surely with the new generation of finasteride ie dutasteride, would it not be a natural move for all of us to change meds! i believe dut to be better than fin with apparently less side effects. are we just apprehensive about change, and are we one day gonna think ' i should have gone on dut a lot sooner than i have! which is normally the case. just wonderin!

Jamesdean

I think about that alot..Things that keeps me away from Dut is the price of the pill, where I live its over 3 times what you give for propecia..Another thing is that if you have skin problems Dut will do more damage to your skin, I read about one guy who had been on propecia for over 2 years an then he changed to Dut and It made his skin look like shit, dont know the english word for it but here we call it pizzaface. still its not nice to bet at the wrong horse..I think Ill wait some years with DUT, maybe when proscar loos its power Ill try it

we'd call it crater-face or pizza-face lol, but i still think dut is the next generation of proscar! i know also it has come down alot in price, and i can get it from 2 great on-line pharmacies for £20 x 30 tabs. approx 35 USD. and its from a reputable pharmaceutical manufacturer! ( a generic company that the NHS in the UK could'nt survive without ) i bet we'll all be on it within 2 years!

Hi there JD,

Just wondrin where you get your dut from mate? Ive just paid £87.00 for 2 months supply of avodart. Bit steep me thinks I wouldnt be happy paying that all the time.

Let me know pal?

p.s. is the stuff you get generic?

Cheers

Tom

Any other dut users here? Im thinking about starting it soon. What dosage are you guys taking?

Am not on dut at the moment, will be changing though soon. i know where you can get it though for £21 per month (30 gel caps) let me know if you want to know where to get it! the stuff is generic, but is what you get on prescription here in the uk. the NHS could not possibly survive on brand name drugs! for example, i get ketoconazole 2% shampoo off my doctor, but i don't get nizarol at the chemist, i get another brand! same stuff, different maker!

jamesdean

Hmmm, are the results of Dut more favourable than Fisnasteride? I'm guessing that the drug must have just about around long enough among hairloss sufferers for decent-ish conclusions to be drawn.

When should you consider moving over from finasteride to Dut?

Apparently, the results are better - after all, Dutasteride inhibits 90%+ DHT compared to c. 66% with Finasteride. But Glaxo never completed Phase III clinical trials for Dut's effectiveness as an anti-hairloss drug, so we don't have wholly reliable data.

Nevertheless the preliminary Phase II trial results do look encouraging - http://www.dutasteride.org/dutasteride/dut...ide_results.htm

You should only consider Dutasteride if you're not a responder to Finasteride (give the latter a good 12 months before you come to that conclusion). Dut inhibits much more DHT and stays in your system much longer, therefore you should be wary of side effects and other unknown potential unwanted consequences of long term use.