I have been using Propecia for about 8 years. Though no measureable regrowth, I feel it slowed or haulted the hair fallout and have been able to keep what I have. I do not believe I have sufferred from any of the “male concerning” side effects. My question is, is there a thing such as a maintenance phase? Meaning, instead of taking the 1mg tablet daily, can I take one every other day and still be alright?
Thanks
The need to take the same dose over and over again for life should continue. If you drop the dose, you run the risk of losing hair. If you do go for every other day, that’s your call to make… but I wouldn’t recommend it. Unlike your case, some patients have reported that after 5 years or so some hair loss picks up again, and in those patients I have been recommending an increase in the dose to 2.5mg each day, provided that there are no side effects. Discuss any prescription medication changes with your prescribing doctor.
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With regards to increasing the dose to 2.5 mg for those who begin to lose hair after 5 year plus mark. It seems a shady area which has people eager to bring back the results they had for many years wanting to know if it will put them back on track again.Common sense tells me its not going to give those results you had for many years back again, and you are now on heading on the downward slide. If 5 mg limits 70% of DHT, and 1 mg limits 55 – 60%, then 2.5 mg is only going to be a marginal increase somewhere in between. Is a 5% or so decrease in DHT really going to make a difference? Who really knows. Maybe it will stop the hair loss for a bit longer, and then start again a few months later – but that is a guess.Forums on the web can be misleading and inaccurate, but a majority of the people of which I can find who say they have tried it seem to have noticable side effects appearing. And some of those that continue on it say it only worked for a while with regards to hair loss. A few also say they have just jumped up to the higher dose recently and have noticed a difference, but then you never hear from them again – or find anyone who has tried it and worked for an extended period. Maybe they found it wasn’t the results the had hoped.Dr. Bernstein’s websitehttp://www.bernsteinmedical.comin the question section mentions graduating up to 5 mg then considering Dustasteride. So in other words your on the road to over the top medicine, and the orginal 2.5 mg was never going to be a long term solution.Your also going to now have to be cutting 5 mg tablets, so bad if you had the rest assurance of using a nicely sealed 1 mg tablet. And i’d seriously get your fertility checked out before jumping into larger doses especially after being on propecia for 5 plus years.I do respect Dr Rassman, and think this is a great website. For those young people losing hair, it can be really painful – and to have a site to help like this I imagine makes all the difference for them.