shutterfly
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It has been quite few months I haven't visited this forum, I decided to come back just to share some of my experience.
Before I start, I want to say my case might be special, so it may not apply to everybody here. I am an Asian in early 30s, none of my parents' families has any members with hair loss. I found I was loosing hair about four years ago. It's mostly a diffusive thinning on the top, with more severe symptom on both sides, so it's pretty much a typical male pattern baldness. Starting 2005 I began to take propecia, finasteride 1.25mg/day, rogaine on a regular basis. I even tried Dutaride (I am sure I spell it wrong, you know what I mean), Revivogen....... NO HELP. I could get a handful of hairs during shower, normally 7-8, with more than 10 during some bad days, just in one hand. After shower, I could feel/see hairs falling off as I waited for hair to dry; whenever I pulled on my t-shirt, I could see new hairs fell off on my shoulder; daily hair combing has become a daily nightmare: I could get anywhere from 16-40 hairs in the sink as I combed. I had to use hairspray in order not to reveal my scalp.
The symptom kept getting worse and worse until starting July this year, it all started I didn't feel hairs were being washed off during shower, then I didn't get as many hair in the hand while shampooing; then I found I only got 5-8 hairs during daily combing. I mentioned this to my hair dresser and she started renting about my improvement in hair condition: She told me she could see more hair on my crown area, and baby hairs are growing out on my temporal areas where once became bald. Now it has been two months I have been propecia free (still using rogaine to speed up regrowth) and I feel better and better.
I think I am finally out of it. I only know I started Saw Palmetto (2 pills/day), and a chinese medicine, called (liu wei di huang wan) about 5 months ago. This medicine is supposed to bring back the balance in body's internal excretions (please excuse me for my bad English). So, if you want to ask what cured my hair loss, I would say it's (one of) these two, if they are, after all. I also want to say here there are so many causes of hairloss (I started mine after a major setback in my life.), if your family doesn't have a history of hairloss, and big three doesn't work for you, you might want to try something else. Hope my story might help a couple of folks here.
Before I start, I want to say my case might be special, so it may not apply to everybody here. I am an Asian in early 30s, none of my parents' families has any members with hair loss. I found I was loosing hair about four years ago. It's mostly a diffusive thinning on the top, with more severe symptom on both sides, so it's pretty much a typical male pattern baldness. Starting 2005 I began to take propecia, finasteride 1.25mg/day, rogaine on a regular basis. I even tried Dutaride (I am sure I spell it wrong, you know what I mean), Revivogen....... NO HELP. I could get a handful of hairs during shower, normally 7-8, with more than 10 during some bad days, just in one hand. After shower, I could feel/see hairs falling off as I waited for hair to dry; whenever I pulled on my t-shirt, I could see new hairs fell off on my shoulder; daily hair combing has become a daily nightmare: I could get anywhere from 16-40 hairs in the sink as I combed. I had to use hairspray in order not to reveal my scalp.
The symptom kept getting worse and worse until starting July this year, it all started I didn't feel hairs were being washed off during shower, then I didn't get as many hair in the hand while shampooing; then I found I only got 5-8 hairs during daily combing. I mentioned this to my hair dresser and she started renting about my improvement in hair condition: She told me she could see more hair on my crown area, and baby hairs are growing out on my temporal areas where once became bald. Now it has been two months I have been propecia free (still using rogaine to speed up regrowth) and I feel better and better.
I think I am finally out of it. I only know I started Saw Palmetto (2 pills/day), and a chinese medicine, called (liu wei di huang wan) about 5 months ago. This medicine is supposed to bring back the balance in body's internal excretions (please excuse me for my bad English). So, if you want to ask what cured my hair loss, I would say it's (one of) these two, if they are, after all. I also want to say here there are so many causes of hairloss (I started mine after a major setback in my life.), if your family doesn't have a history of hairloss, and big three doesn't work for you, you might want to try something else. Hope my story might help a couple of folks here.
