Is it possible Regaine can cause skin problems?

[faust405245]

I went to my derm today (for my skin), red, painful, irritated face, and raised the possibility that regaine was causing this. I thought this because my skin symptoms started same time I began regaine. The derm said, possible, stop regaine, doesnt work for temples anyway. He also said there's nothing I can do for baldness and accept it so he was obviously a dick but can I trust him?

To be honest regaine isn't working yet anyway, two months in, haven't really expected to see results yet, so it's not like I'm going to lose growth if I stop. I am tempted to stop, maybe get on propecia, and see if my skin improves. If it doesn't then Ill get back on rogaine.

But I just wanted to see what other people thought first.

Is it at all possible regaine can cause sensitive skin on my face?

 

[faust405245]

Nobody?

I've been off regaine for a few days now, Ive seen no improvement in my skin.

I'm not sure whether to start again. To be honest I think it was just destroying my hairline anyway.

 

[Blondilocks]

Faust if its PPG based liquid, you can be allergic to it and cause skin irritability. You can also lose more hair, than you would... mine grew back before male pattern baldness took it away again!

If its minoxidil foam your using which is not ppg based then I'm afraid I don't know the answer but Nizoral is good for scalp inflammation.

There are things you can do for Baldness its just much more complex than your doctor has ever had to study.

Any more info I just posted my experience with alot of things

 

[Timi]

my face get red with minoxidil

Foam-Kirkland-Regaine the same
a red burning face

Timi

 

[faust405245]

Well I was using the regaine liquid. I stopped about a week ago but haven't seen any improvement in my skin yet. I'll give it another week or so then I might just start it up again.

 

[Blondilocks]

It can take longer than a week, for your skin to recover, even a pimple can stick around for a week

 

[Fender89]

Timi, when did you face become like that? like how soon after using minoxidil?

 

[Timi]

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[icdalite]

Timi and the other guys who had issues with minoxidil.. please specify whether

1. It was minoxidil foam or liquid

2. With or without PPG

3. Was it always applied to dry scalp or semi-wet moist?

thnx

 

[faust405245]

I was using liquid. Now I think about it, I often applied minoxidil to hair that while not wet exacty was greasy so it wasn't perfectly dry if that makes sense...

Anyway. It's about two weeks since I stopped minoxidil. My skin is still bad so I'm not sure what's going on to be honest. It might still be just adjusting back to normal I'm not sure, I mean minoxidil gave me bad dandruft too, flaking scalp, and that's still there so maybe I've just got to adjust. That's what I'm hoping anyway.