Every person who has genetic balding will find progression of it as they get older, that is, until their genetic inherited pattern is reached. Finasteride slows down this process but doesn’t stop it.
I was just diagnosed with androgenetic alopecia at 33 years of age. My dermatologist told me that there are treatments available, but opened with the disclaimer that none of them will ever stop the progress of the condition, only slow it. I took home some minoxidil today and just based on quick searches, it seems like it’s super effective? Am I misinterpreting what my dermatologist told me? Is it more that, the underlying condition will continue to get worse, but I can mask it as long as I use a treatment? Also, the minoxidil I’m using is a spray. The application is pretty messy. When I spray, it seems like way too much liquid and the excess tends to run down my face. Should I spray further away or am I supposed to just get better at targeting? Also, if excess spray is constantly running down my face, will that cause weird growth or does minoxidil not work that way?
The best way to use minoxidil is with a dropper, placing it directly on the scalp. Part the hair as it is applied and what you want is the medication on the scalp, not the hair. Best to do it at night, after a hot shower when the scalp will absorb more of the minoxidil and then wash it off in the morning. This way you can use it just once a day.
The best instrument to quantify your hair loss is the HAIRCHECK instrument test. Find a doctor who has one and this will give you an accurate measurement to determine what your status is. See here: https://baldingblog.com/19-year-old-parent-told-not-balding-according-haircheck/
At 33, drugs rarely work to restore the hair. Hair transplants, on the other hand, work very well. You should also research hair transplant doctors.
I’ve been on the Fin and Minox for about a year and a half now. I wasn’t aware of the brain fog side effect of Fin until a few days ago when I researched it, I’ve been struggling with bad brain fog for the past year. I feel dissociated, tired, weak, and like my brain is working at 50% capacity. I chalked this up to me going through a tough time in my personal life but I’m past all of that and the brain fog is still there. I’ve been taking 1.25 mg and I just recently started cutting those in half, so about .625 mg daily before bed. For those who have/had brain fog what would you recommend here to reduce or get rid of brain fog?
If you are one of the few that get ‘Brain Fog’ from finasteride, then stop the drug. We have known that there are central nervous symptoms caused by finasteride since the original research was done, although it was very infrequent.
People who develop minoxidil dependent hair will lose that hair if they stop the minoxidil. The same is true for finasteride. That decision, of course, is yours.
Lady here who’s been on Min and Fin for a year now, how do I quit? from tressless
A Norwood Class 6 can have a hair transplant. I have done hundreds of transplants on Class 6 and 7 patients with great results. Research some doctors and make sure that you meet some of their patients. We hold Open House events every month where former patients come in so people like you can see the results for themselves. Your donor supply needs to be assessed to determine what you can accomplish and a good surgeon can do this.
No, every person has a genetic code for a particular balding pattern if they have genetic balding. These people bald to that genetic pattern only and then stop balding.
I personally trained Dr. Diep and he along with other good doctors are capable of performing hair transplants (even FUE) on mix races without difficulty because they are well trained. I have been doing FUE on mix races for longer than any doctor in the world as I pioneered the FUE.
I tell eveyone of my patients about PFS as a remote risk that they take if they go on finasteride. I am also quick to address the earliest symptom of ED so I have never seen this in the 20,000 or so prescriptions I have written despite the fact that I have seen ED in about 2-4% of my patients. Doctors who believe that this is a real syndrome tell me that they don’t see it because they tell their patients to stop the medication with the appearance of ED.
The first patient on the left has 1505 grafts and the patient on the right had 700 grafts. Note that both patients don’t look like that had a surgery and there are no crusts (scabs) present as each were washed off the day of and the day after the surgery. These photos were taken less than 24 hours after their hair transplants.
I would like to know-does pumpkin seed lower dht level all over the body or just from the scalp?c an topical application of it mean dht will only be lowered from the scalp?
To our knowledge, this is the first randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to investigate the efficacy and tolerability of PSO in men with mild to moderate AGA. This study shows that PSO supplement during 24 weeks has a positive anabolic effect on hair growth and that this is due to the possible effects of 5-reductase inhibition in patients with mild to moderate male pattern hair loss. The authors concluded: “this double-blinded study did involve 76 subjects and, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, is the first study to examine the long-term efficacy of PSO on AGA. The study shows that PSO could improve AGA and that it should be considered a potential alternative treatment. However, replication will be needed in order to confirm the results of this first-stage study and additional studies are required to elucidate the mechanism responsible for the positive effects of PSO on AGA.”
Ref: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2014; 2014: 549721.
Published online 2014 Apr 23. doi: 10.1155/2014/549721
PMCID: PMC4017725
PMID: 24864154
Effect of Pumpkin Seed Oil on Hair Growth in Men with Androgenetic Alopecia: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
I don’t know what the usual experience is for NW6+, or what the success rate is, or if my progress is going to just fade away one day soon, but as long as it keeps coming back im gonna keep doin what im doin. Has anyone else seen recovery from NW6+? are there limits to regrowth potential? I’m thinking in another 6-12 months if I can keep what I have or get a little more that I will consult a hair doctor and see what my options are as far as FUE/FUT to maybe get me back to a full short haircut. That may still be a pipe dream. Worst case I go back to buzzin.
Amazing results already in just 6 months so stay the course.
The FUE wounds were washed well and they almost closed in the first 24 hours after the surgery, as shown in the attached photo
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/alan-j-bauman/hair-loss-treatment_b_3039650.html