Great result from the combined use of finasteride and minoxidil
I met with one of my patients this week who completed the entire hair transplant restoration. He is a successful businessman and told me that the impact on his life was enormous. He had spent too much time trying to hide his balding, using Toppik and combovers which never were good enough to hide it. Since his two hair transplant procedures were complete, he never had to think about his hair and his life returned as he had hoped. He said he never realized how much time and emotion went into his hair loss and now the nightmare is over. His business focus caused his business to significantly uptick.
So do I buy hair transplant or college intuition I’m 18 and have male pattern baldness
So do I buy hair transplant or college intuition I’m 18 and have male pattern baldness. There are a lot of approaches to hold on to your hair at 1 years of age and these work well. A transplant is a hopeless last resort after the age of 26
Some providers believe that large dots make for good SMP, so terribly wrong. Whoever did this had no plan or any Aesthetic concept of how SMP is supposed to work. Anyone can see this on a man’s crown. When you are going to get SMP, ask to meet some of the provider’s patients and you will know if that person’s work meets your expectations before you take the plunge
Due to hairfall my scalp is visible in my temple area. Rest all is fine. Should i go for fin and min treatment?
Lighting, a short hair cut and straight hair can produce what you are showing. If you had your hair cut to the same length in the past with the same lighting and it was different, then maybe it is hair loss. Before you start a lifetime treatment for hair loss, see a doctor and find out if you have genetic balding first.
Although you did not pull your hair back, it looks like the hairline is close to the highest crease of the furrowed brow meaning that it has not receded yet to a mature position. If you want a more exacting answer from me, show me a photo, full frontal face, with your hair pulled back and your eyebrows lifted high so that the forehead shows. This will give me an anatomic reference for where your hairline belongs.
This man has had an excellent early response for crown balding in just 3.5 months. As time goes on, it should only get better
You are a good example of a man who is sensitive to either finasteride or minoxidil or both. Congrats!
There is so much fear mongering around it, but the chances are so slim that you will ever have permenant side effects. It will honestly take such a weight off your shoulders knowing your hair loss has been halted or at least significantly slowed. So just take it already, forget about your hair loss and live.
Life is too short to spend every second worrying about your hair. It is one aspect of who you are. Even if fin/dut doesn’t work for you all it means is a different haircut. And if anyone doesn’t like you for being bald then cut them out of your life.
Assuming that Post finasteride syndrome is real, I advise patient that if they get sexual side effects, to stop the medication. The alternative oral minoxidil is a reasonable choice followed by topical finasteride.
I’ve had intense shock loss that seems to have accelerated the balding; I’m now noticeably thin much farther up my hairline than pre-op. There’s minimal growth and this past week the native shed accelerated.
Shock loss usually occurs in men under 35 and only on the first surgery because it kicks out miniaturized hairs. If after a year a second surgery is done, shock loss often doesn’t happen. Shock loss can be prevented by the use of finasteride in most cases.
Sometimes I get a decent amount of hair in my brush or when applying product to my hair, and I get worried that I’m accelerating any balding I have.
If you brush a little rough and tug some hair out, will it grow back? I would think that it should, since the follicle it came from is still alive, right?
With vigorous brushing, you can pull out the miniaturized hairs that might not come back. For styling, use a large toothed comb or brush and that produces the least damage
Thats what i thought too, 5mg was too Much. Im guessing the decrease in dosage won’t affect any hair gains ive made? Currently on my 6th month, just coming off of a shed. I am now taking 2.5mg daily.
The original Merck studies showed that increasing dosage above 1mg, didn’t have an impact on hair growth. The higher dose might increase side effects.
i had hope that maybe back/ shoulder hair has their own cycle and might go to telogen and the hypertrichosis would go away then
All hairs eventually go into telogen and others that are in telogen now will come out into anagen. The minoxidil will impact the new anagen hairs as well
Should I look for PRP to address this problem? I am 17 years old, too young to have this much hair loss and I am panicking.
Your best bet would be to go on finasteride as you are in the age range where this drug might reverse the process. Adding minoxidil will also help. PRP is expensive and is not predictable with little to no benefits on the frontal hairline
During clinical trials, hair loss was seen in somewhere between 1/100 to 1/1,000 participants, so yes it can but it is not commonly found in most people