Shedding after moving from Fin to Dut

[lucky13]

So i’ve been on fin for 20 years at a dose of 1.25mg, 14 weeks ago I moved to dutasteride at a dose of 2.5mg, to allow my blood levels to build up I used both for 6 weeks before dropping the fin. so I have only been running the dutasteride on it’s own for 12 weeks. During these 12 weeks i’ve started shedding more and more to where im getting pretty worried. I took a medicheck blood test last week to make sure my DHT levels were responding accordingly to the dut and my DHT results came back as 0.43 nmol/l ref range 0.33 - 3.01

So my question is why am I shedding, I thought dut especially at 2.5mg is way better then fin and from my blood results it looks like it’s doing it’s job but why is my hair literally jumping out my head ?

[lucky13]

Anyone ? I would really appreciate some advice 😀

[lucky13]

So no one on this forum has moved from Finasteride to dutasteride with bad results ? I can’t be the only one can I ?

[robincurtz]

I moved form fin to dut.... and results were awesome...

[Jazz1]

The question is why would you move? I know some people who use both and alternate between the two etc......

[lucky13]

I get heart palpitations and anxiety from the fin but not from the dutasteride, not sure why with low DHT levels of 0.43 nmol/l ref range 0.33 - 3.01 while on the dutasteride that I’m having such a major shed ??

[lucky13]

Ok so an update not that I ever really got much feedback on this, so after some serious shedding and I mean serious I had no option but to move back to the finasteride, but as a bonus I managed to figure out why I was getting the palpitations and anxiety..the cause seemed to be elevated estrogen, this increases my water retention so I experiment with a few natural diuretics, first one dandelion root 520mg which worked great but ended up causing my gal bladder issues ( read up the side effects to find out more ) so I then moved to Hawthorn which so far has been excellent, I’ve worked back up to 2.5mg Fin and all good so far and shedding is starting to slow....thank god.

Sooo why did the Dut cause my hair loss to start again even when my DHT results came back as 0.43 nmol/l ref range 0.33 - 3.01 who knows no one on here offered any real advice so anyway I’ll get my dht levels checked again in a few months once the fin has fully kicked in and my blood levels have had a chance to even out

[Jazz1]

That’s great to hear, stock to finesteride unless you was using generic DUT?

[Jazz1]

That’s great to hear, stick to finesteride unless you was using generic DUT?

[lucky13]

Thanks Jazz

I was using generic Dut but my DHT levels were at rock bottom in my blood tests, so why would it being generic matter ?