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It was a lot. I'd stop counting when it reaches 100 but it still keeps falling further than that. I'd run my fingers through my hair while running water through it and i'd get around 5-10 strands stuck on my fingers. And that's just one stroke. I dont know if the supllements i take would help with the shed. You cant really keep the hairs in your head that are gonna fall anyway with minox initial shed. I did it because i believe it helps grow hair, i think. Also, i use virgin coconut oil on my scalp for years. It prevents dandruff and conditions the scalp.

it peaked by the end of month 3 where my hair fell out in clumps in the shower. i'd count the strands one by one and would stop counting if it would go more than a hundred. i remember this because i had special occasions during that period and all i can think about was my hair falling out. I use to have hip-length hair and cut 9 inches off of it sometime around month 3 in the hopes that it would lessen the hair fall due to tugging. but it didnt help. i got through the whole stressful situation by not thinking about it too much. sometimes, you get preoccupied thinking about it, you just have to live and do other things. dont let it bother you, as stress can sometimes make it worse. also i would not shampoo everyday because i noticed i lose more hair in the shower so i would only shampoo when it's dirty. like thrice a week when the shedding was at it's peak.

oh i'm so sorry g0910 about what you're going through. hairloss is such a terrible thing to happen to anyone and hopefully it will get better. i dont think it peaked because i stopped minoxidil. i think the shedding just happened because that's what it normally does when you start minox. I stopped because i had really itchy scalp and i freaked out about the excessive shedding. i never had that severe of a shed before using it. and i read that if you use it long term, your follicles will be dependent on minox and will fall off if you stop it. i do not like that. i thought that stopping minoxidil would also stop the excessive initial shedding. but it just went on. i read through the internet about their experiences with the initial shed and the length of the shed varies from person to person, from a week to five months. so i thought i'd just wait for it to stop (without using minox). trust me, the wait was not easy. my hair kept on falling throughout the day. from my own experience, stopping minoxidil during the initial shed will not take you back to how you were shedding before using it. if the initial shed has began, you just have to wait till it stops. i never thought it will but it did eventually. i read on the internet that stopping minoxidil during the initial shedding phase, is a bad decision because the hair lost might not grow back. i checked my head just this week and i see a lot of small new hairs, about a quarter to a third of an inch thick in the base that tapers to the tip. all in all, i never really needed minoxidil, i was only looking to possibly thicken my hair. before minox, i didnt shed a lot, i was not thinning (at least to the naked eye), or had any receding hairline. dumb decision really to try it out. i lost about 30 % of my volume and never really received anything beneficial from it. but at least i know the lost hair is growing back. i now take iron supplements, biotin, MSM, i put aloe vera on my scalp regularly and use virgin coconut oil on scalp and hair every weekend. no more minoxidil for me.

Just an update. My hair is back to normal now. I lose 5 hairs a day at max now. And 20 hairs in the shower. The excessive shedding that happened after using minox went on for about 4 months total. Im never going back on minoxidil.

Geez thanks! i dont think i was ever in a bad hair situation at all untill i started minox. Just a little thinning on the crown that barely showed. It's been almost 3 months of massive shedding since im on this so called poison. Hair effortlessly falling off my head throughout the day and a lot during shower. It's been such a stressful experience. I used to have thick hip-length hair and i have to cut it to shoulder length because of the massive shed. Now my bulk is significantly thinner, ponytail the size of my thumb. At this point, i dont even care if i lost so much length and volume. Just hoping it would stop. I've read that the "initial shed" lasts about 2-3 months so im hoping the shedding would stop soon.

Maybe i did not make it clear. I normally only shed about maximum of 10 hairs at worst. This massive shed began right when i used minoxidil. And it is still going strong even when i already stopped the minoxidil 2 months ago.

Hi, Im in desperate need of advice or any piece of information. Im hoping that someone on here has the same experience. I used minoxidil 5% around the end of feb 2014 after noticing that i had little difused thinning. After 3 weeks, i decided to stop using it because my scalp was itching so much and i started to lose so much hair which i assume is the initial shedding. It's already the end of may (two months after i stopped using minoxidil) and still my hair is shedding. i lose about 80-100 hairs per day since i started minox. i lost about 30% of my hair thickness since i started, my ponytail thickness is significantly thinner. And my hair gets easily oily now, scalp more visible. Does the initial shed usually continue this long even if i only used the product for 3 weeks? How long should I wait for the shedding to stop? Is there any way i could stop the shedding?