Avodart-dutasteride

Whatever happened to this drug? The only information I can find is phase 3 trials were suppose to begin, but I can't find any info concerning it actually happening. However it has been approved to treat prostate problems. Has anybody taken this yet and noticed benefits concerning hair loss?

Next, you have a bunch of “viral” marketers hitting magazines and forums pumping up its reputation based upon the initial trial buzz. Pretty soon the drug company is seeing many addition sales of the drug in the “off-label” market. This makes great business sense as you reduce initial costs and then get additional revenue from a drug that is already making money treating another disease. Viral advertising is a steal compared to legit practices and highly effective. I can’t remember where, but I read great article on the sale of drugs for other uses. This is a huge market and it’s legitimacy is questionable.

We had a few of these viral marketers here on regrowth and every once in awhile another will crawl out from their hole in the ground and stop by for some shilling.

But hey, really, I’m just guessing.

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Avodart works well for some people.

eg...

http://www.hairlosstalk.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?t=30083

http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=70342&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

Personally , i dropped Propecia 7 months ago, tried the natural stuff and my hair is gone to the crapper !!

Started Avodart, only few weeks so to early to say.

I have no sides so i cannot comment on poeple who do.

these are fda facts that cant be disputed and the actual reason glaxo never went ahead with the final go ahead and market it as a hairloss drug was because they figured with propecia already out and since it is only 20 percent more effective but 3 times more expencive,not to mention that before the second trial was complete there was at least 3 indian pharma compainies making generic versions and planning on marketing them for around 25 percent of the US PRICE avodart sells for(plus you cant use insurance on a hairloss drug but you can for a prostate one),it would be finantial suicide to spend the millions to get fda approval on a drug that they saw would not sell based on the reasons i already gave.

now none of these reasons mention effectivness and actually the internet users results basically reflect the results of the avodart hairloss trials(works a little better than propecia,cost a lot more,and has higher side effect risk(slight)

now i have been using avodart for(i really lost count)but id have to guess a year and i am happy with it.never used propecia so i dont know how happy i am but it works for sure and if you believe that dht has anything to do with hairloss,then avodart should be considered since propecia only reduces scalp dht by i believe close to 50 percent compared to avodarts 85 percent or close to it.also it lowers serum dht by nearly 95 percent.nothing else does this so this surly should explain why its the best selling hairloss drug currently on the internet(based on several overseas sites)and it has been this case for well over 3 years.

if the drug was not effective it would not be selling so damn well,when i mean sell im talking about the indian generics and not the "real"version although chemically they are exactly the same.

is this the reason its so much more effective than propecia??? who knows?

i told myself that i would use avodart for 6 months and if it worked id use it another 6,then if i was happy with the density,i would switch to propecia for cost and side effect reasons and try to use it to maintain what i achieved on avodart.

i have since changed my plan since i have no side effects to speak of,and its price is very cheap now that i buy overseas.

my new plan is now at one year just lower my dose and try to maintain.im just too happy with avodart to quit especially when i have no side effects or other reason to risk all that i have achieved.

"But hey, really, I’m just guessing."

But don't kid yourself that "off-label" marketing is not a huge money maker for some drug companies. In fact nothing you said negates this fact. And yes you do sound like a corporate apologist even if you really don’t know about viral marketing (as if).

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