I Want to Up My Propecia Dosage After 9 Years But My Doctors Don’t Agree

I’ve been on propecia for 9 years now. My hair has held up pretty well but in the last year I fell it’s gotten thinner. I’d like to up my dosage of propecia to 2mgs a day or 1.5mg’s a day in hopes that I’ll get better results. Unfortunately, my doctor nor dermatologist believes in upping the dose.

What can I do? After 9 years would increasing my dose help to prolong the benefits? Any help would be appreciated.

If I was your doctor and you had no side effects from the 1mg (which I’d assume not, since you’ve taken it for 9 years), I would go along with a higher dose provided that you do not develop side effects. The studies on the 1mg dose is an idealized study (middle of the bell curve) so there may be benefit of a higher dose in some people.

Did you ask your doctors why they won’t consider increasing the dosage? You always have the option of pleading your case to another doctor.