how long should finasteride keep my hair

[Birdman1990]

As a diffuse thinner that's been on finasteride for about 14 months I think I am just now seeing some results. I also just started oral min 2.5mg ED about 2 months so that might have something to do with it but I was wondering how long I can expect to keep my hair with finasteride?? any phenomenal experiences out there??

 

[Adam124]

I was on 0.5mg finasteride daily for 4 years and have just ramped it up to 1mg daily .

I think it kept my hair for 4 years and recently I’ve started to lose at the crown . Hoping increase to 1mg will work but who knows .

Min is a good thing to jump on too .

Answer to your question is that 5 years 65% on finasteride keep their hair , the studies show a decline . However some people keep their hair over ten years if you read some of the stories on here .

can I ask , where did you get the oral min from ? In the uk it’s not fda approved so don’t know where to get it (that’s if I wanted it as I’m a bit worried about the shed ).

 

[Birdman1990]

I got it from my gp and dang that kinda sucks. 5 years is not long. I’ve heard of better

 

[Birdman1990]

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I was on 0.5mg finasteride daily for 4 years and have just ramped it up to 1mg daily .

I think it kept my hair for 4 years and recently I’ve started to lose at the crown . Hoping increase to 1mg will work but who knows .

Min is a good thing to jump on too .

Answer to your question is that 5 years 65% on finasteride keep their hair , the studies show a decline . However some people keep their hair over ten years if you read some of the stories on here .

can I ask , where did you get the oral min from ? In the uk it’s not fda approved so don’t know where to get it (that’s if I wanted it as I’m a bit worried about the shed )

 

[Birdman1990]

I was on 0.5mg finasteride daily for 4 years and have just ramped it up to 1mg daily .

I think it kept my hair for 4 years and recently I’ve started to lose at the crown . Hoping increase to 1mg will work but who knows .

Min is a good thing to jump on too .

Answer to your question is that 5 years 65% on finasteride keep their hair , the studies show a decline . However some people keep their hair over ten years if you read some of the stories on here .

can I ask , where did you get the oral min from ? In the uk it’s not fda approved so don’t know where to get it (that’s if I wanted it as I’m a bit worried about the shed ).

Also how old are you ??

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I will say that I started finasteride in 1998 and then added dutasteride in 2015 both of which continue to be part of my daily reality. I first started balding at say 20 and I have pics but some people get pissed when stuff works for me and not for them but the bottom fell out in mid-2015 but by Christmas of 2017, I was officially an MtF but non-binary which seemed like the best of both worlds but maybe reductase inhibitors turned me trans since they can apparently cause life-long impotence if you only use them once and I was taking hundreds of such pills annually and then in 2015, they didn't work anymore. That's when I started estrogen because I had already researched every bit of male pattern baldness in the fall of 1984 and I had figured out what the "cure" was and I already knew it wasn't a real cure unless you used estrogen first and immediately got castrated. I wasn't ready for castration but I had been waiting for this moment for all of life, oh Mistress.

Now XY's hate my success and other trannies hate me for restoring my hair while so many 20-something gal-like trannies are permanently in wigs and I just love my wig so I win out either way. I am a diva, I have been told by my best female friend and that really hurt my feelings. Me? A diva? Someone who turns every conversation into something about either her or Her? Yikes. That's a hard load to carry because divas must be either fabulous or hot but boy trannies need not apply so I have been practicing to be a diva like Jane since I wasn't born to this. I was born at Camp LeJeune, NC and wore a crew cut until I was 7 years old. Just like many of my black friends, father would spread out the newspapers and use his shears making me bald in my little sailor suit when I was 3.

Divas often need hair even XY divas and we are expected to look better with our wigs on and nope, nobody expects us to lie about wearing a wig since that's most of us older gals and most of us younger gals who hadn't access to puberty blockers so there's much less pressure on the tranny side of things except most of your friends and family stop texting and emailing and answering the phone.

