Nice results from just 3 months on finasteride and minoxidil. It appears that the forelock which was miniaturized thickened up along with growth on the corner hairlines. It would have been great to have comparable photos
I would really appreciate your professional opinion on this matter: I have 10-12 kilograms of weight to lose. It’s been a long time since I did sports or any restriction on my diet. The reason of avoiding such dietary and physical stress is to avoid losing hair. Currently I am following a hair loss regime (since December 2019) that is giving me drastic regrowth of my MPB and is reversing it. However because of my overwhelming joy and care about that regrowth, I am afraid of such physical stresses will lead to more hair loss because of shock (TE) and Testosterone rise. What do you think of that? Am I taking it too far in overthinking it? If yes what kind of diet and physical exercises do you recommend?
Good exercise and a reasonably restrictive diet without starvation and with good nutrition will allow you to keep your hair while losing weight.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32622136/
Conclusion: Oral minoxidil was found to be an effective and well-tolerated treatment alternative for healthy patients having difficulty with topical formulations.
This 24 y/0 man was on finasteride and minoxidil for one year and reversed the miniaturized hairs in the forelock and filled in the area behind the forelock that was bare. The corners are still not present and if he wants a normal hairline, I suspect that only a hair transplant will do this
I am worried that they may be completely damaged. I am going to the dr next week, but am very anxious for answers. Any advise for regrowth?
If I were your doctor, I would want to know much more, like your sex, when it appeared, did you do anything to bring it on (dying your hair, use a hair straightener), has it happened before, etc.. I would look at is with a hand microscope to see if there are ‘Exclamation hairs” present. Summing it up, I am happy to see that you are going to a doctor
24 y.o., just took the plunge with half a tablet of 1mg fin
You should get metrics so you know the impact of your treatment. get a HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ) and then repeat it yearly to see if you are getting better or worse. You don’t want to gamble with your future hair coverage. Why not use the recommended 1mg dose which is the most effective dose of finasteride?
Finasteride doesn’t impact the change from a juvenile to a mature hairline because those hairs in the juvenile hairline have a limited number of cycles and are destined to die off (apoptosis). The only way to get your juvenile hairline back is to get a hair transplant to put it back.
This is an old wives tale. It is the hair that generate the blood supply. The human body is smart and supplies blood and oxygen to needing tissues. We see that when balding occurs and the hair is lost on some area of the head, the blood flow to the balding area slows down proportional to the loss of hair.
There is a condition called Trichotillomania which is a good possible diagnosis. See a dermatologist who will look at it with a hand microscope called trichoscope and make the diagnosis for you. If it is chronic picking that you did that caused it, it may not return. You will know if you can stop picking it, give it 4-6 months and you will know if it is permanent of not.
People who have trichotillomania are not candidates for a hair transplant because they just will pick off the new hair, so many hair transplant surgeons don’t treat this condition surgically unless the underlying problem of picking is solved
The question I would ask if he really received 8874 grafts in two sessions? A failure of this magnitude reflects a very poor delivery organization for hair transplants. The hairline itself is designed as a female hairline, not I suspect what he thought he was going to get
I’ve been on fin for about 6 months now, and haven’t really seen much positive difference. However I am noticing that when I run my hands through my hair I get less loose hairs out, although I also got a haircut recently. My question is, how many loose hairs do you generally get when doing these actions? I get around 20-25 in the shower overall, and between 0-3 when running my hands in my hair/ scratching my scalp.
The average person loses 100-150 hairs per day and a vigorous shower is a good place for a lot of it
Pretty much all of the original fin studies looked at men who were like 55, or 62. When you look at 55 or 62 year olds, over half of them have ED and low libido due to atherosclerosis and dropping hormones, so no wonder they wouldn’t notice a difference with fin.
That is because the drug finasteride (Proscar) was first developed for prostate problems and that doesn’t occur in men under 55 years old as a general rule. Erectile Dysfunction (ED) is relatively common in men over 55 with a frequency as high as 50% of men, so if these men take finasteride (Proscar which has 5mgs of finasteride in it for prostate hypertrophy), then their ED is reported in the studies of these men.
If you are getting benefits from these medications, the benefits will eventually reach their maximal hair results and will plateau. Make sure that you stay on these medications or you will lose what you got
I’m on topical minoxidil and oral finasteride and still shedding for a year. I am thinking about switching to dutasteride and oral minoxidil. What do you think?
It might be worth a try as it sounds like the genetic hair loss is out of control
Before pictures
After 6 months
This is an outstanding result in just 6 months for a tight hairline on just 2.5mg oral minoxidil/day
For more information, read this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32622136/