https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609098/
Conclusion: Preliminary results on the use of topical FNS are limited but safe and promising. Continued research into drug-delivery, ideal topical concentration and application frequency, side effects and use for other alopecias will help to elucidate the full extent of topical FNS’ use.
Look at the arrows pointing to the miniaturized hairs. The diagnosis is determined when the miniaturized count significantly exceeds 20% of the total hairs. That is not the case here, so I can assume that you do not have DUPA. I hope you are relieved.
Is there any lived experience, or any study, suggesting that you can experience hair fall if you wash your hair in hard water? I understand hard water as the type of naturally available water from a well or a pond that has a higher level of minerals. I am asking because I saw an ad for a hard water filter for shower heads.
No. Hard water doesn’t cause hair loss. Genes working with your DHT causes hair loss
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
These results are spectacular and it seems that he only missed the kitchen sink.
Amazing response in just 6 weeks from oral minoxidil and oral finasteride. I expect that in 6 months, you might have your hair back. It would have been nice to see more pictures of you from different angles.
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
The picture is worth 1000 words, finasteride worked for this Asian man. Read this article on Asian men with hair loss: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057731/
Very nice partial restoration of the corner hairline. Keep it up and it may get better
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…
There is not much for me to say than is said in the publication.
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,
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.
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.
