Dropping finasteride from 1mg to 0.5%mg, caused more hair
I have been taking 1mg of finasteride daily for the past 3 years. About a month ago, I cut my dose in half to .5mg by breaking the tablets in half. After about 3 weeks of doing this, I noticed what appeared to be a higher amount of hair falling out when I would run my hands through my hair when wet (like after a shower). Could the drop in dose, produce more hair loss or is it a natural result of my genetic balding?
Merck studied the effectiveness of Finasteride at varying doses The 0.65mg dose was effective at 82% of the 1 mg dose. You may fall in that small subset of men that gets better results on 1 mg. There is no way to be sure other than to increase your dose to 1 mg again and see if it reverses the hair loss going on now
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