Are Men Retaining Hair with Propecia for Over a Decade?

First I want to thank you for this wonderful site which is really interesting and a genuine source of information about androgenetic alopecia. I am from latinoamerica and its really difficult here to find any good information about this.

I have read that you have a lot of patients who have been taking Finasteride for over a decade and succeeded in maintaining most of their hair. My question is: do these people still (today) maintain their hair, almost 12 years later?

There are many men who have been taking Propecia (finasteride) and have maintained their hair for the 12 years it has been on the market. And some for even longer than that. Propecia itself has been available since 1997, but the drug finasteride was being prescribed for off-label use (it was a prostate treatment initially) for years prior to that to treat hair loss… much in the same way Avodart (dutasteride) has been.

It’s really unique for each patient, though. Will you retain all of your results for the next dozen years if you take the medication? I have no idea.