jackisback,

scratching your head can definately not help, and maybe cutting your hair short and getting back on the foam will help in two ways. First it will allow you to actually get to your scalp easier with a higher effective rogaine, and secondly and most important in my own use, no more itching! The foam is great as that was my main draw back to the liquid, the itching and the greasy feel. I have had neither with the foam

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I have been taking lotion rogaine 5% for over 10 years and I currently switched to foam around 2 months ago. All of a sudden I have had an increase in hair shedding. Everytime I shower now I have around 25 hairs falling out and all day I feel the hair shedding onto my face and I see them on the shoudlers. My hairloss is much more noticable now. Is this due to the increased potency of the foam? I am really concerned about this. I am also having some hairloss on the side of the head which I know is not the typical alopecia androgenica. Maybe the foam is distributing to the sides of the head? Please advice since it is getting more and more noticable. Thank you

Hi

Increased hairloss while using Rogaine or Propecia is generally a good sign.. YES, a good sign ..This is shedding which means the hairs are cycling through the growth process. Do a search on SHEDDING and you will see the feedback

This is normal ..

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No I understand about the increased shedding. The differenc is that I have been using rogaine for 10 years and I did experience the increased shedding when I started 10 years ago. My problem is I just switched to the foam and now I am experiencing the shedding. Is that normal if I have been using the lotion for 10 years already? Understand my question?

Thanks in advance

Hi ole friends (and new)

I had a similar (not as extensive loss) experience as Saleen in the past 3-4 months switching to rogaine foam. It totally started freaking me out esp. since I have had a HT 2 1/2 years ago. It has stabilized (month 5) but nothing that noticable yet as of regrowth.

I am prob. the longest term rogaine user since I was in the Phase IV trials in 1987..lol.

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Hey


I use my rogaine foam on the front of my head...and how do you know you are shedding and not just losing your hair?.....what is shedding?...sorry i just started on rogaine and dont really know much about anything that you guys speak of lol....and i also heard someone say that adderal increases hair loss....is this proven?...thanks for your replies in advance!