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Finasteride 1 mg tablets for male pattern hair loss, available after a licensed provider reviews your health intake. A licensed pharmacy fills your order and ships it free. Approval is not guaranteed.
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Prescription treatment requires an online medical evaluation. A provider decides whether treatment is appropriate; approval is not guaranteed.
Finasteride 1 mg tablets for male pattern hair loss, after a licensed provider's review. A licensed pharmacy fills your order and ships it free.
Finasteride paid once: $75 for 3 months, $135 for 6 months or $240 for 12 months. With auto-refill each is 10% off: $67, $121 and $216 ($18 a month on the 12-month plan). There is no 1-month plan. Shipping is free, and the exact total is shown before you pay.
Yes. You complete an online health intake and a licensed provider decides whether finasteride is right for you. Choosing a plan does not guarantee a prescription.
Finasteride 1 mg is an FDA-approved drug. Drugs@FDA lists Propecia (finasteride, 1 mg tablet) with an original approval dated 12/19/1997, and the label says it is indicated for male pattern hair loss in men only. Your pharmacy label shows the exact product dispensed to you.

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The label, the trials and the reviews are linked on this page. Read what they measured, what they did not, and the side effects they report, before you decide.
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Finasteride 1 mg tablets, filled by a licensed pharmacy after a provider's review.

The label's trials counted hair and also recorded side effects. We link each source and say what it did not show.

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Finasteride from $18/mo on the 12-month plan with auto-refill, billed $216 up front. One-time is $20/mo. Plans are 3, 6 or 12 months and shipping is free.
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Pick 3, 6 or 12 months. Auto-refill takes 10% off each plan.
Answer a private online questionnaire. A licensed provider reviews it.
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Finasteride is a prescription medicine. The prescribing information for Propecia (finasteride 1 mg) says it is a 5α-reductase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of male pattern hair loss (androgenetic alopecia) in men only, and that it is not indicated for women or for children. Finasteride is a specific inhibitor of the enzyme that converts testosterone into DHT. The label says daily use for three months or more is necessary before benefit is observed, and that withdrawal of treatment leads to reversal of effect within 12 months.
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Why people choose it
Each card links to the original study, with a tag for the kind of evidence behind it.
The Propecia label reports that hair counts were assessed from photographic enlargements of a representative area of active hair loss, with a 107-hair difference from placebo at 12 months and a 277-hair difference at 5 years.
Read the study Approved labelThe label reports that at 12 months 48% of men treated with Propecia had an increase in an independent panel's photograph ratings, compared with 7% on placebo. At 5 years 48% had an increase, 42% no change and 10% had lost hair, compared with 6%, 19% and 75% on placebo.
Read the study Approved labelIn the label's 12-month trials, 3.8% of men on Propecia and 2.1% on placebo reported one or more of the adverse experiences in its table (p=0.04): decreased libido, erectile dysfunction and ejaculation disorder.
Read the study Approved labelThe label lists male pattern hair loss in men only. It is not indicated for women or children, and efficacy in bitemporal recession has not been established.
Read the studyThe honest version
The label's trials counted hair and recorded side effects. Reviews disagree on how large the benefit is. Here is what the sources say.
See every study we trackThe Finasteride Male Pattern Hair Loss Study Group reported clinically significant increases in hair count (baseline = 876 hairs), measured in a 1-inch diameter circular area (5.1 cm2) of balding vertex scalp, with finasteride treatment: 107 and 138 hairs vs placebo at 1 and 2 years (P < .001).
SourceThe Study Group's 5-year report concluded that long-term treatment with finasteride 1 mg/day was well tolerated, led to durable improvements in scalp hair growth, and slowed the further progression of hair loss that occurred without treatment.
SourceA systematic review and network meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials concluded that finasteride in men was not statistically different from placebo. It included only trials reporting after 24 weeks, and its abstract discloses that one author was employed by the owner of a product it tested.
SourceA meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of 5α-reductase inhibitors found pooled relative risks for sexual dysfunction of 2.56 (95% CI = 1.48-4.42) in men with an enlarged prostate (BPH) and 1.21 (95% CI = 0.85-1.72) in men with androgenetic alopecia. Its authors concluded the association was not statistically significant in men with androgenetic alopecia.
SourceA meta-analysis of 34 clinical trials of finasteride for androgenic alopecia found that none had adequate safety reporting, 19 were partially adequate, 12 were inadequate, and 3 reported no adverse events. Its authors concluded that the published reports provide insufficient information to establish the safety profile for finasteride in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia.
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What the label's 12-month studies, long-term data, published trials and reviews measured, plus one 2023 review that reported a different result.
Research GuidesWhat the label, trials, reviews, a claims database and reports say about sexual side effects, with rates, study length and comparison groups.
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Finasteride 1 mg tablets for male pattern hair loss, after a licensed provider's review. A licensed pharmacy fills your order and ships it free.
Finasteride paid once: $75 for 3 months, $135 for 6 months or $240 for 12 months. With auto-refill each is 10% off: $67, $121 and $216 ($18 a month on the 12-month plan). There is no 1-month plan. Shipping is free, and the exact total is shown before you pay.
Yes. You complete an online health intake and a licensed provider decides whether finasteride is right for you. Choosing a plan does not guarantee a prescription.
Finasteride 1 mg is an FDA-approved drug. Drugs@FDA lists Propecia (finasteride, 1 mg tablet) with an original approval dated 12/19/1997, and the label says it is indicated for male pattern hair loss in men only. Your pharmacy label shows the exact product dispensed to you.
The label says finasteride is a specific inhibitor of Type II 5α-reductase, an enzyme that converts testosterone into DHT. It reports that the balding scalp contains miniaturized hair follicles and more DHT than hairy scalp, and that finasteride lowers scalp and serum DHT. It also says the relative contribution of those reductions to the treatment effect has not been determined.
The label says that, in general, daily use for three months or more is necessary before benefit is observed. In its studies, patient self-assessment showed overall improvement compared with placebo as early as 3 months.
The label says withdrawal of treatment leads to reversal of effect within 12 months. In its studies, a change from finasteride to placebo at the end of the first 12 months resulted in reversal of the increase in hair count 12 months later, at 24 months.
In the label's 12-month trials, decreased libido was reported by 1.8% on finasteride and 1.3% on placebo, erectile dysfunction by 1.3% and 0.7%, and ejaculation disorder by 1.2% and 0.7%. The label also lists depression, suicidal ideation and behavior, and sexual dysfunction that continued after discontinuation, among adverse reactions identified during post-approval use. It says these reports are voluntary and come from a population of uncertain size, so it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship. Your provider explains what applies to you.
No. The label says it is not indicated for use in women or in pediatric patients, and that women who are or may be pregnant should not handle crushed or broken tablets because of a potential risk to a male fetus.
It can. In the label's clinical studies of finasteride 1 mg in men 18 to 41, mean serum PSA fell from 0.7 ng/mL at baseline to 0.5 ng/mL at Month 12. For finasteride 5 mg (Proscar) in older men with an enlarged prostate, the label says PSA levels are decreased by approximately 50%. Your provider decides how to read a PSA result while you take it.
The Patient Information lists male infertility and/or poor quality of semen among effects reported in general use. In the label's 12-month trials, decreased volume of ejaculate was reported by 0.8% on finasteride and 0.4% on placebo. Talk to your provider before you start if you want children.
No. You can pay once for 3, 6 or 12 months, or turn on auto-refill and take 10% off. You can change or cancel refills anytime.
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