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EDIT - Month 10 now added. I started Using Revita at month 6 or so, and started using Dr lee's xandrox 5% once daily in place of the nanominox at month 7. I can see improvement, unfortunately the "cow lick" doesn't show much sign of improvement, but does (i think) look worse under the flash than in reality.
After month 10 I started using RPN's Virile mane at night in addition to the rest, the month 12 pics were taken after more or less a month of shedding (i believe from the virile mane), so hoping for some more improvement in the next couple of months from that.
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Not quite a success story yet, but a promising start maybe? For better or worse I decided I owe this forum enough to chart my journey anyway.
The blah blah:
Always had thinnish hair since I was quite young - as a (very hot I might add) hair dresser once put it "the hairs you have are thick, they're just not really dense". Don't get me wrong, I didn't look like I was balding but I just never had one of those incredibly thick manes of hair.
At uni (about 19-20yrs old) I started noticing a tiny thinning area on the top of my crown in the area oft fondly referred to as the cowlick. Bought some american crew copper peptide stuff, nothing happened, got bored, carried on with the copious amounts of booze, socialising and sex that is the modern day university life. Looking back my hair was starting to get thinner over those 3 years, but it was quite gradual and due to my naturally thin hair went somewhat un-noticed (I think... at least no one mentioned it lol). University finished, moved abroad the following autumn for some further training and shortly after was when one of my "friends" decided to start taking the piss out of me balding. Charming. I laughed it off at first, but then it really seemed to take a turn for the worse with diffuse thinning all over the top, which led to me starting rogaine foam the following spring (2007). Also broke up with my long term Girlfriend while away, became much more self conscious. Funny that.
Fast forward to the end of 2007 and things were getting no better despite a valient approach to the minoxidil applications and it was getting annoying. Also noticed my right temple in particular was creeping up a bit more than it's friend on the other side. Bastard. I had spent most of the year reading up on Androgenetic Alopecia and treatments, sitting waiting for the rogaine to start working. Order some spironolactone cream, especially to try and keep my currently relatively good (albeit thinning) hairline. see little by way of change other than way more time spent infront of a mirror trying to apply stuff. Cue conversation in the gym with an old friend of mine, find out he's been dipping his toes in the world of 5ar blockers (dutasteride to be precise, although he later switched to finasteride) with no ill effect for a few months and the kick up the arse to begin finasteride myself had been delivered.
So, with beautiful timing I began a 'proper' regimen on new years day 2008. My current regimen is as follows:
Morning:
- original source Tea tree and Mint shampoo and conditioner (tingle-tastic and helps with any irritation I get, except my housemate's irritating girlfriend - haven't yet found a product that gets rid of that irritation)
- 0.5mg finasteride
- rogaine foam when practical (occasionally have really early starts, cannae be bothered).
Evening
- Same shampoo/conditioner
- after 1st month I replaced the evening foam with Nanominox-FMS
EDIT - month 5 has seen me add revita shampoo in the mornings
Below is my progress record so far. In my opinion the pics don't really do much to show the extent of my thinning except the very bottom ones, from the front angle which is definately the worst angle in terms of showing my hairloss up. Bright sunny days where I am facing into the sun are my nemesis haha! When I get to showing the pics to my chum who is responsible for my beginning finasteride, i shall have to ask him how representative of reality he thinks they are. It's always hard to gauge these things yourself. So that's more than enough blabber, except my age I suppose which is shall we say is mid twenties.
And without further adieu - my 3 month progress charty wotsit type thing, all pics are after a shower with nice fluffy hair with flash and i've tried to keep length similar:
Oh, actually I tell a lie - one more thing. The rather fetching smiley face is there because I totally forgot to take a picture at month 2 from that angle. I'm sorry. I suck. I know. Give it up already.
After month 10 I started using RPN's Virile mane at night in addition to the rest, the month 12 pics were taken after more or less a month of shedding (i believe from the virile mane), so hoping for some more improvement in the next couple of months from that.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Original Post
Not quite a success story yet, but a promising start maybe? For better or worse I decided I owe this forum enough to chart my journey anyway.
The blah blah:
Always had thinnish hair since I was quite young - as a (very hot I might add) hair dresser once put it "the hairs you have are thick, they're just not really dense". Don't get me wrong, I didn't look like I was balding but I just never had one of those incredibly thick manes of hair.
At uni (about 19-20yrs old) I started noticing a tiny thinning area on the top of my crown in the area oft fondly referred to as the cowlick. Bought some american crew copper peptide stuff, nothing happened, got bored, carried on with the copious amounts of booze, socialising and sex that is the modern day university life. Looking back my hair was starting to get thinner over those 3 years, but it was quite gradual and due to my naturally thin hair went somewhat un-noticed (I think... at least no one mentioned it lol). University finished, moved abroad the following autumn for some further training and shortly after was when one of my "friends" decided to start taking the piss out of me balding. Charming. I laughed it off at first, but then it really seemed to take a turn for the worse with diffuse thinning all over the top, which led to me starting rogaine foam the following spring (2007). Also broke up with my long term Girlfriend while away, became much more self conscious. Funny that.
Fast forward to the end of 2007 and things were getting no better despite a valient approach to the minoxidil applications and it was getting annoying. Also noticed my right temple in particular was creeping up a bit more than it's friend on the other side. Bastard. I had spent most of the year reading up on Androgenetic Alopecia and treatments, sitting waiting for the rogaine to start working. Order some spironolactone cream, especially to try and keep my currently relatively good (albeit thinning) hairline. see little by way of change other than way more time spent infront of a mirror trying to apply stuff. Cue conversation in the gym with an old friend of mine, find out he's been dipping his toes in the world of 5ar blockers (dutasteride to be precise, although he later switched to finasteride) with no ill effect for a few months and the kick up the arse to begin finasteride myself had been delivered.
So, with beautiful timing I began a 'proper' regimen on new years day 2008. My current regimen is as follows:
Morning:
- original source Tea tree and Mint shampoo and conditioner (tingle-tastic and helps with any irritation I get, except my housemate's irritating girlfriend - haven't yet found a product that gets rid of that irritation)
- 0.5mg finasteride
- rogaine foam when practical (occasionally have really early starts, cannae be bothered).
Evening
- Same shampoo/conditioner
- after 1st month I replaced the evening foam with Nanominox-FMS
EDIT - month 5 has seen me add revita shampoo in the mornings
Below is my progress record so far. In my opinion the pics don't really do much to show the extent of my thinning except the very bottom ones, from the front angle which is definately the worst angle in terms of showing my hairloss up. Bright sunny days where I am facing into the sun are my nemesis haha! When I get to showing the pics to my chum who is responsible for my beginning finasteride, i shall have to ask him how representative of reality he thinks they are. It's always hard to gauge these things yourself. So that's more than enough blabber, except my age I suppose which is shall we say is mid twenties.
And without further adieu - my 3 month progress charty wotsit type thing, all pics are after a shower with nice fluffy hair with flash and i've tried to keep length similar:
Oh, actually I tell a lie - one more thing. The rather fetching smiley face is there because I totally forgot to take a picture at month 2 from that angle. I'm sorry. I suck. I know. Give it up already.
