Will finasteride stunt my growth?

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

I am an 18 year old, turning 19 in a month who’s been on fin since December 12th and was wondering if it will stunt my growth. I’m not sure if I’ve stopped growing but in the past year I went to the A&E twice for unrelated reasons and realized that between those two visits, the latest being on NYE, I had grown a few cm according the nurses measurements. Is there any chance fin could stunt my growth and if I should stay on it or switch to min till I’m older.

I haven’t seen stunted growth in the many years using it on men of 17 or older. I routinely prescribe finasteride for men over 17 with parents permission

Do juvenile hairlines start at the highest crease?

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

I’m 19 and started to notice my hairline change about a year ago and just today was trying to measure to see if it’s in the mature hairline category, I noticed everyone says that juvenile hairlines start from the highest forehead wrinkle, and I was wondering if this is always true because I have a picture of myself from when I was 10 or 11 with my hair slicked back so you can see my forehead very clearly and it really doesn’t look like my hairline starts where my highest forehead wrinkle is, idk maybe my highest forehead wrinkle is very faint and I can’t really see it but I even measured the ratio of my forehead to the rest of my face from that picture and from a picture now and if I measure from the center of my hairline my forehead is in the same proportion to the rest of my head in both pictures.

Yes, all juvenile hairlines start at the highest wrinkle of the furrowed brow, see this article which discusses hairlines in children, women and men as they develop: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/phenotype-article-published.pdf

Balding men and social abilities

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

Here is the study, I figured it was rather interesting. When people don’t know anything about us bald/balding folks they see us as less socially attractive than non bald dudes. But once they get to know us they actually find us MORE socially attractive than non-bald males.

Edit: Are half of  balding men retarded? Or just not reading the full post? The point here is that bald/balding men are MORE socially attractive than non-balding men from a perspective of SOCIAL attractiveness to people that know them. No one is saying the physical part is ground breaking information. Cheezits…

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037739/

There is not much for me to say than is said in the publication.

Does finasteride reverse frontal hair loss

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

Asking this because i believe fin is hardly doing anything to save my hairline at the moment. Its been a solid eight months only to have seen more recession and thinning. Let me know your guys experiences!

Finasteride works less well on hairlines that on the crown. There is, however, many examples of finasteride working on the hairline on my https://baldingblog.com/ site (this is the stie) so use the search engine to find examples.  See examples posted today,

Cannabis and finasteride may produce Erectile Dysfunction

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

https://www.mdlinx.com/article/1e6b2latTgUvynuzKJXaOd?utm_campaign=Day1_AM_IM070321&tag=Morning&ipost_environment=m3usainc&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email&iqs=9z2z8jeqpll7anqtdo6g6gd4h7o3s9dq9ctnvca36i0

A hair transplant doctor I know has noticed that some of her finasteride patients who started taking cannabis, has seen ED appearing. The article states: “What’s good for the goose may be bad for the gander. Specifically, marijuana use may cause erectile dysfunction in men. Of note, erectile dysfunction is the most frequent male sexual disorder.”  For men on finasteride and who are using marijuana and have sexual side effects, maybe there is a link that potentiates the ED in finasteride users.

brain fog and depression on finasteride

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

Is it true that fin really does alter people’s mental state (e.g depression) and altered their brain/cognitive functioning as well?

There does seem to be a small number of men who take finasteride and get depressed if they have a history of depression and there are reports of brain fog which has never been successfully explained. Brain fog or depression is a good reason not to be one finasteride.

17 and losing hair

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

History: dad went beyond any point of regrow the by the time he was age 22, and my older cousin who is that same age is pretty much bald at this point (he went from all hair to no hair within 2 years) I didn’t even think I was close to being the age where I had to consider hair loss until my 17th birthday (may 2020) when my dad suggested I begin using rogaine preventatively. As soon as he said this I went and analyzed my scalp for the first time, and sure enough I was starting to go bald on my crown. I started the Costco/samsclub rogaine and have been doing that since then. It seemed to start actually working about 2 months ago and I’m pretty sure it has been effective

You need a personalized Master Plan worked through a good hair doctor who cares about his patients. This is far too important to mange by yourself. Read this: https://baldingblog.com/go-why-do-we-need-a-master-plan/

16 and losing hair

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

Noticed my hairline has been receding since I turned 16 and since then it’s just got worse but wondering what treatment I am able to use the now for hair loss as I can’t take finasteride and if minoxidil will be affective long enough until I turn 18

See a good hair doctor and get real good advice from proper diagnosis and treatment. This is too important than to be your own doctor