So here's my question: I was a good responder to finasteride, which I started at age 29 as my hairline was maturing and saw good maintenance and some regrowth. Stupidly, I was on 5 mg as I was too lazy to cut the pill. Regardless, for the past five years, nobody would look at me and think I had any hair loss.
At age 34, just this past March, I noticed a SMALL bit of loss at the temples and my crown, and my doctor noticed it too. On my own, perhaps due to anxiety, I started 0.5 mg of Dutasteride and phased out the finasteride over a month. Not only have I noticed increased shedding, I noticed a couple of weeks into starting Dutasteride that I lost a lost of ground at my temples very quickly...much more than I was noticing when I made the switch. Some of it looks like its growing back, but it's been 5 months and I am still worse off than when I started Dutasteride. I'm also seeing some recession at the hairline as well as loss in the other temple and additional frontal thinning, which was not a concern when I made the switch.
My question is, should I ride it out, or go back to finasteride? It's clear that the abrupt changes were caused by Dutasteride, but I would've thought that by the end of July, things would've stabilized.
I really don't think it's possible to have just lost so much ground naturally in a couple of months, and the Internet is filled with people who claim to have lost frontal hair when they started Dutasteride.
Ao my question is, what do I do? Do I ride it out, or will I never get back what I've lost at the front since starting Dutasteride?
(Note: I have also always been on minoxidil since age 29, which has helped me, but I can't seem to apply it fast enough these days to try to counteract the apparent loss from dutasteride)
At age 34, just this past March, I noticed a SMALL bit of loss at the temples and my crown, and my doctor noticed it too. On my own, perhaps due to anxiety, I started 0.5 mg of Dutasteride and phased out the finasteride over a month. Not only have I noticed increased shedding, I noticed a couple of weeks into starting Dutasteride that I lost a lost of ground at my temples very quickly...much more than I was noticing when I made the switch. Some of it looks like its growing back, but it's been 5 months and I am still worse off than when I started Dutasteride. I'm also seeing some recession at the hairline as well as loss in the other temple and additional frontal thinning, which was not a concern when I made the switch.
My question is, should I ride it out, or go back to finasteride? It's clear that the abrupt changes were caused by Dutasteride, but I would've thought that by the end of July, things would've stabilized.
I really don't think it's possible to have just lost so much ground naturally in a couple of months, and the Internet is filled with people who claim to have lost frontal hair when they started Dutasteride.
Ao my question is, what do I do? Do I ride it out, or will I never get back what I've lost at the front since starting Dutasteride?
(Note: I have also always been on minoxidil since age 29, which has helped me, but I can't seem to apply it fast enough these days to try to counteract the apparent loss from dutasteride)
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