Hello all, my story of hairloss is short in comparison to many on here, but I wanted to post this to hopefully help and encourage early hairloss sufferers.
An brief history. I first noticed I was loosing hair around 18 months ago. So with a small amount of research, I jumped on propecia. Basically it cause massive shedding around my whole head, Ed, penis and testical pain, and very low sex drive. After just over three months I stopped, I deemed the side effects way too server, simply for a 27 YO guy it was just not worth it.
My hair continued to shed at what I believe to be accelorated rate for the next 7 months, I didn't use any other treatment during this time as I wanted to see where my body got to naturaly. I would say by the seventh month, it had slowed, but it was still happening and still seemed to be global, except the very back of my head. Also throughout this time I had a noticeable increase in body hair.
At the beginning of the 8th month off finestrade I decided to jump on rogaine + nizoral shampoo. First 6 weeks, increased shedding again, I buzzed my hair down to a number one so I would notice it less. My hair has now grown back to about one inch. I would strongly advise people do this if they feel they can. The reason is that I found even though I was shedding, my hair was growing, so over time it sort of off set the shedding by giving the appearance of thickening. This is of course purely perspective of self, but I found it helped.
Anyway its now week 8, I can tell you that my shedding has completely stopped, I mean completely, I couldn't pull a hair out of my head if I tried, ok that's a slight over statement, but at anytime over the last year I could lightly pull anywhere on my hear and take out a good 5-10 hairs, now I only get one, after trying afew times in afew areas.
My body hair continues to grow, which I believe Is a strong sign that my body has been effect long term by three months on finestrad, but the minoxidil treatme
treatment probably helps that along a little aswel.
Anyway, I'm sorry if some people read this and don't see it as a success story, as far as I'm concerned, hair totally stopping shedding is a missive win, it means the breaks are on, for now at least. My biggest regret is taking finasteride, and I would strongly recommend to the early sufferers to try topical first. If I had done that I genuinely believe I would have much, much more hair Now.
I will post some pictures soon but I stopped using them a number of weeks ago, I found it fed my unhealthy obsession with my hair, putting it out of my mind has been the best thing for my mental health for sure.
An brief history. I first noticed I was loosing hair around 18 months ago. So with a small amount of research, I jumped on propecia. Basically it cause massive shedding around my whole head, Ed, penis and testical pain, and very low sex drive. After just over three months I stopped, I deemed the side effects way too server, simply for a 27 YO guy it was just not worth it.
My hair continued to shed at what I believe to be accelorated rate for the next 7 months, I didn't use any other treatment during this time as I wanted to see where my body got to naturaly. I would say by the seventh month, it had slowed, but it was still happening and still seemed to be global, except the very back of my head. Also throughout this time I had a noticeable increase in body hair.
At the beginning of the 8th month off finestrade I decided to jump on rogaine + nizoral shampoo. First 6 weeks, increased shedding again, I buzzed my hair down to a number one so I would notice it less. My hair has now grown back to about one inch. I would strongly advise people do this if they feel they can. The reason is that I found even though I was shedding, my hair was growing, so over time it sort of off set the shedding by giving the appearance of thickening. This is of course purely perspective of self, but I found it helped.
Anyway its now week 8, I can tell you that my shedding has completely stopped, I mean completely, I couldn't pull a hair out of my head if I tried, ok that's a slight over statement, but at anytime over the last year I could lightly pull anywhere on my hear and take out a good 5-10 hairs, now I only get one, after trying afew times in afew areas.
My body hair continues to grow, which I believe Is a strong sign that my body has been effect long term by three months on finestrad, but the minoxidil treatme
treatment probably helps that along a little aswel.
Anyway, I'm sorry if some people read this and don't see it as a success story, as far as I'm concerned, hair totally stopping shedding is a missive win, it means the breaks are on, for now at least. My biggest regret is taking finasteride, and I would strongly recommend to the early sufferers to try topical first. If I had done that I genuinely believe I would have much, much more hair Now.
I will post some pictures soon but I stopped using them a number of weeks ago, I found it fed my unhealthy obsession with my hair, putting it out of my mind has been the best thing for my mental health for sure.
