jww3 Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 I have been taking oral finasteride since around age 18. Unfortunately, I inherited some bad balding genes from my father's side, it appears, as I started shedding at around age 15/16. Fortunately, the shedding stopped and my hair mostly stabilized around 6-9 months after I went on finasteride. I have started to get really concerned about the side effects/changes this could have caused my body over the course of 10 years (I'm almost 28 now). I recently went to my derm to express my concerns, and he said I could try topical finasteride. He gave me instructions to crush 60mg finasteride/60mg liquid minoxidil and apply it once daily. He said it may be less effective, but if I try this for 1-2 months I would be able to tell if oral finasteride is impacting my libido, etc, without a big risk of major shed (since I'm on the topical). What are your thoughts on this? I'm worried about losing hair, but I am thinking that going on finasteride so early caused me to have less body/facial hair, is now slowing gains at the gym, and causing sexual side effects (watery semen and potentially lower libido). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member TorontoMan Posted February 13, 2022 Senior Member Share Posted February 13, 2022 Starting topical finasteride is simply just titrating your dose down. Some studies showed that topical fin could have less sides because less of it goes systemic. So if you haven't tried just lowering your dose of oral fin, maybe do that, but topical fin would be the next step after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jww3 Posted February 13, 2022 Author Share Posted February 13, 2022 Would it make sense to combine the 2 - so do topical and lower oral dosage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Curious Posted February 13, 2022 Senior Member Share Posted February 13, 2022 I am starting the topical finasteride that Dr. Hasson sells which has some of delivery mechanism that limits the side effects. You might consider this product. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Smacias15 Posted March 6, 2022 Regular Member Share Posted March 6, 2022 On 2/13/2022 at 10:53 AM, Curious said: I am starting the topical finasteride that Dr. Hasson sells which has some of delivery mechanism that limits the side effects. You might consider this product. Where is he located? I've in CA. Would it ne possible for me to receive it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Runitback Posted March 7, 2022 Regular Member Share Posted March 7, 2022 You can get topical fin on struthealth.com. Have also been thinking about trying this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Did you switch in the end OP? How did it go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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