I am getting myself ready to do the next step.....

[powersam]

i already did.

'Have You Seen This Norwood? Reward Offered. Great Sentimental Value'

 

[Slartibartfast]

:lol:

Wait till oni sees you're offering a reward for a Norwood. Too bad you didn't specify that he's wanted alive.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

Okay, for clarity I could have said when my (main) shed occurred (between months 6 and 8 ), that it was several months after this before I noticed any re-growth, and that my hair then saw gradual improvement right up to the 2 year mark (give or take a few weeks). Of course this recovery was punctuated by a few fairly minor sheds, each being only a week or so long, and different parts of the old noggin had this re-growth come through at disparate times and rates; and ultimately to differing levels of success: the front merely got back to its pre-shed density whereas the crown and the mid-scalp ended up somewhat thicker - and the latter two of these were good going in thanks to the finasteride. I took previously.

It's just that I have typed this out (usually in more detail than the above) more times than I care to remember, and I really only wanted to put across the idea that, after almost 3 years on dutasteride., I find myself with frontal density broadly comparable to when I started taking the drug. I didn't mean to suggest that it had only just reached this point (it did that nearly a year ago), only that I can now say with some confidence that my hair has stabilized at this level.

Hard to quantify the exact loss at the hairline. I don't remember the shedding being more severe at the front than anywhere else (probably lost more hairs per square inch at the crown), but of course the front was already thin so aesthetically the impact was worse. But the shed hairs came back (eventually) and are still with me, and I think they would have gone by now if I'd stuck to the finasteride.

Slarti

thanks for clarifying....

Quick question...when you decided to switch from dutasteride to finasteride how exactly did you do it? Did you just abruptly stop finasteride one day and start taking avodart...or were you doing a mix for a while? (i.e. dutasteride w/w/f and finasteride the other days) ...im curious for my future situation.

 

[oni]

I tried taking both at the same time but this just caused me a never ending shed............................................... Till I stopped the finasteride and just started taking the dutasteride.

You could try stopping the finasteride and starting a loading dose of dutasteride for a week............................................. try 1.5mg a day...............

 

[IBM]

loads of plans...

 

[Slartibartfast]

Quick question...when you decided to switch from dutasteride to finasteride how exactly did you do it? Did you just abruptly stop finasteride one day and start taking avodart...

Yep, that's what I did. Only I forgot to say that initially I switched from finasteride to taking dutasteride every other day - although for the first week or so I took it every day as a loading dose. After approx. 16 months of dutasteride EOD I went up to the daily dose, that was about 3 years ago.

Slarti