hi.you are in the same boat with me.I am from Romania so sorry for my bad english.I want to say my story and it is pretty interesting.Here what s happened.About 2 years ago,my hair line began slowly to receed,not too much.My hair anyway was thick.I started the treatment with finasteride,proscar to be more exactly,one pill cut in 4 or 5.Here in Romania you can buy it without prescription from any farmacy drug and it s cost about 20usd(28pills)...every pill cut in 4 or 5...or in 8,9 if you want to take a low dosage.So,it takes a half year or even a year to finish it.I took 1mg every day for 7 months and my hairline receeded much worse that in my dreams.It looked horrible.And that s not all..diffuse thinning all over my scalp,severe ddiffuse.I am also a sport guy so i ve lost a lot of my muscle mass,i was gained weight,bone loss,insomnia,a little brain fog etc.After 7 months i decided to stop it.In the first 3 months after i stopped,my hair was much better..incredible.I also felt much better..i started sport also.But then,even my hair look better,i decided to apply some topicals to make thhhhings mucch much better.I applied homemade spironolactone every day and twice a week topical flutamide.But after a month or so,i began to feel worse than ever,insomnia,anxiety etc...much worse that when i was on finasteride.My hair become very thin and dry,my skin also very very dry and itchy scalp.After some reading,i discovered that one of the sides effect of quitting finasteride is low testosterone.So,after quitting,my testosterone was almost ok because i started training,diet etc,hair better...but after topicals spironolactone and flutamide,my testosterone dropped insainly.That caused diffuse thinning,dry itchy scalp,hair and skin and others siddes effect.What i want to say it s: almost everyone here say that itchy scalp is caused by DHT inflammation of the scalp.But they forgot that a dry skin can be itchy without involving DHT.That is what s happened to me..diffuse thinning and dry hair from low testosterone.And Propecia is not for eeveryone...it s screwed up my hormones,my pituitary gland,thyroid,etc.Low testosterone can lead to hypogonadism,hypopituitarism and hypothyroidism...wich lead to hair loss and diffuse thinning and other things.I had the itchyness on my entire scalp...and that s from a dry scalp.Now,i dont use topicals that inhibit testosterone...just zix,minoxidil on the temples and acv(apple cider vinegar)from time to time because it s a great sensation of the scalp.Now,after stopping finasteride,spironolactone and flutamide,my hair is recovering,isn t falling but i still have a diffuse thinning wich i believe is from my hormones imbalance.I hope that maca root will balance that.That s it.Sry if i was too long or boring.
- - - Updated - - -
hi.you are in the same boat with me.I am from Romania so sorry for my bad english.I want to say my story and it is pretty interesting.Here what s happened.About 2 years ago,my hair line began slowly to receed,not too much.My hair anyway was thick.I started the treatment with finasteride,proscar to be more exactly,one pill cut in 4 or 5.Here in Romania you can buy it without prescription from any farmacy drug and it s cost about 20usd(28pills)...every pill cut in 4 or 5...or in 8,9 if you want to take a low dosage.So,it takes a half year or even a year to finish it.I took 1mg every day for 7 months and my hairline receeded much worse that in my dreams.It looked horrible.And that s not all..diffuse thinning all over my scalp,severe ddiffuse.I am also a sport guy so i ve lost a lot of my muscle mass,i was gained weight,bone loss,insomnia,a little brain fog etc.After 7 months i decided to stop it.In the first 3 months after i stopped,my hair was much better..incredible.I also felt much better..i started sport also.But then,even my hair look better,i decided to apply some topicals to make thhhhings mucch much better.I applied homemade spironolactone every day and twice a week topical flutamide.But after a month or so,i began to feel worse than ever,insomnia,anxiety etc...much worse that when i was on finasteride.My hair become very thin and dry,my skin also very very dry and itchy scalp.After some reading,i discovered that one of the sides effect of quitting finasteride is low testosterone.So,after quitting,my testosterone was almost ok because i started training,diet etc,hair better...but after topicals spironolactone and flutamide,my testosterone dropped insainly.That caused diffuse thinning,dry itchy scalp,hair and skin and others siddes effect.What i want to say it s: almost everyone here say that itchy scalp is caused by DHT inflammation of the scalp.But they forgot that a dry skin can be itchy without involving DHT.That is what s happened to me..diffuse thinning and dry hair from low testosterone.And Propecia is not for eeveryone...it s screwed up my hormones,my pituitary gland,thyroid,etc.Low testosterone can lead to hypogonadism,hypopituitarism and hypothyroidism...wich lead to hair loss and diffuse thinning and other things.I had the itchyness on my entire scalp...and that s from a dry scalp.Now,i dont use topicals that inhibit testosterone...just zix,minoxidil on the temples and acv(apple cider vinegar)from time to time because it s a great sensation of the scalp.Now,after stopping finasteride,spironolactone and flutamide,my hair is recovering,isn t falling but i still have a diffuse thinning wich i believe is from my hormones imbalance.I hope that maca root will balance that.That s it.Sry if i was too long or boring.
