My Doctor Recommends One Proscar Tablet a Week
I’m an 18-year old male showing the first stages of male pattern baldness. My doctor has prescribed me 1-tablet of Proscar 5mg, per week. Is this a common dosage? All the literature indicates that 1mg/day of Propecia is the correct dose. If I persist with one tablet of Proscar 5mg/week, is it enough to do the job, considering the short half-life of finasteride?
It seems you already know the answer. The dosage your doctor recommended is incorrect (or in all fairness maybe he forgot to give you or write out specific instructions).
For genetic male pattern balding (androgenic alopecia), the recommended standard dose for finasteride is 1mg a day (not 5mg a week). In the interest of saving money, many patients buy the generic finasteride in 5mg strength and cut the pill into four pieces, taking one piece each day. I realize this is taking finasteride 1.25mg a day, but it isn’t practical to cut a round pill into five equal pieces. Generic finasteride in 1mg strength is not yet legally available in the United States, but the 5mg is (patent laws). Taking 5mg finasteride once a week will not provide the same benefits as taking the proper daily dosage would, as you said, because of the half-life of the drug.
And that is exactly why we need to see the end of Patent laws as we know them today, companies are given way too much time to bleed us. Its evil. Especially when medication has been Government funded or approved.
The real issue is that patents stop other companies from innovating. In fact while I’m thinking about, we should all be lobbying against the company that tried to sue HIstogen. Because that company only cares about your money not your hair. There is nothing more criminal then these companies slowing down the discovery process – its anti human and we want our hair back!