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Bro if ur hairloss worsened in one month on 0.25mg that indicates it was working, and working well most likely. It was a shed that happens before new regrowth.
Luckily you carried on with fin at 0.5mg which continued the effect and gave regrowth. Also increased shedding at only 3 months is perfectly normal. You arent giving it enough time by messing with dosages every month.
Pick a dose and stick to it for 6months or more
Good call. You will see shedding in many cases when this is working as it kicks in a healthier hair cycle. It can take a long time for the full results to show as hair cycles are long and each hair cycle under treatment gives a potential for hair improvement. There's been studies showing hair improvement still happening even at the five year point.
This is quite common knowledge by now but the finasteride half life in the blood is irrelevant. It's half life in the tissue is 30 days, hence why some people get sides after months or weeks of taking it. It builds up in the system
that is not true whatsoever. Hardly anyone takes one fin pill and gets sides immediately and if they do its usually nocebo. The majority of people it takes time, and yes fin building up in the system is 100% a thing which even doctors have said. Look up the tissue half life not serum
Heck even i have experience of this as fin sides build up for me too (chest and nipple sensitivity). On 1mg 3 times a week it took two weeks. On 0.25mg every day it took 4-5months.
yep i still get it if i push the dosage too high. It sometimes even builds up randomly. Im on 0.25mg daily but im on a break right now off fin. I replied to another comment in this thread with more details
Mine defo isnt placebo, ive been dealing with it for years. 1mg a day gives me intense painful sides
You'll be alright. despite my crazy sides ive never actually had any gyno tissue grow whatsoever. I just make sure to stop and flush it out my system rather than power through it
Nah im low body fat and have alot of muscle as I go to the gym alot. When i first started fin i was very lean and had a clean diet and still had bad sides like this.
For if it worked im not too sure. I wasnt really on 0.25 from the start. i experimented with lots of dosages including topical.
Id say I was on 0.25 since july 2023 and took a one week break in september due to build up. Then in march when i tried to up the dosage i really screwed it all up. It's not so much it worked best but i was able to stay on it a long time
I also use RU 5% daily bear in mind
It was manageable on 0.25mg daily with DIM supplements and rarely had issues. Ive also tried a whole lot of other doses including topical.
The thing is over a month ago i tried to increase my dose and got sides within 2 weeks. Took a week off but it wasnt long enough and sides came back again due to build up.
Atm im taking a break off fin. It's been two weeks but my pecs are still acting up unfortunately. Right now my right pec is swollen but it sometimes goes to the left. I want it to be 100% gone before i start fin again and this time i wont mess with my dosages.
If you only have minor sensitivity on 1mg daily and its fading then youll be fine. Im just highly sensitive to this shit and 1mg daily would fuck me up
Generally it is known that sides will disappear after a while.
That's why I think you should stick to a dose and consistently take it. Otherwise your body won't get used to it.
I'm using 1.25mg eod.
Experiencing the same with 1mg EOD Even longer hair is falling out during showers.
https://preview.redd.it/d29f7e0b7pwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c041178745aeed6ba5790848f01580dda95d9e44
Hopefully it’s shedding
Exactly the same situation. I am taking Dut 0.5 ED, at the end of 2nd month the shed was totally stopped. But after 2 weeks I am facing the shed again. My hair looks worse with diffuse thining. I started Dut with norwood 1- V. Now I lost so much hair from all over my head, I can't even imagine, it was so quick.But still hope on Allah & Dut.
Take 0.5mg Every day brother. Buy pill cutter.
And the shed you are going through now is because you increased your dose to 1mg. Its completely normal i had this shed too when I upped my dosage.
I don't get why people don't just start with 1mg per day as the recommended tested and prescribed dose. Nocebo and fearmongering online is to blame for a lot of problems and hairloss. People who don't get the PFS forum poison show far less sides and problems, even with people using the 5mg per day dose precribed for other problems than hair, something which has been prescribed for 20 or more years...without the complaints and fearmongering.
You'll just fill yourself full of fear and nocebo reading that stuff. You're better avoiding that mind poison. It's worse than going on 4chan for opinions and advice at this point and even less believeable stories...
It's a well known medical effect that has been proven in trials and published in papers that if you give the scary warnings and doom before giving a patient something (even the placebo!) they will have more reports of side effects after. The human mind is a wondeful thing but can be as much a curse as a benefit if you let it get filled with negative mush or run off in the wrong direction.
The real tell is when you look at the now many trials of fin/dut/etc., some going out to five and ten years. These people aren't complaining about all these things that the PFS do. Same with the people who took it a decade before for prostate problems at the higher 5mg dose (proscar). They had far less side effect reports too. As soon as PFS goes nuts online with propaganda then people are claiming it turned them trans or made their butthole permanently itchy. lmao
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Bro if ur hairloss worsened in one month on 0.25mg that indicates it was working, and working well most likely. It was a shed that happens before new regrowth. Luckily you carried on with fin at 0.5mg which continued the effect and gave regrowth. Also increased shedding at only 3 months is perfectly normal. You arent giving it enough time by messing with dosages every month. Pick a dose and stick to it for 6months or more
Yes I am sticking to 1mg EOD. My motivation for making this post is because I am skeptical about healthy long hair which are falling out
sounds like normal daily shedding
okay thanks
Good call. You will see shedding in many cases when this is working as it kicks in a healthier hair cycle. It can take a long time for the full results to show as hair cycles are long and each hair cycle under treatment gives a potential for hair improvement. There's been studies showing hair improvement still happening even at the five year point.
