best shampoo for a norwood 1

[dubaiUAE]

Hey,
I am an 18 year old male with a norwood 1. What is the best shampoo out there to halt continuing hair loss? I just bought Nisim's shampoo to try and stop my receeding hair line. Did I make a good choice or should I try something else?

 

[Skaff]

No shampoo is going to halt hair loss.
However, Nizoral (an anti dandruff shampoo) has an ingredient that supposedly fights one of the known causes of genetic hair loss, DHT. It's not going to make a noticable difference on its own, though. Most people use it as just one part of a regimen that often includes finasteride and minoxidil.
It's not a bad place to start but it's a bit like putting a band-aid over a bullet wound...sorry, bad analogy.

 

[TheGlamorous]

Hey,
I am an 18 year old male with a norwood 1. What is the best shampoo out there to halt continuing hair loss? I just bought Nisim's shampoo to try and stop my receeding hair line. Did I make a good choice or should I try something else?

If you are a norwood 1 and worried already your in for an immensely rough ride. Have fun with your hair until you start receding, or diffuse thinning. :hairy:

 

[s.a.f]

Hey,
I am an 18 year old male with a norwood 1. What is the best shampoo out there to halt continuing hair loss?

Are you taking the piss?

 

[dubaiUAE]

My hair is already receeding and thinning on the edges of my hair line.

 

[TheGlamorous]

My hair is already receeding and thinning on the edges of my hair line.

Okay, i'm going to be serious for ten seconds here so savour it people, because I'm hardly ever serious.

If you are truly worried about your hair thinning, go and see a doctor right away and tell him/her your problem. I know it might be hard to admit it (it took me ages before I could even admit it to myself properly) but seeking treatment is one of the best things you can do.

You are 18 so it's all good to take Finasteride (Propecia) which is a pill that you down with a gulp of water every day. The sound of that put me off getting on them just because I thought i'd become "dependant" on them and i'd turn into one of those pill freaks.

But honestly, knowing your combating your hair loss by taking a measely bit of medicine is so much better then freaking out about hair loss and doing nothing about it. Trust me.

And remember that you can make this cheap for yourself. Don't get Propecia, get your doctor to prescribe you Proscar (which is made by the same people as Propecia, just that it contains 5x the amount of the active ingredient 'finasteride' which is used to combat DHT). This way you can cut the pill into 4's and save 75%.

My 30 pill packet cost me 200$NZ. I cut them into four's, so that brings the total price down to $50NZ. Generic Propecia would have cost me $130.

If you are only slowly receding and don't want to take pills, then your best bet is to buy some "Nizoral" shampoo which is proven to be the best shampoo to use when combatting hairloss, though it might to little- it won't do you any harm.

 

[Guest]

if your hair is receding and thinning, then you're not a norwood 1. a norwood shows no signs of hair loss. maybe you are a Norwood 1.5, in between a nw1 and a nw2.

i don't know what derms are like in the UAE, how they feel about propecia, etc.

 

[Guest]

I know it might be hard to admit it (it took me ages before I could even admit it to myself properly)

WHy? sh*t as soon as I found out I couldn't wait to get drugs. I was on proscar within two weeks of realizing.