Stuffy nose from minoxidol?

[MarkusAdrian]

Hi I just registered on the forums yesterday. I have been reading them for a while. About a month ago I started a regimen of Nioxin then a few days later 5% minoxidol. I got major shedding a few days after starting the minoxidol. I used to shed about 5-10 hairs in the shower. Now It's more like 50-70 plus the other ones that fall out over the course of a day. I quit the minoxidol because I seems like the hair I lost in 3 weeks would have taken 6 months to loose otherwise. I think if it keeps up my hair will look terrible by the end of summer. Right now it looks ok. I have read everything on shedding and I know some will just tell me to wait it out but holy man I'm loosing a lot more than before. I mean if I loose so much what is the point? I also noticed that areas that were just thinning a bit started to loose way more and even my healthy hairs would fall out. I was just using it on the top of my head. The main reason I stopped was because I noticed that when I started minoxidol I had a very stuffy nose. If I toned down the dosage the stuffy nose goes away. Had anyone else had this problem? Hair is great but if it keeps me from sleeping because of a nose that won't let me breath that's no help. Last summer when I had less stress and ate healthy my hair would not fall out nearly as quickly, it may be due to age as well. I have been loosing hair since I was 18 and now I'm 26. I'm thinking I should try that combined with nizoral. Any suggestions guys I don't want to be bald by the end of summer. I want to keep a decent head of hair and my gf wants me to as well. Here are a few pictures for reference. Thanks, Mark.

 

[ThatHairStruggle]

You're diffuse thinning pretty obviously, and I'd get on finasteride if I were you. You're going to shed no matter what, that's how these treatments work. You get the hair back plus more after the initial shed.

 

[MarkusAdrian]

Most people regrow the hair they have lost during the initial shed? I hope so because I'm sure it will look terrible in a month or two if I go back on it. I'm pretty worried about this. If it doesn't grow back I would have been way better off not starting it. It made areas that were reasonably healthy shed a lot. I don't know about finasteride. I have always seemed to react to medications etc. somewhat over the course of my life. I think that I would be a candidate to be affected by sides. Please help guys, I feel like the next few months are critical in whatever course I take. Thanks for the response, Mark.

 

[MarkusAdrian]

Should I be applying it to most of my head? I was just applying it to the top but now there is shedding more to the sides as well.

 

[Notcoolanymore]

Look at it this way. Use minoxidil now, suffer through a shed, but grow back your hair within a few months. Or continue to lose hair, do nothing, and continue to look worse with each passing day. Many people including myself wait until it is too late to treat their hair loss. By that time it is too late. The damage is already done.