Increased miniaturization on dutasteride, how long should I wait?

[DemodexMitesExterminator]

I’m honestly not sure what to do. I’d love to hear people’s opinions/advice here. I’m not even sure if a trichologist could help, as reflex hyperandrogeneticy isn’t well studied.

If you hair is worse you should quit before its too late. I wish I quit after a year. Not continue for another 5 months. After I quit my hair thickened up slightly. So you see..... I believe DHT isnt the main cause of my hair thinning at all..im 38 soon and started losing at 22-23. Still got alot of hair.

 

[Mr. Slap Head]

If things were going well on finasteride you should go back to it. If it ain’t broke, don’t break it!

 

[GottaBeMatt]

If things were going well on finasteride you should go back to it. If it ain’t broke, don’t break it!

The reason I switched to Dutasteride was because Finasteride wasn’t stabilising my hair.

 

[DemodexMitesExterminator]

The reason I switched to Dutasteride was because Finasteride wasn’t stabilising my hair.

Bro. Quit duta now. Thank me later kisses to you.

 

[BlackClouds]

The reason I switched to Dutasteride was because Finasteride wasn’t stabilising my hair.

Same

 

[BlackClouds]

I’m honestly not sure what to do. I’d love to hear people’s opinions/advice here. I’m not even sure if a trichologist could help, as reflex hyperandrogeneticy isn’t well studied.

I also have thinning beard now after dutasteride, so idk if it's reflex hyperandrogenecity or what

 

[Mr. Slap Head]

The reason I switched to Dutasteride was because Finasteride wasn’t stabilising my hair.

I see. Well if things are getting worse on dutasteride, there are only 2 possibilities. 1, you are balding so aggressively not even a strong AA can stop it. 2, you do not respond well to AAs and they are further accelerating your loss.

 

[GottaBeMatt]

I see. Well if things are getting worse on dutasteride, there are only 2 possibilities. 1, you are balding so aggressively not even a strong AA can stop it. 2, you do not respond well to AAs and they are further accelerating your loss.

I’m even taking RU 5%, but not even that is halting the thinning. I do notice new baby hairs from 5mg OM and RU, but without stabilising, there’s little point. Maybe my hair loss isn’t so much DHT related, perhaps there’s something else I’m not addressing? Thoughts? I don’t know what the f*ck to do anymore. I honestly feel like crying. I’m ugly without hair.

 

[DemodexMitesExterminator]

I’m even taking RU 5%, but not even that is halting the thinning. I do notice new baby hairs from 5mg OM and RU, but without stabilising, there’s little point. Maybe my hair loss isn’t so much DHT related, perhaps there’s something else I’m not addressing? Thoughts? I don’t know what the f*ck to do anymore. I honestly feel like crying. I’m ugly without hair.

Are you suffering from hair thinning? Im a licensed demodex mites exterminator. The main cause of thinning hair are those nasty little mites. Forget what you know about hairloss treatments and call me up today on number 07366434. To finally solve all your hair problems.

 

[losingbattle88]

Are you suffering from hair thinning? Im a licensed demodex mites exterminator. The main cause of thinning hair are those nasty little mites. Forget what you know about hairloss treatments and call me up today on number 07366434. To finally solve all your hair problems.

You are correct. The only thing that truely worked to stabilize my hair thinning was to nuke these damn demodex mites.

 

[Mr. Slap Head]

I’m even taking RU 5%, but not even that is halting the thinning. I do notice new baby hairs from 5mg OM and RU, but without stabilising, there’s little point. Maybe my hair loss isn’t so much DHT related, perhaps there’s something else I’m not addressing? Thoughts? I don’t know what the f*ck to do anymore. I honestly feel like crying. I’m ugly without hair.

Switch back to finasteride.

 

[GottaBeMatt]

Switch back to finasteride.

The reason I switched from Finasteride to Dutasteride was because finasteride never stabilised the loss. I’m thinking scalp T plays a large roll considering it’s still acting on the androgen receptor, just at a less potent effect to DHT. Even RU isn’t halting it. I’m just cursed dude. I fall into the 10% of men who don’t respond to 5ar inhibitors.

 

[losingbattle88]

The reason I switched from Finasteride to Dutasteride was because finasteride never stabilised the loss. I’m thinking scalp T plays a large roll considering it’s still acting on the androgen receptor, just at a less potent effect to DHT. Even RU isn’t halting it. I’m just cursed dude. I fall into the 10% of men who don’t respond to 5ar inhibitors.

Same here dude. I was on dutasteride for 1.5 years. All it did was reducing my semen production and gave retrograde ejac. Hair? a thin mess.

 

[Mr. Slap Head]

The reason I switched from Finasteride to Dutasteride was because finasteride never stabilised the loss. I’m thinking scalp T plays a large roll considering it’s still acting on the androgen receptor, just at a less potent effect to DHT. Even RU isn’t halting it. I’m just cursed dude. I fall into the 10% of men who don’t respond to 5ar inhibitors.

Were you taking 5mg of OM back then while on finasteride?

Many people do in fact respond worse to dutasteride. Hope it’s not accelerating your loss even more than finasteride.

 

[Mr. Slap Head]

Sometimes people seem very sensitive to T. In that case, dutasteride only spikes it more. Finasteride still moderately increases it. Maybe you should hop off 5ARIs all together. Hard to say for sure.

 

[GottaBeMatt]

Sometimes people seem very sensitive to T. In that case, dutasteride only spikes it more. Finasteride still moderately increases it. Maybe you should hop off 5ARIs all together. Hard to say for sure.

Thing is, I don’t want to “experiment and see”, because I can’t afford to lose more ground. If I were to switch back to finasteride, what is the best method to go about it?

 

[Mr. Slap Head]

Thing is, I don’t want to “experiment and see”, because I can’t afford to lose more ground. If I were to switch back to finasteride, what is the best method to go about it?

What is your family history like?

Dutasteride is going to take several months to completely clear your system and for DHT to return to baseline, which takes about 6 months. But after 2 months and before 3 months, DHT levels usually return to the same levels as finasteride, around ~60-70% still reduced from baseline. If you are going to stop dutasteride you can do it cold turkey, and perhaps start finasteride after 1-2 months.