Dutas....

[thiningbigtime]

Hello all...I have been on dutas .5mg for 3 weeks now. How long did you notice any type of effects after taking dutas?

I have noticed that my hairloss has been stopped. I have not noticed any type of growth though? When washing my hair before I would notice a lot of hair I would lose...now I lose a couple here and there...nowhere near the amount as before.

Im using minoxidil 5% and dutas daily. I also use nizorol about 3x wk.

 

[bombscience]

Hello all...I have been on dutas .5mg for 3 weeks now. How long did you notice any type of effects after taking dutas?

I have noticed that my hairloss has been stopped. I have not noticed any type of growth though? When washing my hair before I would notice a lot of hair I would lose...now I lose a couple here and there...nowhere near the amount as before.

Im using minoxidil 5% and dutas daily. I also use nizorol about 3x wk.

You'll notice results between 9-12 months in. Stick with it, you'll be happy you did.

 

[powersam]

wow havent seen you around in awhile. making a comeback?

 

[oni]

Welcome back bombscience........................

 

[Nick4441]

You look like a longtime dutasteride user bombscience

Has it been working well for you?

Which one are you taking..is it Dutas?

 

[bombscience]

it's weird to be back, and i wish i had more time to post on the boards.

i've been using dutasteride for about.... 3 years now?!?

Year 1: Dutas
Year 2: Dutas/Avodart
Year 3: Avodart/Dutas

About a year after starting Dutas, I noticed some good results, maybe even some regrowth? Definite stability. Currently, I'm thinning again... most noticeably over the last six months, and unfortunately I'm at the worst point I've ever been.

Oh, I've been using minoxidil and finasteride for 4.5 years now! Wow - time flies (and i still have some hair!)

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

it's weird to be back, and i wish i had more time to post on the boards.

i've been using dutasteride for about.... 3 years now?!?

Year 1: Dutas
Year 2: Dutas/Avodart
Year 3: Avodart/Dutas

About a year after starting Dutas, I noticed some good results, maybe even some regrowth? Definite stability. Currently, I'm thinning again... most noticeably over the last six months, and unfortunately I'm at the worst point I've ever been.

Oh, I've been using minoxidil and finasteride for 4.5 years now! Wow - time flies (and i still have some hair!)

so dutasteride failed to keep you over baseline for the 3 year period...since your saying your starting to thin again.

 

[blaze]

try upping your dutas intake.

 

[bombscience]

so dutasteride failed to keep you over baseline for the 3 year period...since your saying your starting to thin again.

Yup - I've slowly thinned over those three years using Dutasteride and Minoxidil 15% consistently. I'm assuming I've retained a lot more hair than I would have without the treatments, but I haven't nearly maintained my baseline.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

so dutasteride failed to keep you over baseline for the 3 year period...since your saying your starting to thin again.

Yup - I've slowly thinned over those three years using Dutasteride and Minoxidil 15% consistently. I'm assuming I've retained a lot more hair than I would have without the treatments, but I haven't nearly maintained my baseline.

wow...that sucks man!! anything else you care to try?

 

[Guest]

you can't notice hair loss stopping after 3 weeks. maybe shedding. but hair loss can proceed very slowly or very fast and 3 weeks is nowhere near enough time to assess.

 

[Guest]

so dutasteride failed to keep you over baseline for the 3 year period...since your saying your starting to thin again.

Yup - I've slowly thinned over those three years using Dutasteride and Minoxidil 15% consistently. I'm assuming I've retained a lot more hair than I would have without the treatments, but I haven't nearly maintained my baseline.

as michael barry said, you must have cueball genes. any NW7's in your family?

 

[haunted-ballroom]

so dutasteride failed to keep you over baseline for the 3 year period...since your saying your starting to thin again.

Yup - I've slowly thinned over those three years using Dutasteride and Minoxidil 15% consistently. I'm assuming I've retained a lot more hair than I would have without the treatments, but I haven't nearly maintained my baseline.

as michael barry said, you must have cueball genes. any NW7's in your family?

I do.... :? should I be worried??

