Will Finasteride Interfere with Beard Hair Production?

Hello Doctor,

I have 2 questions:
I’m actually taking finasteride 1mg, i don’t have a full beard yet and i would like to know if finasteride will interfere with the development of my beard ?

My second question is about Latisse. Is it true that it can cause hair growth and turn vellus hair into terminal hair ? or does it just thicken vellus hair and make them look darker?

Some young men take years to grow a beard, while some never develop a full beard. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with finasteride use, though there have been some rare reports that finasteride can impact the beard (less fullness in the very few that reported it). I don’t know about beard growth development suppression, though. The case here is uncertain, and you would have to stop the drug to see if your beard grew out as you lost hair on your scalp.

As for your 2nd question — The story on Latisse (bimatoprost) seems to indicate that it does change miniaturized hair in the frontal corners into mature terminal hairs in some people, though I’m not clear how consistent it is. It is not FDA approved for use on the scalp and studies are still ongoing, according to what I found on the clinicaltrials.gov site.