What is the best way to make a regimen change?

[j3nate]

I've always wondered this.

I'm on dutasteride right now but would like to switch some other method of stopping DHT, i'm going for revivogen, foam, and eucapil or spironolactone for receptor blocking.

So what is the best way to make the transition so that I shed the least amount of hair possible while giving this new stuff the time to see if it is working?

There are obviously two ways:

1. quit dutasteride cold turkey while starting the new stuff - but then you never know if the massive shed you'll probably undergo is because of quitting the dutasteride or because the new regimen is just not cutting it

2. gradually taper off of dutasteride while being consistent on the new regimen - this is probably more logical, but how to do it? Immediately switch to every other day, then a couple weeks later, every three days, then once a week than totally stop? But then how long do you give this until you're sure the new regimen isn't working?

I'll probably go the second route but after how long do you say this regimen is just ineffective and cut your losses?

 

[j3nate]

If you give up dutasteride go onto finasteride, I do not reccomend quitting internal dht inhabitors.

thanks for the response, but i've done them both. i think they work great, but they have side effects of the sexual kind for me. I want to try to maintain without an internal dht inhibitor, I know this seems like it will be fruitless, but maybe I'll be one of the lucky ones on revivogen.

 

[The Gardener]

I'd go off of it gradually.

 

[j3nate]

j3nate wrote:

thanks for the response, but i've done them both. i think they work great, but they have side effects of the sexual kind for me. I want to try to maintain without an internal dht inhibitor, I know this seems like it will be fruitless, but maybe I'll be one of the lucky ones on revivogen.

I wish you the best of luck, but bear in mind that revivogen is not as stong as finasteride or dutasteride.

Yeah, i definitely know it PROBABLY will not work out, honestly nothing has really worked but finasteride or dutasteride as of yet. manut, you getting any sides from what youre on?

 

[blaze]

dont you have RU nate?

 

[j3nate]

I was on RU exclusively for 8 weeks, at the same time that I dropped dutasteride

I believe that RU possibly slowed down the shedding that resulted from quitting dutasteride, but it definitely did not stop it, after weeks I felt pretty certain that it wasn't going to help me keep all of my gains from dutasteride, as I had lost all of my temple hair, my crown was going, and my vertex was going too, so i got back on dutasteride, and things did improve after about a month

i still have half of the powder left in my freezer tho, so if i want to try again for 8 weeks, i can

After my experiences with spironolactone, RU, and limited experience with eucapil, I'm not very confident that a receptor blocker is sufficient to stop the effects of DHT in the scalp, at least not to the degree of dutasteride/finasteride

Or is this an unrealistic expectation for any of those products to prevent the shed from quitting dutasteride after a couple of months?