 

[Guest]

[quote="hair today gone tomorrow":04d0a]
so dutasteride failed to keep you over baseline for the 3 year period...since your saying your starting to thin again.

Yup - I've slowly thinned over those three years using Dutasteride and Minoxidil 15% consistently. I'm assuming I've retained a lot more hair than I would have without the treatments, but I haven't nearly maintained my baseline.

as michael barry said, you must have cueball genes. any NW7's in your family?

I do.... :? should I be worried??[/quote:04d0a]

well you haven't been on treatments long enough to wager anything, but here's my opinion. NW7 is obviously the worst you can get with male pattern baldness. And most people, I'd say 80%, who are destined to go NW7, would hit their final balding stage(NW7), before the age of 30, without treatment. If you have a couple of those people in your family and your hair loss is patterning theirs, I would be more worried than someone who doesn't have NW7's in their family(the worst I have in my family is NW5 and his dad was NW5 too, and my maternal grandpa is a thin NW3, and my hair loss is in an NW4 pattern). People who are NW7 obviously have more aggressive hair loss than people with lesser Norwoods. But basically, don't worry about it until you see obvious thinning like this guy bombscience is. And even if you do, there's not much you can do about it if you're already on dutasteride. If you aren't on dutasteride and notice it, you should probably consider talking to a Doctor and switching immediately to try to stem the loss. Just pray I guess.

But here's what I'd do, haunted. This guy noticed thinning after 3 years. If you can at least maintain your hair for 3 years on finasteride, I'd say you have nothing to worry about, and can expect to maintain for years and years and years, and even more if you switch to dutasteride. The fact that bombscience has thinned after only 3 years on a powerful drug like dutasteride indicates that he has a very aggressive form of male pattern baldness.

 

[haunted-ballroom]

[quote="hair today gone tomorrow":d5daf]
so dutasteride failed to keep you over baseline for the 3 year period...since your saying your starting to thin again.

Yup - I've slowly thinned over those three years using Dutasteride and Minoxidil 15% consistently. I'm assuming I've retained a lot more hair than I would have without the treatments, but I haven't nearly maintained my baseline.

as michael barry said, you must have cueball genes. any NW7's in your family?

I do.... :? should I be worried??

well you haven't been on treatments long enough to wager anything, but here's my opinion. NW7 is obviously the worst you can get with male pattern baldness. And most people, I'd say 80%, who are destined to go NW7, would hit their final balding stage(NW7), before the age of 30, without treatment. If you have a couple of those people in your family and your hair loss is patterning theirs, I would be more worried than someone who doesn't have NW7's in their family(the worst I have in my family is NW5 and his dad was NW5 too, and my maternal grandpa is a thin NW3, and my hair loss is in an NW4 pattern). People who are NW7 obviously have more aggressive hair loss than people with lesser Norwoods. But basically, don't worry about it until you see obvious thinning like this guy bombscience is. And even if you do, there's not much you can do about it if you're already on dutasteride. If you aren't on dutasteride and notice it, you should probably consider talking to a Doctor and switching immediately to try to stem the loss. Just pray I guess.

But here's what I'd do, haunted. This guy noticed thinning after 3 years. If you can at least maintain your hair for 3 years on finasteride, I'd say you have nothing to worry about, and can expect to maintain for years and years and years, and even more if you switch to dutasteride. The fact that bombscience has thinned after only 3 years on a powerful drug like dutasteride indicates that he has a very aggressive form of male pattern baldness.[/quote:d5daf]

Ok, thanks man.
Ill see how finasteride works for me and if I keep thinning after being on it over a year or so, then im gonna try dutasteride.

 

[blaze]

Use an anti androgen too. Like spironolactone along with your dutas. This should give you maximum protection.

 

[bombscience]

Just jumped back into this thread after a long while. I have to say it's a amazing to me how much my hair has thinned in the last 8 months. My treatments are "wearing off" I guess. I've increased dutasteride dosage to 1mg/day to try to offset this.

Regarding the NW7s in my family, yes there are a few. I'm pretty much doomed down the path to a NW7. I'm now 29 and have been on proven treatments for over four years now and have just thinned the entire way along.