So i've been on finasteride for the past 3 months, started taking 0.5mg everday on 20th july for the first 2 months then bumped up to 1mg. I'm both a receder and a diffuse thinner, although my temples are nw1.5-2.
Just some history. I started noticing i was losing more hair on the shower in Jan/Feb 2012. I thought at the time that i might have been losing a bit more due to the stress of my midsessional exams, as my hair was still really thick on top. I noticed in march that i could kinda see my scalp through my hairline when standing under a bright light, it was only when I was talking about this to my barber in the easter holidays when he said 'yeah you're hair seems much thinner on top, you might be going bald'. Everday i noticed my hair seemed thinner and thinner and once i read that a sign of male pattern baldness is a receded hairline i realised that my right temple had started to recede, i was mortified, I basically had male pattern baldness. My maternal grandfather's an nw7, his sons are an nw4 and nw6. My dad's hair has thinned but he still has his hairline, although the thinning only started once he was on blood pressure meds. Although there are men on his side too which have started to lose their hair.
I was gonna start taking finasteride last summer but money was tight so decided to take saw palmetto, thinking it might have the same, albiet weaker, effect. It didn't do much, i didn't see a reduction in hairfall but i stuck with it for a year. My hair progressively thinned throughout that time though once i stopped for a month before taking finasteride, i noticed my hair fall had increased.
For the past few weeks i've been noticing a whole lot of hair and my scalp has really thinned out, more so at the front, i thought that as i was basically shedding before the treatment that it would just slow down, instead it's just accelerated and i'm worried that it'll either miniturise or never grow back.
Will I get back what has been lost for the past few months, is finasteride even working?
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I would like to add that there has been some other effects, some good some bad. One, the itching and excess sebum has basically disappeared, the finasteride has kinda made my scalp seem dry after getting so used to the oilyness, saw palmetto just used to make this worse on occassions. Two, my body hair has been thinning out, so has my nose hair, something i least expected. I have been noticing some acne here and there.
Lastly, my semen is so watery it's unbelieveable, it's like i'm just playing around with a waterpistol. I had this problem with saw palmetto but this is like a whole new level.
Just some history. I started noticing i was losing more hair on the shower in Jan/Feb 2012. I thought at the time that i might have been losing a bit more due to the stress of my midsessional exams, as my hair was still really thick on top. I noticed in march that i could kinda see my scalp through my hairline when standing under a bright light, it was only when I was talking about this to my barber in the easter holidays when he said 'yeah you're hair seems much thinner on top, you might be going bald'. Everday i noticed my hair seemed thinner and thinner and once i read that a sign of male pattern baldness is a receded hairline i realised that my right temple had started to recede, i was mortified, I basically had male pattern baldness. My maternal grandfather's an nw7, his sons are an nw4 and nw6. My dad's hair has thinned but he still has his hairline, although the thinning only started once he was on blood pressure meds. Although there are men on his side too which have started to lose their hair.
I was gonna start taking finasteride last summer but money was tight so decided to take saw palmetto, thinking it might have the same, albiet weaker, effect. It didn't do much, i didn't see a reduction in hairfall but i stuck with it for a year. My hair progressively thinned throughout that time though once i stopped for a month before taking finasteride, i noticed my hair fall had increased.
For the past few weeks i've been noticing a whole lot of hair and my scalp has really thinned out, more so at the front, i thought that as i was basically shedding before the treatment that it would just slow down, instead it's just accelerated and i'm worried that it'll either miniturise or never grow back.
Will I get back what has been lost for the past few months, is finasteride even working?
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I would like to add that there has been some other effects, some good some bad. One, the itching and excess sebum has basically disappeared, the finasteride has kinda made my scalp seem dry after getting so used to the oilyness, saw palmetto just used to make this worse on occassions. Two, my body hair has been thinning out, so has my nose hair, something i least expected. I have been noticing some acne here and there.
Lastly, my semen is so watery it's unbelieveable, it's like i'm just playing around with a waterpistol. I had this problem with saw palmetto but this is like a whole new level.
