Holy Moly. Dutasteride Is Massacring My Hairline

[JHCL1990]

I did one .5mg cap a week the first week, then two the second week, now I'm just starting three a week and whoa... Where is my hairline going? I've had a "bad spot" on the left temple for a while, but the hair was always thick enough to cover it up. Now I just have a straight up bald spot. There is still hair there, but it's so thin that it can't even be seen anymore.

Any long-term dutasteride users with words of encouragement?

P.S. I've been on finasteride for just over 2 years and still use it on the non-dutasteride days, and have been on minoxidil for ~1 year.

 

[transam]

Look, all I know for sure, is that Dutasteride is much better at halting DHT vs finasteride...That's what I kept telling myself when I decided to take dutasteride. I don't know fi there's a shed happening or what, but dutasteride is far more effective

 

[Samson123]

How did you respond to finasteride?

 

[GoldenMane]

I've been on dutasteride , 3x a week since May. Can't say I've noticed any difference, good or bad either way... I've been using finasteride since August 2013.
Also tried 15% minoxidil for a year and didn't notice much difference, been off it and back to 5% minoxidil for about 2 months and no change.

 

[shookwun]

Those happen to be winstrol pills your taking. Cheaper

 

[transam]

Those happen to be winstrol pills your taking. Cheaper

lol...what you mean by that Shook?...as in its a myth about dutasteride destroying hairline?

 

[KO21]

My hairline got worse fast after starting finasteride.

It's gotta be a coincidence. Alot of us start these meds after we see our hairloss kick into overdrive. Your hairline would probably be like this with or without the meds man.

I've had a doctor tell me hair loss meds are very unlikely to help in the front of the scalp.

 

[JHCL1990]

Those happen to be winstrol pills your taking. Cheaper

Sure as hell seems like it! My sex drive is noticeably higher the day after I take my dutasteride and and my hairline is worse.

I'm hoping it's a shed of the weak hairs and they'll grow back stronger eventually.

On finasteride I shed constantly, but never really noticed any difference. I added dutasteride because my "spot" looked worse after two years on finasteride. Now it's doubly worse ha. Ok I'm actually not sure if that's 100% true... I do remember losing my temples then getting them back 2 or 3 times on finasteride. I'm hoping that's what's happening now--but to a greater extent.

 

[transam]

My hairline got worse fast after starting finasteride.

It's gotta be a coincidence. Alot of us start these meds after we see our hairloss kick into overdrive. Your hairline would probably be like this with or without the meds man.

I've had a doctor tell me hair loss meds are very unlikely to help in the front of the scalp.

Its funny how pills work the best on the crown area, yet Doctors say the crown is the hardest to perform a hair transplant on. lol

 

[Bad]

Lets me guess, you bought the dutasteride online?

 

[Runninghair]

dutasteride isnt destroying yourline.. male pattern baldness is. Probs just isnt working for you and mob has stepped up a gear. I find it funny when guys blame pills for hairloss when without them their losing the hair anyways...

 

[buckthorn]

Its funny how pills work the best on the crown area, yet Doctors say the crown is the hardest to perform a hair transplant on. lol

not true for everyone. finasteride thickened the hell out of my hairline and just f*cking slaughtered my crown and midscalp like I had a disease. It is weird how these drugs work so differently for different people in different regions of the scalp. :/

and I think it's time we stop with the "finasteride/dutasteride isn't destroying your hair, male pattern baldness is". We all obviously know this. The question is, is dutasteride/finasteride speeding up your male pattern baldness?? or causing Telogen Effluvium?

 

[Runninghair]

I doubt its speeding it up. The science behind male pattern baldness says otherwise.

Some guys just need to understand that their hair loss rate doesnt slaways stAy same and it can suddenly speed up like what probably happened to your rat infested nest lol

 

[buckthorn]

I doubt its speeding it up. The science behind male pattern baldness says otherwise.

Some guys just need to understand that their hair loss rate doesnt slaways stAy same and it can suddenly speed up like what probably happened to your rat infested nest lol

nah.. myself and several other very reputable posters can tell you other wise from personal experience. I lost hair steadily for 33 years. Had minimal diffuse thinning. I took finasteride for one year and lost 60% of my hair. That's not normal. It was accompanied by scalp inflammation, increased libido and a slue of other sides. You're telling me that negative feedback in the body can't occur? That when homeostasis is compromised, your body won't fight back to achieve it? Because this is basically how we survive in general.

-yes 100% speeding it up. there is no question.

