Take a look at this study:
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/hair_loss_n ... mmentID=43
"Dutasteride was shown to be more effective and showed less variation in inhibition of the different genotypes of 5-alpha reductase type II than finasteride. In a few genotypes, finasteride showed better inhibition than dutasteride, indicating that genotyping of patients would be beneficial when choosing treatment. This also provides a possible answer as to why some people who treat their hair loss with finasteride see a lot of improvement when they switch to dutasteride, and why a few instead notice a worsening of their condition. It may very well be due to some genotypes responding better to one drug than the other."
finasteride. hasn't helped me at all. What if dutasteride. doesn't work either? I haven't started on it, and I feel like I'm already sunk. Not because of what this says, necessarily, just in general.
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/hair_loss_n ... mmentID=43
"Dutasteride was shown to be more effective and showed less variation in inhibition of the different genotypes of 5-alpha reductase type II than finasteride. In a few genotypes, finasteride showed better inhibition than dutasteride, indicating that genotyping of patients would be beneficial when choosing treatment. This also provides a possible answer as to why some people who treat their hair loss with finasteride see a lot of improvement when they switch to dutasteride, and why a few instead notice a worsening of their condition. It may very well be due to some genotypes responding better to one drug than the other."
finasteride. hasn't helped me at all. What if dutasteride. doesn't work either? I haven't started on it, and I feel like I'm already sunk. Not because of what this says, necessarily, just in general.