Has anyone been having a bad experience with MinoxidilMax' Essengen-5 lately?

[Regan]

Hello people,

after 2.5 years on topical minoxidil, I started having some cardiovascular side-effects, including a few rather nasty ones, around January.
I've been using EssenGen-5 from MinoxidilMax.

My guess is that... well, it's just the way it is, my body has developed a negative reaction to that stuff, but it took a while.

But still, it is slightly strange that this has happened 2.5 years in. So there's an off-chance that MinoxidilMax has made some sort of compounding mistake lately and is serving people higher concentrations of minoxidil or something. So if anyone else here has been having such problems with MinoxidilMax' products lately, that would be very interesting to hear...

But as said, I'm not counting on it.

 

[losingbattle88]

Hello people,

after 2.5 years on topical minoxidil, I started having some cardiovascular side-effects, including a few rather nasty ones, around January.
I've been using EssenGen-5 from MinoxidilMax.

My guess is that... well, it's just the way it is, my body has developed a negative reaction to that stuff, but it took a while.

But still, it is slightly strange that this has happened 2.5 years in. So there's an off-chance that MinoxidilMax has made some sort of compounding mistake lately and is serving people higher concentrations of minoxidil or something. So if anyone else here has been having such problems with MinoxidilMax' products lately, that would be very interesting to hear...

But as said, I'm not counting on it.

Ur dieing.

 

[Regan]

Ur dieing.

Ain't we all, mate.

 

[Get my hair back]

What makes you think it's the minoxidil. Did you test it by discontinuing the drug?

 

[Regan]

What makes you think it's the minoxidil. Did you test it by discontinuing the drug?

Yeah, after stopping, restarting, and stopping it again, I think it's very likely it's the minoxidil. The sides went away when I stopped.
Also, interestingly, when I briefly restarted it after a break, the sides came back with a vengeance and were worse than before. It was as though my body had adjusted away from the minoxidil, and it was a bit shocked when I reintroduced it.

Also, the cardiovascular phenomena I'm talking about were completely unlike anything I had ever had before. I had never had a hard, palpable heart-beat like this before. And they were unaffected by various other lifestyle changes, like eliminating caffeine consumption, or doing more cardio training.

 

[Regan]

I mean, I say it's "weird" to get those sides 2.5 years in, but I don't actually see why it's that weird. I'm not familiar with RCTs for topical minoxidil that lasted several years, so my experience doesn't seem implausible given the clinical data. Anecdotally, I've heard stories of people getting sides several years in.

 

[BurningCoals]

What Norwood are you btw?

 

[Regan]

What Norwood are you btw?

As low as you'd expect.

 

[Get my hair back]

Yeah, after stopping, restarting, and stopping it again, I think it's very likely it's the minoxidil. The sides went away when I stopped.
Also, interestingly, when I briefly restarted it after a break, the sides came back with a vengeance and were worse than before. It was as though my body had adjusted away from the minoxidil, and it was a bit shocked when I reintroduced it.

Also, the cardiovascular phenomena I'm talking about were completely unlike anything I had ever had before. I had never had a hard, palpable heart-beat like this before. And they were unaffected by various other lifestyle changes, like eliminating caffeine consumption, or doing more cardio training.

Then yes.
But it would be interesting to try another company's minoxidil for comparison.

 

[BurningCoals]

As low as you'd expect.

 

[Regan]

I don't know whether this is true or not, but I've heard that the reason aliens abduct people is to extract hair transplant grafts. They've exhausted their own donor areas millions of years ago, and are now scouring the galaxy for primitive races from which they can extract hair follicles.

 

[Regan]

I don't know whether this is true or not, but I've heard that the reason aliens abduct people is to extract hair transplant grafts. They've exhausted their own donor areas millions of years ago, and are now scouring the galaxy for primitive races from which they can extract hair follicles.

Big if true.

 

[BurningCoals]

I don't know whether this is true or not, but I've heard that the reason aliens abduct people is to extract hair transplant grafts. They've exhausted their own donor areas millions of years ago, and are now scouring the galaxy for primitive races from which they can extract hair follicles.

Ah so that's why male pattern baldness exists!

 

[Regan]

Ah so that's why male pattern baldness exists!

Certainly plausible. It would also explain why tin foil hats protect people: The aliens assume you're a hat prisoner, so you probably don't have any hair that they could steal anyway.

 

[Regan]

Certainly plausible. It would also explain why tin foil hats protect people: The aliens assume you're a hat prisoner, so probably don't have any hair that they could steal anyway.

HairGuard should look into this, and maybe they should start selling tin foil hats. Still a better hair loss theory than Blüdfløw.

 

[BurningCoals]

Certainly plausible. It would also explain why tin foil hats protect people: The aliens assume you're a hat prisoner, so you probably don't have any hair that they could steal anyway.

tinfoilhatmaxxing bruh

 

[bsmith]

The problem is there's not much topical formula makers. Even in the United States, there's only a few, and they are very expensive.

 

[bsmith]

Hello people,

after 2.5 years on topical minoxidil, I started having some cardiovascular side-effects, including a few rather nasty ones, around January.
I've been using EssenGen-5 from MinoxidilMax.

My guess is that... well, it's just the way it is, my body has developed a negative reaction to that stuff, but it took a while.

But still, it is slightly strange that this has happened 2.5 years in. So there's an off-chance that MinoxidilMax has made some sort of compounding mistake lately and is serving people higher concentrations of minoxidil or something. So if anyone else here has been having such problems with MinoxidilMax' products lately, that would be very interesting to hear...

But as said, I'm not counting on it.

There really isn't a lot out there, as far as topical solutions. A lot of the ones in the United States are moving out.

 

[Kojakjr]

Minoxidil is a high blood pressure drug..use too much rapid heartbeat/dizziness

 

[Dashing_uk]

Hello people,

after 2.5 years on topical minoxidil, I started having some cardiovascular side-effects, including a few rather nasty ones, around January.
I've been using EssenGen-5 from MinoxidilMax.

My guess is that... well, it's just the way it is, my body has developed a negative reaction to that stuff, but it took a while.

But still, it is slightly strange that this has happened 2.5 years in. So there's an off-chance that MinoxidilMax has made some sort of compounding mistake lately and is serving people higher concentrations of minoxidil or something. So if anyone else here has been having such problems with MinoxidilMax' products lately, that would be very interesting to hear...

But as said, I'm not counting on it.

I used that and had to stop it really irritated my scalp i believed in the hype ,my hair specialist in the uk said the minoxidil and the tablet form is still the best way to stop hair loss ive been on it for 30 years and still have a good head of hair ,i put crushed up certrizine tablets in my minoxidil as it well documented to help hair loss and i also take 3 antihistamines a day as it stops the body attacking itself so also minimises the hair loss.
Good luck with it.
Regards
David