Stopping dutasteride to get hair back

[Nick4441]

Hi,

My hairloss was slow before getting on treatments and a year on with 6 months on finasteride and then 6 months on dutasteride loss has been very rapid with no recovery.

Anyone stop treatments and found hair improved?

I think I aggravated my loss by starting treatments..if it was shedding then should have been some recovery a year on and there isn't.

The only route I havn'e gone down is minoxidil..maybe a last resort ..

 

[oni]

Nick4441 give dutasteride another 6 months and if your hair is that bad I would get on the minoxidil ASAP anyway................................................... Don't forget the nizoral.............. :whistle:

 

[Slartibartfast]

...if it was shedding then should have been some recovery a year on and there isn't.

If you'd been on the same treatment for a year then I'd be inclined to agree, but of course you only gave finasteride 6 months to work before switching to dutasteride. Which means it could just be that you've endured one shed courtesy of finasteride, and then before your hair could recover from that you've hit it with a more powerful drug and thus triggered a second round of shedding. Which is a round-about way of suggesting that you allow dutasteride at least a year before giving up on it, and ideally stick at your current dosage if you can.

 

[vipergts]

Stop it Nick! I tried finasteride almost a year and lost half my density. If it has accelerated your loss for 6 months I don't think an additional 6 months will make a difference. In any case why would you put an unproven POS drug in your body and risk all the other side-effects? Bottom line, for people like you and me who are poor finasteride/dutasteride responders there is no hope right now except a good hair transplant. Just quit this dutasteride sh*t and give your hair a breather. Heck it's just hair.

 

[Andrea]

Are you sure that you have male pattern baldness and not telogen effluvium?