Can I Crush Finasteride To Take With Water?
Is it ok to use a pill crusher to turn Proscar (finasteride 5mgs) into a powder to take with a glass of water?
I would imagine that as long as you keep it dry and store it in a air proof container, you can crush it and take it with water. I would not put a few days supply in water, for it may lose its potency. I have no first hand knowledge on the answer to this question and came up with it on a logical basis only (I have no direct experience crushing the pill nor has any patient told me about it).
Can I Crush Finasteride To Take With Water?
No, you can’t depend on it dissolving in water. Use alcohol. It is freely soluble in alcohol. Use something like Everclear or a very high proof vodka. Of course, even in alcohol some of the chalk-like binder won’t dissolve, but the finasteride should.
Oh, buy the way I assume you are using this as a method of dividing doses. For example, dissolve a 5 mg Proscar in 1 ml and then measure out 1 ml if you want to take 1 mg or .5 ml if you want to take .5 mg. This is the kind of think you’d want to use a syringe for. (This as rather than drinking a glass of alcohol.)
Ooops, I meant 5 mg Proscar in 5 ml of alcohol. Otherwise, the other numbers don’t work.
Rick, how about the potency of finasteride after dissolving the drug in alcohol – does it keep its qualities as DHT inhibitor?
You should not Crush Finasteride if you are a female of child bearing years and children should not take this medication or come in contact with crushed or broken Finasteride.
As I understand it finasteride is not soluble in water. So if you crush the tablet into water and then shake the water, it will create a fine suspension. You can then divide the dose, by using an appropriate proportion of the water. As an example crush a 5mg tablet between two spoons and mix with 75ml of water. 1 tablespoon of the water will then give a 1mg dose. Be sure to shake the water before each dose, so the suspension is evenly distributed. Finastaride IS soluble in alcohol, so if you mix it with alcohol you can create a tincture of finastaride. This may also be a useful way of dividing the dose. Similar to before mix a 5mg tablet with 75ml of alcohol. 1 tablespoon of the alcohol (15ml) will give you a 1 mg dose of finasteride. But as others have pointed out finastaride is potentially hazardous so be very careful with the crushed or broken tablets. Some of this can be inferred from the correspondence between Dr Frankel and the FDA.