Minoxidil Thinned Out My Hair, Please Help

[Aleksa97]

Okay so today was one of those days I think everyone here can relate to. I was washing my teeth and while I was looking at the mirror I thought : "f*** I look pathetic ". Like I feel so helpless I just want to cry. The fact that I just pull my hair and it falls out kills me. I've been using minoxidil for 2.5 months and at first I was very satisfied. But now I can see that it has thinned out mt hairline. It made small thin hairs grow out but in general thats it, those hairs arent noticeable frok the distance and therefore are useless. I really dont know what to do. I am thinking about stopping minoxidil. Really sont want to make my hare even more worse. Man I am so dissapointed and angry. The fact that on everything I have chronic telogen effluvim doesnt help at all. And believe me, you dont want to have CTE. I just pull out my hair and it goes out. So easily. f*****g hairloss is ruining my life. My f*****g grandad has better hair than me. Why is this happening to me. If someone can give my advice on what to do, I would be grateful. Should I stop minoxidil?
Really dont know what to do, I think that eventually I will blow out.

 

[Roberto_72]

Okay so today was one of those days I think everyone here can relate to. I was washing my teeth and while I was looking at the mirror I thought : "f*** I look pathetic ". Like I feel so helpless I just want to cry. The fact that I just pull my hair and it falls out kills me. I've been using minoxidil for 2.5 months and at first I was very satisfied. But now I can see that it has thinned out mt hairline. It made small thin hairs grow out but in general thats it, those hairs arent noticeable frok the distance and therefore are useless. I really dont know what to do. I am thinking about stopping minoxidil. Really sont want to make my hare even more worse. Man I am so dissapointed and angry. The fact that on everything I have chronic telogen effluvim doesnt help at all. And believe me, you dont want to have CTE. I just pull out my hair and it goes out. So easily. f*****g hairloss is ruining my life. My f*****g grandad has better hair than me. Why is this happening to me. If someone can give my advice on what to do, I would be grateful. Should I stop minoxidil?
Really dont know what to do, I think that eventually I will blow out.

If I were you I would try to resist. You are going through the shedding phase. The results are to be evaluated after six months minimum.

 

[hairblues]

Okay so today was one of those days I think everyone here can relate to. I was washing my teeth and while I was looking at the mirror I thought : "f*** I look pathetic ". Like I feel so helpless I just want to cry. The fact that I just pull my hair and it falls out kills me. I've been using minoxidil for 2.5 months and at first I was very satisfied. But now I can see that it has thinned out mt hairline. It made small thin hairs grow out but in general thats it, those hairs arent noticeable frok the distance and therefore are useless. I really dont know what to do. I am thinking about stopping minoxidil. Really sont want to make my hare even more worse. Man I am so dissapointed and angry. The fact that on everything I have chronic telogen effluvim doesnt help at all. And believe me, you dont want to have CTE. I just pull out my hair and it goes out. So easily. f*****g hairloss is ruining my life. My f*****g grandad has better hair than me. Why is this happening to me. If someone can give my advice on what to do, I would be grateful. Should I stop minoxidil?
Really dont know what to do, I think that eventually I will blow out.

you might as well stick it out because you shed--now you have to wait for the regrowth

 

[Aleksa97]

Yea I mean I saw first regrowth after about 2 weeks. So I was pretty optimistic. Ill stick to it for 2-3 more months. Should adress that i am using the 2% one every day once a day. Will this thin hairs that poppd out be replaced by normal ones? What are your opinions?

 

[Eren]

It did the same to my temples and hairline in a matter of months. Nothing grew back, though.

You should stick to it anyway, as others said.

How long have you used or did you use minoxidil?

 

[Aleksa97]

I've been using rogaine liquid for 9 months, but then I got severe seborrheic dermatitis and switched to foam, which I have been using for the last 2-3 years. I've been using finasteride, as well, for more than a year now. Nevertheless, I went from Norwood 2 to Norwood 4, and now I'm heading to Norwood 5.

That sucks man seems like meds didnt work on you..

 

[rclark]

Yea I mean I saw first regrowth after about 2 weeks. So I was pretty optimistic. Ill stick to it for 2-3 more months. Should adress that i am using the 2% one every day once a day. Will this thin hairs that poppd out be replaced by normal ones? What are your opinions?

If you are going to use Minoxidil, would recommend five percent. That has been shown
to make bigger gains than two percent.

Best of luck. Hair loss is never an easy process.

 

[resu]

Yea I mean I saw first regrowth after about 2 weeks. So I was pretty optimistic. Ill stick to it for 2-3 more months. Should adress that i am using the 2% one every day once a day. Will this thin hairs that poppd out be replaced by normal ones? What are your opinions?

Maybe you're not using enough and sometimes it reaches the follicles and other times it doesn't, I believe the 2x days is so that the follicles get the minoxidil at least once a day.

 

[Eren]

I've been using rogaine liquid for 9 months, but then I got severe seborrheic dermatitis and switched to foam, which I have been using for the last 2-3 years. I've been using finasteride, as well, for more than a year now. Nevertheless, I went from Norwood 2 to Norwood 4, and now I'm heading to Norwood 5.

Holy f***!!! You started when you were a thick NW2? f*** this sucks, I didn't even know you could lose THAT much ground despite being on treatments.

I asked because I want to add minoxidil to my regimen as well. Due to male pattern baldness my hair went from silky strong hair to weak, wiry hair. I HATE that wiry look, it looks disgusting. Weak hair cannot be styled properly if at all. I hope minoxidil will make it more robust, less kinky/wiry. I've been of finasteride for three years now. People think that I don't take care of my hair, but that's bs really. finasteride did improve my hair though, it's just that my hair looks more like straw than actual f*****g hair.

