KR78's Story

[KR78]

Hello Everyone,

I have joined the forum recently but have been reading the post for quite some time.

Here's my story:

I am a 27yr old and losing my hair since last 2 yrs. Ignored it initially (common Amateur mistake ) . Decided to take action last year when everyone started commenting about my hair.

Current situation:

1.Hair line : Intact (no issues)
2.Crown : Lot of thinning and couple of bald spots (major problem)
3.Vertex : Thinning


Dec 2005 to Feb 2006: Started Minoxidil with ppg. used it for 3 months but Stopped due to allergy to ppg (another big mistake )

Feb 2006: Stopped Mino and 2 months after stopping Mino I lost tons of hair and 'First time' saw couple of bald spots on the crown. I was shedding about 70-100 hairs a day :freaked: .

April 2006: Started Xandrox +spironolactone.+laser comb (in the evening)

May 2006: Started Double A (Dutas+Aloe) (Morning)

July 2006: Shedding decreased from 70-100 to almost 15-20 hairs per day. But still no regrowth or thincking of hair. The hair in crown region grows very,very slowly.

Current Regime:
1. Morning --- double A (Dutas+aloe) before shower.
2. I am not using Mino in the morning cause I am working and don't want to look or smell messy in the meetings
3. Evening --- Xandrox 5% (thinking of adding Dutas into xandrox).5% spironolactone lotion from Dr.Lee appx 15 min of xandrox application
4. Laser comb twice a week

Planned additions to the Regime:

Got a good quantity of dutas and fincar :lol:

I am planning to add Duta’s to my xandrox and apply the mix in the evening. What is the optimum no. of duta's I should mix in xandrox? And for better results should I leave the xan+dutas application on my head the whole night?

Planning to take 1 Mg Fincar EOD and 0.5Mg Duta’s twice a week.

I would appreciate if you guys comment / refine my regime. My aim is to recover as much hair as possible (fortunately finance is not a problem)

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

If finances are no trouble then buy proscar locally instead of fincar- at least that way you'll know at least one of your oral DHT blockers isn't a counterfeit.

Your regimen sounds good.

 

[beaner]

If finances are no trouble then buy proscar locally instead of fincar- at least that way you'll know at least one of your oral DHT blockers isn't a counterfeit.

Your regimen sounds good.

The chances of your fincar being counterfeit are probably zero.

 

[Guest]

If finances are no trouble then buy proscar locally instead of fincar- at least that way you'll know at least one of your oral DHT blockers isn't a counterfeit.

Your regimen sounds good.

The chances of your fincar being counterfeit are probably zero.

beaner i totally understand your argument about there not being as much of an incentive to counterfeit the generics, but with the ability to get generic proscar for 225 at my local pharmacy, meh. and if it's not fake it may have less than 1 mg in it and it may have other bad stuff added to it.

 

[beaner]

If finances are no trouble then buy proscar locally instead of fincar- at least that way you'll know at least one of your oral DHT blockers isn't a counterfeit.

Your regimen sounds good.

The chances of your fincar being counterfeit are probably zero.

beaner i totally understand your argument about there not being as much of an incentive to counterfeit the generics, but with the ability to get generic proscar for 225 at my local pharmacy, meh. and if it's not fake it may have less than 1 mg in it and it may have other bad stuff added to it.

Understood completely Jay-man, and I actually agree with you......to be totally without worry, we should all get our prescription drugs locally and with a doctors prescription. However, there are going to be a lot of posters who are going to go the generic/non-rx route for one reason or other and I think it's best not to get them paranoid that they are getting bad meds. Fincar is legit and no one is going to waste the time to counterfeit it....and if they stick with the two websites most mentioned here on this forum......they are doing the best they can do in their chosen situation.

 

[ANDREW_J_I]

Got any pics of ur hair?

 

[KR78]

Yeah I got the pics... but not sure how to upload them on the site...

 

[ANDREW_J_I]

http://www.imageshack.net

upload them to that, then copy the link, and put it onto this site. ;-).

 

[KR78]

thanks Andrew,

I have uploaded my pics.

 

[hellohello]

Good that your hairline is intact as these drugs your using work best in the area your thinning.. here's to some growing!

 

[ANDREW_J_I]

yeh, propecia, minoxidil and nizoral is ur best bet, good luck!

 

[KR78]

For the past 70 days I have been using:

1 Mg finasteride EOD
minoxidil 1 Ml twice per day
spironolactone + Folligen alternate days 1 application at night
0.5 mg dutasteride twice a week (Friday and Monday)
nizoral twice a week

For the past 10 days I am sheddig almost 40-50 hairs(both think & Thick and from every where on the head) before the above regime it was only 10-20 hairs.

I am sure it is finasteride,minoxidil,dutasteride induced shed and I will ride it out.

Positives:
Hair looks little thick

Negitives:
Little loss of libido
shedding

 

[KR78]

OMG for the past 3 days I have been shedding more than 75 hairs a day , this kinda of freeking me :freaked2:
Guys how long does the shed wave normally last and will adding anything to my current regime reduce the shed

 

[Wisdom]

OMG for the past 3 days I have been shedding more than 75 hairs a day , this kinda of freeking me :freaked2:
Guys how long does the shed wave normally last and will adding anything to my current regime reduce the shed

With minoxidil usage i got the shedding to stop completely after 3 weeks.

 

[KR78]

but I am already on Minoxidil

 

[LookingGood!]

Well, you might want to stay with Xandrox in the day and next time buy the ppg free Xandrox, at night the spironolactone cream, then xandox 15 w/o ppgthe strongest minoxidil. Thats what Dr Lee prescribed to me.
I had issues with ppg being greasy too long in the AM to dry etc.

Also up the Nizoral to 2% 3 times a week if you havent already.


You might be experiencing advanced thinning at this point and not necessarily the shedding. Hard to tell though.


Hang in there it might take alittle longer for you to stabilize you Hairloss.

 

[KR78]

I have been on the following regime for more than 4 months and I am happy to report that:

1. My hairfall is under control (almost 5-10 hairs a day)
2. Hair looks thick and healthy
3. Crown is filling in and hairline is still intact
4. I see lot of tiny hair in the crown so more regrowth likely

I expect the results will improve over the comming months.

Regime since Aug06:
1. 1Mg finasteride daily (either finpecia or 1/5 of fincar)
2. twice a day minoxidil (since last 1 month foam)
3. nizoral (once a week)
4. Tricomin (1 daily sometimes twice)
5. spironolactone once before bed.

I met couple of old friends (who know about my hairloss) after a gap of 4 months and they commented that now my hair looks healthy and I seem to be reversing the balding process

here are some of my recent pics.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4705 ... 014dc5.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/9342 ... 014iv8.jpg

 

[bilbobaggins]

nice work son...

i've been on propecia for 7 months and so far so good. i haven't noticed any prominent regrowth but my hair no longer falls out. i understand that hair grows very slowly and don't expect to see anything for a couple of months yet...

heres hoping anyway.

have you had any sides?

 

[KR78]

little sides.
Had initial shed which stopped after a week or two , lost morning wood for a week or so but it is back now

 

[bilbobaggins]

glad to here it...nice puppies by the way.

i had a pain in my spuds for a couple of days but its gone. how did you notice your regrowth? did you see terminal hairs growing?