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I decided to hop on dutasteride because finasteride stopped working. So I added dutasteride to my regimen, just one 0.5mg cap a week, recently increased it to 6caps a month, it's not much but after a year or so during winter I started waking up with severe dry eyes, and worst of all, I think it might be the culprit for an eye issue I developed around the same time, at least definitely correlates.
Ophtalmologist did slit lamp and little else, said my tear film had poor quality.
I've had dry eyes before even finasteride or dutasteride but never like this.. using some eye ointments atm but the eye issue in my left eye persists and might force me to go to a clinic and spend big bucks on several eye exams.
As for hair it made it worse, It's been a year and half now or so, my hair became so much oilier, even the sides of my head, and I'm seeing my hair getting thinner.
Did you experience eye dryness on it, specially people with previous dry eye problems?
Probably gonna stop dutasteride soon since it's been a nothing burger for my hair and this eye issue I'm currently facing is probably the worst health issue I've ever dealt with and it's wrecking my mental health tbh
I thought I was imagining things as I never heard of dry eyes and finasteride/dutasteride but then looked up a considerable amount of people complaining about the same thing. I don't think finasteride exacerbated my dry eyes though, took it EOD 1mg for like a decade, shame it kinda slowly stopped working for me at around the 5 or 6 year mark after fantastic regrowth. I'm a diffuse thinner btw, so I'm not in any norwood necessarily, just thinning all over the top and in recent years back as well.
Ophtalmologist did slit lamp and little else, said my tear film had poor quality.
I've had dry eyes before even finasteride or dutasteride but never like this.. using some eye ointments atm but the eye issue in my left eye persists and might force me to go to a clinic and spend big bucks on several eye exams.
As for hair it made it worse, It's been a year and half now or so, my hair became so much oilier, even the sides of my head, and I'm seeing my hair getting thinner.
Did you experience eye dryness on it, specially people with previous dry eye problems?
Probably gonna stop dutasteride soon since it's been a nothing burger for my hair and this eye issue I'm currently facing is probably the worst health issue I've ever dealt with and it's wrecking my mental health tbh
I thought I was imagining things as I never heard of dry eyes and finasteride/dutasteride but then looked up a considerable amount of people complaining about the same thing. I don't think finasteride exacerbated my dry eyes though, took it EOD 1mg for like a decade, shame it kinda slowly stopped working for me at around the 5 or 6 year mark after fantastic regrowth. I'm a diffuse thinner btw, so I'm not in any norwood necessarily, just thinning all over the top and in recent years back as well.
