Updated 5/13/10 new pix page 2
Ok guys bare with me this is pretty ong but I like to be detailed.
So at the age of 23 (i just turned 29) I noticed my hair wasn't as thick and full when styling as It was a year earlier. My dad and his father have male pattern baldness and my moms side is all full of hair. Im a twin so this is were it gets fucked up. My twin must of got my Moms side ad I got my dads. He has a full head of hair.
At the age of 23 with the help of this forum I started taking finasteride and using Folligen lotion but I used it as a styling gel really. I fig out if you let it dry a bit you can use it to style your hair and since my hair was pretty dark to begin with you could never tell. I did this for about 4 months till my family convinced me it was all just in my head. Mainly they used my brother as reasoning since we were twins. So successfully convinced i was nuts I stopped taking both finasteride and folligen.
Now just turning 29 you really start to notice things about yourself mainly with the big 30 around he corner. This is when i noticed the hair on the top of my head was about half as thick as the sides and back. Over the past 6 years I had always keep my hair pretty short due to my job requiring a clean look. Thanks to the economy Ive since changed jobs and wanted to grow my hair out last summer and this is when I really started to notice my family was dead wrong.
I never had any sides with finasteride when I took it for 4 months in 2004 but just to be safe I wanted to stick with topical regime only for the start. I remembered Dr Lee was pretty popular on the forums back then with his formulas and the less greasy applications. So I went to his site and noticed he carried a 6% solution with finasteride. I filled out the consultation forums, paid the $10 though I had heared it was $20. Guess he lowered it.
Once I received my verification from Dr Lee I placed my first order for two months supply of the 6% plus. He suggested Xandrox 5% in the AM and 15% plus at night. But not wanting to use the strong stuff now just in case I need it later and the fact my hair isnt total sh*t yet I went with the 6% formula with topical finasteride.
Im some what lucky that when my hair is dry and not styled with any product and grown out about 1.5-2 inches it looks pretty decent but when styled or wet it all goes to sh*t. I took some pictures of my hair line dry and wet after applying my first application of Minoxidil 6% which I will upload at the end of this post.
Ive now been using the 6% plus twice a day for 5 weeks. Ive not had any massive shed so Im thankful for that. I have noticed a couple of little hairs in my temples that I didnt notice before weather these are new or ones I just missed is anyone's guess. I fig its way to early to even consider seeing any improvement.
Also not having any sides with the topical finasteride I decided I should approach it on both fronts. So I visited a doctor off the Propecial web site and got a prescription for Proscar. I divided up 4 pills in to 1/8's so it only cost like $2 a month. I figured if I take 1/8 about .62mg oraly in the morning with regular minoxidil and apply the 6%Plus at night with is supposed 1mg of finasteride though Dr Lee informed me that only about .2-.3 mg of it actually is absorbed on each application. That would put me at close to the 1mg dose daily and maybe the topical one is more effective in the long run. Crossing my fingers on that.
Right now that's my daily regime but Im thinking of changing out the regular Minoxidil 5% I got form Dr Lee with the regular Xandrox 5% with the added benefit of the 5% azelaic acid and its supposed 98% DHT blocker claims for the morning application.
I do have to give props to Dr Lee's regular Minoxidil 5% and the 6%Plus. They are super easy to apply and non greasy. Sure if I squeeze to much out of the dopper all I have to do is wait for it to dry completely and then comb my hair and you cant even tell I put anything on vs the Kirklands I tried for a week in 2003 and stopped due to the gunky feel.
Ok guys bare with me this is pretty ong but I like to be detailed.
So at the age of 23 (i just turned 29) I noticed my hair wasn't as thick and full when styling as It was a year earlier. My dad and his father have male pattern baldness and my moms side is all full of hair. Im a twin so this is were it gets fucked up. My twin must of got my Moms side ad I got my dads. He has a full head of hair.
At the age of 23 with the help of this forum I started taking finasteride and using Folligen lotion but I used it as a styling gel really. I fig out if you let it dry a bit you can use it to style your hair and since my hair was pretty dark to begin with you could never tell. I did this for about 4 months till my family convinced me it was all just in my head. Mainly they used my brother as reasoning since we were twins. So successfully convinced i was nuts I stopped taking both finasteride and folligen.
Now just turning 29 you really start to notice things about yourself mainly with the big 30 around he corner. This is when i noticed the hair on the top of my head was about half as thick as the sides and back. Over the past 6 years I had always keep my hair pretty short due to my job requiring a clean look. Thanks to the economy Ive since changed jobs and wanted to grow my hair out last summer and this is when I really started to notice my family was dead wrong.
I never had any sides with finasteride when I took it for 4 months in 2004 but just to be safe I wanted to stick with topical regime only for the start. I remembered Dr Lee was pretty popular on the forums back then with his formulas and the less greasy applications. So I went to his site and noticed he carried a 6% solution with finasteride. I filled out the consultation forums, paid the $10 though I had heared it was $20. Guess he lowered it.
Once I received my verification from Dr Lee I placed my first order for two months supply of the 6% plus. He suggested Xandrox 5% in the AM and 15% plus at night. But not wanting to use the strong stuff now just in case I need it later and the fact my hair isnt total sh*t yet I went with the 6% formula with topical finasteride.
Im some what lucky that when my hair is dry and not styled with any product and grown out about 1.5-2 inches it looks pretty decent but when styled or wet it all goes to sh*t. I took some pictures of my hair line dry and wet after applying my first application of Minoxidil 6% which I will upload at the end of this post.
Ive now been using the 6% plus twice a day for 5 weeks. Ive not had any massive shed so Im thankful for that. I have noticed a couple of little hairs in my temples that I didnt notice before weather these are new or ones I just missed is anyone's guess. I fig its way to early to even consider seeing any improvement.
Also not having any sides with the topical finasteride I decided I should approach it on both fronts. So I visited a doctor off the Propecial web site and got a prescription for Proscar. I divided up 4 pills in to 1/8's so it only cost like $2 a month. I figured if I take 1/8 about .62mg oraly in the morning with regular minoxidil and apply the 6%Plus at night with is supposed 1mg of finasteride though Dr Lee informed me that only about .2-.3 mg of it actually is absorbed on each application. That would put me at close to the 1mg dose daily and maybe the topical one is more effective in the long run. Crossing my fingers on that.
Right now that's my daily regime but Im thinking of changing out the regular Minoxidil 5% I got form Dr Lee with the regular Xandrox 5% with the added benefit of the 5% azelaic acid and its supposed 98% DHT blocker claims for the morning application.
I do have to give props to Dr Lee's regular Minoxidil 5% and the 6%Plus. They are super easy to apply and non greasy. Sure if I squeeze to much out of the dopper all I have to do is wait for it to dry completely and then comb my hair and you cant even tell I put anything on vs the Kirklands I tried for a week in 2003 and stopped due to the gunky feel.
