Do you have photos when the blow dryer burned you? To have had long term damage, there should have been a significant skin burn. This looks like male patterned balding to me from this photograph
The results show that the hair is returning. You may find that it will not grow very long of as in some finasteride users, reverse the process. Wait another year and then see if you can get length on it. Consider adding minoxidil and possibly microneedling to the area. Look this combination up on this website (see search bar) and see some amazing results with the combination of finasteride, minoxidil and microneedling.
There is a lot that is not known about microneedling. In theory, once you get the hair growing and healthy, you might be able to stop it and then wait a full hair cycle before worrying if the hair will fall out or not. Alternatively, you can significantly reduce the amount of microneedling like once a month or once every other month just to keep the stimulus there. IF any reader has more information about this, I would like to hear from them. Transplants go much needler than the microneedle so scarring should not be a problem, in theory.
These photos, although not identical ‘shots’ does show movement towards reversal. More time and better photography should be dramatic.
Terrific result from use of the dermaroller potentiated with topical minoxidil use.
It doesn’t. If you only lose “some” of your hair, doesn’t mean you won’t lose anymore. Just means your hair loss hasn’t advanced to that point yet.
Of course it exists. I have a mature hairline and had balding in my crown which I treated with a hair transplant so now I am just a normal hairy guy.
I’m 21 and I’ve used minoxidil in the past (foam and liquid), but it was just too much of a hassle to apply consistently so I never saw any gains. Has anyone here used oral minoxidil with good results?
Oral minoxidil can be effective for male patterned hair loss. For many years, poorer countries have been using it successfully for male patterned hair loss before finasteride was released in their country. In India, for example, many people couldn’t afford Propecia and genetic finasteride wasn’t available so oral minoxidil was the only drug for hair loss.
My dutasteride ran out on september 25th, so its been almost 2 months. My libido hasnt gotten any better since then. Considering the halph life of 5 weeks, i should have some significantly higher libido now. But i dont. I was okay with having no libido for a time, but sooner or later i would prefer it to come back.
There is no way to predict the reversal of sexual side effects on Dutasteride. I would hope that within 2-3 months the drug will be completely out of your system
This may not be thinning. If a person with an average hair thickness was to bundle all of the hair (like a pony tail) on the head, it would make a circle about 1/2 inch thick. Now spread that out all over the scalp, and that is the coverage one gets. Short hair, a bright flash and straight hair can make a normal person look like this. To find out if you are balding, a HAIRCHECK test will tell you that (see here: https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/)
So I started fin about 10 months ago. The last two months i’ve started to notice a lot of new hairs sprouting at the front of my hairline and it has moved forward a considerable amount. The only problem is that behind my hairline, the hair in front has only begun shedding more and is now very thin. Can I expect my hair to fill in where I see regrowth, or will I likely only maintain or lose more density?
It is hard to predict what will happen. Give it a full 18 months and then you will know
AT 19 years old, you should be fully grown and not see an impact of finasteride on your height.
I had a patient stand on his head for two hours a day for 6 months to get more circulation to his scalp. He did 1 hour in the morning and one hour in the evening. He still developed progressive balding and did not grow any hair. I ended up transplanting him and he was quite happy.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-80624-3.epdf
This article is highly technical and discusses hair cycling and identified some of the mechanisms for this process.
I’m sorry to disturb you with this message, but I’m really confused about something and I was out of options… I have been using Minoxidil for more than 9 months and finasteride for 8. I have read somewhere that I could never stop minoxidil because I started it before Finasteride and so that my hair was already dependent on its effect and that finasteride would not really work well too because of it. Is that true ?
I’m sorry if my question is stupid… Have a good day, Sir.
There is a lot of confusion out there. Minoxidil develops minoxidil dependent hairs when it works. Finasteride reverses miniaturization and possibly brings back the hairs when it is almost gone. These are independent so one can be used without the other although the two are complementary to each other.
Before i started fin my hair was okay, diffuse thinning but i could hide it really well. After i got on fin, my hair got way worse, especially after a month of using it. People started making comments, stuff i never used to hear. I started thinking the drug was making my hair worse. Now i’m 2 and a half months in, and my hair is sooo much better. I don’t even have to try to hide my hair anymore, or do any special hair styles to hide my thinning. I’m excited to see what my hair will look like 6 months in. Don’t lose hope
The key with this drug is persistence. Stay the course and most people see value either with slowing the hair loss, stopping it and occasionally reversing the hair loss