Spanker

I have done a lot of googling and have not found a solid answer for this question....

What is the loingterm effectiveness of finasteride? i.e. Does is stop working over time?

also

Can you screw up by starting to early?

I know that this is the place to ask....there is a lot of knowledge here!!

Have you started any meds?

Thanks for the replies guys. I am cutting one pill at a time...so I should be good on the degrading.

My hair is wet in those pics but I am definately starting to receed....I doubt I would ever be "bald" anyway since I am about to be 32 and have a pretty full head....but I plan on keeping as much as possible. I think I was headed towards the Kevin Spacey look eventually.

I just wanted to hear someone else say that I made the right call...cause my wife said I was being stupid.

Taking this may even make me healther because I also started taking vitamins and fish oil (bad cholesterol).

I agree.....TONS of men have ED issues that do not take fin.....get checked....I jsut started taking and I am experienceing a little lower libido.....an dam happy about it....I was killin my wife...

yeah, I would call that a mature hairl line....the propecia/proscar will most likely help you in the crown area.

I think that every person is different and I think that finasteride does work in the front top portion and less so in the temple area....the way to look at it is if you want to keep what you have for as long as you can, start the meds.....if not....shave it and rock on!

mine are blue and tubular

So I go into a derm's office and tell him my worry about receeding and he does not even look at my hair and perscribes me generic Proscar at 5 mg....so I started taking it. I only have minituration at the temples (that I can tell). I also have Cutis Verticus Gyrata which means basically I have a wrinkled scalp....so I am very interested in keeping my hair and I do not think that this condition is helpful. That said...I really do not want to have a transplant but depending on how my thinning progresses....I could make a decision to have some work done. My goal is to stop any hair loss progression. Also....I have not had very much change in my hair in the last 5 years but I thik this is a little more than maturation....but did not want to sit around and wait for it...I have a family history of baldness in about 1/2 of my family.

Back to the story...I am taking the finasteride now and have a couple questions...

Looking at my pics do you think that was a good call...meaning would you have started if you were me? Again, the derm did not even look at me.

Is cutting the generic proscar as effective as Propecia? I am a little worried a bout a bottle lasting 4 months....meaning is it still effective keeping that long.

Finally, any other suggestions? ....oh yeah...I started using Nizoral 1% 3 days a week as well....just doing what I can to maintain...ya know...

Hi all, first post!

I am 31 years old and am experiencing temoral recession past what I would consider maturation. I can not tell that I an thinning on the vertex or crown...my wife says I am not. In fact she acts like I am crazy to want to start propecia....we am I?

I am definately receeding some (I have always had high temporal "peaks") and want to keep all the hair I can. How do I know when a good time to start taking propecia is?