Use of finasteride + dutasteride

[capo_regime]

Hi all!

My name is Arthur. I'm suffering from androngenic alopecia since some 10 years. I'm 32 right know. First medication I used was minoxidil 2%. But it caused me a significant shedding and, because I wasn't correctly informed I thinked it was only worsing the hair loss and stoped some 2 or 3 months after that. After the minoxidil I used fina 1 mg for some 4-5 months and the hair continued to fall and so I started to quit any form of treatment. Some 5 years I decided to inform myself better and re-started to do minoxidil 5% once a day and fina 1 mg. The results seemed to exist but they were to small. For the last 5 months I'm using also the ketoconazol 2% shampoo and right now the hair loss is stopped. My question is: since the ketoconazol have anti-androgen activity could it be potentiating the anti-androgen activity of finasteride? Can I associate dutasteride 0.5 mg or should replace the fina with it in order to achieve a better anti-androgen activity?

Many thanks

 

[zzzzz]

if you are going to start dutasteride you should just stop finasteride altogether. But don't switch to dutasteride thinking you will get more regrowth. You said your hairloss is stopped. Dutasteride will very likely not provide any noticeable amount of regrowth over finasteride. They are both good at maintaining, dutasteride is better for that. The difference in regrowth is not super significant

 

[capo_regime]

I also have a very oily skin and hair. The duta seems to be good to this since it blocks the 2 enzimes. Is this fact a good indication to duta?

 

[Bukowski]

Some use finasteride 6 days a week and add 1 pil of 0,5mg dutasteride once a week and saw better results. There's even a study who proved that there could be a difference. No matter what everybody says, there's no way to tell what will happen when you switch from finasteride to dutasteride. It's a fact that dutasteride is the stronger drug of the two but for some finasteride works better and for others dutasteride works better. If I were you I'd start taking dutasteride once a week along with finasteride 6 times a week and see what happens.
This is the study I was referring to. There are also pics but you'd have to google to find them. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22686691

 

[fnamna]

Some use finasteride 6 days a week and add 1 pil of 0,5mg dutasteride once a week and saw better results. There's even a study who proved that there could be a difference. No matter what everybody says, there's no way to tell what will happen when you switch from finasteride to dutasteride. It's a fact that dutasteride is the stronger drug of the two but for some finasteride works better and for others dutasteride works better. If I were you I'd start taking dutasteride once a week along with finasteride 6 times a week and see what happens.
This is the study I was referring to. There are also pics but you'd have to google to find them. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22686691

good post, never thought about this combo.
is this is what you doing? if so for how long and do you see any results in decreased shedding or regrowth ?