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Hi everyone, this is my first post here and this is what happened to me:
2 years ago, I noticed that my hair in the front was thinning a bit, but as I'm young I thought it was nothing and I stopped caring.
A few weeks ago I had an appointment with the dermatologist and he said that I had Androgenetic Alopecia and I should start with minoxidil and finasteride and return after 6 months to see the progress.
Well here you have some photos of my hair today after a haircut:
As you can see, it is not too advanced right now and for the untrained eye there's no sign of baldness, but it has started.
After reading a lot in forums and spending a lot of time following the new treatments thread here I started to feel kind of dissapointed because it seems the only real option right now is the big 3, some experemiental treatments or maybe natural treatments, and things are going pretty slow. Then my thougths here are if instead of starting with the big 3 (because, if finasteride is the only real way to really improve, I preffer not to take it) it would be better to wait for Brotzu's lotion next year if we're lucky or maybe Histogen, Rivertown therapeutics,etc.
Because if a finasteride alternative (not a cure but an alternative with zero or less side effects)is not that far from now, I don't know if I should wait for that instead of starting with a potentially risky treament even though it is proven to be safe.
And also, what do you guys thing of the speed of Androgenetic Alopecia? I know it depends on the person and it is to hard to estimate but if it is not too fast maybe I can wait till the new treatments appear.
Thank you for reading
2 years ago, I noticed that my hair in the front was thinning a bit, but as I'm young I thought it was nothing and I stopped caring.
A few weeks ago I had an appointment with the dermatologist and he said that I had Androgenetic Alopecia and I should start with minoxidil and finasteride and return after 6 months to see the progress.
Well here you have some photos of my hair today after a haircut:
As you can see, it is not too advanced right now and for the untrained eye there's no sign of baldness, but it has started.
After reading a lot in forums and spending a lot of time following the new treatments thread here I started to feel kind of dissapointed because it seems the only real option right now is the big 3, some experemiental treatments or maybe natural treatments, and things are going pretty slow. Then my thougths here are if instead of starting with the big 3 (because, if finasteride is the only real way to really improve, I preffer not to take it) it would be better to wait for Brotzu's lotion next year if we're lucky or maybe Histogen, Rivertown therapeutics,etc.
Because if a finasteride alternative (not a cure but an alternative with zero or less side effects)is not that far from now, I don't know if I should wait for that instead of starting with a potentially risky treament even though it is proven to be safe.
And also, what do you guys thing of the speed of Androgenetic Alopecia? I know it depends on the person and it is to hard to estimate but if it is not too fast maybe I can wait till the new treatments appear.
Thank you for reading