Propecia Causes No Statistically Significant Change in Sexual Function, Says 2004 Tosti Study

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Propecia Causes No Statistically Significant Change in Sexual Function, Says 2004 Tosti Study

significant change in sexual function after four to six months of treatment with finasteride 1mg (Propecia)

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Is Pulsing or Cycling Hair Loss Medication Dosage Effective?

Z., Chicago, I.L. A: Excellent question. I can answer it only indirectly. It has been our experience that when you discontinue finasteride (Propecia), or decrease the dose to a degree that it no longer works, the patient will begin to shed hair. When the drug is re-started or the dose increased again, the medications will begin working, but the patient now maintains his hair at a lower baseline. He doesn’t seem to regain the amount of hair he has before the medication was stopped. For this reason, we don’t stop and start finasteride. The same argument applies to dutasteride, although we have less experience with this medication. This experience would speak against using pulse therapy for hair loss. On the other hand, the

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Which is More Effective: Rogaine or Propecia?

splant will I have to stay on these medications? -- C.C., -- Fairfield County, Connecticut A: Yes, both minoxidil (Rogaine) and finasteride (Propecia, Proscar) affect the miniaturization of the hair follicles and help restore the shrunken follicles to cosmetically viable hair. Minoxidil works by directly simulating miniaturized follicles to grow, whereas finasteride blocks DHT, the hormone that causes hair to miniaturize and eventually fall out. Finasteride is much more effective than minoxidil in preventing or reversing the miniaturization process and it is so much more convenient to use that we generally suggest

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Do You Recommend Avodart (Dutasteride) Hair Loss Medication?

on the market called Avodart for prostate enlargement which might help with hair loss as it blocks the conversion of testosterone to DHT better than Finasteride and is more effective than Propecia. Do you recommend taking it and if so what is the dose? -- Y.B., Orlando, Florida

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Can I Stop Medical Treatment For Hair Loss Once Started?

Q: I am taking finasteride as you prescribed. You also suggested using minoxidil liberally over the entire front and top of my scalp once a day. During our meeting I think that you said that once I start using this I would not be able to stop it, and, if I did, it might lead to further hair loss. Hence, I decided to use the laser comb three times a week in addition to the finasteride. Having said that, if you still feel I should start using minoxidil daily, I will start doing so. -- H.K., Brooklyn, NY

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Using Avodart If Propecia Does Not Work

ent/other/avodart-dutasteride/">Avodart (dutasteride) is more effective than Propecia (finasteride)

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Does Propecia Work On The Front of the Scalp?

a great number of people around the world. While the treatment of hair loss with Propecia (finasteride)

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Follicular Unit Transplantation

nerally best to wait until a person is 25 before considering surgical hair restoration. With the availability of effective medications for hair loss (finasteride and minoxidil) delaying surgery has become somewhat easier, since, in addition to growing or maintaining hair, they can be used to temporize the patient until hair transplantation is indicated. Barring untoward reactions, finasteride should always be used at least one year before judging its effectiveness. The patient should be warned that during the first 6 months, hair loss may be accelerated from these medications. There are several important reasons not to perform surgery when a person is too young. First, the extent and rate of hair loss is more difficult to predict. Second, as discussed above, a diagnosis of DUPA may be missed. Third, the younger patient commonly wants his adolescent hairline and density restored. Restoring the hairline to its original position will look unnatural as the patient ages. Restoring a patient's original density, of course, is not a realistic goal of a hair transplant, which services only to redistribute existing hair. By the time a patient reaches his mid-20's he is more likely to be forward-looking and have expectations that can be satisfied with surgery.…