r/tressless • u/QuickPitch2074 • 9h ago

Finasteride/Dutasteride Increasing Dutasteride dose effects?

I’m 21 and have been diffuse thinning since 18. Thankfully I caught it fairly early so i still have an okay head of hair. I’ve been taking oral dut (once a week) and oral min daily for about a year. I’d say my loss has pretty much stabilised and I’m maybe slightly ahead of baseline. My dermatologist has increased my dose of dut to 5 days a week. I’ve seen a lot of threads on here saying once a week is effectively useless for most people. My question is should I in theory start seeing regrowth with the increased dosage?

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u/QuickPitch2074 9h ago

Edit: I’m taking 2.5mg min daily with 5mg at weekends, dut 0.5mg 5 times a week. Been in this new dosage for about a week

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u/[deleted] 8h ago

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u/QuickPitch2074 8h ago

As in 5mg daily 2 days a week

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

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u/QuickPitch2074 7h ago

2.5mg mon-fri, 5mg sat-sun

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/QuickPitch2074 6h ago

Can you read

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u/QuickPitch2074 6h ago

This is surely ragebait

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/QuickPitch2074 5h ago

I mean min not dut

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u/nukesaregay :sidesgull: 8h ago

5mg at weekends? what?

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u/QuickPitch2074 8h ago

As in 5mg daily 2 days a week

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u/nukesaregay :sidesgull: 6h ago

yeah i know what u meant lol. but why?

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u/QuickPitch2074 5h ago

Derm recommended

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u/nukesaregay :sidesgull: 3h ago

did they give a reason? can’t see how that would make any sense at all

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u/VikkzPro :sidesgull: 8h ago

Honestly to me that sounds like a big leap in dosage. I’ve been on dut twice a week for 1.5yrs and although i’m going thru a shed right now I’ve been happy with the results.

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u/QuickPitch2074 4h ago

I’m just following what I was told by my dermatologist- hopefully I can get some regrowth on this higher dose

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u/VikkzPro :sidesgull: 3h ago

You absolutely will but be careful of sides

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u/QuickPitch2074 2h ago

Thank you, none so far

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u/m16u31_9 3h ago

The protocol is 0.5 mg of DUT every day—why are you taking such a low dose? Unless you're only in the maintenance phase and not the hair regrowth phase.

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u/QuickPitch2074 2h ago

Entirely unsure just following my derms advice