Dr. Tony Ruston has a wonderful sense of humor as shown by his preparation for opening up his hair transplant center in Brazil. He is also one of Brazil’s great hair transplant surgeons.
I take Anti-depressants for more than 6 years now, and I’ve always had low libido and erection quality so when I decided to take Finasteride for my hair I didn’t really care about the sexual sides that much anyway… However, I have to say that my libido and sexual enjoyment has improved a lot after starting to take Finasteride.
There is little doubt that feeling more confident about the management of your hair, and possibly some bump on your sexual drive (seen in some men) helped you.
I started balding when I was 14 (yes 14), my hair was miniaturising on one side so I used minoxidil until I was 18, (which helped) But even when I was 17, one of my friends noticed that my crown was thinning. When I was 18 I used finasteride for a year (didn’t improve my hair much it just kept it from receding more). I then started finasteride again and was on it for another 6 months until I stopped a few months ago. I buzzed my hair but my hair loss is so bad I can see bald patches. (Now I’m 20) Is it too late to start finasteride again? Or do I just give up and go for a hair system as I don’t think surgery would be appropriate
Balding patterns in some strong family lines can be very aggressive. When this happens, it often doesn’t respond to finasteride and that is a bad sign at your age. You should get a good doctor who understands the issue of a Personalized Master Plan for you and you should work with that doctor in case you are one of these young men.
Genetically impacted hair generally grows slower during the anagen (growth) phase of the hair cycle. That includes hair treated with DHT blockers such as finasteride or dutasteride. Remember, this is no longer normal ‘terminal’ hairs but hairs that have some degree of miniaturization.
One of them is Josh Kimmich.
On the left, a slightly maturing hairline (more recession on his left side so it is slightly out of balance). On the right, this man has an intermediate juvenile hairline.
It looks like you are receding asymmetrically more on the left than the right. This is common and the other side will eventually catch up. Finasteride is a good treatment for this. Look at this example: https://baldingblog.com/male-20-on-finasteride-90-days-photo/
This article suggest that this is the case: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17910907
I’m 21. My father has a normal hairline, and my maternal grandfather has a head of hair too (it’s gotten thinner and seems to have definitely matured but he’s 80 for god’s sake). I thought I’d be in the clear since those two are likely the most important genetic indicators for whether I’ll go bald or not, but I’m worried that my hairline indicates balding anyway. Am I safe? The last two photos is my grandfather’s current hairline and my hairline one year ago, my hair being a bit shorter.
There is no way to tell what will happen to you. With good haired relatives, it reduces the statistical risk of balding for you, but does not eliminate it if there is any balding in the family line (either side of the family)
The problem, of course, even if this is true and it works, the questions is what is the safety and effectiveness of this mushroom? Will it produce sexual and other side effects. Clearly, we don’t know how to dose it?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16029938/
Amazing results from finasteride on the frontal hairline which is not common.
I’m wondering if its possible to begin to have a receding hairline/thinning crown/diffuse thinning, without there being an associated increase in hair shedding (i.e. when styling hair, washing it, on bed). Every article I read says that MPB puts more hair in the shedding phase, so that should mean MPB and shedding are correlated. But isnt it possible to go bald without any noticable increase in shedding? In other words, maybe the 50 – 100 hairs you lose a day, while normal by all metrics, simply just dont grow back.
I would think that for diffuse thinners/crown thinning, there has to be an increase in shedding since it covers so much area… But for hairline recession maybe less so because the temples are a smaller region?
Recession and balding can occur separately, but developing an extensive balding pattern will produce shedding in all men eventually
I started using min and ive noticed very tiny hairs growing on my forehead way below my hairline and temple are between my eyes and hairline. Is this an unusual sign or is this common? Also my temples are receding slightly and the top is fine.
Hair growth in unwanted areas is a known side effect of systemic absorption of the minoxidil. Women have real problems if they develop a beard or mustache on minoxidil; also a known side effect.
I’m nearly 25 and my hair is slowly getting worse I want to start finasteride but not sure if its wise to delay it Some of the reasons why I’m thinking of delaying. 1 potential side effects / permentant change in hormonal profile 2 possibility of hair getting worse 3 long term cost. At the same time I want to start to keep what I have
If you take finasteride and, worst case, get side effects of any sort, you can stop the medication. In my fairly extensive experience I have never seen permanent side effects that don’t go away with stopping it.
You have early balding with a Class 3A Norwood pattern with a persistent forelock. The forelock can be strong in some men and if it lasts till the age of 35, it usually lasts your lifetime even if you continue to bald in the ‘A’ pattern. You can see the thinning around the forelock from the photos and the arrows show the upper part of the 3A balding pattern.
