dutasteride...who has used it? few questions?

[vestax]

1- how long does it take to start working? I have read some studies which I am trying to find and post as we speak where they frontloaded it?

2- how much should we take daily? I am running prop/tren/primo/proviron right now and I KNOW it will do nothing against tren/proviron hairloss but I want to at least prevent the test prop to converting into DHT.

3- hypothetically if you stopped the test from converting to DHT will it eventually end up as estrogen? (although I am also taking aromasin)

4- when you start using it....does your hair fall out at first? I think I remember reading this somewhere but I am not sure.


Thanks bros!

[vestax]

bump for any help?

[duramaxedge]

im curious about this myself.. bump

[sp9]

I used proscar 1.25 mg daily from 1998 to Dec 2002, switched to avodart/duta Dec 2002 to present.

1) It will get dht down fast, I would say within 2 weeks.

2) .5mg daily

3) There is some conversion to estrogen, but compared against placebo the side effect of breast enlargment/gyno was < 2%. Studies show test is raised, also LH is raised by 19% even 1 year after starting. This means, test rises because it is not converting through the 5ar pathway to dht, but maybe also because the LH increase is causing you to produces more test. I noticed when I went on it that my sex drive went up initially, and then normalized later. This was interesting because others reported this on messages boards, even though that seems opposite of the perceived side effects. I have run duta for ovver 3 years now (daily) and have not needed an anti-estrogen drug, I did take nolva at 10mg a day if I was on a cycle.

4) My experience was yes, many people reported this also, it is good in terms of it meaning the drug induced a new hair growth cycle, so more hairs than normal start the hair cycle at the same time so old hairs fall out at a rate higher than normal. The actual visual thinning for me was months 2 through 4. The good news is that the newer hairs that came in and started being noticed in the mirror at months 5-6 were thicker.

I got the shedding period even though I was already using the weaker proscar.

I recommend:

1) If you are prone to hairloss and you care about it, get on a dht blocker and stay on it not while just using roids.

2) You start with proscar because it has large 10 year long term health studies that show it it safe, duta does not. Many people are satisfied with proscar results, why use something more powerful to mess with your natural hormones if you do not have to.

3) If you are using something just for while you are on cycle, choose proscar at 1.25 mg a day because it blocks 70% of 1 type of dht and does not have the propensity to cause shedding that duta has when it blocks 92-94% of dht. Why use duta, while on cycle and go through the shedding, you are using something to prevent the loss while on, for cosmetic reasons, and then go off the drug.