oni said:
Axon, name me a person who has not got results from dutasteride apart from people that have quit from side effects!
I cannot even name one person that is on the drug. Shows how effective it is, being that it's been out around 2 years now. If it were working, we'd have more positive stories on it.
Axon, you are a Moderator on GourmetStyleWellnesss and you don't know where to get generic Avodart from, for $1 a day. I think you should just try typing in a very common search engine the words "generic dutasteride" and look at the second page you might find a company that does it.
I am aware of how to use Google. I simply don't care and haven't look around in about a year. Why spend $1 a day on a drug that will be only moderately more effective (if it even is) than a drug that is approved for hair loss and costs me significantly less - some $40 a year. Plus, to make 2.5mg a day, you'd have to take 5 capsules of Dutasteride. So it's like $5 a day.
Think before you condescend.
Axon, the test figures are for 24 weeks lol what does that prove considering how long dutasteride takes to get into your system and start to work.
What does it prove at 6 months? Plenty. It proves that duta, at 2.5mg (say goodbye to penis) a day, gives you 120 more hairs on the average, or, what you shed in a day or so, as opposed to 80 hairs on Fina after 6 months. Tell me that doesn't prove.
What level of finasteride do you have to take to get what you have quoted, Axon!
5 mg, which is identical to 1 mg according to most studies. You can read the study as well as I can. I'd suggest that Glaxo used the 5mg dosage for this very reason, so that Finasteride would look significantly weaker than duta when compared in hard milligram dose numbers.
If you don't let the numbers decieve you, you'll note that the typical .5mg dosage of Duta grows 100 hairs, compared to Fina's 80. Suddenly not the golden child....
Axon, I was not taking your numbers. I simply said that I think 50% more regrowth is not a bad thing and could make the difference between having to use a topical like minoxidle and getting away with just popping a pill once a day.
I disagree. The numbers suffer from a soft cap, which is the problem. If it was exponetial, I would concour with your statement (in some ways, I already do.) However, when you're talking the difference between 80 hairs and 120 hairs, we're talking the difference between $7.50 and $5. Not exactly huge.
Now, on a never ending upward scale, that number of hairs would eventually become 120,000 to 80,000. But we are not given such a luxury. We have a soft cap. The numbers cap at 120.
I really think you are mixed up with what mvpsoft said Because that's a 50% increase in hair counts, very significant. It's not like it's just 50 hairs over the entire head, it's 50% more hairs in the area affected. That said, I have dropped dutasteride due to what appears to be side effects and am back on finasteride.
Well, of course it's over the affected area, as is any hair loss drug with legitimate science behind it. That particular study is spun to make Finasteride look like sh*t and Dutasteride look like a godsend. And you've fallen for it. When you add in 50 hairs (in the BEST case scenario) to both temples and the crown, it is unlikely to make a huge difference.
I'm glad you like the drug, and I appreciate your strong feelings. But the fact remains that, like Finasteride, its ability to recover hairs is minimal at best. [/quote]
