If you used finasteride for a year and it slowed or stopped your hair loss and then you stopped the drug, you would play ‘catch-up’ hair loss and could lose all of the hair you would have lost while you were on the drug. Yes, if you used finasteride for a year and it slowed […]
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I wouldn’t worry about missing a few days of the medication. It generally takes weeks or months of consistently not taking Propecia for catch-up hair loss to be evident. There is tissue fixation at least for a week, if not more. Talk with you doctor regarding your medication and clinical decisions.
It’s possible that Propecia kept your hair loss from being worse than it is, but it’s also possible that you are a non-responder to the medication. I really have no way to know, as I don’t have any hair bulk analysis to compare before starting the medication and today. You can look into having a […]
Good thought, but finasteride does not block 100% of DHT… and DHT may not be the only factor here. More importantly, as much as your logic may seem true or make sense, in the real world catch-up hair loss from cessation of finasteride does not work that way based on many patients we have observed. […]
Catch up hair loss takes about 1 to 3 months after stopping Propecia. Hair loss will accelerate to “catch up” to the point where you would have been if you never had taken Propecia in the first place. You will NOT have more hair loss than if you’d never taken Propecia. The bulb at the […]
You cannot escape genetic balding. Hair has a normal life expectancy (see this post) so when the Propecia is withdrawn, the apototic process kicks in. Medications such as Propecia slow this process down by preserving or strengthening the dying miniaturized hairs (the hairs that are genetically programmed to die and fall out). When you no […]
Everything happens slowly in hair as it only grows at a rate of 1/2 inch per month. Much of the hair loss or reversal of it from drugs like Propecia (starting or stopping it) occurs in the 6 month time frame to be detectable. Usually, when you stop the drug and the drug was working […]
Propecia (finasteride 1mg) sustains scalp hairs that are genetically susceptible to falling out. It does this by a process of competitive inhibition. When the drug is no longer available, the DHT is manufactured by the body and it ‘attacks’ the hair follicle which is like turning off the ‘life’ switch of the dermal papilla cells […]
I don’t know why you would take a prescription hair loss treatment if you didn’t have signs of hair loss — or I guess the better question would be, why would a doctor prescribe it to you? Finasteride should not be used as a preventive medication; it should only be taken once hair loss is […]
How effective is finasteride at stopping hair loss? I am 19 and have a receding hairline but thankful I caught it early. Started finasteride and just wondering if it can stop hair loss all together Stopping hair loss with finasteride depends a great deal on your genetics. Finasteride can’t always stop your patterned hair loss […]
I have always assumed that a male will not recede from genetic balding without some hair loss somewhere on the scalp. This patient has challenged me as I hold this concept. I believe that both the frontal forelock (in some people) and the juvenile hairline in all men, have a different genetic makeup with regard […]
I have been on Finastride for over 5 years (1 mg/day), and during the past 2 years, I have been experiencing progressive thinning and hair loss on my stomach and chest. Although I am not confident this is related with a prolonged use of Finasteride, I will stop taking it for a while and see […]
I’m 29 and I was on Propecia & Minoxodil for almost eight years and I could save my hair till now but recently I am experiencing severe side effect from Propecia so I decided to stop it. I stopped Propecia two month ago and my hair is falling like rain! And I lost half of my hair in two month, what do […]
When people get reasonable results from finasteride and then stop it, they get what I call “Catch-up hair loss‘ which means that you lose not only the hair gain you got on the drug but all of the hair you would have lost had you not taken the drug. Hopefully 1 month may be enough […]
It is possible that you can lose hair after stopping Propecia for three weeks. It generally takes longer for “catch up” hair loss to occur. Catch up hair loss is basically the loss of your native hair that benefited from the use of Propecia.
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