Hello,
If I wanted to, could I grind a 5mg proscar and dissolve it into 5ml of liquid and drink 1 ml of it a day? The objective being to avoid waste and have a more accurate dosing regiment compared to cutting them into 1.25 mg, segments.
I suppose you can, but I do not know if water will impact the potency. To be safe, I’d just cut a pill into smaller pieces and take 1/4 of it each day. It’s really not that difficult. You don’t have to be so precise. Just as long as you remember to take it everyday, that’s what really counts.
I think the FDA frowns upon companies that release information prematurely, which may impact the ability of those companies to get the FDA clearance they need from clinical trials. While I don’t know about legal restrictions, I doubt any company would want to publish such information early. These companies have a difficult task of balancing what their investors want to know (to keep those that supply the money happy), and the need for good science. Revealing too much before the clinical trials are concluded doesn’t seem to be in their best interest, as reading an incomplete study is essentially like watching a movie with the ending cut off. Lots of things could change by the end.
I do not know the cause of your scalp pain. I have heard some patients complain about scalp pain when they have hair loss, but I had little to offer them. Trichodynia has some interesting ideas behind it, but there’s no proven link between hair loss and scalp pain. This could be a case of a peripheral neuropathy, something that neurologists work with all of the time… or as the reference article says, it could be psychological or caused by a fear of balding.