I’m 23 and it’s happening. I’ve always had a poor hairline but now it’s thinning. And quickly (6 months and it’s gotten worse). Money is no object. Are these crappy hairpieces or are they indiscernible from the real deal? Do you shave the rest of your head for them? How do they work? How do you clean them? I want to do it early enough with my current hairstyle so no one can tell. I’m not keen on the medication or rolling.

Be aware that hair systems need to be attached, so most use glues to hold them to your shaved scalp. This causes traction alopecia and more hair loss so most men who make the switch to hair system end up on them for life as their hair loss always gets worse, often from the hair systems themselves.

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 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!

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.

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.

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.

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/