Recent content by Jamiemason123

If you’re worried about the detection of cancers speak to a dermatologist who specialises in hair loss about this risk (never trust a normal GP they know nothing about this). If you can risk it for three months by all means try out dutasteride once a week- I hope it works. Truthfully I don’t understand...

Hi Derelict, thanks for this. I had a feeling that it probably was. RU definitely seems more effective than CB- do you have experience of these drugs? I’m wondering firstly what dose of CB is required to hold the hairline and secondly how risky RU really is. There are so many conflicting...

Sorry for all the replies- I just feel very strongly about this! Really no other treatments are going to have much effect, it is irresponsible for anyone to suggest that anything other than dutasteride will hold your hair if finasteride is losing the battle. Once you have stabilised on dutasteride you could potentially...

Just to add to this- I think the one/ two dutasteride a week regime idea is probably enough to top up a waning finasteride regime if you’ve had like 15 years of finasteride holding your hair. However, if you’re losing again at 9 years, as I was, then your balding gene is reasonably aggressive so it’s likely to need a...

What I meant was that after 6 months of noticing that finasteride had lost its effect I switched to dutasteride for 3 months. It had a noticeable effect at the back after 3 months. Then, I foolishly concluded that I didn’t need it and dropped it, returning to finasteride (because I believed all the horror stories about...

Was this shed just in the first 6 weeks? If you give it 3-4 months that may return. I also shed in the first two months at the back but this returned. The shed/ loss I’m talking about from switching back to finasteride was at the front, which didn’t return. I think we need to distinguish between ‘shed’...

Also I broke down the best way to switch in a thread a little while ago (different account- Hair Pun)- Propecia Stopped Working... It's time to switch to Avodart. Check it out, it's pretty raw because essentially I messed up the switch after some bad advice from a derm and this took a real toll...

My story is very similar to yours- 9 years on finasteride and then it failed but things fell apart very rapidly for me. dutasteride is definitely better but if you're losing after 9 years on finasteride I think you'll need to do dutasteride at least every other day if not every day to stabilise again. Bear in mind that for me...

Just chipping in with my experience. I was successfully on finasteride for 9 years but then switched to dutasteride after ruling out any possibility that finasteride was still working (I waited too long). I was losing my frontal third on finasteride and I’m still losing it at roughly the same or slightly lower rate on dutasteride. I...