Anyway, back to reductase inhibitors. If you can avoid rampant, instantaneous feminization via finasteride or Dutas or Goddess-forbid both, then you can have great maintenance out to 20 years and since I am older, say you can maintain until male menopause whenever that occurs. But since I re-jiggered things I get a do-over on puberty and now puberty with both tits and long luscious hair as Janey and my under hair which I liberally show to nice boys, makes me look far better than Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie but I looove that name for an MtF but it was too derivative. Jane is everywoman in terms of aspiration but a diva in fact and so Janey it is. Janey's more fun and even if she spills her Rogaine, she remains cool and calculating but in a good way since I mostly copy XX's like my own X and gay bottoms if there are any left for style and grooming as a "male". Hair rocks and hair rolls and nobody who had wonderful locks can do anything but pine for them again. Never once did I want more "down there" so to speak but I always wanted my hair back and looking back, I was always a hair-diva. I have all of Warren Beatty's movies and I just love his Shampoo and Heaven can Wait while I have better hair then even Warren or his big sister who is an actress and plays usually female roles. Shirley she's not pure XX but no one admitted it in the 60's.

Whatever it takes, hold onto your hair lest you become aged and obsessed with youth and hair and makeup and clothes and different ways to obscure five o'clock shadow. Oh and Janey trumps Dear Father with her own take on Sailor Suits and being a boy which I included below. It doesn't suck being Janey at all or maybe I should rephrase that being agender and asexual now and all....

Best,
Janey

 

[Here For the Lulz]

There is no way to know for sure as we are all different. It depends on tons of things such as how advanced your male pattern baldness is, the dosage you need in order to initially respond, and the disposition of dozens of outside factors

I cant recall for sure, but I think the consensus, (with regard to how long it will work), tops out at around 10 years, but very few people come even close to that number. The thing is, it’s irrelevant if you care about your hairloss enough to take it as any time frame is better than nothing at all.

 

[Diffused_confidence]

There is no way to know for sure as we are all different. It depends on tons of things such as how advanced your male pattern baldness is, the dosage you need in order to initially respond, and the disposition of dozens of outside factors

I cant recall for sure, but I think the consensus, (with regard to how long it will work), tops out at around 10 years, but very few people come even close to that number. The thing is, it’s irrelevant if you care about your hairloss enough to take it as any time frame is better than nothing at all.

That can't be right. I thought on average you get 10 years and after that you may start losing ground.

 

[Catagen]

That can't be right. I thought on average you get 10 years and after that you may start losing ground.

If you are asian you get 10+ years on average. If you are a white guy only 67% maintain after 5 years, and there is an italian study with white men which is similar to asian one but it has a small sample size. But even those who dont maintain are still way better than doing nothing, unlike minoxidil. Also white men have a lower chance of regrowth asians can have minoxidil like regrowth from finasteride only, south east asians seem to respond better than north asians.
Bro science theory is that asians arent sensitive to testosterone naturally so they respond better to drugs. But they are just as fertile as white men so I think its pseudoscience.
Dutasteride on the other hand should work for white men in a similar rate as it does for asians.
But of course as with anything there are asians who are on a cocktail of drugs and they still lose ground, which is much more rare than white guys who dont respond to anything.

 

[Diffused_confidence]

If you are asian you get 10+ years on average. If you are a white guy only 67% maintain after 5 years, and there is an italian study with white men which is similar to asian one but it has a small sample size. But even those who dont maintain are still way better than doing nothing, unlike minoxidil. Also white men have a lower chance of regrowth asians can have minoxidil like regrowth from finasteride only, south east asians seem to respond better than north asians.
Bro science theory is that asians arent sensitive to testosterone naturally so they respond better to drugs. But they are just as fertile as white men so I think its pseudoscience.
Dutasteride on the other hand should work for white men in a similar rate as it does for asians.
But of course as with anything there are asians who are on a cocktail of drugs and they still lose ground, which is much more rare than white guys who dont respond to anything.

f*** man. That explains why I don't see results at all. But the issue I have with this is men with a 5αr deficiency never go bald but those men still have testosterone. So wouldn't testosterone be irrelevant?

