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Not for the time being its not a priority. I'm just focused on getting this part of my life back to normal first and then I will see how I feel about a second transplant. For now this problem has taken precedence.

Thank you. I'm trying to focus on positive things and optimistic results right now and its helping to alleviate things. I actually have some of those pills but I never take them although I might try them out a couple times a week to see if they help things. Its the panic and dread of "being doomed forever" that's killing me but if I focus on the positive stuff it helps me feel calm. I'm trying to continue with a normal life as well I did an awesome gym workout this evening healthy food and I'm going to stay focused on my job and also try get more sleep from now on. All I can do is stay positive and hope for a good outcome.

Thanks. I took my last pill on Saturday and decided no more! I took 60 0.5mg over the space of about 90 days. Libido and errction quality just dropped so much on it and kept dropping. I went down a terrifying rabbit hole reading about nightmare side effects and people that never went back to normal, that was Sunday night. On Monday night I tried to test my penis and it just shrivelled into a peanut it was awful. I've been open telling people what I've experienced. I've told my work mates. Today I managed to use my imagination and with intense and gentle play I got somewhat of an erection (althouh it was one of those weaker erections that wouldn't be great for sex) and I managed to bring myself to climax and ejaculate for the first time since last week and this is now giving me hope for recovery. I'm going to try and have a gentle bit of play time every day or every second day to try keep my sex organs exercised if that makes sense. I'm gonna try ejaculate several times a week while this stuff runs out of my system. Also gonna try drink lots of orange juice and cranberry juice and water over the next few months because someone told me this might help speed up the process of pushing the dut out of my system. It will be such a weight off my chest if I can start getting harder and harder as the weeks go by. If I see that happening I will be able to relax my mind a bit more. I find when I wake up in my hot bed at night or in the morning my penis is about 50% more full than it is when resting at work, and this tells me that there's still blood flowing in and out of it to some extent. I find stressing and freaking out over it makes it harder for me to stimulate a semi so going to try positive thoughts as much as possible.

Even if I start seeing great improvements in 6-12 months I can have peace of mind. Just don't want to be ruined forever.

Guys I've used dut 0.5mg about 5 days a week for 3 months and a few days ago I decided to stop because I got fed up with the sides and felt it wasn't good to be taking it. My libido has dropped a lot, erections are infrequent and very weak they're just not happening much any more. Its quite scary but hoping the sides will reverse. If it takes a couple of months I'm fine with that but I'm worried this could go on forever.

Guys I've been looking into the sides and talking to people on Reddit and there is so much content out there to suggest that the sides can become totally irreversible on these meds so I now really feel like coming off them altogether tbh.

That would be most ideal mate. Do we know dut to work well in this fashion?

I've been taken it 5 days a week, sometimes 6 days a week. Why best to come off it slowly? If lowering the dose helps retain hair and retain libidinal function then that would be a win win and I'd love that.

Hi guys. Been on dutasteride about 3 months and it's halted my hair loss for sure. Perhaps thickened the hair too. But the sides are stronger than fin. My libido is very low and errctions much weaker. Ejacaltion is weaker too. Consequently I'm thinking of coming off it, and literally stopping it today so that I can recover my normal libidinal functions again. Anyone know how long it takes for the sides to go away? Also will my hair loss be mega aggressive again? What's the best way of dealing with this problem?

Some very interesting perspectives here. Thanks guys. Personally I have found that I thinned consistently from my late teens to my late 20s, with some fluctuating moments of more aggressive hair loss. Went on finasteride aged 29 and the hair loss slowed dramatically. Around age 31 the hair loss became more advanced again. A couple of months ago I stopped fin and started dutatsteride instead. Now aged 33 it seems my hair loss has totally stopped.

I see. Does it thin at the same rapid pace or does it slow down?

Does hair loss slow down after age 35 or thereabouts? I've seen a few things online suggesting that hair loss stabilises around age 30-35.

Thanks. Yes I will go back to Saifi. I'm hopeful that a touch-up should bring me back to a solid result and that it will keep everything in place for the foreseeable future. My hair loss is now totally stabilised since starting dutatseride so risk of further thinning should be somewhat low. Also Saifi told me on the first occasion that it is not unusual for patients to get a touch 1-2 years after their first procedure, he says a second transplant is often required to give excellent density. I believe he did a good job the first time, I have a feeling my further hair loss since the first treatment was probably my own genes initiating more hair loss.

my hair loss seems to now be fully stabilised. I started dutasteride 2 months ago, replaced finisterre for it because finisterre had lost its power on me. Hair loss seems to now be very minimal, almost completely stopped again. I'm looking to fill in the weak spots shown in the pictures. Left and right sides, left side is worse than the right side. The thin areas are big enough.

