Hey guys, I've been posting on here for a while now, so just thought I'd add my story to here.
I first noticed a lot of shedding when I was 18 after I started uni, it got me down as I was loosing lots of unpigmented shorter hairs, and my hair was quite long. My dad is a Nw7 so it was like a worst nightmare was finally revealing itself. This was in 2004, in 2005 i started using nioxin, which didn't do anything apart from dry my hair out. Then i quit and until febuary 2006 i did nothing, which brings me to now.
I've been using finasteride since febuary, finpecia until september then switched to proscar. I also slowly increased the dosage, which was a complete waste of time lol. I've also been using 5% topical spironolactone creme and have recently added in some tricomin, I used nizoral but it reeeally dries out my hair and causes my head to itch, and possibly increases shed so I've recently stopped that.
Well, what to say about my hair... The pics on my website from baseline are reeeeally worthless, I didnt take pics of the worst case scenario which is a big mistake, or maybe I did and my hair was a lot better then... Now when my hair is wet you can see scalp throughout, when it is dry you can see through my hair at some places. It appears that I am thinning diffusely across the top of my head from the crown to hairline. It's not like it's very bad, but I cant spike it up or anything, i just have to let it flop down which is not at allhow it used to be. It's like it completely lacks fullness and life throughout.
Since being on finasteride, I have shed continuously, probably about 50 hairs a day. I have not seen much regrowth, but I do have a few more hairs at my left temple and possibly a few more at the right. But now my problem is that it is maybe a bit thinner than it was before on top,which is not at all what I expected before i started finasteride! I've posted some pictures onto my website, but none of them are current, they are from august when i buzzed my hair to either 1/2 or 3/4 inch, I don't remember, but I'd say that's pretty much how my hair looks now if i buzzed it to that again. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my hair's terrible, but I shed a lot and I do think it's a bit thinner across the top, and you can see through to the scalp when I look in a mirror at some places even when my hairs over an inch.
So I'm confused about what to do now, I'm going to continue using tricomin once a day, but should I add minoxidil?? I'm only 20, shouldn't I be keeping minoxidil for later in case I need it?
I first noticed a lot of shedding when I was 18 after I started uni, it got me down as I was loosing lots of unpigmented shorter hairs, and my hair was quite long. My dad is a Nw7 so it was like a worst nightmare was finally revealing itself. This was in 2004, in 2005 i started using nioxin, which didn't do anything apart from dry my hair out. Then i quit and until febuary 2006 i did nothing, which brings me to now.
I've been using finasteride since febuary, finpecia until september then switched to proscar. I also slowly increased the dosage, which was a complete waste of time lol. I've also been using 5% topical spironolactone creme and have recently added in some tricomin, I used nizoral but it reeeally dries out my hair and causes my head to itch, and possibly increases shed so I've recently stopped that.
Well, what to say about my hair... The pics on my website from baseline are reeeeally worthless, I didnt take pics of the worst case scenario which is a big mistake, or maybe I did and my hair was a lot better then... Now when my hair is wet you can see scalp throughout, when it is dry you can see through my hair at some places. It appears that I am thinning diffusely across the top of my head from the crown to hairline. It's not like it's very bad, but I cant spike it up or anything, i just have to let it flop down which is not at allhow it used to be. It's like it completely lacks fullness and life throughout.
Since being on finasteride, I have shed continuously, probably about 50 hairs a day. I have not seen much regrowth, but I do have a few more hairs at my left temple and possibly a few more at the right. But now my problem is that it is maybe a bit thinner than it was before on top,which is not at all what I expected before i started finasteride! I've posted some pictures onto my website, but none of them are current, they are from august when i buzzed my hair to either 1/2 or 3/4 inch, I don't remember, but I'd say that's pretty much how my hair looks now if i buzzed it to that again. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my hair's terrible, but I shed a lot and I do think it's a bit thinner across the top, and you can see through to the scalp when I look in a mirror at some places even when my hairs over an inch.
So I'm confused about what to do now, I'm going to continue using tricomin once a day, but should I add minoxidil?? I'm only 20, shouldn't I be keeping minoxidil for later in case I need it?
