My Pharmacy Stopped Giving Me Propecia In the Bottle with Silica Packet

I have been on propecia for about 10 years now with great results. Still a NW1-1.5. Just last year my pharmacy stopped putting my propecia in the original bottle with the silica packet/capsule to keep it fresh and block out humidity. They started putting it in those orange plastic cylinder bottles. So this past year I have noticed more hair thinning in the crown a bit and on the right side. I have been using this non original bottled propecia for about a year now and noticing thinning. Haven’t noticed much shedding but thinning though. This past month I went to a another popular retail chain and got propecia in the regular bottle with the silica packets/capsules in like how I had it before. I am noticing sheds now around 15-25 hairs but most of them are regular thick dark hairs. Maybe 5 of those hairs on thin miniaturized ones.

My question is was the non original bottle propecia pills destroyed by not having the capsules in it? Is losing 15-30 hairs a day in the shower a sign of propecia working again and I am going through a mini shed that will grow back as a start of a new treatments since the destroyed propecia didnt count as medication since they were not working? Are thick dark hairs a bad sign to shed compared to thin miniaturized ones?

I am so confused on what to do..Any help would be greatly appreciated

I am not a drug manufacturer or a pharmacist, so I can’t speak with direct knowledge about pharmaceutical packaging. Silica packet are there to absorb moisture, so unless you are storing your medication in a sauna, it’s my opinion that it would not have much impact on the efficacy of the drug.

Normal non-balding men and women can lose 100+ a hairs a day, but I don’t quite follow the questions you posed at the end of your email. Losing 15-30 hairs in the shower doesn’t prove that Propecia is working or not. There is a big market for counterfeit drugs, even in good pharmacies, so you should be careful when buying these drugs.

With all that said, I am not sure if a Norwood 1 would really even benefit from Propecia, but that is another topic.