Hi,
I'm french so excuse my english mistakes.
I'm in a treatment with Propecia ( finasteride ) since 5 month, I am 17 and i started to see hairloss since a little before my 16 birthday. I started finasteride with the hope to maintain my hair ( i have very diffuse thinning , at first with no temple recession but now im going into a typical Norwood pattern with recession. I thin a lot in the vertex area , all over the top of my head to be realistic )
but now i'm 5 month in and i can say that my hair is way beyond baseline.
During the month i thought the aspect of my hair was improving ( more thick ) but i continued to shed , but since month 2.5 i have continue to shed ( i see that when i wash my hair , there is a lot in the shower. this is how i figure out about hairloss in the first place ) a lot.
But since a week or two , I notice a decrease in scalp itch. Indeed scap itch had become in the last year an horrible thing, I mean i was forced to wash them to get rid off the itch, but now i can stay 2 or 3 days without washing my hair and experience very little itch ( negligable compared to a few month ago )
However, when i wash my hair I still have plenty of hair falling out, but sometimes I think there is less than before , but i cant really tell ( placebo effect maybe )
Im very worried because every day i think that in a few years hairloss will ruin my life, especially my sentimental life ( today Im happy with my life but everyday I feel like its only temporary )
I feel that im very unlucky to deal with hairloss at 17 , that i normally would not have to deal with such problems at this age. This is ruining the idea that i have of my image.
I know 5 month on propecia isnt enough to tell if its working or not but i would like to know if the fact to experience less scalp itch is a good sign to tell that the drug is beginning to work and that my hair which fall out will decrease in the newt few months ?
Maybe im experiencing a normal propecia shedding but i fell very depressed not to know for sure.
Also, i have experience side effets from Propecia ( clearly a lack of focus on things, of concentration ) and sperm have become liquid.
I like to thing that having side effects mean that the drug is effective.
Thanks you for the answer
I'm french so excuse my english mistakes.
I'm in a treatment with Propecia ( finasteride ) since 5 month, I am 17 and i started to see hairloss since a little before my 16 birthday. I started finasteride with the hope to maintain my hair ( i have very diffuse thinning , at first with no temple recession but now im going into a typical Norwood pattern with recession. I thin a lot in the vertex area , all over the top of my head to be realistic )
but now i'm 5 month in and i can say that my hair is way beyond baseline.
During the month i thought the aspect of my hair was improving ( more thick ) but i continued to shed , but since month 2.5 i have continue to shed ( i see that when i wash my hair , there is a lot in the shower. this is how i figure out about hairloss in the first place ) a lot.
But since a week or two , I notice a decrease in scalp itch. Indeed scap itch had become in the last year an horrible thing, I mean i was forced to wash them to get rid off the itch, but now i can stay 2 or 3 days without washing my hair and experience very little itch ( negligable compared to a few month ago )
However, when i wash my hair I still have plenty of hair falling out, but sometimes I think there is less than before , but i cant really tell ( placebo effect maybe )
Im very worried because every day i think that in a few years hairloss will ruin my life, especially my sentimental life ( today Im happy with my life but everyday I feel like its only temporary )
I feel that im very unlucky to deal with hairloss at 17 , that i normally would not have to deal with such problems at this age. This is ruining the idea that i have of my image.
I know 5 month on propecia isnt enough to tell if its working or not but i would like to know if the fact to experience less scalp itch is a good sign to tell that the drug is beginning to work and that my hair which fall out will decrease in the newt few months ?
Maybe im experiencing a normal propecia shedding but i fell very depressed not to know for sure.
Also, i have experience side effets from Propecia ( clearly a lack of focus on things, of concentration ) and sperm have become liquid.
I like to thing that having side effects mean that the drug is effective.
Thanks you for the answer
