Stopping Propecia When It is Working

Hi I used propecia 3 years ago & it was very good for my hair growth, but for one year I couldnt find propecia and I lost my regrown hair. then I found propecia in my country and now I use it again, but it does not work for me. why?

Once you lose your hair, getting it back is difficult. In your case, it sounds like Propecia caught the hair loss early in the hair loss process. By the time you had resumed using Propecia, you’d already lost the benefits you gained by using is early in the hair loss process. You probably resumed where you would have been had you not started it at all so you now have a new baseline. In your case, you could not go back to where you were after the first course of Propecia. Transplantation sounds like your best option now, but a proper diagnosis needs to be made first.

Think about a car that rusts with time. If you keep it from rusting, it will stay rust free, but if you let it rust, then the rust is there and you just can’t take it away as if it never happened. In this metaphor, the rust is like your hair loss; you are the car. Now that the car is rusty, all you could do is to repaint it (or in the case of hair, transplant it to get it back). That is why I always tell people who I start on Propecia that they must never stop it, or they will experience what you experienced.

Too many men, after taking Propecia for a year, stop it thinking that it is not working, even though it stopped their hair loss. They come to see me a year later, crying over what looks like more hair loss than they had ever experienced, even dating back to the time they had started to take Propecia. It looks worse because they lose what benefit they got in a few months, then on top of it all, they continue on the march of progressive hair loss.