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This is result of light grooming (drying/gentle combing with hand/comb) post-shower. Probably lost three times as much during shower.

November 5th will be one year

@real kombo I have been consistent and I’m not an idiot. I’ve been on finasteride for almost 12 years. Every day for 12 years. I have taken dutasteride for almost a year. 3x a week for the first 3 months, 4x a week since then. Not planning on stopping in spite of this massive shed. I gave...

Hey all. Things still not good. Month 4+ of noticeably losing 100s of hairs per day. Shower-time and post-shower-time are the absolute worst. Losing so much. Crown is okay. Still seems to be the front/top where I was applying minoxidil. Still doing dutas 4x week and finasteride every day. Will try...

not great! still losing a lot from the top/front. now over three months of the worst shedding I've ever experienced.

@washed_up it's true -- I've been really lucky and haven't experienced any loss on the crown. I've always had a widow's peak and have been extremely self conscious about it. That's probably why I started messing with minoxidil all around the hairline, which I am now regretting. @maxou we're in...

@BananaBlunt @maxou @Manochoice -- thank you for your replies, both for the kind words and the advice. I've been on and off this forum for over a decade and I know just what you mean - sometimes it sets me straight, but most of the time it's a tool that stokes my feelings of desperation and I...

Yeah, a member called @BananaBlunt mentioned that protein in my other thread, though strangely it looks as if all his posts have disappeared.. a bummer, because they were informative and helpful. Where'd you go, @BananaBlunt ?? I don't think minoxidil was the answer for me and am regretting...

Hey @phalanx6013 thanks for the input. Hope everything gets back to normal for you. I'm staying off minoxidil and will wait to see if the shed stops and I recover hair that I've lost, but I'm pretty depressed about it. I'd been on minoxidil for 10 months when I started dutasteride and saw no...

@BananaBlunt interesting - I don’t think minoxidil “gave” me any hairs. I think all it did was synch the cycle of those that were effected. So now I am shedding hairs at all stages, most not miniaturized at all. Your guess is that these won’t grow back after a resting phase?

@BananaBlunt thanks for the informative reply. This is my thinking too, and yeah, it sucks that minoxidil can make you shed even without having worked in the first place.. Last week I got back on it for about three days when I was freaking out. But I’ve stopped and will stay off. Man, I really hope...

Here's a link to my "main" thread: Started Dutasteride TLDR Have been on finasteride for 10+ years. Intense weight loss and stress led to telogen effluvium or kicked off male pattern baldness in 2017. I upped the ante by getting on minoxidil (January 2018) and eventually dutasteride (November 2018). After about...

Ah, yes I understand what you mean. My hope is that this minoxidil shed will stop and that I will regrow much of the hair that is lost. If I can do that without getting back on minoxidil, I will be happy - but I won't rule it out for the future. Just being patient for now.. hard when I'm losing...

Antiandrogens in addition to dutasteride? I've decided that as bad as this shed has been I'm not going to get back on minoxidil for at least a couple of months. If the shed subsides and dutasteride helps the hairs regrow as strong as they were before, I will be very happy. @justbeconfident if...

Definitely staying on dutas. The question is whether to hop back on minoxidil. Right now leaning no