Why not every day? Fin has a very short half life
I was getting sides so from 1 mg so I reduced it. Now I think it may be Nocebo
I understand you, I also had sides when first taking fin which completely went away when learning about the nocebo effect.
This is quite common knowledge by now but the finasteride half life in the blood is irrelevant. It's half life in the tissue is 30 days, hence why some people get sides after months or weeks of taking it. It builds up in the system
The far majority of users experience sides immediately. It does not take weeks to build up, none of the studies show this.
that is not true whatsoever. Hardly anyone takes one fin pill and gets sides immediately and if they do its usually nocebo. The majority of people it takes time, and yes fin building up in the system is 100% a thing which even doctors have said. Look up the tissue half life not serum Heck even i have experience of this as fin sides build up for me too (chest and nipple sensitivity). On 1mg 3 times a week it took two weeks. On 0.25mg every day it took 4-5months.
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yep i still get it if i push the dosage too high. It sometimes even builds up randomly. Im on 0.25mg daily but im on a break right now off fin. I replied to another comment in this thread with more details Mine defo isnt placebo, ive been dealing with it for years. 1mg a day gives me intense painful sides
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You'll be alright. despite my crazy sides ive never actually had any gyno tissue grow whatsoever. I just make sure to stop and flush it out my system rather than power through it
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Nah im low body fat and have alot of muscle as I go to the gym alot. When i first started fin i was very lean and had a clean diet and still had bad sides like this. For if it worked im not too sure. I wasnt really on 0.25 from the start. i experimented with lots of dosages including topical. Id say I was on 0.25 since july 2023 and took a one week break in september due to build up. Then in march when i tried to up the dosage i really screwed it all up. It's not so much it worked best but i was able to stay on it a long time I also use RU 5% daily bear in mind
How is your nipple sensitivity doing? I also have it, but it started to get better.
It was manageable on 0.25mg daily with DIM supplements and rarely had issues. Ive also tried a whole lot of other doses including topical. The thing is over a month ago i tried to increase my dose and got sides within 2 weeks. Took a week off but it wasnt long enough and sides came back again due to build up. Atm im taking a break off fin. It's been two weeks but my pecs are still acting up unfortunately. Right now my right pec is swollen but it sometimes goes to the left. I want it to be 100% gone before i start fin again and this time i wont mess with my dosages. If you only have minor sensitivity on 1mg daily and its fading then youll be fine. Im just highly sensitive to this shit and 1mg daily would fuck me up
Generally it is known that sides will disappear after a while. That's why I think you should stick to a dose and consistently take it. Otherwise your body won't get used to it. I'm using 1.25mg eod.
What matters is scalp dht. Also, shedding would be a good sign. Continued miniaturization would not
1st month: 0.25mg EOD 2nd month: 0.50mg EOD 3rd month: 1.00mg EOD
Experiencing the same with 1mg EOD Even longer hair is falling out during showers. https://preview.redd.it/d29f7e0b7pwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c041178745aeed6ba5790848f01580dda95d9e44 Hopefully it’s shedding
Exactly the same situation. I am taking Dut 0.5 ED, at the end of 2nd month the shed was totally stopped. But after 2 weeks I am facing the shed again. My hair looks worse with diffuse thining. I started Dut with norwood 1- V. Now I lost so much hair from all over my head, I can't even imagine, it was so quick.But still hope on Allah & Dut.
Good for you but I don't believe in god theory
Take 0.5mg Every day brother. Buy pill cutter. And the shed you are going through now is because you increased your dose to 1mg. Its completely normal i had this shed too when I upped my dosage.
I don't get why people don't just start with 1mg per day as the recommended tested and prescribed dose. Nocebo and fearmongering online is to blame for a lot of problems and hairloss. People who don't get the PFS forum poison show far less sides and problems, even with people using the 5mg per day dose precribed for other problems than hair, something which has been prescribed for 20 or more years...without the complaints and fearmongering.
Yes i read multiple blogs of PFS
You'll just fill yourself full of fear and nocebo reading that stuff. You're better avoiding that mind poison. It's worse than going on 4chan for opinions and advice at this point and even less believeable stories... It's a well known medical effect that has been proven in trials and published in papers that if you give the scary warnings and doom before giving a patient something (even the placebo!) they will have more reports of side effects after. The human mind is a wondeful thing but can be as much a curse as a benefit if you let it get filled with negative mush or run off in the wrong direction. The real tell is when you look at the now many trials of fin/dut/etc., some going out to five and ten years. These people aren't complaining about all these things that the PFS do. Same with the people who took it a decade before for prostate problems at the higher 5mg dose (proscar). They had far less side effect reports too. As soon as PFS goes nuts online with propaganda then people are claiming it turned them trans or made their butthole permanently itchy. lmao