Finasteride 5 Days A Week, Dutasteride The Other 2 Days.

[Matt Rogers]

Has anyone ever done the regimen of taking finasteride for 5 days and dutasteride the other 2 days. Like dutasteride Tuesday and friday and finasteride the other days. This is what my derm put me on. Im scared of a death shed though.

My background is that I previously failed on finasteride about a year ago (hairloss continued to progress) so I quit. I was like nw2 slightly diffused when I quit finasteride. Anyways, 2020 has been hell for my hair I'm an nw3 now with diffuse loss. So desperate times call for desperate measures. Thinking of using dutasteride with RU or spironolactone and oral minoxidil. I really just want to go all in at this point.

Any feedback is appreciated

 

[Hair-pun]

Hey Matt, I am in a similar position to you (failed on finasteride, now on dutasteride, also went from decent Nw2 to diffuse NW3 over the last year). I think you might be better on dutasteride every other day at least, if not every day (unsure if there’s much difference). dutasteride is not that much better than finasteride and pretty similar at the front so after finasteride fails you’ll likely need to throw everything at it to stabilise again. I use 50mg RU in 1ml stemoxydine on the front (I alternate RU/ CB to keep costs down and minimise risks). Don’t let the shed put you off- it will likely only last a couple of months. It is temporary, but the hair you are losing now is not. If you’re like me the decline from NW2 to 3 was when things started getting very uncomfortable so I think it may be worth starting dutasteride and RU simultaneously to make sure you don’t progress further. You can always drop the RU further down the line if you get good results from dutasteride. RU doesn’t induce a shed and results happen quickly- you can judge if it’s the thing that’s holding your hair by dropping it for 3 weeks and seeing if shedding resumes. If you shed on dutasteride (generally not huge anyway) just use Supermillions hair fibres, I use these and honestly it looks like I’m NW2 with them

 

[Derelict]

You could try either RU or 100mg spironolactone and 5mg oral minoxidil, i'd start at a low dosage of spironolactone and works your way up, if you can handle 200mg that would be ideal, expect some gyno and libido problems, but at 100mg you only have a 30% chance of getting gyno. To me it's the safer option over RU as RU is still a research drug, as long as you avoid eating foods with a lot of potassium etc you should be fine on spironolactone. Good luck.

 

[inmyhead]

Duta has long half-life. It should make sense on paper at least.