I want to eliminate my body hair and beard and regrow my headhair. I figured this treatment would give top reults. Anyone else done this before? Anyone else wanted something similar but used a different med?

Finasteride 15mg/day!

I don't think it will help regrow hair any faster than a more conservative dose. MTF transsexuals often get prescribed 5mg/day. I've read there's some evidence that for hair regrowth even a smaller than 1mg dose/day is almost the same. Dutasteride (Avodart) blocks both forms of DHT and has a much longer half life; so even if you didn't take it each day it's still in your system.

Depending on how long you've lost your scalp hair, it may not grow back. The follicle closes or scars over. As for body hair you'd do better to get electrolysis or laser hair removal, but they can be expensive and require follow up treatments.

I would recommend you contact a medical professional before just taking such a high dose of Finasteride. You might find a combination therapy works best.

Can finasteride be purchased without a prescription and if so how and where. I would like to start on a program to stop scalp hair loss and eventual hair regrowth. A bonus would be reduced T level.

wannabenullo (imported) wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:05 pm Can finasteride be purchased without a prescription and if so how and where. I would like to start on a program to stop scalp hair loss and eventual hair regrowth. A bonus would be reduced T level.

I use Dutas, a generic form of Avodart (Dutasteride) manufactured in India and available at http://www.inhousepharmacy.biz/. Avodart is also available there, but it's way more expensive. I've been using Dutas along with Rogaine and a couple other things, and I'm regrowing hair. It's a damn slow progress, but I have definitely grown new hair. You can purchase Finasteride there, too, but Dutasteride is much more effective.

A possible side effect of Dutasteride, experienced by me and others, is an ability to ejaculate. I could still orgasm, but they were completely dry. That's since changed. Sometimes they're dry, and sometimes they're not.

so what doseage of duasteride would you recommend to achieve these results?

an_nonymous (imported) wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:20 pm so what doseage of duasteride would you recommend to achieve these results?

They come in 0.5 mg capsules, which is what I use. I've seen some recommendations to use more, 2.5 mg I think, for optimum hair restoration, but I would consult a doctor before using that much.

For years I've been part of group study on prostate cancer. It originated to study whether vitamin E or selinium was beneficial in preventing it. It has turned out that neither were but the study is still going on to look at other things. I just received a questionaire last week that was inquiring if I have any issues with PC and specifically if I had used finasteride or duasteride. I'm not suggesting that there is a link but it is being explored. FYI

There is a natural product called "Saw Palmetto" that works the same as "Finasteride". It is available without prescription. It is good to reduce prostate enlargement, stop hair falling, slow body hair growth and it is also used as chemical castration with all the positive and negative effects. I've used it for 8 years and when I've stopped I could not produce enough testosterone anymore. I'm on TRT now and my P.S.A. is at a teenager level, perhaps it is because I've used Saw Palmetto.

clysmaniac (imported) wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:27 am For years I've been part of group study on prostate cancer. It originated to study whether vitamin E or selinium was beneficial in preventing it. It has turned out that neither were but the study is still going on to look at other things. I just received a questionaire last week that was inquiring if I have any issues with PC and specifically if I had used finasteride or duasteride. I'm not suggesting that there is a link but it is being explored. FYI

Actually, some studies suggest that duasteride helps prevent prostate cancer.

Dutasteride (Avodart), a commonly prescribed drug to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia, has been shown to lower the risk of prostate cancer (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150086.php) by 23 percent in men with an increased risk of the disease, according to results of an international clinical trial presented yesterday at the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting in Chicago. Data from the REDUCE Trial was presented to members during the plenary session, and lead investigator Gerald Andriole, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, held a special session for interested media at 12:15 p.m. in the AUA Press Suite.

The REDUCE trial is the first to examine chemoprevention for prostate cancer in men at increased risk for the disease. The trial involved 8,200 men ages 50 - 75 who were randomly assigned to receive a placebo or a daily 0.5 mg dose of dutasteride (http://www.medilexicon.com/drugs/dutasteride.php). Men in the study had elevated PSA levels (2.5 - 10 ng/ml) indicating that they were at increased risk of prostate cancer. They had undergone biopsies that found no evidence of cancer (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/ca ... cancer.php) within six months prior to enrolling in the trial. Therefore these men either did not have prostate cancer or possibly had microscopic tumors that were too small to be detected by the pre-study biopsy.

The investigators performed scheduled biopsies on the men two years after they enrolled in the study and again after four years. After two years, prostate cancer was found in 17.2 percent of the men who took a placebo, compared with 13.4 percent who took dutasteride. After four years, prostate cancer was diagnosed in another 11.8 percent of men who received a placebo and 9.1 percent who received dutasteride.

"In these men, the most likely explanation is that dutasteride worked by shrinking tumors and/or slowing their growth, thereby making them less likely to be detected by a biopsy," Dr. Andriole said. "This drug has the potential to offer many thousands of men a way to reduce their risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and, as a result, more men could avoid treatment for prostate cancer and the cost and unwanted side effects associated with treatment."

The investigators found that there was no greater risk for the men who did develop prostate cancer to have aggressive tumors. This outcome was closely watched because an earlier trial of a similar BPH drug - finasteride (Proscar (http://www.medilexicon.com/drugs/proscar.php)) - produced controversial results with regard to the risk of more aggressive tumors in those men who developed prostate cancer while on finasteride. An initial analysis of the finasteride data suggested that there was an increased risk for men to have prostate cancer with higher Gleason scores but a later analysis suggested that there is probably no greater risk for these men to develop higher grade prostate cancer.

Over the course of the current study, 6.8 percent of men in the placebo group and 6.7 percent of men in the dutasteride group were found to have aggressive, high-grade tumors, defined as a Gleason score of 7 - 10.

"We are very encouraged by this finding," Dr. Andriole says. "Clearly, the data show dutasteride did not lead to more high-grade tumors, even though they would have been easier to detect in the dutasteride-treated men due to their smaller prostates."

The REDUCE (Reduction by Dutasteride of Prostate Cancer Events) trial was conducted at 250 sites in 42 countries around the world. The study was funded by GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Andriole is chairman of the REDUCE steering committee and a consultant for the company.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147962.php

Or perhaps they were looking to see if there were positive results as well. Based on your info, that could be a possibility. Data is always good to have.