Using dutasteride with Finasteride

[Aj6543]

I have been using finasteride for the past 5 years. I believe I have diffuse thinning and the finasteride has done a decent job of slwoing done the hair loss. I recently added minoxidil five months ago to help thicken the hairs, but have not seen results yet. I want to add dustateride to see if that helps thicken the hairs.

Can I take dustateride maybe once or twice a week, while still taking the finasteride daily? I figure if I take less dustaride, there will be less chance of side effects.

Thoughts?








finasteride 1.25mg daily (past five years)
nizoral 2% daily (past five months)
minoxidil foam 2x daily (past five months)

 

[Chris87]

If you're going to take dutasteride, I would just drop finasteride. Dutasteride is going to drop your DHT 90%. Dutasteride also stays in the body a lot longer than finasteride and keeps dht down longer. I personally think it would be pointless to take both. Maybe try just switching to dutasteride. If you havent had sides with finasteride theres a good chance you'll be ok on dutasteride

 

[Rawtashk]

I agree.

If you decide to go with dutasteride, you might think about getting it from 4rx.com. They sell it in tablet form, so you can quarter it and tak .125mg a day. dutasteride at that dose is still more effective at blocking DHT than 1mg of finasteride, and you could ease into it that way.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Bryan]

If you're going to take dutasteride, I would just drop finasteride. Dutasteride is going to drop your DHT 90%.

Depends on how much he takes. If he takes only a single Avodart capsule once or twice a week, I can GUARANTEE you that it's not going to drop his serum DHT level by 90%.

Dutasteride also stays in the body a lot longer than finasteride and keeps dht down longer.

That, too, depends on how much dutasteride he takes. If he takes the full, recommended dose of one Avodart capsule per day, the "half-life" will be about a month. But if he only takes it once or twice a week, the "half-life" will be only a few days.

 

[Aj6543]

Thanks Bryan.

So does my plan make sense?

Anything else I can do to thicken up the hairs I have? I would be happy with my hair lossm if I could only find a way to thicken the exisiting hairs.

 

[pidda]

I am thinking about slowly introducing my body to it down the road. It has a long half-life so I suppose I was going to start with 0.25mg per week to see if the side effects kick in and slowly increase it maybe with time if I feel it's necessary/worth the risk. But I was going to do all this all the while I am on finasteride until i start taking dutasteride every day. I might not do this since RU seems more appealing to me once I get a source of income.

 

[Bryan]

I am thinking about slowly introducing my body to it down the road. It has a long half-life so I suppose I was going to start with 0.25mg per week to see if the side effects kick in and slowly increase it maybe with time if I feel it's necessary/worth the risk...

WHAT has a long half-life? Dutasteride? No, at a dose of only 0.25 mg per week, it's not going to have much of a half-life.

 

[pidda]

I am thinking about slowly introducing my body to it down the road. It has a long half-life so I suppose I was going to start with 0.25mg per week to see if the side effects kick in and slowly increase it maybe with time if I feel it's necessary/worth the risk...

WHAT has a long half-life? Dutasteride? No, at a dose of only 0.25 mg per week, it's not going to have much of a half-life.

Okay well... regardless... I'd like to see the effects on my body first without diving into it by ingesting it every day.

 

[Thinning Sucks]

This is exactly what I like to do...take it real slow with about 1 - 2 tabs a week. Just want to reduce any major shedding, reduce cost, and slowly transition the body to it.

 

[mjk258]

Can you post some pics? I'd like to get an idea on what the efficacy of finasteride is.
thanks

 

[Thinning Sucks]

0.5mg couple days a week with finasteride should be perfect. Wonder if will get a shed?

 

[justinstocks]

im also thinking of adding dutasteride to my routine alongside my propecia - can anybody recommend a weekly dosage that would be effective ?

the tabs would be 0.5 mg gel caps from inhouse so i wouldnt really be able to split them ...

thanks !

 

[Thinning Sucks]

Hair counts after 6 months usage - bar graph form.

 

[Wing]

Does anyone know of a doctor in the San Francisco Bay Area who will write a prescription for 2.5 MG/day Avodart? (If you prefer to email me, please email me at at centerline28 (at) hotmail (dot) com.) Thank you in advance!

 

[LawOfThelema]

its not going to be an additive linear effect. you can already see it plateauing with the x5 dose of dutasteride. the diff between x1 and x5 of dutasteride is pretty much negligible on the hair count. what makes you think adding finasteride to dutasteride would substantially alter it when dutasteride is already more powerful than finasteride?

but i mostly wonder what it will do to the allopregnalone in your central nervous system. might want to consider a concurrent dose of prozac to increase it since you would reducing it so drastically with that much inhibition of 5 alpha reductase. lol