Is there a difference between transplanting into an area that's thin(ning) as opposed to transplanting into a fully bald area? Can transplanting into a thinning area kill the existing hairs in that area?

Nothing in life is a guarantee except death and taxes ...I've certainly not lost all of it. But I feel like a good bit of it has thinned out. It could be that lots of native hairs surrounding the transplanted hairs have fallen out, but honestly to me it seems like the transplant has weaked a little bit, more so on the left side than the right side. I'm booking a 2nd transplant. I expect the 2nd transplant to be a lot smaller than the first transplant because I don't shouldn't need so many grafts this time.

Hi...the transplanted hair never looked the same as my native hair, when looked at closely, especially under harsh lights. It always looked thinner and not 100% natural when harshly scrutinised. I can tell you now though, almost 3 years out from the surgery. I need another transplant. Its looking weak and not nearly half as good as it did 18 months ago. I now take dutasteride and my hair loss has finally stopped again, but the transplanted areas look weak, especially the left hand side. I can't style my hair with full flexibility any more. I personally believe that a lot of my transplanted hair fell out over the past 2 years.

That does help. Thanks for your response why would you recommend talking to a physician before switching to dutasteride. I plan on taking my last hit of finasteride tomorrow, and then my first hit of dutasteride on Friday.

Cool, thanks. I might message one of the licensed physicans here on this forum. I think I will need a 2nd transplant to bring me back to good density, if the dutasteride proves to be effective over the next few months.

Cool. Good luck with it. 3x weekly seems like an easy commitment. Wondering if I can use it a little less than every day myself.

Hi guys, I am down to my last finasteride pill. I will cut it into quarters and it will keep me going for a few days. However, I'm about to order my first subscription of dutasteride. I'm ordering 90 0.5mg dutasteride tablets. I am not ordering finasteride! I believe 1x0.5mg of dutasteride daily is the recommended dose, but I believe it has a long half-live, and a stronger effect than finasteride. I feel like finasteride has lost efficacy on me over the past year. I've been losing hair (again). I'm hoping dutasteride will have a good impact on my hair loss. So here's a few questions: - I will take my last hit of finasteride on Thursday, then my first hit of dutasteride on Friday. I have not weaned myself off fin, I am literally jumping straight off fin and straight onto DUT. Is this the best way of doing things? Will this induce side effects? - Might experience any side effects from dut; advanced shedding for a few weeks etc? - Should I expect awesome results with dut? A lot less hair loss? Perhaps thicker hair? - If I use dut 0.5mg x 4 weekly will that be strong enough, seen as it has a long half life, or should I just use it every day, or maybe even 5 days a week? Thanks

I will go get my scalp examined but to be honest mate I've been going to HRBR for 13 years, they've looked at my scalp on many occasions and they said I was a good candidate for HT surgery. Dr Saifi said my scalp was fine for HT surgery. It does not see like Saifi took hairs from the unsafe zone. Will DUT increase the density of the thinning hair that I have at the front/mid scalp of my head?

I haven't had my scalp examined but what could that possibly uncover? I either have a scalp disease or I don't. Say I have a scalp disease - is the solution; take more pills and get more surgery? Or is it forget about your hair your screwed? Say I don't have a scalp disease - is the solution; take more pills and get more surgery? Or is forget about your hair your screwed?

I had 2,040 FUE with Saifi 2.5 years ago. Have been on 1.25mg fun daily and Regain foam daily the past few years. The meds have lost their efficacy and the transplant doesn't look great any more. Can't or style my hair the way I could any more. It's been happening extremely fast lately. Like, I can brush out 100 hairs in the sink easily on any other day. If I sit at my desk in work and brush my hair, a few hairs fall like snowflakes. Every time I step in the mirror I look at the hair and it looks cruddy, and if I run my fingers through it it falls it. It feels thin. The crown is not experiencing hair loss (yet) but everywhere else on the top of my head seems to be suffering; hairline, mid scalp etc. My questions are: Should I come off all the meds for a year or 2, shave off the hair, and let a huge bald spot develop before trying for another transplant, then get on dut instead of Regaine next time around? Or do I Swap fin for dut right now and see if that thickens up my hair?

I started fin less than 3 years ago. Had a hair transplant 2.5 years ago. Use Regaine 1x daily most days (foam). When I first started using Fin my hair loss slowed dramatically. Then when I got my transplant (1 year later) my hair was fairly pleasing. Now - in the last year or so - I've been losing a lot of hair. Brushed out about 100 hairs this afternoon in the bathroom. Can't get my hair cut or styled anymore the same way I could 18 months ago. My theory is that Fin has lost a lot of its power on me, although I wonder what it would be like if I come off it? The way my hair is going I'm thinking of: A) Switching to dut to see if that thickens up my thinning hair Or B) Not taking dut, ditching Fin + minoxidil and just shaving it off.