Yeah i don't know either if it's legal since a prescription is needed... For sure it would be confiscated at customs. I'm sure there are some manufacturers in Europe also, some private pharmacies or something but i really tried to stay away from it even if i know that it's the only working thing for hair loss, but i come from a family of doctors and i was and am surrounded by a lot of them since i was a child and from 90% of them i heard only negative things about Finasteride in general, from the 5mg one to the 1mg one. Not to mention that in the country i come from, 90% of dermatologists refuse to prescribe Fin because of their experience with it and because of the recent studies, stories, warnings, etc....
I am very documented about it, about it's history and how it was discovered and even if i am very open minded when it comes to this things i just can't ignore all the contradictory info regarding it, all the other studies like the one from the Korean Journal ( "The Dark Side of 5α-Reductase Inhibitors' Therapy: Sexual Dysfunction, High Gleason Grade Prostate Cancer and Depression" ), i just can't ignore all the anecdotal reports of people reporting PFS and many other things and first of all i just can't ignore the fact that it's manufacturer is the same producer of VIOXX and i'm sure you are aware of it's story and by the recent news from Reuters in which Merk was found to have kept secret permanent or persistent sides of Fin, he manipulates studies like he did in the VIOXX case also, they keep it under seal because the law permits them, he lied about the percentages of people who get sides and the way they conducted the studies are very poor and misinformative...
Not to mention the way the FDA approves this drugs based only on the manufacturers studies and not conducting studies themselves before approval, don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but i am very disappointed on how the world looks and runs lately, from many points of view and in every domain... I really hope that Breezula comes out and that it's safe like they say it is and maybe get a transplant of two, i don't see any other option. Minox gave me heart sides, fatigue and hypertrichosis, and because i don't think i have enough sulfotransferase enzymes for it to work it only made my hair loss worse, from every point of view, only shedding and taking the life out of my remaining hair. Luckily that i used it only a couple of months and all of the sides went away after stopping the treatment...
Let's hope for the best and let's hope that somebody will find in the future the actual cause of this, the root cause of it, not only blaming serum DHT and trying to destroy it, even if the majority of people this days know for sure that the accumulated scalp tissue DHT is the problem, not the serum one, which is relatively the same in both individuals, balding and not balding ones... We need to find why the process starts, why the inflammation, why the fibrosis and calcification and why DHT acts the way it does in the balding scalp regions, not just blame it on Genetics... From how i see it, soon enough there will be only baldies in the world, what they will say then, that we all inherited the genes responsible for it? I mean i know that there must be some genetic influences or susceptibility, but will all the information and data available lately, seems like the whole DHT "programmed follicles", etc theory is falling apart...
And the strongest and newest discovery is that they transplanted miniaturizing hair from the human balding scalp to a immunodeficient mouse and it started growing faster than the transplanted hair from a non balding scalp, and that should make us question a lot of things, including those failed transplants that i have saw and the ones that after 5-10 years are starting to miniaturize even if the follicles should have been DHT resistant!
Best regards sir.