ILikeVideoGames
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Hey everyone,
I first noticed my hair falling out at around 20. Naturally, I freaked out, Googled, and found you guys.
Since then I've been a pretty aggressive lurker and never even registered. Well now I'm back, and I have a dilemma I would love help with.
I started 1.25mg finasteride when I noticed I was losing my hair (around the crown). The dermatologist I went to figured that by the time I was 25 I would be almost completely bald; which I assume means it was fairly aggressive. I saw great gains, I think, from the two years I was on finasteride. But, I think I saw a lot of studies that showed that finasteride would plateau at the 2 year mark and then gradually decline in effectiveness. Being ever proactive, I decided to switch to dutasteride at the two year mark (and stop taking finasteride).
Now it's been two years since I've been on dutasteride. I started off taking it every other day but, for the last six months or so, I've been taking it M-W-F to make it easier on myself. My hair is holding up really nicely. Unless you're behind me, staring at it, or I'm under bright light, you can't tell. But I've gained quite a bit of weight.
So here are my questions: had I remained on finasteride, would I have likely seen my hair quality continue to improve or was I right about finasteride tapering off around the second year? How likely is my weight gain a result of the dutasteride? And the million dollar question, can I return to finasteride without losing everything I've gained in the past two years and would I then lose weight?
Thank you guys so much in advance! I owe every hair on my head to you guys. :woot:
(I don't suppose I can cross-post this in finasteride, can I?)
I first noticed my hair falling out at around 20. Naturally, I freaked out, Googled, and found you guys.
Since then I've been a pretty aggressive lurker and never even registered. Well now I'm back, and I have a dilemma I would love help with.I started 1.25mg finasteride when I noticed I was losing my hair (around the crown). The dermatologist I went to figured that by the time I was 25 I would be almost completely bald; which I assume means it was fairly aggressive. I saw great gains, I think, from the two years I was on finasteride. But, I think I saw a lot of studies that showed that finasteride would plateau at the 2 year mark and then gradually decline in effectiveness. Being ever proactive, I decided to switch to dutasteride at the two year mark (and stop taking finasteride).
Now it's been two years since I've been on dutasteride. I started off taking it every other day but, for the last six months or so, I've been taking it M-W-F to make it easier on myself. My hair is holding up really nicely. Unless you're behind me, staring at it, or I'm under bright light, you can't tell. But I've gained quite a bit of weight.
So here are my questions: had I remained on finasteride, would I have likely seen my hair quality continue to improve or was I right about finasteride tapering off around the second year? How likely is my weight gain a result of the dutasteride? And the million dollar question, can I return to finasteride without losing everything I've gained in the past two years and would I then lose weight?
Thank you guys so much in advance! I owe every hair on my head to you guys. :woot:
(I don't suppose I can cross-post this in finasteride, can I?)
