Can Propecia Be Replaced in the Future with Another Drug?

I take propecia, which has halted my hair loss and re-grew some hair at the crown and top. If a better drug or a cell-based/cloning procedure comes along, would that mean I could get off propecia to start the new therapy, or will I always have to take it to keep what I got back?

Thank you

If another DHT blocker comes along with less side effects, you will be able to switch as long as it does block DHT. Dutasteride will retain benefits seen from finasteride (Propecia), but safety is still a concern of mine with dutasteride. Propecia is non-surgical (daily pill), and when hair cloning comes to be practical sometime in the future, it will almost be a surgical process of some sort. They’re entirely different processes, and if you stop the blocking of DHT from the drug, you’ll lose those benefits you saw.