Dedalus

Thanks for this helpful feedback. I know the more I wait, the more it may progress. However, I am in graduate school for one more year, and I'm barely making ends meet. Once I get a good paying job I can probably add propecia or finasteride in my budget. Thanks again!

I don't use Nizoral. I'm just finishing up a bottle of Regenpure (which I have been on for 2 years) and starting up on Lipogaine Big 3 shampoo. I shed more without the ketaconazole, so I prefer to use the shampoos once a day. There is some miniaturizing going on behind the hairline and I do have the receding temples. I'm glad Propecia has helped you out. I'm a little scared in terms of taking Propecia. I'm only 28, and it's the sexual side effects from that drug that scare me. I have a high libido, and a fiancee, and we do want kids in the near future. Perhaps I'll start right after, but I'm afraid, again, of the side effects. I fine with minoxidol, but I know it doesn't inhibit DHT and propecia does. Have you experienced any side effects from Propecia? I read that you may even need to take propecia after a hair transplant to keep the hairs behind the newly transplanted hairs from falling out.

I haven't used any form of Minoxidil....yet. I'm trying to hold off on drugs as am I still a Norwood II and the ketaconazle shampoos seem to be at least slowing down the receding... I get my info from a a channel on youtube called Hairlossfromsteroids. The guys seems like an honest dude in terms of what has and has not worked for his hair. He does reviews of the shampoos that have worked for him, and seems to have done his research about minoxidil, propecia, etc. As for me, I may wait till my 30's for minoxidil...or finasteride....or a hair transplant if it comes to that. I would go for Lipogaine Minoxidil because it has the other dht inhibitors.

Ketoconazol will slow down hairloss in terms of Male Pattern Baldness, but I doubt it will re-grow hair. My hairline is still receding and I'm now definitively a Norwood 2. I'm hoping it's just a mature hairline but I doubt it will stop receding. I use the shampoos regenpure, and more recently lipogaine big3. Both contain ketoconazol which can slow down hairloss, and both thicken your hair, but does not regrow it from my experience. I've been using regenpure for 2 years, but I may switch to lipogaine big3 because it foams better than regenpure. Regenpure contains aloe instead of sodium laureth sulfate (by the way SLF can cause hair breakage, not necessarily hair loss). IF you're worried about Sodium Laureth Sulfate, then just use regenpure. Aloe soothes scalp irriatation. Sodium laureth sulfate, however, gives out more foam which means it's easier to apply the shampoo for better coverage. Plus Lipogaine big3 makes my hair feel fuller in terms of aesthetics... (It's not the Lipogaine with Minox/Azaelic Acid) I would get on any of those two shampoos in the meantime.

Do these types of supplemental vitamins actually help inhibit or block DHT? I purchased a bottle months ago, and I have finished it, but I didn't really notice anything different. My hair continues to slowly recede and shed. Are there an supplements out there that may or can actually block DHT?

Hi, I've been following this man's progress with Rogaine in this website. Seems legit. He seems to have had great progress during the first several months. However, the effectiveness of drug seems to have stopped, and with that so did his blogs. It wasn't until last month did he start blogging again. He says he's going to start propecia alongside his current regimen. Hope this helps! Minoxidil Research Update 10/24/11 – Week 13 » Minoxidil Research Results

I use Regenpure dr with Nioxin. My hairline is still receding, but the number of hairs that falls out in the shower has been cut in half (I'm a norwood), so I feel that it has slowed the loss down somewhat. In my opinion, Regenpure is a great alternative to Nizoral. I'm still struggling on whether or not I should start finasteride. I'm 27 years old as of this writing. I'm worried about that dreaded side effect that I always read about, because I plan on getting married and having kids someday.