6 weeks on Avodart - Hairline trouble - Help!!

[HairDont]

Hey Slarti,

I am not knocking you in anyway. It is just that there are so few success stories regarding dutasteride.
El Duterino posts his success but he also say's in his postings that he is a NW1. That is basically having 0 hair loss. The guys who are taking the hit seem to be NW3's with an already weak hairline.

I just couldn't stand the roller coaster ride that came with dutasteride. I was afraid if I lost too much much ground in the front, it would most likely never come back which seems to be the case for Temple loss.

When I talk about others having a bad experience I am referring to postings on Baldingblog, Hair Loss Help and hair transplant network. Sorry I don't have the time to bring up old links but the fact that dutasteride stays in your system for so long and now they are talking about possible fertility issues, it seems that one has to make the decision about long term health or possible hair.
For me I decided to stick with Propecia which doesn't carry the same risk as dutasteride.

Good luck and I am glad you are having a good result.

 

[Arthur]

By way of an update -

Four and a half months in and things are still going south. Not only are the hairs on my hairline getting thinner, weaker and disaaperaing on the hairline - but all over my head as well. The funny thing is I am shedding very little. But what I am shedding is very weak hairs (30 or so a day).


I would not be worried except for the fact that the hair gets weaker and thinner seemingly by the day at the moment. Minoxidil seems to have no effect on the hailine and it is disappearing at an alarming rate

I know everyone keeps saying wait, wait, wait, give it at least a year... but I am so far below propecia baseline it is now horribly scary... and not just in hair count but in overall condition of the hair.

Is this everyone's story before improvement? Or shall I up the dose?

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I don't know why you are trying Minoxidil on your hairline. The Minoxidil container clearly states it has no effect on hairline

 

[Arthur]

By way of an update -

Four and a half months in and things are still going south. Not only are the hairs on my hairline getting thinner, weaker and disaaperaing on the hairline - but all over my head as well. The funny thing is I am shedding very little. But what I am shedding is very weak hairs (30 or so a day).


I would not be worried except for the fact that the hair gets weaker and thinner seemingly by the day at the moment. Minoxidil seems to have no effect on the hailine and it is disappearing at an alarming rate

I know everyone keeps saying wait, wait, wait, give it at least a year... but I am so far below propecia baseline it is now horribly scary... and not just in hair count but in overall condition of the hair.

Is this everyone's story before improvement? Or shall I up the dose?

I don't understand why you are trying Minoxidil on your hairline. The Minoxidil box clearly states it has no effect on hairline. Arthur

 

[mastery]

Plenty of people have had success with Moinoxidil on the hairline - including myself initially 6 months ago. The hairs that grew were long and straggly - but at least they were hairs...!

6 months later and 4 months into dutasteride it does not seem to be stopping the tide....

Yet!

 

[Slartibartfast]

Hi boyracercanada, glad my ramblings are useful, and thanks for sharing your story. Now, onto the meat:

One question for Slartibartfast: During your slow recovery from your 2 year shed on dutasteride, did you notice vellus hairs growing in very thin and then getting thicker? Or were the hairs that grew back thick right from the start?

Just to clear up any confusion: My main shed ran between month 6 and 8, the reference to two years concerns how long my frontal region's recovery - back to pre-shed density - took, that's to say it didn't manage this until near to my two-year anniversary of popping dutasteride. This gradual recovery saw the hairs cycle through from vellous to, well, varying degrees of thickness; some got stuck at a fairly miniaturized level and others kept going until dark and broad, it's amazing how hairs so close physically can respond to treatment so differently.

It wasn't all plain sailing from then on: Plenty of ups and downs during years three and four, with sudden bouts of shedding giving my hair a temporary kicking; thankfully these events became both less frequent and severe as time passed. I always attributed these periodic fluctuations to a certain amount of synchronization in the growth cycles of the hair I had shed - perhaps this has happened to you? In these cases the hairs grew back, after a suitable pause, with the same thickness as they had before.

I hope that all makes sense, I had a rather draining run a little earlier and I suspect my brain isn't, you know, working too well. Yet.

Slarti

 

[Slartibartfast]

Hi HairDont (sorely tempted to add the apostrophe), I know you weren't knocking me, nor I you. All viewpoints welcomed/encouraged, it was only the blanket assertions you made (e.g. "...many more stories of failure on Avodart than there are success stories.") that bothered me. Or more correctly, that even if such a statement were accurate (and we can't say either way) it needs some degree of qualification as to why negative stories may out-number positive ones - and that this is not the same as there being more negative results than positive ones.

Like any medication, people need to 'know their stuff' - the pros and cons, as it were - before putting it into their system, and in the case of dutasteride. be steered towards finasteride. as a first port of call. Anyone who helps on either count is a valued contributor.

Slarti

 

[Slartibartfast]

I don't understand why you are trying Minoxidil on your hairline. The Minoxidil box clearly states it has no effect on hairline.

I think this is all down to minoxidil. not having been tested on the hairline in the clinical trials, hence they can't legally say it has a positive effect.

 

[HairDont]

Supposedly they are working on the late trials for this drug. When the results of these trials are made public then I feel like I can make a better personal assessment of the drug.
The South Korean studies should have some type of answer in the near future. Until then I feel better taking the safer route even if it means a lesser result.

The BaldingBlog seems to regularly have some poster complaining about their early results with Avodart. Honestly I have met others who have had 0 problems with Avodart. So yes I will agree the are results both positive and negative, the problems is there just doesn't seem to be enough results being reported either way.

 

[Cassin]

I don't understand why you are trying Minoxidil on your hairline. The Minoxidil box clearly states it has no effect on hairline.

No it doesn't say that... it says it hasn't been tested on the hair line.