Rogaine 30% success rate?

[hurricom]

From reading the forums, it seems as if minoxidil has a very high success rate. On their website, it claims that rogaine has a 30% success rate. Is this accurate in your opinion. It just seems more like 90% when you read the forums. Just wondering

 

[recboi]

From reading the forums, it seems as if minoxidil has a very high success rate. On their website, it claims that rogaine has a 30% success rate. Is this accurate in your opinion. It just seems more like 90% when you read the forums. Just wondering

what is success? If it's a full head of hair, then it's zero percent. I've been on rogaine for 10+ years now, and I haven't noticed a new hair. Maybe it's stopped me from losing some, but I still look like I'm losing my hair.

 

[hurricom]

Thanks for responding. Just curious . . .what keeps you using it, the idea that it's potentially slowed down the hair loss?

 

[Guest]

From reading the forums, it seems as if minoxidil has a very high success rate. On their website, it claims that rogaine has a 30% success rate. Is this accurate in your opinion. It just seems more like 90% when you read the forums. Just wondering

what is success? If it's a full head of hair, then it's zero percent. I've been on rogaine for 10+ years now, and I haven't noticed a new hair. Maybe it's stopped me from losing some, but I still look like I'm losing my hair.

you are probably wasting your time with it.

 

[joseph49853]

I think it's better at maintanence and generally keeping the areas of hair that you do have thick, than people suspect. I quit minoxidil for about 5 months after using it for around one year. I didn't think I had much gains from using it and my hairline kept thinning, but after quitting it I feel that I've gotten thinner in areas I didn't have problems with before. Also it grew lots of vellus hairs around the hairline that also disappeared after using it.

I'm back on it now because I think that while it might not regrow the hairline it probably keeps what you do have thicker than without.

I've actually grown more hair on minoxidil, and especially a combination of minoxidil and Retin-a, than I ever did on finasteride.

I started finasteride 4.5 years ago, and just did ok. I started seeing modest results between 6-12 months. But after starting minoxidil, around the third year, the results were almost immediate. I grew TONS of hair at the hairline -- probably somewhere in between an adolescent and juvenile hairline. And the crown now totally equals my sides in total fullness. My vertex is also coming in fuller than I could have ever dreamt... Retin-a helped most here.

I know; I'm likely one of the very fortunate ones. Anyhow, it just goes to prove, when minoxidil works on some, it REALLY works. And it also demonstrates how different people react to different medications. Not everyone even balds for the same reasons. So, I would always recommend to try the big three, one at a time, and give them some time. Cause you just won't know till you experiment a little.

At this point, I've pretty much stopped finasteride for the last 4 months. I'll probably make a topical and finish out my last batch of finasteride by this summer. To be honest, except for the increase in energy and stamina, I really didn't enjoy the sexual side effects from finasteride.

 

[HrZ]

From reading the forums, it seems as if minoxidil has a very high success rate. On their website, it claims that rogaine has a 30% success rate. Is this accurate in your opinion. It just seems more like 90% when you read the forums. Just wondering

what is success? If it's a full head of hair, then it's zero percent. I've been on rogaine for 10+ years now, and I haven't noticed a new hair. Maybe it's stopped me from losing some, but I still look like I'm losing my hair.

that fills me with hope :<

 

[HrZ]

From reading the forums, it seems as if minoxidil has a very high success rate. On their website, it claims that rogaine has a 30% success rate. Is this accurate in your opinion. It just seems more like 90% when you read the forums. Just wondering

what is success? If it's a full head of hair, then it's zero percent. I've been on rogaine for 10+ years now, and I haven't noticed a new hair. Maybe it's stopped me from losing some, but I still look like I'm losing my hair.

that fills me with hope :<

 

[joseph49853]

that fills me with hope :<

Minoxidil has been proven to work in many people. My mantra is: you won't know until you try. For every one failure, there are probably three success stories.