dutasteride hairline destroyer

[michel sapin]

hi guys , as you know , ive been on propecia for 19 month for a receding hairline with clearly no result and maybe a worsening of the temple and forelock .

I would like to know if duta could help me to regrow my temple and hairline , or if it would accelerate the loss .

I'm also on minoxidil 5 since 2 month and ive got a lot of vellu hair which appear along the Norwood 1 area . Thx

 

[Bad]

ALso interested

 

[Wolf Pack]

No thing such as "finasteride/dutasteride hairline destroyer" imo. Also no evidence to support this in a trial. The people who see a worsening of their hairline on these medications didn't respond to the meds in the first place and their male pattern baldness continued largely unabated.

I have been taking finasteride for 1 1/2 years and my receding hairline and hair generally is still getting better and regrowth. Crown fully thickened as had miniaturised hair but even bald frontal areas have had some growth.

dutasteride could grow more, you won't know until you try.

 

[Oriol]

I'm also very skeptical about these "finasteride/dutasteride destroyed my hairline" stuff. I just dont buy it.

 

[michel sapin]

ok; ive got no baldness on crown or other area, just a receding hairline . when ive started finasteride i was Norwood 1,5 with a lot of miniaturized hair and i thought i would become Norwood 1 again , now i ve lost those hair . that is why i'm disapointed .

Ive added minoxidil and vellu hair are coming back , however i'm concerned that in the long run i will lost those hair again . that is hy i would like to add duta . So what is your opinion . and the strange thing is that ive got a twin brother ( who takes nothing ) who is still Norwood 0 , stress has increased my loss .( sry for my bad english i'm french )

 

[GoldenMane]

Most people who switch to dutasteride do so because they think finasteride has stopped working for them, or they think their male pattern baldness is about to gt worse. Then they get on dutasteride, possibly have a shed and possibly recover or maybe tehy don't.

If they don't recover it may just be that DHT inhibitors are not sufficient to prevent their baldness. Maybe they previously saw gains on finasteride, but it's also possible those gains were minoxidil gains if they used them simultaneously.

There are just so many variables that online anecdotal evidence is utterly worthless.

If anyone blames dutasteride for runing their hairline, I'd want to ask them the following questions.


1. Is it a shed? How long have you been on dutasteride for?
2. Did you maintain your hair on finasteride alone for over a year prior to taking dutasteride?
3. Why did you switch to dutasteride, was your hairline getting worse anyway?
4. Is it possible that you're just a non-responder to dht inhibitors.
5. If you did previously see gains on finasteride/minoxidil, is it possible that the gains were minoxidil gains and that finasteride wasn't doing anything for you?

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ok; ive got no baldness on crown or other area, just a receding hairline . when ive started finasteride i was Norwood 1,5 with a lot of miniaturized hair and i thought i would become Norwood 1 again , now i ve lost those hair . that is why i'm disapointed .

Ive added minoxidil and vellu hair are coming back , however i'm concerned that in the long run i will lost those hair again . that is hy i would like to add duta . So what is your opinion . and the strange thing is that ive got a twin brother ( who takes nothing ) who is still Norwood 0 , stress has increased my loss .( sry for my bad english i'm french )

Is your twin brother identical or non identical?

 

[Ziggyz123]

Hard to say if you'll lose on dutasteride. I used finasteride for two years. After the first year, I got extreme burning and tingling sensations that destroyed my hairline. Some of it grew back over time. Now I've been on dutasteride since September 30th and my hair is still shedding and itching. The right side especially. I have no side effects at all on it though. But honestly, I'd take some sides for stabilization. I've also been using only legitimate avodart.

 

[michel sapin]

ok so i havent started dutasteride for the moment . I'm just on propecia for 19 months now and 3 month of minoxidil . propecia didnt do anything and i'm below baseline . and yes we are identical twin brothers. i never had a shedding or anything like this , just miniaturisation which keep going on the temple and hairline .

i just want to stop it and to be Norwood 0 again . Maybe i just had a mature hairline ( i'm 23) ; could it be possible that the increase of testoterone caused by fina ruined my hairline ? or that minoxidil damage healthy hair ?

I'm lost . i thought that taking preventive measure would help me , but i'm doomed .

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and thanks for helping me to all the members , because here in france the medical practicioners doesn't know anything about hairloss .

ive done a blood test and my test had spike up of almost 30 % because of propecia , but almost all to the oestrogen . I didnt have any acne or oily skin or other androgenicity reaction . So i don't know .

Can fina worsen a Norwood 1,5 or 2 , can minoxidil worsen a mature hairline , or damage healthy hair ?

i really need answers now . because practicioners doesnt help .

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i don't want to blame the treatment , however i wanted to keep my Norwood 1 forever , that is why ive taken propecia first . I didnt want to take minoxidil ( pain in the *** to apply and skin side effect )
however , now i need those hair back , and i'm ready to do everything to keep them . SO maybe the combo duta minoxidil will help me or maybe it will ruin my hairline more . AHHH i'm ****ing lost .

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i'm also tempted to drop off all the treatment but i know that is not the solution . Is there evidence that minoxidil and fina can maintain Norwood 1 hairline ? All the studies were done on Norwood 3 or others .

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ive just checked an old picture of my father when he was 25 and i'm quite shocked . He was more receded than me , he was a Norwood 2 with receded temple peak , he is now 52 with the exact same pattern .
So maybe i was about to have the same hairline and ive ****ed up thing with propecia and minoxidil .

But ive always had a Norwood 0 hairline like justin bieber , so i don't really know . Maybe the increase of test has done more good than the reduction of my dht .

 

[jgray201]

I definitely had accelerated loss on finasteride and then on Dutasteride. I was on finasteride for a year and a half and dutasteride for a similar amount of time. I had a marked increase in hair loss and thinning of frontal regions on finasteride which increased when i went on dutasteride. I accept that both may not have been enough to stop my natural balding pattern but If DHT was the only androgen that can negatively affect hair growth then surely the pace would have at least slowed down. I only saw results when using an AA.

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I definitely had accelerated loss on finasteride and then on Dutasteride. I was on finasteride for a year and a half and dutasteride for a similar amount of time. I had a marked increase in hair loss and thinning of frontal regions on finasteride which increased when i went on dutasteride. I accept that both may not have been enough to stop my natural balding pattern but If DHT was the only androgen that can negatively affect hair growth then surely the pace would have at least slowed down. I only saw results when using an AA. However, i had particularly aggressive hair loss from a young age and believe for most people this won't be the case.

 

[abcdefg]

I agree there is no evidence finasteride destroys hairlines, but in the wonderful world of medicine no one knows much of anything. male pattern baldness is so poorly understood its well within the realm of reason that the spike in T from finasteride or dutasteride can harm the front/temples. Maybe the front/temples are more sensitive to T then they are DHT. DHT might play more a role in the crown and mid top verses the front/temples. Its just guessing, but its possible even if maybe unlikely from evidence so far. If the front/temples have more dense/sensitive androgen receptors and both T and DHT are both androgens then I dont see why testosterone cant hurt front hair more then it does say the crown.