Have been on finsateride for 8 months now

[ahmadjaved]

hay watsup guyz i have been on finasteride 1/4 for 8 months now so far the itchiness has stopped but still losing hair, one other thing i am a diffuse thinner so is that going to affect my response to finasteride in any way?

 

[Guest]

finasteride works for any form of male pattern baldness. diffuse is male pattern baldness so youre fine

 

[ahmadjaved]

sdad

should i still use finasteride even it hasnt worked for me after using it for 8 months

 

[jh]

you should give it a year

 

[MPBWarrior]

it probably is working for u in the sense it almost definitely slowed your hair loss. probably just not enough to stop it. u can either look at it 2 ways... i'm gonna go bald eventually so it doesn't matter if i take it or u can take it and postpone your male pattern baldness in the hope that something better might come along soon. if u can afford it, i'd stick with finasteride.

 

[Stu85]

Are you sure it's not working? I know you say you're still losing hair, but are you sure you have visibly receeded or thinned since you started?

I think I remember Dr Rassman from baldingblog.com saying that in his opinion finasteride always works. It may not be enough to halt hairloss in some people, but it always slows it down...

 

[Pondle]

In one of the clinical trials 83% of men on finasteride maintained their hair count, while 66% regrew some hair. But that leaves nearly a fifth who continued to lose hair... :cry:

 

[GC]

if studies showed 83% of men maintained their hair, how does that leave nearly a fifith who continued to lose hair?

I was the sharpest tool in the shed when it came to maths at school, but god damn!

I'd say it's closer to a sixth.

Just my 0.02cents

 

[Pondle]

C'mon mate, don't be so pedantic.

100 - 83 = 17

1/5 = 20%

17 is nearly 20 in my book! OK perhaps I could have said "over a sixth continue to lose hair". But that sounds less intuitive.

 

[GC]

17 x 5 = 85

17 x 6 = 102

It's not slightly closer to a sixth, it's definetely closer.

Anyway, I'm going to go sit myself in a corner and continue to lose hair!

 

[Pondle]

You're right of course, but you've got to remember that those numbers were only from one trial, I think they'd be subject to sampling variation.

So you're taking finasteride and still losing hair?

 

[GC]

Dude, not only am I losing my hair, I'm losing my eyebrows!!!

In saying that, I've only just recently started finasteride again after quite some time off (read my story in the appropriate section)

 

[Xerhid]

if studies showed 83% of men maintained their hair, how does that leave nearly a fifith who continued to lose hair?

Arguably, for the 17% who continued to lose hair, perhaps it would be worth it for them to continue taking finasteride, because they potentially lost hair AT A SLOWER RATE than without finasteride.

 

[Pondle]

That's the Dr Rassman argument, apparently. I think it would be better to make the jump to dutasteride.