Stopped Propecia for 2 Months Then Restarted — Now I’m Losing Hair!
I took propecia pretty faithfully for all of 2008 and for some reason still unknown to me, stopped for the month of Dec and Jan. I started taking it again in Feb and then come March, I started shedding hair like crazy. When will the catch-up loss stop?? Its scaring me like crazy!
If you don’t know why you stopped taking Propecia, how are you sure you remember when you actually stopped taking it? I can’t give you an end date for the catch-up loss, as I wouldn’t know how to determine one. The hair loss may never catch up, even with just a 2 months hiatus. You need to hope and pray that it will reverse to where it was prior to your stopping the drug.
Readers, take note: If you’re serious about keeping your hair, do not follow in this man’s footsteps by forgetting to take the daily finasteride.
I am having exactly the same experience. After 4 years of great success (ie. even moderate regrowth) I tried to stop. Doctor Rassman is great, but his question “Why would you stop?” seems a bit strange and annoying for its repetition (who wants to spend their life being on drugs? and why not test whether the effect of the drug was so significant in the first place?).
Anyway, I stopped in late December and started in mid-March. No problems visible, all went well. Then in May I started shedding like crazy and my front hair is just a horrible mess, deteriorated over the course of 14 days beyond recognition. Now I am just hoping it will stop and perhaps return to December state… :(