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    For those of you who've tried oral minoxidil

    in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers

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    7 minutes ago, Moazzam said:

    All right, I'll give you a somewhat detailed anwser as a person who has spent years researching hair loss.
     
    Please stay away from oral minoxidil. Search for it's side effects- it can mess with your heart rhythm, there's a reason it comes with a big black warning label in EU. Stick to topical minox. If you're not responding to topical (40% or so dont do due to the absence or low availability of the sulfotransferase enzyme in the scalp) then add 0.1 or 0.5% tretenoin to your scalp directly by massaging it and leaving it for an extended period of time OR mix it daily into the minoxidil you use (dont mix it in the bottle, rather use a syringe with 1-2 ml of minox and add a dab of tretenoin. Another thing you can do is use 0.5mm dermaroller/microneedlie weekly OR 1 mm once every two weeks, OR 1.5mm once every month to improve minox absorption and to induce growth factors into your hair follicles.
    add finasteride or dutasteride  too- without it the gains you will get on minox will be temporary and sooner or later you will lose your hair

    if you get sides with fin, power through it, IT WILL GO AWAY. Many just try it and quit it, dont do that. You will doubt yourself but dont quit fin and in 2,3 months time the sides will be gone. if the sides still persist, then get 0.5 mg rather than 1 mg fin. If you can get your hands on ru58841 or better yet pyrilutamide (be careful as many are fake selling it, will be available soon) then add it to your regiment.

    Sorry, but this is horrible advice.

    RU58841 has not been approved by FDA for hair loss, and comes with even worse side-effects then oral MX.

    And I would strongly suggest stopping FIN if/when your libido declines.

    For some people libido never comes back to normal. Its called Post-finasteride syndrome.

    Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7231981/

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    Elevated liver enzymes from finasteride?

    in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers

    Posted · Edited by Westview

    On 5/2/2023 at 9:47 AM, Bucky O Hair said:

    A good friend of mine took Fin back in 2009 and suffered from PFS and depression as a result.  He never fully recovered.

    It's the reason I will never take it

    Your friend is not the only one. 

    There's a  whole forum dedicated to guys suffering from PFS: https://forum.propeciahelp.com/

    If you read some of their stories its quite depressing because many of them never snap out of it.

    I was lucky that my PFS went away, but not everyone is so lucky

    Is Hasson and Wong Still good? A horror story from Reddit. I have HT booked later this year and I'm a little concerned after reading this post.

    in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers

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    On 4/12/2023 at 9:04 AM, NegativeNorwood said:

    I don't want to come across as an @sshole, but how is it possible that someone goes to not just one, but several reputable clinics and gets botched in all of them? Clearly there's something wrong with that guy, the anomalies are too much.

    I understand that every surgeon has botched cases, but what are the odds of going to not one but 3 very reputable clinics (Devroye, Konior, H&W) and get a botch from every one of them, and for different reasons. It's just too much. There are two possibilities here: 

    - He has the worst luck ever.

    - He must be doing something wrong.

    Not even going to argue about him editing the posts when questioned, creating multiple accounts or being banned here, which make him lose a lot of credibility.

     

    His body could be rejecting the grafts, and if thats the case it doesnt matter which clinic he goes to

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    Low dose oral minoxidil - Share your story or opinions

    in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers

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    On 12/23/2022 at 12:57 AM, Gatsby said:

    Yes loniten is oral minoxidil. My dermatologist increased my dose from 2.5mg to 5mg a day. I don't feel that I have more hair but I definitely feel that my hair all over is thicker. 😊

    This study says that even 1.25mg can be effective

    https://www.practiceupdate.com/content/very-low-dose-oral-minoxidil-in-male-androgenetic-alopecia/101851

     

    Low dose oral minoxidil - Share your story or opinions

    in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers

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    21 hours ago, GoliGoliGoli said:

    Not to be negative but tbh I don't see much different between these two pics. Two months is still pretty early I suppose though? I take it you tried topical Min and weren't impressed with the results? 

    No, I actually grew quite a bit of hair with topical.

    I just figured maybe I can grow even more from Loniten.

    So far so good.  And yes, hair greed is real 😈

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