Oral Minox + potential complications with activities

[yetanotherONE]

Just got my blood pressure tested and it's solid, 117/78...so if I take low dose oral min (just got prescribed), I'm assuming it will be fine. My question is, how careful does one have to be with stuff that drives blood pressure higher? High intensity workouts, saunas, pre-workout amphetamines, viagra.

Also, there's sometimes posts about using both oral minox and creatine at the same time and it having puffiness effects due to water retention. Is that just the usual nonsense? 

[GoliGoliGoli]

I use topical 5% Minoxidil and definitely get a bit of puffiness in the face, so I assume oral min would be even worse in this regard but that's just my assumption. 

There is also one guy on here who took oral min and it looked like he had gotten stung by bees his face was so puffy. I think he's the exception rather than the rule, but neverthless the face bloat is a common thing. 

Edited September 14, 2022 by GoliGoliGoli

[yetanotherONE]

18 hours ago, GoliGoliGoli said:

I use topical 5% Minoxidil and definitely get a bit of puffiness in the face, so I assume oral min would be even worse in this regard but that's just my assumption. 

There is also one guy on here who took oral min and it looked like he had gotten stung by bees his face was so puffy. I think he's the exception rather than the rule, but neverthless the face bloat is a common thing. 

Yeah I mean, one off anecdotal evidence with that stuff doesn't really convince me to be honest. I'm more worried about serious complications as opposed to stuff like that. 

[GoliGoliGoli]

3 minutes ago, yetanotherONE said:

Yeah I mean, one off anecdotal evidence with that stuff doesn't really convince me to be honest. I'm more worried about serious complications as opposed to stuff like that. 

Not sure what you mean, you're the one asking about puffiness 😄

[Melvin- Admin]

I took 2.5 mg of oral minoxidil and went to the gym, I had no issues. 

[Gatsby]

I commenced on 2.5mg's of oral minoxidil this week also and I wouldn't know that I am on it to be honest.

[HairTrippin]

1 hour ago, Gatsby said:

I commenced on 2.5mg's of oral minoxidil this week also and I wouldn't know that I am on it to be honest.

How long you been on it? 

[Viney]

0.9mg/1.8mg sublingual minoxidil for about 3 months each (6 months in total) and haven't noticed anything apart from thicker hair.

Fit and healthy 30 years old.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Viney

[Gatsby]

4 hours ago, HairTrippin said:

How long you been on it? 

Three days 🤣

[HairTrippin]

On 9/16/2022 at 2:16 AM, Gatsby said:

Three days 🤣

How’s the first week of oral Min been for you? Any sides come up? 

[Gatsby]

So far so good.👌

[HairTrippin]

On 9/19/2022 at 11:17 PM, Gatsby said:

So far so good.👌

Did Sinclair say he has monitored patients using OM for more than 5 years? He’s one of the most knowledgable doctors about it. I haven’t seen any studies longer than 33 months

[Gatsby]

22 minutes ago, HairTrippin said:

Did Sinclair say he has monitored patients using OM for more than 5 years? He’s one of the most knowledgable doctors about it. I haven’t seen any studies longer than 33 months

I didn't see Dr Rod Sinclair.

[Viney]

On 9/23/2022 at 11:38 AM, HairTrippin said:

Did Sinclair say he has monitored patients using OM for more than 5 years? He’s one of the most knowledgable doctors about it. I haven’t seen any studies longer than 33 months

To quote the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/health/minoxidil-hair-loss-pills.html

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But that was not the reason the low-dose pills were discovered. Instead, the discovery occurred also by accident 20 years ago.

Dr. Rodney Sinclair, a professor of dermatology at the University of Melbourne in Australia, had a patient with female pattern baldness. The hair on top of her head had thinned, and she hated the way it looked. Unlike what happened with most of his patients, Rogaine worked for her, but she developed an allergic rash on her scalp from the drug. Yet if she stopped taking it, her hair would thin again.

“So I was stuck,” Dr. Sinclair said. “The patient was very motivated, and the one thing we knew was that if a patient has an allergy to a topically applied medicine, one way to desensitize is to give very low doses orally.”

To do that, Dr. Sinclair tried cutting minoxidil pills into quarters. To his surprise, the low dose made her hair grow but did not affect her blood pressure, the original purpose of the higher-dose drug.

He subsequently lowered the dose more and more until he got down to effective doses of one-fortieth of a pill and began routinely prescribing the drug. That first patient still takes it.

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2022 by Viney