Changing from finasteride to dutasteride

[jamjam]

 Hi guys, 

I'm wondering if changing my medication from finasteride to dutasteride will benefit me. I've been taken finasteride since 2013 started with a 1.25mg then increased dosage to 2.5mg daily, in which it had stabilize my hairloss for about 2 years but recently I had notice more receeding so after some months. I have increased my dosage to 5mg daily. 

Can anyone who has experience of changing to dutasteride share their with me please.

Has it stabilize your hairloss?

Has their been any sort, even little improvement's on your hair ?

Did any side effects occur?

Which medication did you prefer fin or dua ?

 

Thank you for your time 👍

[ciaus]

I'm aware of dutasteride but have been taking finasteride the past ~15yrs, its slowed down my loss alot. Dutasteride is alot more powerful and stays in your system alot longer, its less studied, less used, not as old so less of a track record, and not FDA approved for hair loss, so I haven't given it serious thought. And that's even more the case now that Clascoterone was just FDA approved for acne and there's work being done to get the hair loss dosage approved within the next few years -its a topical and works only up at the hair follicle receptors so it should be pretty safe - I plan on using finasteride and Clascoterone together.

Regarding your recent dosage increases - unless you are using a generic brand of finasteride that is inferior/less potent than it is supposed to be due to bad manufacturing processes, etc, more than an actual 1mg dosage is not going help you hang on to more hair, that's what the pharmaceutical research determined when testing dosages less than the 5mg treatment for prostate therapy. That your hair seemed to 'stabilize' for two years was probably just the extra amount of time the finasteride was buying your next group of vulnerable hairs follicles before they finally succumbed to even the lowered DHT levels in your blood.

Ultimately all the drugs are a delaying tactic, my advice would be to wait for Clascoterone and think about an additional HT as a worse case option.

[jamjam]

33 minutes ago, ciaus said:

I'm aware of dutasteride but have been taking finasteride the past ~15yrs, its slowed down my loss alot. Dutasteride is alot more powerful and stays in your system alot longer, its less studied, less used, not as old so less of a track record, and not FDA approved for hair loss, so I haven't given it serious thought. And that's even more the case now that Clascoterone was just FDA approved for acne and there's work being done to get the hair loss dosage approved within the next few years -its a topical and works only up at the hair follicle receptors so it should be pretty safe - I plan on using finasteride and Clascoterone together.

Regarding your recent dosage increases - unless you are using a generic brand of finasteride that is inferior/less potent than it is supposed to be due to bad manufacturing processes, etc, more than an actual 1mg dosage is not going help you hang on to more hair, that's what the pharmaceutical research determined when testing dosages less than the 5mg treatment for prostate therapy. That your hair seemed to 'stabilize' for two years was probably just the extra amount of time the finasteride was buying your next group of vulnerable hairs follicles before they finally succumbed to even the lowered DHT levels in your blood.

Ultimately all the drugs are a delaying tactic, my advice would be to wait for Clascoterone and think about an additional HT as a worse case option.

Thank you for replying mate. Ya that's what I'm thinking. I mean it might not be (dua) all what it's cranked up to be regarding stabilizing hairloss. I'll have a look at Glascoterone but then again it's not ready yet, don't know how long you'd wait.