this is what most people use, is it enough or more?

Most people uses 1/4 of a tablet, that is around 1.25 mg and not 0.25 mg. However, take into account that the 1mg figure that most people seem to consider so important is actually quite trivial. I think Merck's decision of putting 1mg of finasteride in propecia tablets was sort of arbitrary, it was necessary to choose a quantity that worked for most people and they decided that 1mg was just right. Nonetheless, if you used 2mg daily or even if you chose to take a whole proscar tablet (5mg) there would be little difference, both in benefits and in side effects, since finasteride doesn't seem to be hepatoxic at these "miligram" doses. There seems to be some misconception about how it works, since many people say things like "use enough finasteride to block DHT formation but not enough to produce significant side effects"... that thought is quite usual and yet it is absolutely non-sense... undesirable side effects produced by finasteride depend on the degree of DHT inhibition, and the desired effects (stop of hairloss) depend on than same variable: DHT inhibition. Therefore, you cannot expect to modify the benefit/side effect ratio by taking a given amount of finasteride.

By the way, knowing how much finasteride you are taking by splitting proscar tabs into equal parts is next to impossible, since their composition is heterogeneous... i.e.: Merck did this in order to compel people to buy Propecia, which is way more profitable for them. Not that they want to scam people, it's just that all those scientific studies which proved that finasteride is a good hairloss product requirred massive funding and they have to make up for the budget they previously spent.

finasteride dose information:

http://www.physics.upenn.edu/facultyinfo/f...fda2/index.html

I have been thinning since I was 17 , and I have massive amounts of body hair, so Im thinking lower dht would not hurt me much.

But now I am reconsidering. Why worry about hair?