Switching to dutasteride Question and regimen change question

[stax]

Hey guys, just wondering if you guys could help me out with a few questions regarding changing my regimen.
I've been on finasteride for 3 months, prescription proxiphen for 3 months, Xandrox 15 & 5, and nano and nizoral for about the same time. I was previously on regular minoxidil 4 months before this new regimen. Anyways i want to switch to dutasteride because i think i will have way better results with it and faster. I just want to know in the long run will it make a difference if i start dutasteride now or wait a few years after i've been on finasteride first. WIll i be burning my chances later of another option if i start dutasteride now or will my hair end up better in the long run if i start dutasteride now? Also i know some people are scared of the long term side effects dutasteride may cause like alzheimers disease and so on but i read in an article that low testosterone can cause this disease and dutasteride increases testosterone a bit. What do you guys think?

Also i was wondering if i should switch from Prescription proxiphen to Fluridil instead? What do you guys think will be a better choice. Im getting some good results in my hairline and from peachfuzz im growing back near terminal hair and it keeps getting slowly better and i want to continue this. If the rest of my hair was thick i would stay on this regimen but when its wet and combed back it sucks cause its diffuse a bit and i want some nice thickening. When my hair is dry and combed forward or even back you cant tell but when wet you can see some thinning. I just want to keep my hair and thicken it for at least 10 years and more and by the time 2015 hits i know HM will be available. Will dutasteride do the job untill then?

Anyways if you guys could help me out on this one that would be great.

Thx

 

[PartTimeNinja]

Dude, you need some consistancy in you regimen - The way you're switching back and forth is not doing you any favours....At all.
Should you switch to dutasteride? IMO, no - stick with your regimen for a year (you already know this) and see what happens - who knows, you might be an excellent responder and grow a crapload of hair from this - you have not given your regimen time enough to wait it out. Also the idea is to steadly add to your regimen as time goes by - in order to keep up your results. You are using everything at one go - making it impossible to fall back on anything when you current treatments start to slip.

Should you switch from Proxiphen to Fluridil? No (again) give it a year and see what happens - you keep starting over and over again when you start a new treatment. I'm using Proxiphen as well and I don't know how good this stuff is yet, but I personally don't think Fluridil is better (there has been A LOT of hype on it lately on this site - causing every one to believe it's the sh*t (Not saying it's not just that it's the hype of this year so far). late last year it was the laser comb. My point is, don't listen to current trends - but add consistency instead of new products.

BTW: You're only using Proxiphen on the hairline? How long does a vial last you? Do you think your growth on the hairline is from Zandrox or Proxiphen?

Thanks Stax.

 

[stax]

Hey, actually i never really switched my regimen only added to it or improved it. Here the breakdown.

About 7 months ago i was started using 5% rogaine on my hairline only and continued this for 4 months. I started to see the receeded peachfuzz turning dark like my regular hair colour. But then i noticed when my hair was wet it looked diffuse and also i wanted the fastest and strongest results and wanted to add to my regimen. So after 4 months of this i switched from rogaine to Dr.Lee's Xandrox 15 and Xandrox 5, and 5% spironolactone. I started using the Xandrox all over the top of my head and the spironolactone on my hairline only for about 1 month. Then on this site somebody metioned Prescription proxiphen to me and i researched it and decided to drop the spironolactone for Proxiphen since it has spironolactone in it already and i started using it all over my scalp and it lasts me one month per vial. At this same time i started finasteride and Nano shampoo and conditioner. Now when my hair is dry or wet you can see the darker shade and outline of a norwood 1 or less hairline. What do i think caused the regrowth to this point? Definetly the Xandrox 15. Soon after i started i kept noticing better regrowth and in 4 months from now im waiting for that finasteride to really kick in and get a growth explosion hopefully. If i dont notice major improvements within 4 months then I will probabbly switch to dutasteride and mabye add fluridil.