How Is it Even Possible for Finasteride to Worsen or Accelerate a Receding Hairline?
Some claim that finasteride has, overtime, worsened and accelerated their receding hairlines. Is this medically possible? Or is what they’re seeing just a result of aggressive MPB that hasn’t responded to the drug?
Thanks!
I do not know why finasteride would worsen hair loss. It is a drug treatment that slows down hair loss. Finasteride does not work well on frontal hairlines, but this does not mean it makes it worse. Perhaps in the process of slowing down the top/crown area drastically with not much effect on the front hairline, the overall perception may seem as if the front is worsening faster. I really do not know, though. This is just my speculation.
Wait, so for example just say I had chronic myeloid leukemia – I take the latest treatment to slow it down (note like propecia not a cure, a treatment that may delay acute phases for years or even decades) but after a year I still get an enlarged spleen. Do I then say the treatment caused my spleen to enlarge? Or do I suggest that the leukemia caused it and the treatment was simply less effective for me in that area?
paul is right, but some people say the hairline is sensitive to testosterone. but then if that were true, the pseudohermaphrodites that were being studied all had noramal levels of testosterone, and alpha reductase 1(which implies they had little dht) and still no hair loss or even hairline recession.