 

[Eren]

I had to use foam because of dermatitis, but I would have NEVER expected getting worse in a matter of months, and while being on finasteride, to boot. I'm simply doomed to go bald it seems. At least I tried.

I was getting bald at the pace you describe, but that was pre-meds. I started to go bald at 19 (that's when I first noticed) and I was far from being 20 years old. If I did not do anything I would have been NW7 at 23.

The biggest issue for me is simply that my hair does not look aesthetic. It's lusterless, dead, shitty and it hurts. Even my nape hair looks sh*t. Sides (above ears) thinned, and donor hair at the back seems to have changed in texture (it went from straight hair to wavy hair).

It depresses me when I look at my kid brothers who have a full head of hair. I really feel like sh*t. I am going to work within a month and most old men there still have great hair. I feel like an inferior piece of sh*t. Extremely depressed now. It's like this post says:

 

[sunchyme1]

Since I'm both ugly and bald, the only option I've got left is becoming a Dark Lord of the Order of the Ugly Frogs.

lol dantes daily self pity meme

all together everyone...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[rclark]

Holy f***!!! You started when you were a thick NW2? f*** this sucks, I didn't even know you could lose THAT much ground despite being on treatments.

I asked because I want to add minoxidil to my regimen as well. Due to male pattern baldness my hair went from silky strong hair to weak, wiry hair. I HATE that wiry look, it looks disgusting. Weak hair cannot be styled properly if at all. I hope minoxidil will make it more robust, less kinky/wiry. I've been of finasteride for three years now. People think that I don't take care of my hair, but that's bs really. finasteride did improve my hair though, it's just that my hair looks more like straw than actual f*****g hair.

If you are taking finasteride or dutasteride, I would recommend Minoxidil. If not, and you HAVE androgen alopecia,
you should definitely add finasteride or dutasteride, then take Minoxidil.

With both combined, the maximum gains can be as high as 85%, that's right EIGHTY FIVE PERCENT.

I believe, for Finasteride alone, the gains can be as high as sixty percent.

Again, it depends how long the hair has been inactive (dead).

Of course, every individual responds differently.

 

[Aleksa97]

f*** man I really think I've lost hair on my hairline because of minoxidil. I expected that I will atleast keep what I had. I wish I hadn't even started taking minoxidil to be honest. I'll continue to use it, things might get better after 1-2 hair cycles changes. But man this is depressing.

 

[charcoal]

Long time lurker here. I have the same situation going with my hair after 3 months on minoxidil. Also, I am on 2.5 years on Finasteride. Thinned a lot on Minoxidil.
Op did you see improvement after that?

 

[Aleksa97]

Long time lurker here. I have the same situation going with my hair after 3 months on minoxidil. Also, I am on 2.5 years on Finasteride. Thinned a lot on Minoxidil.
Op did you see improvement after that?

I would say that I did. Hairs at my hairline are longer now and my temples filled in with small hair which I hope will grow longer.

 

[charcoal]

Nice to hear that you see improvement. Gives me hope.
What about the hair quality? Mine is dry and lifeless, fried hair. Do you apply twice a day?

 

[Aleksa97]

Nice to hear that you see improvement. Gives me hope.
What about the hair quality? Mine is dry and lifeless, fried hair. Do you apply twice a day?

The hair quality is not that good tho, and I hope it will get better in the next few cicles. Hairs are frizzy but have color so I think its a good thing since they are not white (velus). But to be honest it has definetely filled i just hope it will grow out even more. I am using 2% once every day.

 

[Pephair]

Holy f***!!! You started when you were a thick NW2? f*** this sucks, I didn't even know you could lose THAT much ground despite being on treatments.

I asked because I want to add minoxidil to my regimen as well. Due to male pattern baldness my hair went from silky strong hair to weak, wiry hair. I HATE that wiry look, it looks disgusting. Weak hair cannot be styled properly if at all. I hope minoxidil will make it more robust, less kinky/wiry. I've been of finasteride for three years now. People think that I don't take care of my hair, but that's bs really. finasteride did improve my hair though, it's just that my hair looks more like straw than actual f*****g hair.

Did you end up adding minoxidil to your regimen? I too have been on finasteride for a few years and just added Minoxidil to my regimen. I too began to have "kinky/wiry" hair. Anyways, if so, hows it going?

Here are my pics:

https://www.hairlosstalk.com/intera...n-after-2-years-on-finasteride-photos.105244/

 

[Eren]

Did you end up adding minoxidil to your regimen? I too have been on finasteride for a few years and just added Minoxidil to my regimen. I too began to have "kinky/wiry" hair. Anyways, if so, hows it going?

Here are my pics:

https://www.hairlosstalk.com/intera...n-after-2-years-on-finasteride-photos.105244/

Where I live, minoxidil can only be acquired through means of a prescription nowadays. That sucks, so no did not start with minoxidil yet.

From looking at your pics, I don't see kinky hairs bro. It looks good. Your hair is not growing flat, it does not seem weak, dead, lusterless etc. Actually, it looks good.

 

[-Synergy-]

Long time lurker here. I have the same situation going with my hair after 3 months on minoxidil. Also, I am on 2.5 years on Finasteride. Thinned a lot on Minoxidil.
Op did you see improvement after that?

I would say that I did. Hairs at my hairline are longer now and my temples filled in with small hair which I hope will grow longer.

Did you both see good progress after struggling with an extended shed and thinning from minoxidil. I ask because it has been three years so there is no way for neither one of you to know. Aleksa97, it sound like you were just starting to see something good at 5 - 6 months?