Long story short, I started to lose my hair at 16 years old, jumped on finasteride right away with a prescription from my doctor, and remained on it for 5 years. In March of this year, after only managing to slow the loss somewhat and seeing a huge acceleration in the speed of balding in the past two years, I made the switch to daily dutasteride.
Since then, it feels like I may as well be taking nothing. My hairloss has not slowed or stabilised, if anything the rate and volume of hair I’m losing has increased, and more and more ground retreats with every passing month, and it has never been in worse shape than it’s in now. I’m devastated.
At 21 years old, this has completely ruined my confidence. I started my treatment in my teens because I was led to believe that the younger you start the better it is, but no matter the treatment I throw at it I’m barely even slowing it down.
Frankly I’m just completely out of ideas, what options are left if even dutasteride isn’t working? I’ve been applying minoxidil daily for the past 2 years also, and tried dermstamping last year also (with no success). Just looking for some idea of what I could do next?
Since then, it feels like I may as well be taking nothing. My hairloss has not slowed or stabilised, if anything the rate and volume of hair I’m losing has increased, and more and more ground retreats with every passing month, and it has never been in worse shape than it’s in now. I’m devastated.
At 21 years old, this has completely ruined my confidence. I started my treatment in my teens because I was led to believe that the younger you start the better it is, but no matter the treatment I throw at it I’m barely even slowing it down.
Frankly I’m just completely out of ideas, what options are left if even dutasteride isn’t working? I’ve been applying minoxidil daily for the past 2 years also, and tried dermstamping last year also (with no success). Just looking for some idea of what I could do next?