Something I’ve noticed.
I shed a lot all the time. Even my “low” sheds are 60-90. Anything below that is miraculous. Anyhoo, a few of you might be aware that I have a weird synchronised hair growth “side effect” if you will taking minoxidil oral and topical. During this process, I’ll grow a lot of thick, terminal hairs around the hairline and some density on the back and sides for about three months, then my hair stops growing, kind of like the minoxidil effect switches off and those regrown hairs will fall out and miniturise over a period of numerous months.. anywhere between 7-12 months so far, then the regrowth cycle reoccurs for 3 months, and so on and so forth.
This is the part I wish to note. My hairline has been in the recession process since November 2017. I began avodart once a week, building up the dose each week until I began taking it every day in early-ish December. I’ve now also been using daro for 4-5 weeks increasing the dose each week to now using 2mg/ml. So, because my hairline has been receding and should be miniturising, any new hairs that I’m regrowing around my hairline should be vellus, and they have been because the longer ones that have been growing for 3 odd months are almost colourless.. or long, thin and blond.
You know the drill.
Today I noticed that the tiny small hairs regrowing from those recently lost around my hairline are actually brown. Not quite like thick terminal hair, but definitely no colourless vellus hairs. Somewhere in between. I’m not getting my hopes up at this point because my rule is “terminal or no ball”, but this is new and different. For whatever reason too, even though I’ve lost quite a lot of eyebrow and eyelash hair recently.. they are probably the best they have looked since my hairloss started. Actually they look great. I’ve only been apply daro to my eyebrows for a few days so it can’t be the daro there.
It may be the combo of avodart + daro/niacinamide/carnitine/minoxidil + oral minoxidil + stemoxydine (and a bunch of vitamins) that is causing this minor change. As I say, I hold little hope, because it protects me from having my heart broken once again. I’m still shedding and my hair overall is still getting thinner, but it’s something to note. Also, a have a lot of short hairs regrowing on my centre part. I’m not sure how good the quality of those hairs are, but they are there. Annoyingly, my part/tonsure is still getting wider/thinner too. Sometimes I feel like my hair feels thicker at the roots, but again, I don’t want to say anything for sure until I can see my part getting denser, and my hairline growing normally again.
Gonna keep an eye on it.
