finasteride isn't working

[Posrex]

Will do! Thank you for the advice and best of luck to you. Hope to hear more positive updates from you.

[miklaw]

ok I've dropped both fin and dut this week and shedding has gone down to hardly anything, immediately.

 

surely with the half life of dut that can't be a result of dropping the medication can it, surely jsut a coincidence, does anyone have any views/input on this would be much appreciated.

thanks

[aseda1979]

Miklaw you shouldve talkd to your doc before dropping the medication. Unless he told you so it's not a good idea...

[Posrex]

miklaw,

 

you said you had been on fin and dut for 2 years, right? during that time, all you experienced was shedding and more thinning? how many hairs did you shed on average?

[miklaw]

everytime I put my hand through my head I could pull out hairs and I've receeded a lot in that time and suffered miniturization, not just shedding...

 

I'm back on dut every other day.

[Posrex]

You're back on DUT? I thought the shedding had stopped a week after quitting fin and dut. Did the shedding resume even after you stopped taking them?

[Akashgpt862]

So true that it deserves quoting.

 

Maintaining hair is the drug's main job - the task it is most successful at - and the only sign that it's working is what isn't happening; i.e. your hairloss is not progressing.

s

 

i am a hair loss sufferer since 18 years of age and now i am 24 , my front sides has lost , top diffused thin , hairline almost gone , crown thinning , currently on finasteride from 2 months , planning for a hair transplant , here is my picture , anything can be done for me ?

[KO]

^ I think your hair looks very strong, and is only in the early stages of thinning. I would urge you to continue taking finasteride.

[soonsa]

s

 

i am a hair loss sufferer since 18 years of age and now i am 24 , my front sides has lost , top diffused thin , hairline almost gone , crown thinning , currently on finasteride from 2 months , planning for a hair transplant , here is my picture , anything can be done for me ?

 

 

i agre with previous poster continue finasteride

[Nickerian]

Im 23 year old and i started taking medication because my grandpa is bald (moms side) and i noticed hairloss on the sides (Stage 3 at the moment my grandpa have stage 6) i have been using for soon 2 months.

 

I take

-1/3 of 5mg fin

 

-Minoxidil to fasten the hair restoration progress (will stop taking that later, its just to boost the process before finansteride take full effect),

I Apply on the sides where im bald and on the top where i still have hair (since you should continue even after your hair grow back i assume it just improve the result)

 

-Nizoral (ketocanazole 2%) because its good for your sclap and people say it works good.

 

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The results so far is that

- I have been loosing more hair (but as i understand when the threatment start working on your hair follicles, you start to loose the damaged hair thin hair and new healthy hair start to growback "thicker")

 

- Minoxidil have some magic power to make your hair "swollen" so it looks and feel thicker (using kirkland minoxidil foam)

 

-Nizoral maked my sclap feel much more healthy

 

-Starting to see thin white hair popup on my bald spots on the sides, (not sure if thats because i did eat saw palmetto before, its a little early for minoxidil and fin to take effect)

i will do a hair transplant soon to cover up my currect bald spots anyway and lower the front), see images in my album

 

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Important to know is that The male hairloss is genetically gained form your Mother not father.

If your grandpa is bald you have 50% to get bald, if your grandmas dad is bald you add 25% and so on. it sound weird to me that you say its only your fathers side who is bald.

 

Its based on the X chromosome which is earned by your mother if your a boy.

Edited June 14, 2014 by Nickerian