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Old 07-27-2010, 12:31 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by bc-chris View Post
my brother-in-law was really starting to thin out a couple years back... and he was early 30's.

a buddy of his is a doctor and heard of a side effect from a prostate cancer drug - hair growth! so my brother-in-law got a prescription for this drug.... but in a very reduced dose (he has some sort of pill splitter that chops the pill into 4 and just takes 1/4 of a pill a day).

he's been taking this stuff for a few years now and it worked - he's got a nice thick full head of hair again! he'll have to keep taking this drug, otherwise he'll start to thin again, but he doesn't care... and i bet his chances of prostate cancer are pretty low too!
That is probably Proscar which is 5mg of finasteride. The propecia pill is a single pill with 1mg of finasteride. So if he is cutting into fours, he is technically gett 1.25mg of finasteride.
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