Susan in Indiana

You have my empathy! Starting to lose your hair at 27 would be awful. I hope your "ugly duckling" phase passes very soon! Susan

Hi all, I'd love some input... am I forgetting anything? I have hit that 1/2 a century mark and am having hideous frontal thinning. I got a shock the other day when i used a bathroom with a large window..... and with good side lighting I was appalled by how much worse my thinning has gotten. I have been using nizoral, & msm, (may start biotin, i'm not sure)and just started saw palmetto. I used rogaine once in the past but never got results from it until I started using emu oil with saw palmetto in it.. and that was just too greasy to keep up and I didn't like the idea of having to use rogaine forever to keep the new hair from falling out. (now I wish I had kept that up!) well, now, I'll do anything! to keep my hair and of course, I'd love to have some back. I restarted rogaine today. I recently got a script for spironolactone and was going to do oral spiro but I'm not a pill person and would prefer to do a topical so if i can figure out a good easy way to do that, I"ll do that. Otherwise I'll try to work up to 100 mg twice daily (there is some research showing regrowth at 200 mg daily in women). I'm normally a use one product at a time person so i can know what is working/not working, but right now, I am in a "throw everything and the kitchen sink at it" mode because this hair loss is really awful. I am not adverse to using drugs off label. the only other thing I can think of is the laser comb. any suggestions? Susan I want my mind and my hair back!! this getting older is not for sissies!

Hi all, I'd love some input... am I forgetting anything? I have hit that 1/2 a century mark and am having hideous frontal thinning. I got a shock the other day when i used a bathroom with a large window..... and with good side lighting I was appalled by how much worse my thinning has gotten. I have been using nizoral, & msm, (may start biotin, i'm not sure)and just started saw palmetto. I used rogaine once in the past but never got results from it until I started using emu oil with saw palmetto in it.. and that was just too greasy to keep up and I didn't like the idea of having to use rogaine forever to keep the new hair from falling out. (now I wish I had kept that up!) well, now, I'll do anything! to keep my hair and of course, I'd love to have some back. I restarted rogaine today. I recently got a script for spironolactone and was going to do oral spiro but I'm not a pill person and would prefer to do a topical so if i can figure out a good easy way to do that, I"ll do that. Otherwise I'll try to work up to 100 mg twice daily (there is some research showing regrowth at 200 mg daily in women). I'm normally a use one product at a time person so i can know what is working/not working, but right now, I am in a "throw everything and the kitchen sink at it" mode because this hair loss is really awful. I am not adverse to using drugs off label. the only other thing I can think of is the laser comb. any suggestions? Susan I want my mind and my hair back!! this getting older is not for sissies!

Hi all, I've googled this topic to death but am still looking for some additional help/ideas. I have oral spironolactone 100 mg tabs and am not really a pill person. I'd love to make my own topical preparation. any suggestions for making an easy topical preparation? I know it dissolves better in alcohol but would like to keep the alcohol to a minimize so it won't dry out my hair. I've also read that it dissolves well in minoxidil. I had stopped using minoxidil because I only had results with it when I used it with emu that had saw palmetto in it and it was a greasy mess. However, desperation is making me rethink that. I restarted minoxidil today... so dissolving in minoxidil is an option for me also. any tips? tricks? measurements? thanks in advance susan