Dutas users..Please Help

[TTThomasaz1]

I started Dr Reddys Dutas Oct 1 at .5mg a day..and rogaine liquid 1x a day. What I have noticed is all my non male pattern baldness hairs are thicker and darker..Which indicates the dutas is working to some extent. My male pattern baldness area however seems to look thinner. Really weird since the non male pattern baldness areas are thicker, it makes the " horeshoe" look worse.. Getting scared that dutas is making my male pattern baldness areas worse..Dont really know what to do at this point..Im 4 months in and dont really want to stop now..Perhaps am I going through a shed, or in a Telogen Effluvium phase when I switched from proscar to dutas right away..I do know that when I was on propecia, I didnt get results till about month 12..I didnt that that would be the case since made the switch right from proscar to dutas with no resting period. Will I have to wait 12 months again, or is dutasteride making things worse?


Let me add that i stopped taking lexapro ( anti-depressant) at the time cold turkey, and my libido is very high now..

 

[Wuffer]

It's not possible for dutasteride to be thickening your permanent region. Since it is unaffected by DHT, the reduction of dht in your bloodstream will not have any affect on this region. Possibly the fact that you are still thinning on the top is making your sides/back look thicker.

As with finasteride, stay on dutasteride for a year before evaluating your results. Why did you quit finasteride? was it not working well enough for you? How long did you stay on finasteride for?

It is also not possible (or extremely rare) for either drug to make your hair worse. The only way it would seem like this is if you are one of the unlucky 2% non-responders, and your hair loss is progressing normally and it just seems like the drugs are causing it. Also, neither drug is known to cause shedding, though many people claim it happens to them.

 

[TTThomasaz1]

I had been on proepcia and proscar for about 5 years now..just losing effectiveness..Never really filled in crown but i think it really slowed loss..Ive been obsessive about minoxidil liquid twice a day..Maybe it was coincidence but my frontal region seemed to lose some ground right as i switched. I do know when i started propecia 5 years ago, my hair actually worsened over the period of 8-10 months..I didnt even return to basline till month 12 and then got a little better after that..Im starting to wonder if ..2x a day minoxidil is throwing my male pattern baldness area in a constant shed. So i cut it down to 1 recently..I just figured that since i never really stopped taking a DHT blocker, It really wouldnt take that long a again to see a difference.

Your gonna think im crazy man but my hair on my head everywhere seems a little thicker..Just seems my male pattern baldness areas are going through a constant shed..Ill keep up my routine for at least 12 months..i added spironolactone and retin a cream to temple region..