Can You Take Finasteride 5mg for Hair Loss?
Dr William, in order to prevent hairloss and to regrow some hair in androgenic alopecia patients , can one take finsteride 5mg daily instead of finisteride 1mg?
The recommended dose for finasteride for the treatment of androgenic alopecia is 1mg daily. Taking more than the recommended dose will not be of benefit for hair.
Dr William ,often patients double the dose of finisteride 1mg when they do not see results with 1 mg, and they claim that 2.5mg works more better. Infact Sir your friend Robert M. Bernstein M.D.also double the dose of finisteride 1mg when 1mg does not work in patients . What are your views on it?
5mg most definitely blocks more dht and most definitely grows more hair. This has been shown and documented. Just like 2.5mg of dutasteride grows more hair than 0.5mg. See here: http://www.dutasteride.org
Most every drug on the planet becomes more effective as the dose increases to a certain point. Why would finisteride be any different?? Of course Doctors either don’t know this or they don’t want to risk greater side effects for their patients so they tell a falsehood and say 5mg is not more effective.