Of Those Patients Taking Avodart, How Often Do They Take It?
Hi dr,
I know you cannot endorse using Avodart, but I wonder if you can answer this question….I’ve been using Avodart for several years along with Propecia. I take Avodart once a week because of the long half life. I’m curious to know since you probably hear from many people using Avodart, how often do they take it? I’m mostly curious about the ones who report seeing good results with it.
thanks
No one really knows how to take Avodart (dutasteride) for treating hair loss, but most doctors (for reasons I do not understand) recommend daily doses. The long half life is reason enough to take it less often than daily, but I am not an expert on it and the proper dose hasn’t been published yet. I must remind the casual readers that I’m not suggesting anyone should take Avodart to treat their hair loss at this point as it is not FDA approved for such use.
Off the top of my head, I know of one other patient that reported taking Avodart just once a week with good results, but the emails I get from patients that take Avodart don’t usually say how often they take it. For those that do take Avodart, feel free to post your dosing in the comments.
FYI, I have been on Avodart 1mg once a day (0.5mg morning and 0.5mg evening) now for coming on 5yrs. Before that I was on Proscar (5mg) daily for about 14yrs give or take.
So in total I have been taking some sort of DHT blocker for about 19yrs with zero side effects that I am aware of. The first 6months on Proscar 5mg, I had some groin ache but that subsided by about the 1yr mark.
Good Luck!
I take .5mg avodart every other day, and use 5% rogaine daily. I am not losing any hair! Like LAZERFISH, I used 5mg proscar for about 12 years, then 8 years on Avodart, recently adding the rogaine. I’m tempted to start generic Bimatoprost at 1ml topical daily and see what happens. The addition of the rogaine did improve my hair density. Is seems the topicals work synergistically with the DHT blockers.