It took years to control the infection on him. It came from dirty cutting sheers.
Washing your hair daily is never a problem–just be gentle with it. When you are too vigorous, you pull out the miniaturized hairs very easily.
I am a 21 year old female suffering from traction alopecia. Unfortunately, due to my work I have to wear my hair in tight ponytails. I believe this has caused me to lose hair around my temples. What are my options ?
I would like to know if it is present on the other side as well. Sometimes a condition called Triangular Alopecia can cause a pattern of hair loss like this, but not as large. As your history is consistent with traction as a cause, then a hair transplant is the perfect answer, regardless of the cause.
If the doctor or his staff were not using a microscope, they would have missed the extra hairs in this graft, possibly killing it by cutting it out rather than leaving it in the graft when the hair transplant was done. This is probably a new anagen hair developing.
Is it true that a trained doctor or professional can predict an someone final hair loss pattern?
Not 100%, however using family history, timing your appearance of balding (when you started), how fast it is moving, miniaturization analysis and most important if you have a significant amount of hair get a HAIRCHECK test (https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/), then I might be reasonably confident I could advise you on your final balding pattern, especially if you are over 25 years of age.
This seems like a powerful combination. I am sure that the dermaroller adds value to the results.
I tell men that if they get a hair system when they are young, the hair system attachments (glues, clips, etc..) cause loss of the hair on your scalp and you become more bald and more dependent upon the hair system. Hair transplants can solve the problem but the balder you get, the higher the costs so keep that in mind.
If you stick to this routine, you will probably improve over the next year or so.
This is very simple thing to do to remind yourself every time you try to touch your face
Minoxidil is causing vellus hairs to grow around my eyebrows and cheekbones, but doesn’t seem to be doing much for my head. It’s given me more hair growing out my nose, on my toes, armpits and chest. I’ve got 1000 hairs in my tush. But where I want the it the most, on my head, it’s packing its bags. Mother nature has a dark sense of humour and she’s pranking us boys.
When minoxidil gets absorbed, some people end up with a lot of hair almost everywhere. That is why, when minoxidil was introduced in the 1960s as an anti-hypertensive agent, we saw a lot of hairy women from the drug which was not very effective consistent high blood pressure.
This is my original post: https://baldingblog.com/finasteride-is-a-risk-in-pregnancy-with-unprotected-sex/
In this study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29855987), the women, aged 39, was taking 2.5mg of finasteride daily alongside her partner during the entire gestation period. The male baby was healthy with no deformities of the genitals.
I can’t put it together but I did note the article. The report from the patient indicated that the scrotum and its support structures develop in the male fetus at the end of the first term or beginning of the second term of pregnancy. In this study, the woman only took the finasteride for the first 5 weeks of her pregnancy but her partner appears to have continued using it. Cause an effect is difficult to impossible to pin down in this troubled man.
What about wanting to have a child while on finasteride, should we stop medication? And for how long?
I have to think about this. The half life of finasteride in the blood stream and extracellular fluids is about 6 hours which means it should be out of your fluids in a day or two at most. I also know that it stays in some tissues, possibly everywhere, so I really don’t know any science that informs me how to answer your question. When your partner gets pregnant, you can resume protected sex with no problems and that is absolutely safe.
Well that’s rather concerning. Along with your conclusion, I’m assuming this also means that if you are trying to conceive you should not be on finasteride/dutasteride. Would you agree with that, Dr. Rassman?
I would leave that to you. As I said above: “The half life of finasteride in the blood stream and extracellular fluids is about 6 hours which means it should be out of your fluids in a day or two at most. I also know that it stays in some tissues, possibly everywhere, so I really don’t know any science that informs me how to answer your question.” I am no longer able to think through this problem at this moment.
Isn’t it kind of far fetched to link such statistical ‘tail event’ to the use of finastride in this scenario? The causal link imposed could very well be due to total randomness.
Could be!
I didn’t know this, and my wife is currently 25 weeks pregnant… we used a condom for the most part but I’m still terrified.
Statistically, the odds are in your favor and you should be fine. There are very few reports like the one brought forward by the man I referenced, but for all the men who read this going forward, they should engage in protected sex if they are on finasteride.
Could be. You can not judge hair loss by the week or month, it is a yearly assessment with good photos, HAIRCHECK testing (https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/) and yearly visits with a good doctor who has built a Personalized Master Plan with you and put you on a time-line for that plan.
A man wrote to me about this problem with his baby who developed a problem unique to 5 alpha reductase inhibitors
This is what Merck wrote:
Although the above comments reference 2 studies using a 5?mg dose, Merck (2007) also measured semen levels of finasteride in patients taking a 1?mg dose. The men were treated with 1 mg for 6 weeks. The highest level measured was 1.52 ng/mL, and the mean level was 0.26 ng/mL. Using the highest measured level (1.52 ng/mL), women exposed to a 5?mL ejaculate per day would be exposed to 7.6 ng/d (assuming 100% vaginal absorption). Merck (2007) found this level to be 750 times lower than the “no effect” level for developmental abnormalities in rhesus monkeys.
In summary, a 1?mg dose of finasteride does not appear to adversely affect spermatogenesis. In addition, the level present in the ejaculate of patients taking 1 mg appears to be negligible. Thus, there does not appear to be any need to stop 1 mg of finasteride in those patients trying to conceive or in those whose partners are pregnant.
This is what is really the issue: