stopping rogaine / starting dutasteride

[kthxbi]

first off, sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

second, i'll say that this is not an immediate plan for me. it's just something i've been thinking about a little - i've been on rogaine for a little under 6 months with so far v. underwhelming results and am real conscious of the whole ''stopping rogaine after a while gives a mean shed'' thing so it's just something i've been thinking about possibly before it's ''too late'' - though not immediately, for sure.

anyway, all that out the way - i was just looking for any opinions or experiences on getting off rogaine and starting up on dutasteride. i've seen a few things recently which have shown really, really impressive results from adding just one 0.5mg dose of dutasteride / week to an existing finasteride regimen. does anyone have any thoughts on the idea?

again it's not something i'm looking to do right this minute but i don't want to get two years down the line with rogaine, clinging onto vellus hairs or whatever and then either drop that (or not) and shed a bunch and be a bunch poorer, just to realise that i coulda / shoulda added a weekly dose of dutasteride to my daily finasteride regimen ages ago.

thanks,
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[skyghost]

im planning on doing the same soon, but im thinking my regimen will be something like: 0.5 dutasteride once a week, 1.25mg finasteride everyday, and minoxidil once a day a night.

i lost ground when i stopped minoxidil for 2 months, jumped back on it, got back some gains, but am still looking to add density.

 

[kthxbi]

thanks for the reply - also something i'd considered. once weekly dutasteride barely costs a thing too so all that's really stopping me right now i guess is patience to give minoxidil a lil more time to impress me with, 6 months isn't i don't think enough to start switching regimens around quite yet.

 

[ohmanohno]

I dropped minoxidil close to 2 months ago. Still on finasteride .5 daily and added capillogain 2 months ago to replace minoxidil. I'll be adding .5 dutasteride once a week and ill keep you posted.

 

[Thinning Sucks]

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