Been on Finasteride for 9 years, Shedding again

[GoingBald34]

Hey GoingBald34.. it's been a long while since I've last posted. I've been on Finasteride since I was 19 and am 32 now. Overall it's helped me and the fear of losing some ground got to me too about 7 years ago. My recommendation is not to jump in with full Dutasteride. I do, however, do a combination of both Finasteride and Dutasteride where I take 5mg of Fin Monday - Friday and then on Saturday I do one 0.5mg Dut tablet. The reason why I only do DUT one day a week is because of the long half-life (weeks) whereas the half-life of Finasteride is only like 4-6 hours.

Beyond that there are a few other options that I do as well:

-Lasercomb.. I feel as though some efficacy has been clinically shown and published in some medical journals. I don't believe it can hurt you and you can find a cheap used Hairmax Lasercomb on ebay for less than $120. Just to let you know, I've been using a lasercomb since I was 19 and only needed to replace it once so far.
-Dermaroller - I get mine from owndoc (dot) com where there are shown to be good quality and good prices. You can see comparison reviews on there as well. I don't dermaroll very often anymore but there is efficacy.
-Check out some of the articles at perfect hair health (dot) com that shows to be very scientific and interesting and can't hurt
-PRP with Dr. Greco. There's published data on medical journals about PRP and it's effectiveness as well.


Please don't obsess about this topic. I get it, but in the end it's not worth it and you WILL regret it later. Just do what you can... and Remember even there can be hair transplant in the future if it gets that bad. I feel as though you will always have hair and won't go a full NW6 or NW7... and with hair transplant technology and you throwing the kitchen sink at hair loss you can make this manageable and now things like SMP / Dermatch can make you appear to have a full head of hair. Don't stress over this.

One last thing, regardless of what people say, I have seen when changing to eating mostly organic whole food plant based diet (I do have some meat though)... my hair health has improved a lot. Also, I believe there's some evidence of natural anti-cancer therapies and improvement of hair such as a small amount of Turmeric with a small amount of black pepper and oil every so often.. in addition to Sulforaphane from Broccoli Sprouts and maybe DIM, which has been shown to downgrade androgen receptors in the prostate.

All in all.. live your life and don't sweat this. You're at the BEST time in history to have hair loss.

Thanks so much for this reply. You are right, obsessing will only make things worst..as It appears to be in doing so. Couple of questions for you, you state the “fear” of losing ground made you start on DUT, did you actually notice that you were losing ground or did you do it as a pre-cautionary thing? Did you experience any shedding when starting DUT? Also, you state you take 5mg of finasteride..any reason for such a large dosage? I had been taking 1.25mg of finasteride daily for the past 9 years before I lost ground. It’s also a possibility that I may have been losing some ground for a couple years now but didn’t pay attention to it until I noticed a visible change after my last haircut.

Thanks for the words of encouragement. You are right, I probably won’t go full blown NW6 or NW7 but its a scary thought nonetheless. I honestly don’t want to chase hair transplants all my life, hoping there is a better treatment available soon!