5 years might buy me time before new treatments come out to stack with. Also, I think after 5 years you still lose ground but slower. Maybe by the time I hit 60 I'll be fully bald instead of 40 and on the way I could get it surgically fixed to buy me another 5 years.

 

[infamousrodi]

If you are asian you get 10+ years on average. If you are a white guy only 67% maintain after 5 years, and there is an italian study with white men which is similar to asian one but it has a small sample size. But even those who dont maintain are still way better than doing nothing, unlike minoxidil. Also white men have a lower chance of regrowth asians can have minoxidil like regrowth from finasteride only, south east asians seem to respond better than north asians.
Bro science theory is that asians arent sensitive to testosterone naturally so they respond better to drugs. But they are just as fertile as white men so I think its pseudoscience.
Dutasteride on the other hand should work for white men in a similar rate as it does for asians.
But of course as with anything there are asians who are on a cocktail of drugs and they still lose ground, which is much more rare than white guys who dont respond to anything.

what about hispanics?

 

[Birdman1990]

If you are asian you get 10+ years on average. If you are a white guy only 67% maintain after 5 years, and there is an italian study with white men which is similar to asian one but it has a small sample size. But even those who dont maintain are still way better than doing nothing, unlike minoxidil. Also white men have a lower chance of regrowth asians can have minoxidil like regrowth from finasteride only, south east asians seem to respond better than north asians.
Bro science theory is that asians arent sensitive to testosterone naturally so they respond better to drugs. But they are just as fertile as white men so I think its pseudoscience.
Dutasteride on the other hand should work for white men in a similar rate as it does for asians.
But of course as with anything there are asians who are on a cocktail of drugs and they still lose ground, which is much more rare than white guys who dont respond to anything.

This is all based of the first ever finasteride study with Japanese men lol

 

[Jpw1999]

Live in the moment and enjoy what you have right now, that's what I'm trying to do anyway.

 

[jamesbooker1975]

As a diffuse thinner that's been on finasteride for about 14 months I think I am just now seeing some results. I also just started oral min 2.5mg ED about 2 months so that might have something to do with it but I was wondering how long I can expect to keep my hair with finasteride?? any phenomenal experiences out there??

21 years, 2 month , 1 week, 2 hours with 30 minutes, in the 21 second will all fall down.
Dude. Your problem is not your hair, is is your brain.

 

[Birdman1990]

21 years, 2 month , 1 week, 2 hours with 30 minutes, in the 21 second will all fall down.
Dude. Your problem is not your hair, is is your brain.

Noted

 

[Moro]

I asked my dermatologist this very question. He said that there's no cut off date or X amount of days use. They just work until you stop taking them.

There are complications for old age affecting the treatment, but that's in your 70s or 80s. 60s at the earliest.

Best of luck, stick with what your dermatologist says.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

About an hour and a half, two hours if you are lucky according to many, many guys.

 

[Diffused_confidence]

I asked my dermatologist this very question. He said that there's no cut off date or X amount of days use. They just work until you stop taking them.

There are complications for old age affecting the treatment, but that's in your 70s or 80s. 60s at the earliest.

Best of luck, stick with what your dermatologist says.

I really wish that was true but it isn't. A lot of people start losing more past the 10 year mark.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I really wish that was true but it isn't. A lot of people start losing more past the 10 year mark.

But if you average in all of the anti-finasteride guys and desisters, it come's out to between 1.5 and 2.0 hours since remember, finasteride made most of those guys bald, or balder so that's negative in terms of the average maintenance time but since it's still above 0.0, finasteride is still the best male med.

 

[Birdman1990]

I really wish that was true but it isn't. A lot of people start losing more past the 10 year mark.

yeah I've heard the same although I have heard stories of some ppl retaining and even improving for like 20 years!!