My Identical Twin Brother’s Hair Has Thinned Less Than Mine, But I Have More Stress
Hello Doctor,
I’m a 25 year old male- who has an identical twin brother. We’ve both had shoulder length hair for about 10 years.
In the past year I’ve noticed my hair around my temples and sides thinning out a lot, and noticing my scalp more after a shower. The hair on my crown has also thinned out a bit but not as bad, and the hair on the top feels much less dense and thick than the hair at my sides and back of my head, even though I have fine hair. My brother’s hair has thinned out less, but I do stress more than he does.
I finally plucked up the courage to see my doctor who gave me topical rogaine 5% and proscar 5mg to be divided into 4 (rather than propecia due to cost).
Is it safe to take the two together? And is it ok to take proscar instead of propecia?I’d very much appreciate your advice as I’m a bit embarrassed to ask my doctor this.
We have known for years that stress accelerates the impact on balding for genetic hair loss. Your brother may eventually catch up with you, as you both age further.
It is perfectly safe to use Rogaine and finasteride at the same time, and splitting a Proscar pill into 4 pieces is equivalent to taking Propecia.
Doctor, you keep mentioning that stress impacts Genetic hairloss, and im sure it might in a way, but I emailed a lot of hair transplant Doctors, and even dermatologist and they said stress doesn’t make genetic hair loss worse in men. They say stress usually causes hairloss in women rather than men and its very rare for stress to impact the speed of genetic hairloss in men. A few Doctors said it might cause telegen effluvium but it will grow back. An these are all prominent Doctors I emailed from the ISHRS website. Especially if a guy is on propecia stress can do nothing. But overall its better to be stress free as it can help with the overall body and not damage other organs.
There’s no guarantee that teflogen effluvium will 100% definitely grow back. I’d say its fairly logical that profound stress that causes hair loss in already weakened hair is going to speed up balding.
the stress that usually might cause the weakened hair to lose is stress from not eating properly, not enough nutrients to the body, etc