medmechanica
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Hey all,
I've been taking Finasteride for about a month now, with no major side-effects other than some testicular tightness/soreness that has gone away. I also experience some mild brainfog but it's really not a bother, so I'm carrying on for now.
I take ~.07 mg a day, after building up from an EOD schedule. The doses are not exact because I'm splitting up a 5 mg generic...
Anyway, I've recently noticed some sparseness at the inner-ends of my eyebrows, particularly over my left eye. It's not terribly noticeable but it will be if I lose my more hair in that region.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Is this is the kind of shedding that ultimately grows back without discontinuing finasteride? I'm a musician and I have my own band the first time, and I would really like to keep the hair I have for at least a couple years while I make an attempt at a dream of mine... so I want to stick with the drug. But I'm concerned about the eyebrow shedding.
I will be speaking to my dermatologist as soon as I can, once my new HSA card comes in the mail, but I was curious what this forum has to say about eyebrow hair loss in the mean time. From what I can tell, it's not unheard of, but also not very common.
I will also mention that I have struggled with eczema around my eyebrow in the winters, and I have a bit of dryness in that area right now, which I understand can cause hair loss... but I don't think it's ever taken such a noticable chunk out of my eyebrow hair before.
I will try to remember to add a pic later... Thanks all!
I've been taking Finasteride for about a month now, with no major side-effects other than some testicular tightness/soreness that has gone away. I also experience some mild brainfog but it's really not a bother, so I'm carrying on for now.
I take ~.07 mg a day, after building up from an EOD schedule. The doses are not exact because I'm splitting up a 5 mg generic...
Anyway, I've recently noticed some sparseness at the inner-ends of my eyebrows, particularly over my left eye. It's not terribly noticeable but it will be if I lose my more hair in that region.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Is this is the kind of shedding that ultimately grows back without discontinuing finasteride? I'm a musician and I have my own band the first time, and I would really like to keep the hair I have for at least a couple years while I make an attempt at a dream of mine... so I want to stick with the drug. But I'm concerned about the eyebrow shedding.
I will be speaking to my dermatologist as soon as I can, once my new HSA card comes in the mail, but I was curious what this forum has to say about eyebrow hair loss in the mean time. From what I can tell, it's not unheard of, but also not very common.
I will also mention that I have struggled with eczema around my eyebrow in the winters, and I have a bit of dryness in that area right now, which I understand can cause hair loss... but I don't think it's ever taken such a noticable chunk out of my eyebrow hair before.
I will try to remember to add a pic later... Thanks all!