I added finasteride to my minoxidil regime in late June 2012. I wanted to regrow hair in my temples. But after nearly 10 months, my experience with this drug is disgusting. I started in a stable state, after 15,5 years on minoxidil, but now my hair is worse than at the beginning. Well, I was experiencing an amazing regrowth after mere 6 weeks, but it quickly stopped and after 4 months, everything turned by 180 degrees and I started to lose hair in my temples.
Now I realize that the summer regrowth was due to the beneficial effect of SARMs that I was taking during July/August. Finasteride (by itself) does absolutely nothing for me. And it would be grotesque, if it eventually turned out that it has actually exacerbated my hair loss... But it doesn't make sense, because even after quitting SARMs, finasteride was just keeping my DHT levels below baseline...
To be frank, I appear to be a non-responder to 5-AR blockers. I had DHT 25-32 ng/dl during the winter months, more than half a year on finasteride. This is low from the standards of adult men (30-85 ng/dl), but quite high for a finasteride user, who should have ca. 15 ng/dl on average. But considering my past, with many hyperandrogenic diseases, I think that my DHT must be significantly below baseline (I don't know my initial levels, unfortunately.). This is why I added dutasteride (on 8th February). But even after 3 weeks on dutasteride, my DHT was only 26 ng/dl (!) I was absolutely desperate from it. One week ago, I had another blood test and I should get the results within 2 weeks. Currently I take 1 mg of dutasteride every 3 days + finasteride (1.25 mg/day), together with minoxidil. If I don't get under 15 ng/dl, then I am probably a mutant.
As for my hair, I really don't know, what to say. The last 6 months have been an ordeal for me. I don't know, where my hair is heading. The shedding in my temples started in late October, but only in late December it began to be harsh and my left temple was hit by it very brutally. I was continually shedding hair for ca. 2,5 months. Now my left temple is "borderline transparent" to the depth of ca. 1-1.5 cm. During March, it slowed down somewhat. Curiously, some parts of my left temple started to grow back during the last weeks (I am not delusional; the hairs were not there), but on other places, only few mms next to it, I observed new loses. Now, what is happening with my hair, when I am losing and regrowing it at the same time? It's perplexing.
In any case, I will be adding dutasteride, until I experience the same regrowth like in summer last year. At least, I know that such a regrowth is possible in me. So far, the only visible effect was an outburst of acne on my back. I don't know, what to think about it, because my testosterone is rather low, so I practically exclude a hyperandrogenic reaction.
