What dose of finasteride are you on?

[Eazy12]

Just curious what you guys are running. I take 1.25mg a day but might drop to .5 a day

 

[Goldee Lox]

Toggling between .25 and .5 for about a month or so now. I started at 1 for about a week but dropped down to see how I react.. not much change for better or for worse, but.. it's still very early in my treatment.

 

[razzmatazz91]

1 mg
started a couple of months ago

 

[Fullhead1day]

Wow, no poll for dutasteride. The discrimination, I see how it is...

 

[Roberto_72]

1,5 mg daily. Capsules prepared by pharmacy with a prescription from derm (otherwise they don't give it to you).

 

[throwaway592845]

Hey mate. A couple of documented articles.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24898559

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-0960.2012.00909.x/abstract

Important to bear in the mind the guys who didn't respond on Finasteride, were only on it for 6 months. The drug takes a while to work for some people. So those who benefited on dutasteride may have also benefited if they stuck with finasteride. Also what is "no significant improvement"? The abstract doesn't say whether it refers to regrowth or maintenance. The latter would be a success in reality. I am sure the full article would have this clarification.

The other link is of only one patient so doesn't constitute a study. Still, it's something.

Either way, I am sure Dutasteride provides better maintenance for those with aggressive male pattern baldness. But I am starting to think it might be able to recover miniaturised better or at the very least, much quicker. I have had thickening and regrowth on finasteride at the back big time which was thinning a little, middle was always fine. But I would like better frontal gains, the process is also quite slow in this region.

It's an experiment I may try. finasteride is bullet proof for hair loss but dutasteride is something else. The lure of the soft gelatin based capsule continues.

Thanks for your reply, certainly something to keep in mind. However, I am making such massive gains (thickening all the way back to my crown and back of my head and steady regrowth on my temples) on 1mg finasteride ed I don't see why I should spend more (yes, I am so happy that treatment costs start to be a deciding factor) for dutasteride.

 

[Norwood One]

I like how the majority of people are on 0.25mg or less. Precautionary or they had side effects so they reduced? That is the question.

 

[Eazy12]

I like how the majority of people are on 0.25mg or less. Precautionary or they had side effects so they reduced? That is the question.

Early results, have a look now.

 

[LDM88]

I'm on 1mg a day since March end this year. Would it hurt to switch to dutasteride? Or not?

 

[MORALES]

I used 5 mg/day with great protection results. 5 mg/day finasteride completely inhibits to further hair loss. But for new hair growth everyone needs to growth stimulants.

 

[abcdefg]

Wolf, is there any scientific data to back up this claim?

I think its just common sense that dutasteride is going to work better than finasteride. It blocks the remaining 30 percent of the same enzyme finasteride blocks so its going to work better just based on that alone also it blocks the less important type 1 enzyme which might play some smaller role. Although the role of the resulting T spike is still up for debate. Most say it doesnt matter, but I dont know

 

[Rdx]

1 mg finasteride eod..from 2 months..thinking to take 1 mg daily.

 

[Willy_Aer]

1 mg finasteride daily...but additionally I apply it topically mixed with minoxidil 5% everynight. So practically it's way more I guess. I'm always wondering always what would be the equivalent in termz of DHT inhibitiom...