Does Finasteride Control Genetic Hair Loss or Not?
Dear Sir,
This is with reference to comment titled “Periodic Shedding from Finasteride?” in which you had mentioned that Finateride do NOT help to control genetic hair loss. I was impression that Finasteride helps to control the genetic hair loss by handling the DHT accumulation. If Finasteride do not help to control the genetic fall off, what exactly this drug is intended for? Request your advise to understand this better.
This is part of what I said in that post that you’re referring to:
“It is important to realize the the genetic hair loss has its own course, independent of the effects of the drug. What you think is shedding from finasteride, is probably more genetic hair loss. Hair loss goes in waves and cycles of loss (shedding) most likely due to your genetics, not the finasteride. You should discuss this with your prescribing doctor.”
To clarify, finasteride is not a magic pill that stops genetic hair loss. It decreases DHT production at the hair level to combat the DHT that facilities genetic hair loss. As a result, most men on the drug will have some hair growth or slowing of the hair loss. The main point here is that the genetic predisposition will continue and finasteride will carry you only so far.
Hi guys,
After going through many posts here on this site, I have obvserved the following:-
1) Many of us (including myself) have increased hair shedding / loss (I don’t know whether it is shedding only, meaning it will grow back later on or hair loss, meaning that it will grow back wearker and thinner and eventually die out) after consuming Finasteride.
2) The hair loss experts / doctors / administrators here on this site do not want to admit / accept the above fact for some reason best known to them only.
Come on doc, why would I or others lie about the shedding! We are not anti finasteride / minoxidil. We just want to gain our original hair back that was before taking the pills.
In other forums here, you have mentioned that it may be just that “genetic” balding may be catching up with the increased shedding and that it is not due to finasteride. But to me, it is too much of a coincidence that I began to lose 100+ hairs a day after consuming finasteride pills whereas earlier, I was only losing about 20 hairs a day.