July 22 2005, 8:14 am PT | Posted in: Drugs
Dear sir
I am 28 and for more than 6 years I have consumed FINPECIA tablets ( dosage which is 1 mg per day )which is made in India for preventing of hair lost.In this regard I would like to know that wehether this tables has any side effect such as sexual tendency,etc.
The pill you are taking appears similar in name to the drug Propecia (finasteride) made by the US drug company Merck. If it is finasteride (controlled by US and foreign patents), the side effects are four:
- An initial increase sex drive in 10% of men taking the medication
- An initial decrease sex drive in 1-2% of men
- Breast swelling in less than 1% of men
- Some decrease long term impact for prostate cancer
If the drug is not finasteride, then I have no way to know what the side effects or the effectiveness of these drugs might be. For whatever reason many people in the United States promote the idea that drugs made in India are not quality controlled like drugs made in the United States. I think the correct statement for this should be that the United States FDA has not verified that the generic drugs made in India meet the strict standards required in the United States.
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I have been taking propecia for about 10 years with great results. But the cost more than doubled the original “too much” price since then. So after some searching the web I discovered the MedStore and finally found 1mg finasteride when my doctor said it only comes in 5mg and would not revise my prescription. SO IS THIS 1mg real? Don’t know yet and hope it is. So I ordered from the med store for finasteride at about 2/3 less the price and felt happy. Today I received my new persription from a person that prescribed or approved this over the net. ?????????????
Got the package with mail stamps all over it and see that it is from India. ????????????
Thought it would be from the U.S. A little nervous from ordering from Canada and now I get a package from India? Hope all is legal and this pill is real.
So here I am searching again about the connection with India. So far it looks like it is made in India.
Hope someone replies to this that knows something.
I ordered some 1mg from a shady online Canadian pharmacy. I had already written it off as a waste of a hundred bucks, but surprisingly it did arrive. It was in an envelope the size of a CD case with 15 10x blister packs stuffed inside.
I’m hoping it’s real. Package says
Finasteride Tablets USP 1 mg
APPECIA
COMPOSITION:
Each film coated tablet contains Finasteride USP 1mg, Colours Titanium Dixoide & Quinoline Yellow WS.
ajanta pharma limited
Factory B-4/5/6 MIDC Area, Paithan 431 128
Regd. / Corp Off Ajanta house
Charkop, Kahdiou W Mumbai 400 067
The pills are light yellow with no marking
I also ordered finasteride from the web from a company called xlpharmacy. The packages I received had the same Indian company printed on back that manufactured the drug. The name of the company called Ajanta Pharma. I did a search for the company and they appeared to be a real company that really does exist.
Billy my story mirrors yours. I’ve been using xlpharmacy.com for about 2 years to order generic propecia. Until my last order it came as the generic drug Finpecia, which seemed legit and was easy enough to find information on.
My last order from xlpharmacy.com came as the generic drug “Appecia”. I’ve always had a good experience with xlpharmacy, but was a little skeptical. A google search for “Appecia” doesn’t return a whole lot of results. I’m speculating it’s the latest generic version, and hopefully more info is out soon.
Anyone else got feedback on Appecia?
I have started using the Appecia after several years on Propecia. I am experiencing very notable hair loss. It’s been about two and a half weeks. I am hoping it takes a little while for a response from my body. I did have about 10 days off of Propecia.
I also received appecia from xlpharmacy. The talk on here kind of makes me nervous. Does anyone else have any information on it? I have been taking it for about a month now.
i ordered some propecia from Canadian Online pharmacy and got the Appecia tablets from India instead. It says it has finasteride and thought of giving it a try. I have taken Propecia before and seemed to work. Appecia however, is not showing any positive side so far. I\’ve recently noticed a lot of hair falling out. This was definitely not the case when i took Propecia. Is the Appecia drug fake? Can anyone help?
Due to the high cost of Propecia, there was a lapse of 6 weeks before I started taking it again. Yes, I think my hair loss speeded up as a result. Prior to purchasing the $200 90-day supply, I gambled and purchased generic Propecia from a Canadian online site. It was odd: The site seems to be Canadian. But when I looked at my Paypal virtual debit card transaction, it was billed to a Russian site! And when I finally received the package (described EXACTLY as “jjj” described it above), it was from India!! The pills are sealed and looked really legit. It’s “APPECIA”, 1mg Finasteride tablets, manufactured by Ajanta Pharma Limited. I know people that drive down to Tijuana in Baja California to buy generic drugs all the time… and I saw Michael Moore’s Sicko which shockingly revealed how American pharma companies screw its own citizens (selling us medicine inflated 1000% and more - not exaggerating). ANYWAY, I haven’t taken these pills yet. I am nervous because they are from India. India has a reputation in the Business World of being really shady, corrupt, and untrustworthy. But I honestly haven’t heard much about their medical industry. I have heard positive things about their medical tourism resorts though… What I’m going to do is maybe follow this plan: Day 1: Take 1mg Propecia, Day 2: Take 1mg Propecia, Day 3: Take 1mg Appecia, and repeat. When I run out of Propecia, I can take Appecia for a few weeks before shelling out the ca$h for Propecia again. Like I said, these pills along with the packaging look quite legitimate. But I’m concerned Appecia is worthless as a placebo. But I need to offset the extremely high cost of Propecia somehow. If someone has confirmed positive results with Appecia alone, we’d love to hear about it.
to the previous poster:
Indian govt is corrupt. Not it’s business sector…Mind you, there are more Indian billionaires in the top 10 list than american billionaires. you mean to say that they were all corrupt. we are not a country of “robber barons”….
about finasteride from India, plz read this article http://www.hairlossheaven.com/fincar-indias-answer-to-propecia
Stop stereotyping non-white people. that only shows your ignorance
So you people actually recieved your orders from XLPharmacy?
I ordered not long ago, and then started finding disheartening comments on various sites.
A little nervous.
My dermadoc told me tht appecia is the same drug with similiar dosages as propecia and it seems to working fine for me since 6 months..
ive bought some other products from the ajanta pharmacy and they worked really well. plus delivery time was good.
Being that some of you have good things to say about Ajanta Pharma….it troubles me that they no longer have Appecia listed as one of their products on their website. I’ve emailed them direct and am awaiting info as to whether or not they’ve discontinued it or whatever. This site has been the most informative on the matter thus far. I am very hesitant to take this product ONLY because its no longer on their site.
If any of you have updates that would be great as well
Have been using generic Finasteride for two years and seemed to reduce my hair loss to relatively normal rates. Ordered a years supply recently again and it arrived as APPECIA. Different in color and very bitter taste (not that I normally chew them). However my hair loss increased at an alarming rate. In just two months of use I have lost so much hair that friends are commenting on it. I stopped using it altogether and after about two to two and a half weeks my hair loss stopped. I have either a bad batch or something else. Told that the resulting hair loss is not reversable so I live with it. Haven’t testsed the APPECIA tablets to see what they actually contain but for me it was an alarming result. The hair loss could have been due to other causes as well so I would suggest starting slow and monitor the shower drain very closely!!