That sad thing is that you have to ride it out or you will curtail improvement. I advise everyone using any hormonal med and maybe oral min too, to have a back-up plan to ride it out meaning for MtF's wigs and for XY's either systems, hats or shaving until things get back on course. At least for XY's, crew cuts look decent. For MtF's, it can take two years to reach any sort of even androgynous hair length.
Thank you. This article was helpful.
Hey, in my experience. The shedding is mainly uniform. I can shed hair sometimes in the non-DHT sensitive zones.
Could that just be regular shedding? My hairline has lost so much ground in the last 6 weeks.
I'm not sure frankly. The hair just feels way more vulnerable as compared to normal, and I could easily pull out hairs just by tugging my hair.
Yeah I'm early in the fight thankfully. I only have minor loss but since starting treatment the top of my head, despite being longer hair feels thinner and my hairline was ok and passable bit not anymore. I've had severe loss in the last month. I lost more hair this past 1-2 months than I think the last 5 years (before starting finasteride). No regrowth in sight either. I see small white hairs but they aren't moving at all so those might be long gone follicles. I'm tempted to try minoxidil but I want to see if finasteride gets me back to baseline with maintenance because that's really all I needed. I could've lived with minor recession that I could styled with but now it's not easy to style.
Yeah, you were scammed. Brand propecia has a P symbol on the tablet. They sent you a generic.
Same active ingredient, yes, but he did pay extra for brand, so they shouldn't be giving him generic in place of it.
These posts are excessively long and nobody wants to see pictures of your meds but hey, hair pics, cool! Many of us have finasteride covered by insurance or Proscar and yes, the pills are blue but fillers rarely seem to matter except with psychiatric meds. See if you can be more succinct in the future as it's difficult to jump past/avoid these pics that seem pointless unless you want to take a pic of your dinner too, to be analyzed in terms of inflammatory content. Irony sucks....
And see, you used to be a polite young man. Hair loss can get the best of all of us.
No finasteride by itself isnt enough to stop male pattern baldness. You need to add alot stronger treatments to stop it.
You should switch to topical finasteride it blocks more scalp DHT.
"Oral medication will always be superior."
James when ru coming over? I need that hard c*** and filled ball sperm of yours bby."Oral medication will always be superior."
I think you don't uderstand it and keep repeating Mercks propaganda from the 90s . Systemic DHT is not important, what it is really important is the DHT in the tissue . That is why topical route will be always be superior than oral route , specially for low molecular weight drugs .
The Systemic absortion is always less, much less ( specially for minoxidil ) than if you go oral. That is why most drugs use it for disease are give it orally and not transdermal, if not, if what you use it is thruth, why anyone will use oral drugs that need to pass the stomach !?
Lets the 90s go, welcome to 2022