Hairloss Strategy

[FinallyHT]

In 2014 my hair loss was getting bad, I remember I decided to double my finasteride from 1.25 to 2.5mg a day and began using topical minox twice a day.  It may a huge difference. I'm guessing it was because of the doubling of the finasteride.   I went back to 1mg in 2018 when I switched doctors. 

Currently, I am using Xyon Top Dut (4 months in) 1mg of Fin daily, 1x daily top minox.  

Should I double finasteride again? Try oral dusteride. Add oral minox? ( I don't want to use this drug for very long.) My goal is to add something bridge the gap to Pyrlimude whenever that comes out.  

I think I should keep as is to see how effective Xyon Top Dut is until June 15th which would be 5 months of use. Then double to oral fin to 2.5mg.

What does the hairloss fellowship think?

 

 

 

[HappyMan2021]

I'm so confused. Why are you taking topical Dut and oral Fin? why are you taking both Dut and Fin? Why would you double your Fin dose?

[FinallyHT]

Becuase 1mg fin is losing effectiveness. Ive been on it for 17 years! As I mentioned, doubling fin seemed to helped my hair- the proof is the two photos. 

[TorontoMan]

55 minutes ago, FinallyHT said:

Becuase 1mg fin is losing effectiveness. Ive been on it for 17 years! As I mentioned, doubling fin seemed to helped my hair- the proof is the two photos. 

Wow 17 years! How has it treated you all this time? 

I don't see the point personally in doubling fin since you're on topical dut, how often are you using the topical dut?

[FinallyHT]

Toronto man- oral fin works, but definitely not as effective as it was in the first three years of use many many years ago. 
 

I use top dut, every day. But what if top dut is not effective for whatever reason. That’s why I still use oral fin. Doubling oral fin several years back, worked for me. So I don’t see any harm is doing it again. 

[duckling]

with dut you are already blocking lot of scalp DHT. I don't think doubling your fin dose is needed. dut + double dose of fin is lot of dht blocked.

i get point of keeping hair but its not worth this much. use current dosage and be happy without sides.

[FinallyHT]

But I don’t know if the top dut is working. When I e started new medications for hair, it took about 4 months to see results. So far nothing with top dut.  

 

And I didn’t get sides when I used 2.5mg of fin.  So I don’t see the harm in upping the fin which actually did yield results. 

Edited May 21, 2023 by FinallyHT