Lessofarockstar
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Ok, I'm new to this whole thing, but I have a couple of questions. I hope somebody can help me out.
I'm 23 and I am seriously beginning to worry about my thinning, especially in the front and temple areas. I guess it begun around 3 years ago, but very lightly at that point, so I got minoxidil about a year and a half ago and it has worked pretty well up untill now. I have no problem in the vertex area at all and maybe untill 3 months ago I wasn't really worried about my hairline, but now it is beginning to get pretty bad.
So I went to my doctor and got propecia about three weeks ago. I used it for about 4 days, and pretty much imediately (second day) I got a really bad testicular ache, and the rest of the groin area was quite sore too. I freaked out and I stopped it right away. It is almost two weeks ago, and my balls still kind of ache every now and then. I know it is a somewhat common sideeffect, but to me the fact that it hit me so hard and so fast makes me wonder if I am hypersensitive to the finasterid. And if I am does it mean that:
1 I am more inclined to getting sides (since I got one so fast, and pretty bad)?
or
2 I am a good responder? Since my body is reacting so strongly to it?
To be honest it freaks me out to put something in my body that so obviously manipulates with my hormones in such a powerful manner. I know that something powerful is necessary to reverse hairloss, but is there any reason to believe that a topical DHT inhibitor could work as well as finasteride?? I have been thinking about getting spironolactone, but I have no idea how effective it is.
(at minoxidil.com it says that spironolactone with minoxidil could work as well as minoxidil+finasteride, but as they are selling the stuff it is of course kinda hard to believe).
Any advice is greatly appreciated.!
Thanks
I'm 23 and I am seriously beginning to worry about my thinning, especially in the front and temple areas. I guess it begun around 3 years ago, but very lightly at that point, so I got minoxidil about a year and a half ago and it has worked pretty well up untill now. I have no problem in the vertex area at all and maybe untill 3 months ago I wasn't really worried about my hairline, but now it is beginning to get pretty bad.
So I went to my doctor and got propecia about three weeks ago. I used it for about 4 days, and pretty much imediately (second day) I got a really bad testicular ache, and the rest of the groin area was quite sore too. I freaked out and I stopped it right away. It is almost two weeks ago, and my balls still kind of ache every now and then. I know it is a somewhat common sideeffect, but to me the fact that it hit me so hard and so fast makes me wonder if I am hypersensitive to the finasterid. And if I am does it mean that:
1 I am more inclined to getting sides (since I got one so fast, and pretty bad)?
or
2 I am a good responder? Since my body is reacting so strongly to it?
To be honest it freaks me out to put something in my body that so obviously manipulates with my hormones in such a powerful manner. I know that something powerful is necessary to reverse hairloss, but is there any reason to believe that a topical DHT inhibitor could work as well as finasteride?? I have been thinking about getting spironolactone, but I have no idea how effective it is.
(at minoxidil.com it says that spironolactone with minoxidil could work as well as minoxidil+finasteride, but as they are selling the stuff it is of course kinda hard to believe).
Any advice is greatly appreciated.!
Thanks
