To the patient advisors here....

[FutureFue]

Have you noticed any noticeable difference among your patients who use generic finasteride as opposed to the Merck brand, and which version do you prescribe to your patients?

 

[sl]

Hi FutureFue

Most of our patients will get the medication themselves in their respective countries as such and we don't therefore have a lot of feedback.


I have spoken to some who had side effect issues on generic tablets and I myself had issues on a generic many years ago that I never had on non generic.

Seeing your own GP is wise and also some pharmacy outlets have teams to give advise on Propecia also but I do know patients and patient reps who have faired better on non generic but it may be in the minority.

 

[garageland]

Hi futurefue,

Not sure if you are the same guy who asked me this question on another forum?

But I will repeat the answer here.

We only prescribe and recommend branded Propecia 1mg or Proscar 5mg to cut. A number of patients who were on generic and switched to brand name have reported improvements in their hair. I have also had patients that have reported sides on a generic and been ok on the name brand. This has been enough for us to not recommend generics.

 

[FutureFue]

Hi Garageland,

Yeah busted!

I was just covering my bases so thought I would ask here too.

I have noticed a drop in the effectiveness of generic proscar and thought it was my imagination.

Thanks for clarifying.

 

[Sparky]

It makes sense to get opinions from everywhere, I have just been on the generic proscar and haven't noticed any native hairloss since being on it (a long time) and I only take a 5th of a tab twice a week.