If I say on the minoxidil, will my body hair keep growing longer, like 10 cm? That is scary…

Body hair rarely grows that long because it undergoes telogen at about 6-8 months and falls out, only to regrow after. Telogen is the sleep phase and in all hair follicles go through it. These body hairs may stay in the sleep phase for up to 6 months before a new hair appears crating a new beginning of its new anagen hair cycling.

Will the hypertrichosis caused by minoxidil stop at one time if I stop minoxidil, Or will the unwanted hair all over the body keep growing longer and darker if I keep taking minoxidil? Here in France, no doctor have knowledge about this issue….

If you are getting hypertrichosis with minoxidil, then as long as you take the drug, it will continue. When you stop it, the hypertrichosis should go away in a matter of months

Is it normal to shed initially on 5AR inhibitors or should I stop immediately once I’ve noticed initial shedding? Is it a tell-tale sign I shouldn’t be taking it? (I’m going to be trialing saw palmetto as of next week  I ask because the drug pamphlet of finasteride doesn’t mention initial shedding as an expected occurence at all, nor could I find any studies saying it’s normal to shed on finasteride

Shedding has not been a common report with my patients but I would suggest that you continue it as the shedding should stop in time.

 

Then why not shave it until you get the progress you are after with medication?  It’s not going to limit my progress and I will look way better in the mean time. My hair looks pretty bad right now…. its not attractive, That’s the truth. If you don’t care, then great….but if I didn’t care why would I be so invested in regrowing it.  Shaving it might take some of the fear away from being bald too.  Should I consider a hair transplant?  I’m 22 years old.

Some men are satisfied with balding and shave their heads for a Bolder look. Today this is more than acceptable, it is common. Alternatively, you can get Scalp Micropigmentation instead of a hair transplant which gives them the look of a full shaved head of hair, but it is not hair, it just looks that way and the look is good and as you get older, you can then do a hair transplant if that is something you are thinking about (see my website main page: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/.

I saw 2 different cardiologists this week to ask them about taking low dose oral minoxidil. Kevin Mann scared the shit out of me with his videos on it. My dermatologist prescribed me 1.25mg per day.

The 2 cardiologists that I saw:

Dr. Vu Hoang, MD FACC

Dr. Rohit Bhuriya, MD FACC

I asked each doctor if I needed to worry about the following oral minoxidil side effects at low doses:

1. Thrombocytopenia (reduction in platelet count)

2. Leukocytopenia (low white blood cell count)

3. EKG alterations in T wave

4. Pericardial effusion (layer of water around the heart)

5. Pericarditis

6. LVH (Left Ventricular Hypertrophy)

I went through the above 6 side effects with both docs and both said there is no need to worry about any of these sides at such a low dose. I then asked the doctors what they consider to be a high dose of oral minoxidil. They said high dose = 5mg twice a day. I asked if 5mg once a day was high, they said they would also consider it to be high. So stay with 2.5mg per day or 1.25mg per day.

I hope this post will help people like me who were terrified of trying oral minoxidil. I already had several people on reddit telling me they were taking low doses with no issues but I really needed to hear it from a doctor to be sure.

One of the above docs also suggested taking oral minoxidil before bed. This way in case your bp drops low and you experience light headedness or feeling of fainting, it won’t be an issue because you’ll already be lying down. It’s more problematic if you take it in the morning.

I will be starting 1.25mg daily and will report back after a few months.

https://www.hairlosslearningcenter.org/topic/does-the-grow-band-actually-stop-hair-loss/3318

None of this makes any sense. I guess PT Barnum said it right: There is a sucker born every minute

I’m 23 with a Norwood 5 is it possible I never in my life reach Norwood 7? can I stop at a Norwood 5 or 6?

I would have to examine your donor fringe area to see if there is miniaturization around the fringe indicating a Class 6 or 7 pattern. Also, at age 23, the pattern may not have declared itself. As you get older, you may find that pattern emerging, see here: https://baldingblog.com/need-master-plan-think-hair-transplants-photos/.  Also the HAIRCHECK test is a valuable test to predict hair loss patterns before you can see them here: https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/. The advantage of this approach is that you buy time, time to see where your end balding pattern will develop, time to develop the money to do it right when you have a job that is secure, time to work through a Personalized Master Plan in tying to get your hair back while you wait with medications and possible microneedling.  Rushing only depletes your donor area way before you are ready.