Molecular Help
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Minoxidil is usually not reccomended on this board for people who would be happy maintaining their current head of hair. A few reasons given are "keep your regimen as simple as possible" and "you want to have something you can add later if your regimen loses effectiveness".
Now I would be happy if I could maintain what I have now, especially considering how much worse it could be. But something I was reading about minoxidil on the rogaine website made me wonder if I should use it. They say that an ideal candidate for success with minoxidil is someone whose hair loss occured mostly within the year or two previous to using it.
So perhaps waiting to start minoxidil hurts it's effectiveness, even if you are using other hair loss treatments that are helping during that time. I certainly see the logic of wanting to hold off and keep it in reserve for regrowth down the line, but not if in the end that means it's going to work on less hair follicles.
Now I would be happy if I could maintain what I have now, especially considering how much worse it could be. But something I was reading about minoxidil on the rogaine website made me wonder if I should use it. They say that an ideal candidate for success with minoxidil is someone whose hair loss occured mostly within the year or two previous to using it.
So perhaps waiting to start minoxidil hurts it's effectiveness, even if you are using other hair loss treatments that are helping during that time. I certainly see the logic of wanting to hold off and keep it in reserve for regrowth down the line, but not if in the end that means it's going to work on less hair follicles.
