A blood test for DHT wouldn't be useful because most DHT is produced in peripheral tissues. Even if you have normal DHT, if you are genetically predisposed to its hair loss effects then you will experience hair loss. All propecia does is prevent the conversion in those peripheral tissues.

To get proscar simply tell your doctor you don't have much money and you will simply split the pills in quarters. Tell him its ridiculous to spend 4x as much for exactly the same product. It's like buy a quart of milk for $4 and then get a gallon for the same price just because it has a different name. Tell the doctor it's his obligation to get you the cheapest drugs possible. Finally, if he still refuses then ask him to write in your chart that he refused to prescribe proscar. He won't want to do that and it might make him give in. If not, maybe later you can sue him for all the extra expense of propecia. Talk about a rip off. [the same is true of viagra by the way]


I believe you can have regrowth if the hair folicles are just dormant and haven't been converted yet, which some of them will be. So it's more just allowing the natural cycle to bring hair back that might have been converted shortly after leaving their dormant stage [ie: hair goes through cycles of growth, and dormancy on a regular basis].

Is the new hair growth product you are talking about, duasteride (sp?)?

Out of curiousity, what is the generic or cheaper form of viagra that you were referring to?

Here's a question about Rogaine....how is that able to 'regrow' hair? Does it only work on follicles in the resting phase?

Thanks.

Yep duasteride.

I wasn't referring to generic viagra, but to the fact you can buy 100mg and 25mg for the same price and simply cut the 100's into quarters saving your self a bundle.

Rogaine does the same thing as propecia except it soaks into the skin and stops DHT production that way. I wouldn't recommend Rogaine though when you can take propecia.