well, i've been looking around on this forum for a couple of months now and i figured i go ahead and post my story too.
i'm 23 almost 24. diffuse thinner. my grandfather and father both had full heads of hair well into their fifties and none of my uncles on my mom side have any noticible thinning.
about nine months ago i started noticing hair in my shower. at the time i had shoulder length hair and lots of it (always had). about a month after i started noticing the hair i decided to cut it shorter to see if maybe it was just the length that was causing the loss (some girl told me long hair falls out if you don't cut it often). the thinning didn't stop. at about the same time i was on a drun called focalin. I did some searching and found that one of the possible side effects was hair loss. so i immediately stopped taking it. about two months passed and still i was seeing at least 100 hairs a day in the shower and hair all over my floor. so i went to my derm and he told me to go on minoxidil. i went and bought the 2% and used it for about two months. the itch became to much for me to bear and had to stop. plus i wasn't seeing any decrease in hair loss. that was about two months ago. i am still losing about 150 a day. last week i went to my derm and he gave me a prescription to propecia which i haven't filled yet.
my question to anyone out there is this. should i start on the propecia or should i wait a couple more months and see if the focalin/minoxidil is what is causing my hairloss? remenber i've been off focalin for almost 6 months now and minoxidil for almost 2.
oh and there is like an invisible line from ear to ear on the top of my head that still itches daily (nothing bad but i never had this before)
are there any other people with a similar story? any feedback would be appreciated.
i'm 23 almost 24. diffuse thinner. my grandfather and father both had full heads of hair well into their fifties and none of my uncles on my mom side have any noticible thinning.
about nine months ago i started noticing hair in my shower. at the time i had shoulder length hair and lots of it (always had). about a month after i started noticing the hair i decided to cut it shorter to see if maybe it was just the length that was causing the loss (some girl told me long hair falls out if you don't cut it often). the thinning didn't stop. at about the same time i was on a drun called focalin. I did some searching and found that one of the possible side effects was hair loss. so i immediately stopped taking it. about two months passed and still i was seeing at least 100 hairs a day in the shower and hair all over my floor. so i went to my derm and he told me to go on minoxidil. i went and bought the 2% and used it for about two months. the itch became to much for me to bear and had to stop. plus i wasn't seeing any decrease in hair loss. that was about two months ago. i am still losing about 150 a day. last week i went to my derm and he gave me a prescription to propecia which i haven't filled yet.
my question to anyone out there is this. should i start on the propecia or should i wait a couple more months and see if the focalin/minoxidil is what is causing my hairloss? remenber i've been off focalin for almost 6 months now and minoxidil for almost 2.
oh and there is like an invisible line from ear to ear on the top of my head that still itches daily (nothing bad but i never had this before)
are there any other people with a similar story? any feedback would be appreciated.