I am a chic in shock over how much my front/crown/vertex area has gone down hill in a year! I have diffuse thinning all over the top with some vertical part lines going downward some from there. Luckily my hair is pretty poofy/wavy so I can camoflauge it some still, but it's getting hard.
One thing is I still haven't found the answer to why I have mustard type yellow tinge toward the ends of some of my fingernails and the vertical ridges. It's been there since last fall when I started oral spironolactone, rogaine foam, yasmin, (and started fincar last week). I figure there must be something going on in me cuz I don't work with my hands to say it's a stain. Some days they look better than others, but it's never all clear.
So now I'm wondering if doing Rogaine foam 2 x day could be doing more harm (ie it irritates my scalp and probably causes many hairs to fall out) than good. I mean I had shed problems before any treatment I started. So I never did have a shed phase with anything I ever tried--- it's always been there since Aug 05.
Does anyone know if you aren't sure the problem you have is Androgenetic Alopecia if rogaine or oral spironolactone for that matter can cause it to get worse?? I have diffuse thinning all over which looks Androgenetic Alopecia to me as well as probably CTE. My mom has diffuse thinning overall the top of her head like me, but she has no pain or anything like that. Anyone think after 9 months of minimal if anything help from Rogaine foam that since I may have something else going on in addition to hair loss that I might as well save my $? And what happens if they can't pinpoint what's causing my nails to be like this? Anyone hear of someone stopping Rogaine and hair getting better??
One thing is I still haven't found the answer to why I have mustard type yellow tinge toward the ends of some of my fingernails and the vertical ridges. It's been there since last fall when I started oral spironolactone, rogaine foam, yasmin, (and started fincar last week). I figure there must be something going on in me cuz I don't work with my hands to say it's a stain. Some days they look better than others, but it's never all clear.
So now I'm wondering if doing Rogaine foam 2 x day could be doing more harm (ie it irritates my scalp and probably causes many hairs to fall out) than good. I mean I had shed problems before any treatment I started. So I never did have a shed phase with anything I ever tried--- it's always been there since Aug 05.
Does anyone know if you aren't sure the problem you have is Androgenetic Alopecia if rogaine or oral spironolactone for that matter can cause it to get worse?? I have diffuse thinning all over which looks Androgenetic Alopecia to me as well as probably CTE. My mom has diffuse thinning overall the top of her head like me, but she has no pain or anything like that. Anyone think after 9 months of minimal if anything help from Rogaine foam that since I may have something else going on in addition to hair loss that I might as well save my $? And what happens if they can't pinpoint what's causing my nails to be like this? Anyone hear of someone stopping Rogaine and hair getting better??
