Due to improving my foreign language skills, I decided to join this board and share my story.
I am 22, student and live in germany, directly on the boarder to switzerland.
My hairloss started at age 16 or 17. A beginning tonsure at this age sucks definitifly!
(July 07)
I treated my Androgenetic Alopecia when I was 19, in august 07 with finasteride (~1,25mg).
Then I fullfilled my regimen with a Ket shampoo and a flutamide topical.
The effect was totally remarkable!
In december (after just 4 month on finasteride!) my hair status had improved a lot, however, I decided to use Minoxidil too.
I archieved a wounderful hair status, here are pics taken in march 08.
But since this time, I have lost plenty of hair.
I cannot answer the question what went wrong, but I suppose that minoxidil damaged my hair. Three or four month after starting with the foam in december 07, my hair went worse and worse every month.
Because of skin irritation I switched to a liquid version and mixed the 5% lotion with alcohol (1:1). I used this just once per day, the foam was used twice a day before.
Last year I hoped to get a new boost by doubling the amount of minoxidil and restarted using the foam in the morning and the liquid still in the evening.
The result was, that I lost plenty of hair, exactly in the areas I used the foam too.
This pic reflects my current hair status. I think I am back where I started. Norwood 3 vertex with thinning hair between the hairline and the tonsure.
Last summer I dumped minoxidil and went back to the roots: dht inhibitors!
I'm using finasteride (oral) and two topicals: spironolactone and zix (made by a german board user).
Since a few days I decided to put 2 dutas in 100ml spironolactone (mix it in 10ml amounts ~ weekly)
A Ket shampoo is obligatory.
But there remains one unanswered question: what went wrong? My only logical assumption is, that minoxidil damaged my hair. A reducing effect of finasterid is absolutly unusual in such a short time slot...especially after such an awsome success! Wish I would have never taken minoxidil. That's life, but it's easy to be wise after the event.
:dunno:
kind regards from germany.
ps: side effects are not worthy of mention.
I am 22, student and live in germany, directly on the boarder to switzerland.
My hairloss started at age 16 or 17. A beginning tonsure at this age sucks definitifly!
(July 07)
I treated my Androgenetic Alopecia when I was 19, in august 07 with finasteride (~1,25mg).
Then I fullfilled my regimen with a Ket shampoo and a flutamide topical.
The effect was totally remarkable!
In december (after just 4 month on finasteride!) my hair status had improved a lot, however, I decided to use Minoxidil too.
I archieved a wounderful hair status, here are pics taken in march 08.
But since this time, I have lost plenty of hair.
I cannot answer the question what went wrong, but I suppose that minoxidil damaged my hair. Three or four month after starting with the foam in december 07, my hair went worse and worse every month.
Because of skin irritation I switched to a liquid version and mixed the 5% lotion with alcohol (1:1). I used this just once per day, the foam was used twice a day before.
Last year I hoped to get a new boost by doubling the amount of minoxidil and restarted using the foam in the morning and the liquid still in the evening.
The result was, that I lost plenty of hair, exactly in the areas I used the foam too.
This pic reflects my current hair status. I think I am back where I started. Norwood 3 vertex with thinning hair between the hairline and the tonsure.
Last summer I dumped minoxidil and went back to the roots: dht inhibitors!
I'm using finasteride (oral) and two topicals: spironolactone and zix (made by a german board user).
Since a few days I decided to put 2 dutas in 100ml spironolactone (mix it in 10ml amounts ~ weekly)
A Ket shampoo is obligatory.
But there remains one unanswered question: what went wrong? My only logical assumption is, that minoxidil damaged my hair. A reducing effect of finasterid is absolutly unusual in such a short time slot...especially after such an awsome success! Wish I would have never taken minoxidil. That's life, but it's easy to be wise after the event.
:dunno:
kind regards from germany.
ps: side effects are not worthy of mention.
