> not to mention you'd have to stay on it lifelong. let's examine what taking finasteride for the rest of your life would look like.  the most economical way to take finasteride is to buy 5mg tablets and use a pill cutter to break them into 4, and take one of those daily, so your daily dose would be 1.25mg. dunno where you live, but over here they sell 100 pill boxes for ~$75 100*5mg = 400*1.25mg. assuming you are 30 years old, you have about 50 years of life remaining.  365*50=18250days 18250/400=45.625boxes 45.625*75=$3421.875 so it will cost you less than $3500 for a lifetime supply of finasteride (obviously this doesn't take into account inflation and other unforeseeable events in the future, but you get the point). dutasteride is even more economical: i can get 90 capsule boxes of 0.5mg dutasteride for $33 after taking 0.5mg daily for 3-4 months you can then cut down to 1 capsule every 5 days.  365/5=73 capsules per year. 50*73= 3650 capsules per 50 years. 3650/90 = 40.5 boxes 40.5*33 = $1338 so less than $1500 for a lifetime supply.
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