Good. I'm only 15 days in to taking dutasteride 0.5mg every day. Nothing to report yet since i'm also taking finasteride 1.25mg/day, I had a little bit of shedding on finasteride, it did slow down my hair loss, but now with dutasteride the shedding stopped completely.
About being more involved in the forum in order to get answers to your questions, did it ever occur to you that maybe these people can't be more involved because they can't be of much help? And that is why they are asking for help? To be more informed and maybe pass on the information they learned from more knowledgeable members. This site does seem to ignore "newbies" looking for help. I am part of another hair loss site in which I only have about 2 years there as opposed to 4 years on this site, and I have almost 1,000 posts on this other site. That is because they were helpful right off the bat so I got to learn faster. I didn't have to be a hair loss specialist and be "involved" with my little knowledge, just to get some advice.
With that said, I like this site anyway, it's "different", and it's very active. I don't log in much, but I lurk sometimes and enjoy reading the posts and conversations. I will say that the Opening Poster could have gone about this in a different, less provocative, way.
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Another thing to Balding89, you can not hate the posters who told you dutasteride is dangerous. The is the problem with people, they go by what other people tell them and don't try things themselves. I have heard it all about finasteride and dutasteride, yet i'm i've been taking finasteride for 3 years with no side effects, and now I added dutasteride, with no side effect to reports still [fingers crossed that I never encounter any negative sides]. You have to try things out yourself. Dutasteride is not a girl that your boys are telling you to stay away from because she has AIDs. Dutasteride is an FDA approved drug, it is safe to use for BPH, and a lot of male pattern baldness sufferers use it for their hair loss with success.