I'm having trouble staying on dutasteride

[Guest]

Well,

I've been on finasteride for a few years and did great. Starting around January or February I noticed I was starting to thin all over. Picked up on minoxidil around April or May and had some regrowth oddly south of my hairline but no thickening anywhere. Added the various products including spironolactone around 3 months ago and continued thinning although maybe slower.

I started dutasteride about 5 weeks ago and have been rapidly shedding. Although I continued thinning since upping my treatment this year, I never actually saw any shedding at all until I started dutasteride. Now when I apply my toppicals I end up with 10 or more hairs on my finger. Also, I can see my scalp through all of my hair on the front straight to the scalp and seem to be getting thinner week by week.

I don't know what to do. I would stay on the dutasteride with blind faith but I have heard other people claim frontal losses on dutasteride and I am running out of hair.

A lot of people have quit dutasteride due to frontal losses. But some people have had good results. Did the people experiencing losses quit too soon with results on the way? Have any of the people with good results also experienced massive hairloss early on before getting better?

 

[drinkrum]

From what I've heard about dutasteride., Yeddie, I think you should stick it out for at least a year. Most people on dutasteride. shed rapidly but also experience strong regrowth after. It may be a sign that you will respond well to dutasteride. if you're shedding rapidly at this point.

D.

 

[maddoc23]

Well,

I've been on finasteride for a few years and did great. Starting around January or February I noticed I was starting to thin all over. Picked up on minoxidil around April or May and had some regrowth oddly south of my hairline but no thickening anywhere. Added the various products including spironolactone around 3 months ago and continued thinning although maybe slower.

I started dutasteride about 5 weeks ago and have been rapidly shedding. Although I continued thinning since upping my treatment this year, I never actually saw any shedding at all until I started dutasteride. Now when I apply my toppicals I end up with 10 or more hairs on my finger. Also, I can see my scalp through all of my hair on the front straight to the scalp and seem to be getting thinner week by week.

I don't know what to do. I would stay on the dutasteride with blind faith but I have heard other people claim frontal losses on dutasteride and I am running out of hair.

A lot of people have quit dutasteride due to frontal losses. But some people have had good results. Did the people experiencing losses quit too soon with results on the way? Have any of the people with good results also experienced massive hairloss early on before getting better?

Yeddie,

Stay on dutasteride as the shedding is undoubtebly a postive sign. Everyone who has quit avodart because of frontal hairloss has quit too soon because the drug has not even been available for 1 year. Every proven drug has been "accused" for causing frontal hairloss.

D

 

[Axon]

I have to agree Yeddie. I was sorely tempted by Dutasteride as well, but I've have such good results with Finasteride that I saw no reason to change things up.

As for staying on the drug, only you know your breaking point....

 

[Lizzad]

I tend to agree with whats been said. Give it a little longer :rockon:

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys. That really helped me get my confidence up, I swear you guys have made a big difference.

Two strange things -

Today I verified something that I had been noticing visually but not really been aware of as significant. Most of my hair is 1-1/2 to 3 inches long. But all of the hairs that have been shedding have been 3/4 to 1 inch long. They all look almost exactly the same length. I'm not sure what this means, but it is giving me a little further hope that even though I am really rapidly balding that there seems to be some selective process to it - and it may be the result of hairs synchronized by prior stages of my treatment now responding to dutasteride.

The appearance of the hairs is normal except they are shorter than most of my hair and some of them may be a little thinner. A few seem to thin at the end (not sure whether that's the start or the end) and most do not. None of the hairs seem to have any distinguishing features at the ends.

The other strange thing - I am getting bigger too fast. I have been using bowflex for 10 weeks. I started dutasteride 5 weeks ago. The first 8 weeks of work on the bowflex got me a change in muscle shape and a modest but slightly noticeable change in size. But in the last two weeks I have definitely increased muscle size more than three times as much as during the first 8 weeks. And I have increased my resistance for at least some exercises every workout, averaging about 3 or 4 resistance increases for all exercises in the past 2 weeks. Today I took a look at myself in the mirror and finally realized I am getting results too fast and it is not natural. I don't know much about these things but I think I might have high testosterone levels due to the dutasteride.

 

[HairlossTalk]

They all look almost exactly the same length. I'm not sure what this means, but it is giving me a little further hope that even though I am really rapidly balding that there seems to be some selective process to it - and it may be the result of hairs synchronized by prior stages of my treatment now responding to dutasteride.

Bingo.

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