Minoxidil may be the best approach to the thinning neck hair
I only really have hair loss on my hairline. I was debating whether I should start out with applying minoxidil to my hairline to see if I respond to it and then maybe add in fin after 4-6 months. That way, I have a gauge on whether I should keep using minoxidil or not rather than start both at the same time and never truly know if minoxidil is doing anything for me.
The only possible exception that might make this idea invalid is maybe minoxidil won’t regrow anything but perhaps it will help slow the recession on the hairline especially if you are under 25.
What do you all think of this?
Finasteride is better for early hair line loss
I don’t know as everyone is different. Many people who drop the dose do just as well at half of the dose. With that said, I just saw a man who dropped the dose from 1mg to a half mg and saw hair loss from the drop. The studies that were done in the 1990s indicated that half the dose was 80% as effective on average as the full dose.
I’ve been on finasteride for 3.5 years. Without it l would be fully bald by now (25) and it’s allowed me to keep a good amount of hair. Generally doesn’t look like l am suffering from hair loss. A bit thinner on the top but decent overall thickness.
I’ve had enough of taking the drug. I have come off it several times during those 3.5 years and l feel remarkably better off it. I feel more significantly more virile and energetic. When l take Fin my libido drops, brain is foggier and l just don’t feel as good. My face is rounder and less defined as well.
Are there alternatives to Fin that work?
One of the options is to shave your head and get Scalpmicropigmentation (see: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com) which can take on the appearance of a full head of shaved hair and this can be used as a back-stop in the case the other treatments fail to maintain the full look. Oral minoxidil may work in your situation but you will have to be managed by a good doctor. A hair transplant doesn’t require medications, so there are a few choices available to you. With your reported side effects from finasteride, if I were your doctor, I would advise you to get off of the medication.
Regarding the HAIRCHECK test. It says that you take the permanent area as the base to compare. What if the top of an individual has always been thinner compared to the permanent areas? Then how reliable could you call the test?
I believe that people with fine hair often seem to be thinner on top, but it can be an illusion. I have measured many people with the HAIRCHECK instrument and those that are not balding always have the same readings on the instrument showing no balding present
When I was RAPIDLY balding, I was losing up to 100 hairs a day, mostly in the shower. After finasteride I lose ZERO hair in the shower, and none that is noticable during the day.
Do not use that statistic to think shedding 50-100 hairs in the shower is somehow normal. It is not, and I do not care what this random statistic that is quoted everyday says. If you have this much loss then you need to start treatment ASAP if you want to keep your hair.
Try an experiment, dye one of your long hairs and see if it lasts 3 years. I’l bet you won’t see it in 3 years, or less. All body hairs cycle from a growth stage to a sleep stage and fall out during the sleep phase. We lose about 50-100 hairs a day and replace that number with new hairs each and every day.
Taking finasteride seems to have little effect on recurrence in patients with alopecia who have undergone surgical treatment of gynecomastia. Surgeons may recommend continuous finasteride therapy in patients with alopecia who wish to take finasteride after the surgical treatment of gynecomastia.
I’ve been on fin for about 10 months now, something I’ve noticed is that I’ve literally just been shedding CONSTANTLY the whole time on the drug, like can pull out like 50 or so hairs per day from my top, sides, back if i really bother to, I’ve not really noticed a difference in my hair, maybe the crown has slightly thickened but other than that nothing.
You may be progressing with your balding process and not controlled by finasteride. See a good doctor who knows about this problem.
I’ve noticed my crown has been looking quite thin lately. My hair, otherwise, is very thick – I haven’t noticed any temple recession or hairline receding, it’s just around the crown area. Am I able to apply minoxidil to treat just this one area? Or must I put on entire scalp?
Many people with the genes for balding start off seeing thinning in the crown. Topical minoxidil is the best first line treatment for this. Apply it nightly after a hot shower so your pores open up and only put it where the thinning is in the crown.
I’m 14 and look at my hair, it is falling out big-time. I have met with 2 doctors so far and no doctor has given me a reason or a treatment
You have considerable thinning. Do you have anything medical going on, some disease, something else you inherited? What does your father and grandfathers and uncles and brothers have for hair loss? Are you taking any medications? Hove you had rapid weight loss recently? What is your Vitamin D level? Basic questions that must be answered.
A nasal spray that blocks the absorption of the coronavirus completely protected ferrets it was tested on, according to a small study released Thursday by an international team of scientists. The study, which was limited to animals and has not yet been peer-reviewed, was assessed by several health experts at the request of The New York Times.
If the spray, which the scientists described as nontoxic and stable, is proved to work in humans, it could provide a new way to fight the pandemic, with a daily spritz up the nose acting like a vaccine.
“Having something new that works against the coronavirus is exciting,” said Dr. Arturo Casadevall, the chairman of immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who was not involved in the study. “I could imagine this being part of the arsenal.”
The work has been underway for months by scientists from Columbia University Medical Center in New York, Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, Cornell University and the University of Campania in Italy. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Columbia University Medical Center.
The spray, which attacks the virus directly, contains a lipopeptide, a cholesterol particle linked to a chain of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. This particular lipopeptide exactly matches a stretch of amino acids in the spike protein of the virus, which the pathogen uses to attach to a human airway or lung cell.
Before a virus can inject its RNA into a cell, the spike must effectively unzip, exposing two chains of amino acids, in order to fuse to the cell wall. As the spike zips back up to complete the process, the lipopeptide in the spray inserts itself, latching on to one of the spike’s amino acid chains and preventing the virus from attaching.
“It is like you are zipping a zipper but you put another zipper inside, so the two sides cannot meet,” said Matteo Porotto, a microbiologist at Columbia University and one of the paper’s authors.
The work was described in a paper posted to the preprint server bioRxiv Thursday morning, and has been submitted to the journal Science for peer review.
Ferrets are used by scientists studying flu, SARS and other respiratory diseases because they can catch viruses through the nose much as humans do, although they also infect each other by contact with feces or by scratching and biting.
The protective spray attaches to cells in the nose and lungs and lasts about 24 hours, Dr. Anne Moscona, a pediatrician and microbiologist at Columbia and co-author of the study.
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You may be brushing or combing to roughly. Use a wide tooth comb or brush and see if that changes things.
I’m 34 and have been using min and niz for about 10 years. Honestly they did their job in maintaining and even regrowing a bit of my hair pretty well but I can see my hair is starting to thin out a bit on top. More of my scalp is visible. I ordered some cheap generic brand of fin called Accord (hopefully its legit) but after reading this forum I’m having second thoughts. My sex drive isn’t that high as it is and the side effects seem brutal. Is there anything I should know before starting these pills or should I just not bother?
Thanks in advance for any advice
Finasteride is a lifetime commitment so if I were you, I would try to get a HAIRHCECK test (https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ) before starting the drug to be absolutely sure you know where your hair loss is starting from.
You switch recently from Proscar divided into quarters to the generic one mg finasteride and saw an immediate effect suggesting that the genetic had something wrong with it. I suggested that you switch to the brand name Proscar and the divide it into quarters. That will get rid of the genetic variability
Some men are very sensitive to finasteride especially in the crown as shown in this man
