Dutasteride question for users

[Ziggyz123]

Does anyone's sebum seem better controlled on duta? I used finasteride but had a bad sebum/inflammation issue a year in. Now for the last ten months I've been shedding hair almost always with sebum around the root bulb and sometimes with multiple hairs encased in a sebum ball..

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Yes, sebum control improved greatly on Dutasteride. Before I started the treatment, not only was I losing a lot of hair, my scalp would also be super inflamed and really oily along with the constant Androgenetic Alopecia itch. I don't have those issues anymore since taking Dutasteride.

 

[username425]

Yes, sebum control improved greatly on Dutasteride. Before I started the treatment, not only was I losing a lot of hair, my scalp would also be super inflamed and really oily along with the constant Androgenetic Alopecia itch. I don't have those issues anymore since taking Dutasteride.

Agustin,

Were you on Finasteride before going on Dutasteride?

And if so, were you experiencing shedding?

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Agustin,

Were you on Finasteride before going on Dutasteride?

And if so, were you experiencing shedding?

No, I was never on Finasteride before, I went straight to taking Dutasteride. I have aggressive Male Pattern Baldness and started with Dutasteride without ever giving Finasteride a go mainly out of fear that it would have been too weak to do much of anything in my case. Dutasteride reduced my hair fall quite a lot and I did not experience any excessive shedding when I first started the 5-AR inhibitor.

 

[Finkle25]

No, I was never on Finasteride before, I went straight to taking Dutasteride. I have aggressive Male Pattern Baldness and started with Dutasteride without ever giving Finasteride a go mainly out of fear that it would have been too weak to do much of anything in my case. Dutasteride reduced my hair fall quite a lot and I did not experience any excessive shedding when I first started the 5-AR inhibitor.

Hi Agustin, how long have you been on dutasteride for? And did you experience a period of shedding when you started? Also have you noticed any side-effects?

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Hi Agustin, how long have you been on dutasteride for? And did you experience a period of shedding when you started? Also have you noticed any side-effects?

I've been taking Dutasteride since December 28th, 2014. I've experienced significantly less shedding since being on the treatment, while before I started Dutasteride therapy, I was losing a lot of hair. I've experienced no side effects, if I experienced any I would have noticed.

 

[Ziggyz123]

Thanks for the replies.. I'm still in the fence with this because of how much hair I lost using finasteride. I developed SD on finasteride probably due to upregulation. The difference between me and you Agustin, is that you seem to have had bad loss and oily skin before treatments whereas I didn't have that. However, it could be because I'm 24 now and it's about the time that people start experiencing male pattern baldness

 

[polonium-210]

Thanks for the replies.. I'm still in the fence with this because of how much hair I lost using finasteride. I developed SD on finasteride probably due to upregulation. The difference between me and you Agustin, is that you seem to have had bad loss and oily skin before treatments whereas I didn't have that. However, it could be because I'm 24 now and it's about the time that people start experiencing male pattern baldness

I'm actually dealing with a similar situation to yours. I'm close to your age and my issues with *heavily* increased sebum (and itching) begun shortly *after* I started using Finasteride (1.25mg - 1/4 Proscar 5mg).

Initially between day 1-5 it seemed to actually calm the situation down a bit, but since 6th day it just went to hell and never stabilized (while using Finasteride).
I experienced little to no sides beside that, but I started to shed a lot of hairs.

After about 3 weeks of dealing with shed, super oily scalp and itch, I was already sure it was counter-productive, so I decided it's time to try Dutasteride.
It took me about 2.5 months since then to get my prescription for Avodart from dermatologist (3 attempts at different people), which was not a bad thing, because I could test Finasteride for a little bit longer.

At 3rd month mark on Finasteride situation has still remained the same, so I finally replaced Finasteride with Avodart 0.5mg, taking it once every 2nd day.
It's my 10th day on Dutasteride (5th cap went today), and it's hard to tell if there's a difference. Itching seems reduced a bit by now, not sure about sebum. It takes about 5-8 weeks for Dutasteride to really kick in, so I'm still living in uncertainty whether this will work or not.
No additional side effects exclusive to Dutasteride by the way for now.

I'm really curious if this could be somehow related to the fact that the bodies of certain individuals can treat 5AR type 1 as a "backdoor" for DHT production when type 2 and 3 are reduced (for example by additionally up-regulating it on top off that).

This doesn't really make sense in general, increased testosterone from 5AR inhibition is way too low to cause stronger effects than DHT before blocking.

 

[Dench57]

Any update Polonium? I had the same inflammation break out *after* starting finasteride the same as you. Would be interested to hear if Duta helped this as I've heard similar stories.

 

[I.D WALKER]

I have seb.derm. and only recently took low strength (1-2/ 81mgs.tablts) aspirin and coincidently (?) have noticed some mild itch relief.

NSAIDS anti-inflammatory propert(ies) at play or merely more cheap speculation at best? You decide.