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Doesn't finasteride not work for you either though? RU worked great for me, and many others like Hellouser. Forum anecdotes are less reliable than studies. Look at all the people on here who claim dutasteride doesn't even work for them. It virtually eliminates DHT, so how could that be?
It stopped my recession but I kept losing hair diffusely, either way I had to quit due to gyno so it doesn't matter. It's possible that Dutasteride does not work, why not? If you really want to be safe against Androgenetic Alopecia you have to go the AR-blocking route, not just the DHT-blocking route. Inhibiting as much androgen receptor activity is the only thing guaranteed results, and you can't achieve that with Dutasteride or conventional anti-androgens, but maybe something that inhibits nuclear translocation / transcription like Bicalutamide or the real cure, antisense therapy or genetic silencing.
I think those people who fail on Dutasteride would probably stop their hair loss with a sufficient dose of Bicalutamide. How many would be willing to do that is a different matter though. Given all that I don't think Dutasteride should be any kind of yard stick for Androgenetic Alopecia.