Impressive Regrowth, finasteride,minoxidil, pics, but time to give them up?:(

[freeflow]

Okay hello everyone, let me do a fast introduction before i tell you about my current situation. I started balding before 18. It was a real shock to me when i buzzed my hair and saw my temples are recieding. I couldnt sleep, was thinking how its happening to me and why, just how everbody reacts to it when baldness strikes in his teens. I really felt that i will lose the best part of my life cause of it.
I was using lots of shiet natural herbs that are sold as cure for hairloss and used coffeine too. But it was not helping and i was recieding slowly and gradually and needed to wash my hair everyday to make it look fresh and easier to hide my non existent temples. My friend told me about rogaine but i read the description and got scared of the shedding and didnt use it.

At 21(last february) I had to take actions. I was recieding and starting to diffuse too. I hated to be on photos thats the 2 best i could get to see my situation. I had that little patch of hair at the front of my head.

I was so afraid of finasteride but i took it. In a few months like 4-5, I had unbelievable regrowth! Small vellus hairs appearing and turning into terminal in the front and all over.My hair started to look healthy again. I could style it I felt incredibly good! Take a look at these 2 photos. I know they are not the best comparison photos but I didnt make them for this reason, I totally forgot about hairloss and was just enjoying my hair again.

and that time i was so obsessed with my hair I didnt give a dam about the minor sides finasteride gave me. It has lowered my libido and I have watery semen too. I dont enjoy sex as much. In the past i could get erections when a woman sit next to me now there is no chance. I still get morning woods and can fap like 3-4 times a day but its just not the same. Now im like 10-11 months into the treatment and I got lost. I do want my old self back who enjoyed woman so much and i dont wanna stay on finasteride anymore.
I have a great body and I am okay with buzzing it without a guard every 3 days but I want to maintain as much as possible , the best would be to keep it all. Even if i slow it down I will make some temporary SMP and Hair transplant but it will never be the same.
So Im slowly tapering off finasteride, Im taking like 0.3mg every other day. I will switch this to every 3rd and 4th day later and stop it finally and hope for my libido to rise back. I have like 60% now compared to before the start of this drug... I dont wanna get post finasteride crash anyways.

So any good maintainer advice? I looked into Cetirizine topically, I read beholder PG blocking therapy, I will use minoxidil for sure and i will order some shampoo with Keto 2%.

Guys please help me, what would you do in my situation? Anyone stick to the current finasteride and minoxidil if he was me? I dont say finasteride is a poison but it really has some affection on me. But not having hair does too.

Thank you guys for the insight and hope you will help me. please let me know if anything is not clear, english is not my first language.

and for the end here is a picture when i was late 17 and some miniaturization was already visible on my right side

 

[MercMan]

Great results. I had your diffuse pattern at 23, definitely wish I would have gotten on finasteride back then.

My advice would be to stop fapping 3-4 times a day.

Seriously.

 

[freeflow]

man i wrote i could, not that i do it but lets try some even less.

Or what about increasing libido somehow? anybody tried that and had success while on finasteride?

 

[zzzzz]

You could gamble with RU I'd you are dropping everything, if you document your results over the course of a few years and maintain it would be very valuable info to the hair loss community, as no one really has documented an RU only regimen well besides El duterino. It shouldn't have noticeable sides like finasteride and you might want to look into it

 

[freeflow]

Well i forgot to write it in the description I still have some of that in my fridge from Kane. I ordered it for like 200 dollars 1gram, and mixed it in his vehicle. I used it before taking finasteride cause i read a lot about the sides of finasteride and i would gladly pay more for the treatment just to work but that stuff gave me crazy heartbeat and chest pain. I took a break, like 1 week and it came back, I could barely fall asleep after i applied it. And i also read the story about someone who got a death sentence from it some kina heart failure at least he claimed it was from RU. Id love to take it and belive it works but its far too risky for me

 

[IrishFella]

You get an erection just by sitting next to women and wank off 3-4 times a day!?

If you really finasteride is ****ing with you then drop it, or lower the dose. Something tells me it ain't the finasteride though ....

 

[freeflow]

next to a woman who is attractive, and the watery semen isnt finasteride either...
I appreaciate any ideas on how to maintain, there is no need to tell me that finasteride doesnt have any effect on me, I know my body more than you guys.

First i drop finasteride and see how I feel, and nothing major change i might take some every other or third day. But with lowered dosage i feel better compared to 1.25 every day. Im now on 0.3 every other day, though its claimed that it has like the same effect.

 

[Wolf Pack]

It's up to you to get off it but your sides may be tolerable for quite a few people, you seem informed about it all either way.

You don't need to "ease yourself off/on it," no medical evidence to suggest it makes any difference. The HPA axis is mostly unaffected on finasteride except some minor stuff.

 

[mosd]

just a question, do you watch p**rn?

 

[freeflow]

yes, and its not the same as before too. I cannot say it anymore clearly that it affects the libido really, and its not in connection with a new "lifestyle" like watching p**rn all day or idk what you are thinking.
Still waiting on ideas how to maintain

 

[simtastic]

do you still wank everyday?

 

[freeflow]

I think you are trolling me guys

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before hopping off finasteride to see how i feel i give a nofap week a try with 0.3 mg finasteride every other day and will report how i feel

 

[BiqqieSmalls]

Dude, you're desensitized from jerking off and watching p**rn. It is not finasteride that's lowering your libido. Do the NoFap challenge and you'll feel so much better. I am two days away from a whole 7 weeks of not watching p**rn or jerking off and I am incredibly horny. I, too, take finasteride 1mg ed.

 

[freeflow]

Okay, I wanna experience both, days with finasteride and nofap, and also how i feel without finasteride. Im still on 0.3-4mg every other day. But this nofap is kinda hard. And remember i have been experiencing watery semen since the day i started so I just cannot say everything is in my head.

 

[zdm632]

Dude, you get an erection just by siting next to a woman? That's pretty exagerate, so it seems you had a very high libido to start with, finasteride may just have normalised it.
Anyway, you decide what matters most:crazy libido or hair.
I would choose hair, but i'm not you. Good luck!

 

[BiqqieSmalls]

Do NoFap and you won't be disappointed. It has physiological and physical benefits. Ride it out man. p**rn is bad.

 

[freeflow]

Okay, I want to ask something. Has anybody ever considered the nofap before finasteride? probably no, as you had good libido all the time.There was no need to go on 7 week nofap.
Im gonna start topical finasteride soon as I can get some and see how it works. I will make a 1-2 week long break between oral and notice if there is any difference or sides coming from topical.

 

[freeflow]

OMG, i found a picture of myself before 3months taking any treatments

Check this out and with strong lights I was a freak compared to now srsly.
finasteride is not that bad now i can appreciate it more.

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To the nofap cave and finasteride EOD

 

[themiz1234]

Hey freeflow,
First of all...nice results! Don't quit! lol. I just wanted to ask, however, what were your results with finasteride like month-to-month e.g. month 1 v. month 2 v. month 3 etc.

 

[freeflow]

Its really hard to tell, I used finasteride and minoxidil together, and in 1-2-3 months i noticed hundreds of smaller vellus hairs in my hairline. It was unbelievable, I had a bit longer hair that time so probably that was happening all over my head but i didn notice with 3-4cm long hair. I still have some vellus hairs in my hairline and i still use minoxidil hoping them to turn terminal.

I will buzz my hair soon, will post a picture for the best comparison