 

[Runninghair]

I see what tour saying buckthorn.. But going with your theory would surely mean stopping the treatment and the proposed Telogen Effluvium etc would bring hair back to baseline... But it hasnt.

So male pattern baldness has done the damage here i think. I would imagine the balding rate has just stepped up a gear

 

[abcdefg]

Anything anyone says before like 6 months is just irrelevant. Come back in 6 months or better yet a year then give us the story. If your hair got destroyed the day after you took your first pill its just a waste of our time. It didnt even do anything yet but your saying it did. A few weeks isnt much better

 

[Samson123]

Buckthorn is right. The denial on hairloss forums that hairloss meds can accelerate hairloss/thinning is pathological and incredibly irresponsible. I had been SLOWLY thinning in the front for three years before I got on finasteride. In nine months my hair went from being pretty thick and healthy all over to thin and sickly everywhere. My crown, mid scalp, sides and donor area were very dense. All these areas thinned out evenly with the front, which had become much worse. I noticed something was up a few months into treatment when I looked at a shed hair that was very thick at one end and tapered dramatically towards the root. None of my shed hairs looked like this before finasteride. I started reading the forums trying to find out what the hell was going on and found a lot of posters with experiences that were similar or identical to mine. This is when I found out about AR up regulation. As soon I read about that I knew that was exactly what had happened to me. finasteride made all of my hair super sensitive to DHT and susceptible hairloss. I have no safe areas anymore. This isn't rocket science, this is simple cause and effect. AR up regulation was further confirmed, not that I needed any more confirmation, when I recently lowered my dose from .5 mg to .25 mg over a three week period. By the seventh day on .25 mg I had lost easily a years worth or more of hair and the remaining hair became even finer. I already posted the pics to prove this in another thread. I still can't believe the damage that was done and I never even quit the drug (what happened to the 'flat dose response'?) The hair on the nape of my neck and on the sides practically vanished. This is not normal at all. It makes me very angry and sick that new hairloss sufferers are routinely given sh*t advice. 'Just pop 1 mg everyday and you're good to go bro'. This is pretty much the sum of the retarded advice that's been given to people over all these years without a thought to who should and should not be taking finasteride and at what dose. Obviously, guys that are losing hair with high levels of DHT will benefit the most from finasteride and obviously the guys losing hair with low DHT have more sensitive hair follicle receptors. This should be a general rule that everyone should understand. The guys in the latter category need to cautiously approach finasteride at lower doses if even at all. Sorry for the long post but I'm tired of this sh*t. I don't want anyone to go through what I am going through right now but they will as long as people are doling out reckless and uninformed advice.

 

[Runninghair]

Bro science... Ugh

 

[kir]

I used finasteride for about 4 months which was the first thing that stopped my hairloss. I then switched to dutasteride which thickened up my hair a lot and I'm seeing regrowth even on my slightly receded temple (I'm slowly recovering 100%). I experienced a slight shed with dutasteride but it got better soon after. It did not make my hair worst or destroyed my hairline, I don't know how this happens to guys.

Do you get your Avodart/dutasteride online? If so I recommend you try Avodart form your local pharmacy and see how it goes. I didn't have a good experience buying meds online.

.1mg of dutasteride is approved for hairloss in Japan under the name Zagallo. This means two Avodart capsules a week should be enough to treat your condition. That's a total of 8 pills per month.

Some pics of my dutasteride hair for motivation, yes my dandruff is due to kirkland minoxidil

 

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@kir glad to hear you're having success. Looking good, dude.

The fact remains that some are (seemingly) adversely affected by use of 5ar inhibitors like finasteride and dutasteride.

My experience on finasteride, now 15 months on 1mg daily, has fallen far far short of my hopeful wishes. Not unlike @buckthorn, before finasteride I was a long term, gradual diffuse thinner with strong nw1 pattern. No temple recession. No vertex balding. I was only experiencing general thinning over the previous 10 years steadily. Since starting finasteride I've developed a very noticeable bald spot at the vertex on the right side, along with severe thinning of my hairline and recession of right temple by about 1 inch. The pace is brutal.

I don't know much about the up regulation theories, so I don't know if that's what I'm experiencing. I haven't experienced increased libido, itching, acne, or sebum production that seem to be part of the up regulation theory, but something fucked up is definitely going on here with regard to my finasteride use.

I keep telling myself that maybe sh*t just hit overdrive and finasteride isn't enough, but I'm too scared to jump to dutasteride and risk an even harsher response. Trapped between a rock and a hard place.