Fin stop working after 4-5 months

[dave464]

Update

Roughly 14 months on fin now. Hairloss is still pretty bad. I don't think fin will work at all

[Soxfaninfl]

If fin isn't working after one year then you should step up to Dutasteride 0.5 mg. Which is Avodart. It blocks type I & II DHT. Fin only blocks type II.

[mpbsucks]

dave, our stories are exactly the same. In twenty days I will have been on fin for 14 months. It worked great for me to for the first four months and then a massive shed started that has not stopped yet. That was almost seven months ago. I went to a derm who is supposedly a "hair specialist" a few weeks ago and she said she has never seen fin do this, she doent even think fin is responsible. She did a biopsy, watch out man, for me the itching is causing scarring. I started dutasteride the day I saw her, I'll let you know how that goes.

[akai]

I never heard of finasteride working immediately. Usually people go through a shed and see results at month 6 to 8 and beyond.

[dave464]

I'm heading to derm next week. I'll let you know.

[WarLord]

I started taking fin in feb and for the first 4-5 months it worked great and I even had alot of thickening on the crown area. However after that the itch returned and i started shedding again. im coming up to month 11 and its still shedding heavily. My hair now looks much worse then when i started. I spoke to my derm and he had no idea what was going on. Has anyone had or heard of a similar situation?

Well, I experience(d) the same. At first an explosive regrowth after mere 6 weeks (even on the sides of my forehead!), then nothing to report for 2 months, and after 4 months, like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, a further progression of hairloss in my temples (after 16 years of a perfect maintenance on minoxidil!). It's been going for 5 months already and it has turned my life into a nightmare. Well, it is not much dramatic and it seems that it is slowing down during the last month, but the fact that I have been losing hair on fin+minoxidil is simply deeply depressing. And considering how well minoxidil worked for me during all those years (even when I was using steroids), it's simply mindboggling and I don't know, what is happening. My testosterone is rather low (270-450 ng/dl), but my DHT is quite high for a finasteride user (25-32 ng/dl). But it is apparently suppressed, so it is against all logic that my MPB should progress after 16 years again.

In any case, after 9,5 months on finasteride my hair is in a worse state than at the beginning, which is certainly not, what I expected. Since I couldn't handle the continued losses, I added dutasteride 8 weeks ago, but I wouldn't be surprised, if it made things even worse.

In summary, these f*cking 5-AR blockers can have nasty and unpredictable displays. They mess up the cycles of your hair and you can never be sure, what will be the final result. If this process eventually changed for the bettere, I will certainly update my situation to calm down other finasteride users, but remember that every case is very individual.

[mpbsucks]

Update

Roughly 14 months on fin now. Hairloss is still pretty bad. I don't think fin will work at all

Dave, what ever happened with you man. I've been shedding for 15 months straight nothing will slow it down man. What ever happened with you, did your shedding ever stop?

[WarLord]

Dave, what ever happened with you man. I've been shedding for 15 months straight nothing will slow it down man. What ever happened with you, did your shedding ever stop?

Don't waste your time with finasteride! It was a nightmare for me. It didn't work virtually at all, because my DHT levels were borderline normal on it. Since I switched to dutasteride in February, I have been fine.

If you have been shedding even on dutasteride, then the problems lies elsewhere, not in DHT. Check your DHT and testosterone levels.

[mpbsucks]

Don't waste your time with finasteride! It was a nightmare for me. It didn't work virtually at all, because my DHT levels were borderline normal on it. Since I switched to dutasteride in February, I have been fine.

If you have been shedding even on dutasteride, then the problems lies elsewhere, not in DHT. Check your DHT and testosterone levels.

I did man, they are rockbottom low. My story is a weird one. Fin worked great the first seven months I took it, stopped all the shedding cold and then it just stopped. Ever since I have had a huge unabated shed that itches like crazy and it hasn't stopped since. My DHT was way low during this entire time

[mpbsucks]

I'm heading to derm next week. I'll let you know.

You ever get the shedding to stop Dave?