Ferrari-or-hair?

No offense intended, but this is the funniest thing I've read all day. Made me laugh and feel better. Wonder if there's a marker in my shade of brown?

Still taking it once a day. Not helping my hair. Ingrown hairs continue to come up in my receiding hair line area, and my hair has been receiding a lot this year. Not too happy about it. On the bright side, the MSM has done wonders for my knees and ankles, as they don't pop or hurt nearly as much as they did in the past.

Saw Palmetto and Biotin both give me horrible bad breath that comes from my stomach, not mouth. I only take it when I don't plan on breathing on anyone up close.

Looks like I'm getting a better deal than all of you at Sam's Club. 4 for the price of 3.

I've continued to take 1000 mg a day. I went to my dermatologist and she said the bumps were ingrown hairs and gave me some samples of an acne cream called Duac. Only 3 days later, and the bumps are going away. I don't have any results showing that MSM has helped me, and I don't have any results to say that the bumps were hair growing in, or ready to die and fall out. Maybe I'll know in a few weeks.

Wow, there sure is some crazy sounding stuff in this topic. You can find a root stimulator spray with olive oil in it in the ethnic hair care section of Target. I tried it. Didn't like it. It smells funny, made me greasy, and made my hair look thinner than usual (because the stuff won't dry on your hair, it remains greasy). You might as well pour italian salad dressing in your hair.

I get my rogaine foam at SAM'S Club and it's a 4 bottle package rather than 3 bottle package like CVS has. It's the exact same price too. What that price is... I don't remember... because I bought two packages at once last time, so it's been awhile since I've needed it. I think it was only $45 or $49. If you're like me, you're going to lose a massive amount of hair when you start using rogaine until it starts growing back. I would likely not be classified as someone rogaine works particularly well for though... I think I'm part of the percentage it doesn't do much for. I would recommend taking propecia a few months before starting rogaine. See if the propecia helps you enough that you don't need rogaine. Rogaine is annoying to use and apply, while propecia is as simple as swallowing a tiny pill. Propecia is expensive, I just paid $230 for my 90 day supply earlier this week at the local grocery store pharmacy. I've never taken proscar, so I don't know how the price compares.

That's an odd reaction. I just remember being irritated by the annoying smell of it.

Went to my dermatologist, she said my hairs were coming in as ingrown hairs, and that was the bumps. She gave me some samples for Duac gel (for acne) and it has almost solved the problem in a matter of days. Is it going to help my hair loss in that location? No idea, but it sure is getting rid of the bumps.

I'd take the full tablet. I don't have health insurance, so I agree that it's expensive. I take the name brand kind. I get it at my grocery store's pharmacy, get a 3 month supply of 90 pills, and pay somewhere between $150-200. If you have insurance, Proscar is sometimes covered and you won't have to pay as much.

Libido is fine, it doesn't bother me anymore. It bothered me the first 6 to 12 months though. I take a lot of vitamins, and know there are vitamins/supplements out there to increase libido, so if it really bothered me, I would have started taking something for it. I'll probably stay on propecia and use rogaine for the rest of the foreseeable future. Male baldness runs in my family, and I don't want to start looking like my uncles any time soon. No plans for a HT, when my hair isn't wet, I don't look like I'm missing much hair. I still apply it.

I don't recall having any additional shedding with propecia.

I already take propecia, you need to reread what I've said.

Male pattern baldness runs in both sides of my family. For whatever reason, the majority of my baldness is an I shape that is slowly turning into an L shape. When I was in the 8th grade, I would spike my hair, and even back then, the I shape of baldness was forming. My dermatologist hasn't ever said much about it. I haven't considered a hair transplant because my hairloss isn't great enough to merit it, and I wouldn't be able to afford it at this time. When I first started using Rogaine, which was probably 4 to 12 months before I started using Propecia, it caused my hair to massively fall out where I was applying it (my crown on the left side) and the surrounding areas. I don't have any "before" shots, but my showers would be horrifying to me, because my hands would end up full of hairs for the first 2 or 3 months. I would speculate that my hair loss got 4 times worse for those first 3 or 4 months. I continue to use Rogaine to prevent further loss, but I do not believe it regrew anything for me at all. As you can see in the first picture... I was pretty bad off for a 22 year old. I was very pissed off that it made my hair come out like that. When I went to my dermatologist to get my first prescription for propecia, she recommended I continue the rogaine, so I have. I don't remember any scalp inflammation. I remember it being a little itchy, but I wouldn't scratch it. I don't believe it was permanently lost because it looks as if some has come back. I don't believe I ever shed while using propecia. When I first started it, I remember a lack of hair results for the first few months and a lot of sexual side effects. My ability to get erections was at times really annoying, and at other times, would be normal. My urge for sex would go up and down. Currently, I don't detect any harmful side effects, but I would honestly say that my ability to initiate erections whenever I wanted to has probably gone down 10 to 20%. I don't really think that's such a big deal though... some percentage of that may be due to a less active lifestyle and age.

I don't want to leave you hanging, so here's the top of my head's internet world debut... I always take these right after I get out of the shower and I leave my hair soaking wet. I look more bald when I need a haircut, so I couldn't just simplify and upload 2 pics, we're stuck with a variety of hair lengths. I also used to comb with a comb with teeth further apart in the first few months, so this is hardly scientific. The texture of my hair changed from wavy to straight as well for some reason... Here's a comparison of April, 2008 (after 1 month of propecia) May, 2008 (after 2 months) August, 2008 (after 5 months) December, 2008 (after 9 months) April, 2009 (after 13 months) July, 2009 (after 16 months) September, 2009 (after 18 months) January, 2010 (after 22 months) I guess looking at these again, propecia really helped me grow back some of the destruction I blame rogaine for in the crown, but it really helped a lot in that area towards the front of my head. My temples have remained bad though, it's a constant decline. Is it worth the 100s of dollars each year? Yeah. Is it giving me the amount of hair I want? Not really. The lack of hair in my temples makes me self conscious because it's difficult styling my hair to hide that. Although it may not look like it, I had a lot more hair in that particular area 2 years ago than I have now.