Increase Finasteride Dose or Switch to Dutasteride?

[Jim1973]

I'm finding that 7-8 years of maintaining hair on oral Finasteride (1mg/day), its no longer working. Is it more recommended to increase the dose of Finasteride or simply switch to Dutasteride? I actually did add .5mg of oral Dutasteride once/week to my regimen with daily Fin 6 months ago but I'm still quickly losing ground. Seems my next option is to either increase my daily oral Finasteride dosage and eliminate Dutasteride or to eliminate Finasteride and start taking .5mg of oral Dutasteride every other day or even every day. I'm also open to switching from oral meds to topical but most feedback states that oral meds always work better. What is recommended for my situation?

 

[L64]

You could switch to brand Propecia. There's no benefit in increasing the Finasteride dosage above the standard 1 mg/day. If that doesn't help you need to increase the Dutasteride frequency.