Can Excess Minoxidil Cause Hair Loss ?

[arnoldd]

im apply 4ml each time ( morning and night ). because im a diffuse thinner i put 1ml crown, 1ml right side, 1ml left side and 1ml in the middle.
i know overdose increase side effects , but i was thinking if it can lead in a inihbition of hair growth ?

 

[Roberto_72]

No, you should be fine for hair but 4 mls are a bit too much for sides...

 

[arnoldd]

Thx roberto.

After a really good regrothw and thicken hairs , i dont know what happens but i thinning a lot and losing my gains during all the summer(im from argentina),

It seems i will go bald in few months if the shedding continues ..in april it will be 1 year with the treatament big 3.

 

[mr_robot]

Thx roberto.

After a really good regrothw and thicken hairs , i dont know what happens but i thinning a lot and losing my gains during all the summer(im from argentina),

It seems i will go bald in few months if the shedding continues ..in april it will be 1 year with the treatament big 3.

You will lose some gains after a while, unfortunately that's just the way it is with minoxidil as detailed on this page:

https://www.hairlosstalk.com/news/education/rogaine-long-term/

 

[arnoldd]

Thats not true. The study shows results with only minoxidil.
But with the addtion of finasteride you can mantein your gains for several years if your male pattern baldness is not agressive

 

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[tjnpdx]

You will lose some gains after a while, unfortunately that's just the way it is with minoxidil as detailed on this page:

https://www.hairlosstalk.com/news/education/rogaine-long-term/

I just don't understand how we can say, on one hand, that we really have no clue how exactly minoxidil works, aside from opening potassium channels, and, on the other hand, say it does nothing to the balding process. Obviously it's not assumed to hit DHT like finasteride or dutasteride, but the stuff can grow hair on relatively bald areas for some people, so to say it does nothing for the balding process itself seems somewhat contradicting. I'm more comfortable saying it works sometimes, really well for some, not so well for others, and leaving it at that. Seems to be much more factually viable than making those two contradicting claims previously mentioned.

 

[mr_robot]

I just don't understand how we can say, on one hand, that we really have no clue how exactly minoxidil works, aside from opening potassium channels, and, on the other hand, say it does nothing to the balding process. Obviously it's not assumed to hit DHT like finasteride or dutasteride, but the stuff can grow hair on relatively bald areas for some people, so to say it does nothing for the balding process itself seems somewhat contradicting. I'm more comfortable saying it works sometimes, really well for some, not so well for others, and leaving it at that. Seems to be much more factually viable than making those two contradicting claims previously mentioned.

It's not contradictory at all, for example I gained hair on my temples yet I'm still losing hair on my crown.

 

[tjnpdx]

It's not contradictory at all, for example I gained hair on my temples yet I'm still losing hair on my crown.

So you gained hair (counterpoint to losing hair), but minoxidil does nothing, in the literal sense of the word, for the balding process? I'm really just nitpicking, but the point I'm trying to assert is that it obviously does something, we just don't know what. Usually it's openly admitted that we don't know exactly what it does; but at the same it's said that it does nothing for the balding process. If by this we mean it doesn't counter DHT, I guess that's right. But I've read a lot of people who've had excellent luck with gaining and maintaining just by using minoxidil for some years. If minoxidil can help stall the balding process, it does something for it, we just don't know what.

 

[tjnpdx]

Really, I just have a problem with the two claims being made right next to each other. But I'm just being a***.