My Diffuse Loss Has Regrown After 5 Months, But Do I Need to Continue Propecia?
I began to experience Propecia side effects about one month ago, and about two weeks ago stopped taking the drug. After two weeks without the drug the side effects had disappeared. My dermatologist told me to take Propecia every other day from now on to limit possible side effects. In addition to Propecia I am taking Procerin, applying Rogaine, and shampooing with Nizoral three times a week. I wrote in in February about diffuse hair loss through out my head; today you can hardly tell I lost any hair. I have been taking propecia since March 4.
My main question is if this drug could have provided such benefit in such a short time, and if not how can i be sure that I do not need it? As learned in my other question, I had been through very stressful times before the loss occured. I am 18 years old with no immediate family history of hair loss. On a side note, my temple points had seemed to be gone back in the winter, though now they are back in full.
It sounds like you are getting the response you need and want from Propecia (finasteride 1mg). You’ve been taking it since March, and so it’s entirely possible that you saw regrowth in that time from the medication.
I doubt that the other things you are using are helping as much, but that’s one of the risks in using a few products at once. You have no way of knowing which one is the most beneficial. Stopping the finasteride could result in losing the gains you’ve made… or things could maintain if the finasteride didn’t actually help you (for example: if your loss was temporary and related to stress). I have no way to know that for sure via the Internet, though.
You’re under the care of a doctor already, so you should be asking these questions to him/her. Regardless of how you regrew your hair, I’m pleased that you’re seeing success with your regrowth goal.
Finasteride can’t regrow hair!!!! It can slow down the loss, but it can’t reqrow hair! The doctor is confusing people again! Finasteride works by reducing dht’s effects on the follicle.
It seems that you’re the one that is confused. Finasteride does regrow hair in most men.
Are you the one that keeps on deleting my rebuttal? Explain it scientifically! How does finasteride work to regrow once apoptosis(cell death) has occured?
If you’re going to be belligerent in your responses, your comments will be deleted. Save the name calling for your own blog.
I’m not a doctor, but I don’t know that scientists are even completely sure how it occurs. I used Google and found this from the book titled Androgens in Health and Disease — “Finasteride treatment appears to decrease apoptosis of hair follicles by downregulating caspases and upregulating inhibitors of apoptosis.”
I was questioning your morality, because everything I have read indicates that once cell death occurs there is no regrowing. Fin cannot regrow hair. all it can do is slow down hair loss/cell death(apoptosis), but it can’t regrow hair. thats why fin does not improve the hair line because that is where cell death usually occurs first. it may seem like it does at times because of so many people who have sudden hairloss due to T.E. because of stress, dieting, allergies, etc, but that hair would have grown back anyways. how am i wrong. please don’t delete.