#hairloss #finasteride

You can see a MUCH more detailed breakdown of my timeline for everything in the description of my other hair recovery videos but for this one this is all that really matters:

May 4th, 2020 - I started finsteride.
July 15th, 2021 - I stopped finasteride due to gyno becoming too large.
Aug 21st, 2021 - started 0.025% topical dutasteride 1ml daily.

Basically I had gyno issues since maybe 2011-2012 and just left it forever then it got worse slowly as I aged and I got my right side cut out in 2016 or so for free from my health care but the surgery sucked and left a whack scar I've been dealing with ever since... and they didn't lipo out the fatty tissue that grew with it so it never improved much in appearance... it still had extra fat and now a scar... all it did was stop it from continuing to grow and stopped it from hurting when I would reach across my body to grab something or when I'd lie down on it. I left the left side as is because it wasn't as bad. Then when I started taking finasteride in 2020 it instantly felt weird on the left side but I just adjusted the dose and thought "whatever... I plan on getting proper gyno surgery anyway at some point so why not see what happens with fin"... and it was okay but slowly grew for the whole time I was on it. Then out of seemingly NOWHERE the RIGHT side got sensitive and started to hurt and got swollen then grew lumps under it which is super bad because that means I'm so sensitive that I can completely REGROW the glands even if they have been cut out... so now I know I can't go get my final PROPER surgery ($10,000) to remove both glands and fatty tissue... and continue the finasteride because now I know FOR SURE my genetics will regrow the gyno again. So I have to stop the finasteride and then get the surgery and stay off the fin forever. Oh well. I never cared for hair. This has all been for fun anyway. I always intended to get the proper gyno surgery to fix the prior surgeon's mistakes and to handle the left side as well. I had nothing to lose really (other than maybe losing erection strength permanently or whatever people complain about online... depression etc... but I've been fine).

So I've been off finasteride for a month and now I just started dutasteride topically at 0.025% every day. I noticed in the first 24 hours I felt something in my nipples but I'm giving it more of a chance than that. I doubt this will work but it's worth one last ditch effort to see.... AND to contribute one single data point to the community about whether or not topical dutasteride actually doesn't go systemic.

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