Also, I have read individuals taking 5mg of finasteride and not taking it for the next 5 days because they took 5mg already.
for hair loss there is no need to take more than 1mg of finasteride. merck tested up to 80 mg of finasteride and it lowered dht just like 1mg.
DR. WALDSTRAICHER:
Let me just share some experience that we’ve had with finasteride, which is the
Type II inhibitor, obviously, that we’re discussing today. Over the years, we
have gone up to very high doses of finasteride for the development of Proscar,
our 5-milligram dose. Even up to 80 milligrams of finasteride, you don’t
actually get more than about the same 70 percent suppression in DHT that you get
with even lower doses of finasteride.
https://www.hairlosshelp.com/html/FDAPropeciaq1.cfm
I don’t understand why people take more than 1mg lol
Raj
What an incredible thought! Why don’t you write Merck and tell them that they should change the finasteride label to read that a man with baldness should take a 5 mg Propecia dose once daily and then wait another 5 days before taking another dose! And while you’re at it, contact all the oncologists and let them know that they don’t have to give weekly chemotherapy for cancer for the usual 12 weeks. They can just give 6 times the dose on day 1 and be done with it until week 6! Brilliant.
MD:
Before you comment on anything, you have to learn to read and then interpret correctly what has been said before you can comment. In other words, think before you write! There is always some smart ass like you on these forums who thinks he knows it all. Firstly, I don’t condone anybody taking 5 mg finasteride to “just try it out”. However, it’s not my body and I don’t care what other people do. All I was saying, I have read on baldingblog that some people do take 5 mg and then don’t take it for the next 5 days. I am not saying I do that or agree to that. If I did agree, I would suggest taking 30 pills in a day so you don’t have to worry about it for the whole month!
raj: igonore MD. he is just trying to be sarcastic and “know it all” type of guys. People like that have nothing of logic to state, cause simply they have no logic