I was pretty nervous to make the switch , still am, but decided the cost was too much at this stage, still in college..struggling lol. So i have been on propecia for 2 years, ive been on the generic proscar(from a pharmacy so it should be legit), for a week and a half now and no changes noticeable…my head isnt itching or anything of that sort…nothings changed….now my question is if this generic isn’t working properly, how would i know and when??? Im scared that in a month if the generic isn’t working ill shed everything in a matter of days…is this possible?
If you are taking 1/4 of the 5mg finasteride pill, it will work identical to Propecia. I wouldn’t spend too much time worrying about it, so long as you got the 5mg generic from a trustworthy pharmacy. If you are taking a counterfeit pill, then you will lose the benefits quickly and start seeing hair loss in 1-3 months.
Neck hair is not permanent like the hair of the scalp donor area (the fringe shown in the picture). Transplanting neck hair is not difficult, but if it gets lost over time, it would be a waste. Strip surgery on the neck (used for strip harvesting) tends to produce some of the worst scars seen in transplant surgery.
I think “Never Lose” is part of American Crew’s marketing for their “Hair Recovery System”. I wonder if it is in violation of advertising and marketing laws to suggest you’ll “never lose” hair by using their shampoo and a patch. To never lose would suggest a cure for hair loss, which I can guarantee you that this is not. Turns out, the patch contains rosemary, swertia japonica, hops, and silica — so I have no clue where they get off suggesting that this will regrow your hair. The ingredients for the concentrated serum are listed as acrylates copolymer, humulus lupulus (hops), extract, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) extract, swertia, japonica extract, silanediol salicylate, panthenol, butylene glycol, triethanolamine — and again, what research are they using to suggest rosemary and hops will regrow your hair?
Oh boy. I never said I needed to be there during the research study of a product to know it was true or not. No, I wasn’t physically present at the trials of the finasteride or minoxidil, but those medications are proven to work and FDA approved. The problem with many of the products I’m asked about is that they come out of nowhere — old wives’ tales, myths, etc. Most of them offer testimonials or mentions of a study, but offer zero evidence that the study was even conducted or if it was even valid. People write to me at this site every single day asking for solutions to their hair loss. Should I tell them to just go ahead and potentially waste their time and money on an unproven product while they lose more hair that they can’t get back… or should I let them know about medications that are proven to be effective?
You are better off stopping the steroids. Propecia may or may not help, but I can’t tell you what will happen with any great certainty. It at least would have a better chance without the steroid use, which has been shown to promote the balding that occurs from genetic hair loss.
I assume you’re not shaving them in your sleep…
Thank you. I am humbled. In all of the fields of medicine I have practiced — heart surgery, orthopedic surgery, gynecology, cancer, and vascular surgery — the field of hair is the happiest of all. The patients are helped, grateful, and at times their lives are transformed. I am an agent of that transformation and that makes me a very lucky doctor. In my former practices, I did it all and felt that I lacked the challenges of new things with the more traditional surgeries. The hair transplant industry was generally doing terrible work and I saw opportunity to change it, invent new technologies, push the envelope and create something that was never done before, so I began doing hair transplants to meet those personal needs after doing the appropriate research. If you look at