Hi guys, first of all i want tot ell that i highly appriciate you all taking yout time to post in this forum, it helps me a lot in making the right decisions as a hair transplant is a life-changing surgery, my question is this, is there a big difference between proscar and propecia, can anyone tell me what of the 2 is the best and why the price is so different? I am a starting scale 3, i om almost 22 so u can imagine that this isnt very pleasant for my self-confidence, i am planning on starting with proscar or propecia, i hope someone can tell me which is the best and why, in the future i might consider a transplant but i first want to see how evertything works out with proscar or propecia, thanks in advance for your reply's.
Since I don't really have a clue what Paul just wrote, forgive me if I repeat something, but... Proscar and Propecia are exactly the same medication.
While Proscar is marketed for benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate), it can be taken for hairloss, just as Propecia, which is marketed for that purpose. I started on Propecia, and about a year and a half ago, started quartering Proscar at a significant savings.
The only possible negative to this strategy, according to some, is that the medicine is may not be evenly distributed throughout the Proscar tablet and therefore you may not get consistent dosing, but the half life of finasteride (the active ingredient of both) is long enough that it does not require such precise dosing. The medication stays in your bloodstream long enough that it remains effective even with slight alterations of dose, and over the course of a week, you will always get enough medication to maintain consistent effectiveness. That has been my experience anyway, and it has been very effective in preventing my hair loss. What it has not done for me is to restore the hair I had already lost prior to starting the medication.
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Merci pour la response Paul Can somebody tell me about the side effects? i already knew proscar before i started noticing a slight decreasement of my hair line, i heard it was used by body-builders after the have taken an anabolic steroid cycle, i always thought it was to minimize the side-effects of steroids, i already know a decrease of sexual drive is possible, but can someone tell me if there are more side-effects possible? Thanks
Thanks for the info Ted, Paul also wrote that the both are similar, but i just cant understand why people take propecia when proscar does the same for a very small amount of the price, i am starting to compare prices and a years worth of proscar is about the same price for a month of propecia. Maybe i am wrong but i dont see the point why some people take propecia. Thanks
Ah, and therein lies the riddle of why marketing people make the big bucks. Even my doctor did not know that they had the same active ingredient. I had to educate her. All the marketing efforts for Propecia appeal to the hair loss crowd and all the marketing efforts of Proscar appeal to the prostate crowd, and Merck just hopes that plenty of people are none the wiser about the identical nature of these drugs. But as people start learning that fact, they make the switch, just like I did. I think that's why Propecia has shown disappointing sales figures. I would be curious to see sales figures for Proscar before and after the time period when Merck started promoting Propecia. I think you'd see a marked increase in Proscar sales, coming from the new (albeit untargeted) market... hairloss sufferers.
Posts: 266 | Location: Tulsa, OK | Registered: March 09, 2003
I agree with Tedd. Marketing explains a great deal. Sarafem is Prozac (fluoxetine). Sarafem is marketed to alleviate symptoms of PMS, while Prozac is sold as an antidepressant. Wellbutrin is the same as Zyban. The former is sold as an antidepressant and the latter is an aide to quitting smoking. The different names are used to market based on target symptoms.
so i guess majority in this board are going with proscar.. but how about if i don't take the EXACT amount per day? You have to take 1/4th of the proscar pill to equal to the propecia pill right? Does it have to be exact? Or as long as you take any amount of the pill... Hope that made sense...
One last important question: Where can i order proscar than.. from a reliable website for overseas.. fast and reliable..
The reason some people cut Proscar into quarters rather than fifths is because it is difficult to cut the very tiny trianglular pill with rounded corners into fifths. Did you get that? You will if you try to cut one. I would strongly advise you to buy a pill cutter (about $2.00) when you order Proscar. It is exceedingly difficult to cut these little guys without the pill cutter.
Even with a pill cutter, the quartered sections are not exactly the same size. This is not really an issue. The only concern would be if you have any negative sexual side effects. If this occurs, some docs recommend reducing the dose to every other day which still seems to be effective.
Natural-hair is a pharmacy in New Zealand, a completely first world, English-speaking country near Australia. They sell Merck brand (not a knock off or generic). I've used their service on and off for several years. They have been 100% reliable in quickly filling my orders and they respond very quickly to any e-mail inquiries. You can buy more cheaply by purchasing Indian generics which I've done, but if you want the peace of mind of buying brand name from a modern pharmacy in a modern country, this is a great site.
In Australia and New Zealand some drugs require only a pharmacist's prescription rather than a physician's prescription. The Natural-hair site sells a number of these medications because they fall into this category of pharmacy prescribed.
