Using 30% Minoxidil
I asked this questin eariler but got no response- I am a 21 year old male and have been using 30% minoxidil for a month now cause of severe thinning all over. Are the new hairs that are suppose to be growing in vellus hairs or are they going to be terminal hairs. In addition are new hairs unaffected by MPB and untreated by any drug or anything say in the back of the head thinner and lighter in color as they emerge through the scalp or are they regular terminal hairs? In addition is it possible for miniturization to occur all over the head or only in areas affected by MPB. Thanks
I also have noted some patients reporting hair loss after starting minoxidil. While the exact mechanism is not understood, it is thought that hair cycle is “reset†as you start using minoxidil. So the hair follicle is accelerated to a telogen (hair loss) phase as it gets ready to go into the anagen (growth) phase. If you use minoxidil on your arm, for example, it will produce vellus hair. A 30% solution is high, so be careful for side effects, which will be more common.
I have used 30% minoxidil once a day for almost 11 years straight in the evening. I was able to get 90% of my hair back when I lost my crown in 1996 but I began using 2% minoxidil summer 1997 (twice a day) and 3 months later I went to 5% minoxidil twice a day, than in early 1998, I went to 10% gel formula than Spring 1998, I went to 12.5% minoxidil gel and by summer I went to 15% gel minoxidil and than early winter in 1999 I went to 20% cream formula and then by late summer 1999, I want to 30% minoxidil cream. I even want to my own doctor and also went to my cardiologist too, they did not seemed to be concerned and I never had any heart issues either. Every watch in minoxidil solutions when I upgraded stronger, went through a shedding phase and hair would grow thicker each solution strength. When I got to the 20% and the 30% minoxidil creams that’s when my hai really began to grow and feel in, along with 1mg Proscar once daily too.
Today in 2010, I am still using the 30% minoxidil cream but I don’t use it 2 a day anymore, I only use it at night, just enough to put a dab on my index finger and rub it on, it is none messy and you can sleep with it on unlike the other solution, you hair feels sticky with the gels and Xandex solutions, they were terrible but they did up start the process so I could slowly work up the ladder but going from 2% to 5% to 10% to 12.5% to 15% to 20% to 30%, that is the best way to use the minoxidil chart ladder. You also have to allow 4 to 5 months on each solution so you can see the shedding phases through each solution and start the next as you need to see if the shedding is work so new hair forms. If you shed and grow new hair then the solutions work.
Began the 2% with Rogaine and I use the 5% with Dr. Lee and Rogaine again, when I went to 10%, 12.5%, 20% and 30% I bought them from Community Drug but now it is called Murray Avenue Apothecary in Pittsburgh, PA.
But the other thing I like since 30% is so spread able I can use one 60ml tube in almost a year, it costs me less money than the other solutions where you have to buy 60ml each month. Oh course I still use a 5% in the morning which I didn’t for 6 years as the Proscar weakens after 7 years of use, I decided to add the morning 5% which helps the weaken Proscar even though I still use it and I am glad I never went through using Avadart which is harmful.
Anyway that is my story. YOu can try anything you want but they are so many guys who don’t go higher than 15% and after 2 years that have nothing more as once you reached the limit that strength can do, you have to go stronger to achieve the next level to get more hair. I mean I could go 40% or 50% minoxidil cream but I don’t need it, I am fine with the 30%, it works for me.
I you have a pharmist, and if they can compound the minoxidil cream that ask but really you need a pharmacy that knows what they’re doing and has been making it for years. You don’t have to buy from Murray Avenue Apothecary but they seemed to know how just to make it for me.
Bottom line I have no side effects and I go to the doctor for check up 3 to 4 times a year. I am 42 years old and I am healthy as a whisle. Good luck if you more up the ladder to try stronger. I have even gone to Dr. Lee who original proscribed the 20% and 30% minoxidil back in 1999 and I reported to him they worked. Even though Dr. Lee makes his own formula’s he does understand that stronger has helped some patients and I am one of them.
Sincerely.
Yes the 30% minoxidil cream is effective! it works well much better than 15% minoxidil does. You need the extra strength to grow more hair, takes about 6 months to get results and continues to get thicker
Murray Avenue Apothecary from Pittsburgh is the only place I can order it from because it’s a pharmacy that makes it directory as the famous hair guru Dr. Richard Lee pointed out they are the only pharmacy that knows how to exactly use minoxidil without it crystallizing in their formula, that’s an important thing.
After my frustrations with using 15% for many years I needed more and came across some hair forum discussions over the 30% minoxidil cream formula. I gave it try and waited to see if it was it effective as it works. I wish there were other places to make the stuff since I think it is important for people to know that 30% is more effective than 15% to get the word out. No heart problems either as I visited my doctor and everything is fine to use 30%
The 30% is still showing more results so I look forward to using it more to stay on it