What's the point of finasteride? dutasteride can legitimately halt hairloss forever.

[HITMANSPARADISE]

Let's see here, dutasteride does all of this better than finasteride:


- reducing scalp DHT
- reducing serum DHT
- regrowth
- maintenance
- increasing testosterone
- reducing acne


There is no point to Finasteride whatsoever. If you're going to try halting and or reversing hairloss you go all out, you don't half-*** with a mediocre DHT inhibitor that at best halts hair loss for only a few years. This is the key: Dutasteride 0.5mg a day until you die, some sort of growth stimulator and saving for a FUE transplant ($10,000) that's how everyone should approach hair loss. Also, none of these herbal remedy and zinc and biotin supplements baloney. That does nothing.

 

[Quantum Cat]

yes dutasteride probably is the most powerful weapon against male pattern baldness, but it's not necessarily true that finasteride is only effective for a few years. There's no real reason why finasteride should 'wear off' after a time. I've read accounts of people here who say they've maintained well on Propecia for 15 years.


oh and increasing testosterone isn't necessarily a good thing - it could lead to an increase in estrogen/estradiol

 

[vancity1414]

I'm giving dutasteride a shot (added .5mg) with my 1.25 daily finasteride routine. We will see how things go as I have been shedding for the past 3 months.

But - my question is - with only 3 posts, why are you pumping dutasteride so much? Something seems wierd about that

 

[HITMANSPARADISE]

But - my question is - with only 3 posts, why are you pumping dutasteride so much? Something seems wierd about that

What's weird? Does it look like I'm selling anything? No.

 

[ChrisW1980uk]

Isn't the issue with dutasteride a far greater risk of sides. Also lack of studies for using it for male pattern baldness? I wouldn't be in any rush to jump on it, but then finasteride has sorted me out, and I've been on it for 4 and a half years