Depends how much you use and how many mls a day. What area are you looking to cover? You’re going to need at least 4ml to cover your entire scalp if you are a diffuse thinner. Then you need to consider what strength you’re going to make your solution. 1mg/1ml is the starting point, but there are guys here using 3-5mg/ml. I would start with maybe 2mg/ml and see how you tolerate it. It won’t last very long if you’re looking to use 4+ml with 12-20mg a day.
Just normal one with little bit diffuse. Nw2.5.
Do you dermaroll? Only other thing I would suggest is maybe oral minoxidil which works very well for a lot of people
Got a dermaroller 1.5mm. Never used it.
You should use the derma roller once a week especially if you are using topiclas. Best way to do it it choose one day each week, wound the area you want regrowth in adequately, don’t apply topiclas that day. Recommence topical the following day. I use a 1.5mm stamp which is even better. Munch deeper scalp penetration and I don’t get any kind of hair fallout from it. I like it a lot except it f**king hurts like hell.
I would cycle everything hormonal to be honest.
Might not work with Duta given it’s half-life being so long, but I still think that having a 1 week break from fina maybe once a week 2 x yearly could be beneficial. You are 100% right about there being studies proving great long-term success, but I’m talking purely as a preventative measure given that we also know that it can lose its effectiveness over time, and ideally no one wants to end up up on 10mg of fina clinging to their dick (or ovaries) and their hair.
Well my whole point IS normal homeststasis. We don’t stay and constant levels of hormones ever - we are in a constant state of flux. Like I said, it’s why people develop insulin, thyroid hormon, glucocorticoid, etc resistance when levels of these hormones are chronically elevated. It’s like with anything, if you’re exposed to something for long enough, we just become used to it, and you don’t react to it anymore. I think that cycling can prevent the body from becoming resistant to treatment, which over time would require higher and higher doses of drugs to make the body react. The bodies hormones go up and down all the time. I’m looking at it from the perspective of what is needed for a Normal, healthy metabolic equilibrium. Why does the pill have a sugar pill week? Why does cortisol need to be taken at intervals? Why is thyroid hormone often titrated over time? Because our bodies need to remain in the cycle of negative feedback to keep a balance.
I think there’s a real issue with dutas, because the half life makes it impossible to cycle, but I think it could work for fina. It has a half life of 6-7hours I read, so I think 3-5 days maybe every 2 months could even work, just to mitigate any chance of shedding. I have read some hairloss sites which discuss this and say that you don’t need to cycle finas because it loses effectiveness when you stop using it, but the thing is, you aren’t ceasing useage, you’re allowing your body to become reactive enough by allowing just enough time for it to leave your system totally.
My thinking precisely, which makes me awfully worried about avodart now. It’s been almost 4 months of every day use now, and my libido is very high and I’m getting breakthrough bleeding again. My hair shedding is down however. I’m a health professional so I should have considered this already, and I am annoyed with myself, but it’s done now. I don’t know if having 5 week “breaks” is particularly viable. The concept wold work on a far smaller time frame scale. As I say, 4 weeks, 2/3 days-a week etc. methinks dropping avodart may be prudent.. Mais je ne nais pas. For the hormonally sensitive, it’s a game to be played with delicacy.
