I have no idea if compounding finasteride myself is the way to go and if it does anything. The only objectively sure thing is that I have experienced no side effects so far. But I also have no results in the 3 weeks since I started this self made drug and it is a real hassle making it myself.
Maybe with no results, what you did to make your own topical finasteride is not working. There is a reason that compounding pharmacies do this, they have expertise that you don’t have
This might be too early for an update since I’ve only been taking them for a week. But I just wanted to add my experience if it can be helpful, since side effects for these make themselves known within a week of starting treatments.
I started taking 0.5mg of oral Finasteride tablets and 2.5mg oral Minoxidil tablets every morning since last week.
Currently have no side effects to speak of except for a mild sore right arm around lunch time that went away after a couple hours. I think that was from the “swelling” that Minoxidil might sometimes cause. My wife says it might not be even connected.
This may be a very effective treatment for men with balding. I rarely prescribe both oral drugs on the same patient but I have recently been doing so.
The age of 19, is a good time to start finasteride if you are really balding early. Make sure that this is the case by getting the diagnosis from an expert doctor, so you don’t get hooked for life on a drug you wouldn’t need if you do not have Male Pattern Badling
The point is there’s no need to reinforce this belief that everybody needs to have hair. That mentality obviously benefits the hair loss industry. Some guys can’t get over the fact that they’re losing their hair and will go to far lengths to preserve whatever they can. But there’s no shame in being bald and if your hair is a main source of self esteem, I recommend taking steps to fix that because nice hair won’t get you that far in life.
Hair loss has been important throughout the ages. From a historical perspective, hair loss was very common in the cities when TB ran wild. That was why a woman looked for a hairy man to qualify a man as a prospective husband. If a man lost his hair, the presumption was that they had TB and would probably die from it, not living long enough to provide family support for the long term. This created a lot of myths that have stayed with us in one way or another today. It is also imporant to know that the hair restoration business will hit $30 Billion for 2025, now at something like $6+ Billion and the hair cosmetics industry is today over $20 Billion and growing fast to make you WANT to not be bald. This is the power of money today because if you retain the bald look, no one can make money from you, its free!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609098/
Conclusion: Preliminary results on the use of topical FNS are limited but safe and promising. Continued research into drug-delivery, ideal topical concentration and application frequency, side effects and use for other alopecias will help to elucidate the full extent of topical FNS’ use.
Look at the arrows pointing to the miniaturized hairs. The diagnosis is determined when the miniaturized count significantly exceeds 20% of the total hairs. That is not the case here, so I can assume that you do not have DUPA. I hope you are relieved.
Is there any lived experience, or any study, suggesting that you can experience hair fall if you wash your hair in hard water? I understand hard water as the type of naturally available water from a well or a pond that has a higher level of minerals. I am asking because I saw an ad for a hard water filter for shower heads.
No. Hard water doesn’t cause hair loss. Genes working with your DHT causes hair loss
I am an 18 year old, turning 19 in a month who’s been on fin since December 12th and was wondering if it will stunt my growth. I’m not sure if I’ve stopped growing but in the past year I went to the A&E twice for unrelated reasons and realized that between those two visits, the latest being on NYE, I had grown a few cm according the nurses measurements. Is there any chance fin could stunt my growth and if I should stay on it or switch to min till I’m older.
I haven’t seen stunted growth in the many years using it on men of 17 or older. I routinely prescribe finasteride for men over 17 with parents permission
These results are spectacular and it seems that he only missed the kitchen sink.
Amazing response in just 6 weeks from oral minoxidil and oral finasteride. I expect that in 6 months, you might have your hair back. It would have been nice to see more pictures of you from different angles.
I’m 19 and started to notice my hairline change about a year ago and just today was trying to measure to see if it’s in the mature hairline category, I noticed everyone says that juvenile hairlines start from the highest forehead wrinkle, and I was wondering if this is always true because I have a picture of myself from when I was 10 or 11 with my hair slicked back so you can see my forehead very clearly and it really doesn’t look like my hairline starts where my highest forehead wrinkle is, idk maybe my highest forehead wrinkle is very faint and I can’t really see it but I even measured the ratio of my forehead to the rest of my face from that picture and from a picture now and if I measure from the center of my hairline my forehead is in the same proportion to the rest of my head in both pictures.
Yes, all juvenile hairlines start at the highest wrinkle of the furrowed brow, see this article which discusses hairlines in children, women and men as they develop: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/phenotype-article-published.pdf
The picture is worth 1000 words, finasteride worked for this Asian man. Read this article on Asian men with hair loss: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057731/
Very nice partial restoration of the corner hairline. Keep it up and it may get better
