As dutasteride has a substantial half life, ive read that you are able to take it 3 times a week for it to be effective. Is this true or does it need to be taken every day? Also if you were to choose to take it three times a week do you need a loading face taking it every day for a certain amount of time for it to be well integrated into your system? Thanks
How Do You Take Dutasteride So That It Is Most Effective?
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The long half life simply means you can be more flexible of when you take it. If you want to take the equivalent of .5mg daily in just 3 weekly doses, you would take 1.16 mg 3 times a week. You could also get away with 1.75 mg twice a week. Taking just 3.5 mg once a week would be pushing the limits of the half-life imo and probably result in wide fluctations of serum level for a very long time until steady state is reached.
Taking .5 mg 3 times a week will be less effective than taking .5 mg ED as it is dose dependent.
Taking .5 mg 3 times a week will be less effective than taking .5 mg ED as it is dose dependent.
Its more due to expense as i can get it for £25 a month while finasteride is on £15. Is it worth making the change have u noticed any improvement in thickening the temples as this is the only reason im considering making the switch as finasteride has definitely slowed progression but i dont feel its going to improve it and think it still may be getting worse. Im 6 months in as well.
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If you take dutasteride .5 mg 3 times a week that averages out to slightly more than .2 mg of dutasteride ED which inhibits more 5AR2 than finasteride, even at the 5 mg ED dose for finasteride I believe.