water retention

[dietcola]

on finasteride for 2.5 months and rogaine foam for 6, in the past couple of weeks my face has been getting puffy around the jaw and chin, and i have a major double chin. i'm really slim so it's not from putting on weight, it's gotta be from the minoxidil...or the finasteride? either way it's stupid looking, anyone else experience this?

 

[roki]

i have it under the eyes
i managed to reduce it by reducing my night application amount by 50%
another thing that i read would help is going under water ,so go swiminng
and i started drinking 4 liters a day
somenights i put full dose of 1 ml and my eyes will always be ridicilously puffy in the mornning it might also go away with time as your body adjust to this crap

 

[Petchsky]

Yes I got the same thing especially around the lower jaw. My girlfriend even noticed. What really sucked is it didn't really go away after I quit taking it either.

 

[dietcola]

alright i've done some research for a few hours on random sites and it sounds like this is a problem usually caused by too much of the minoxidil being absorbed into the system, so i'm gonna cut my dosage back. should i just use less, or maybe just go down to one application a day? i want to keep going because my results are really good, but i dont want my neck to look like michelin man anymore.

 

[Petchsky]

Oh, I should have mentioned, I'm pretty sure it was finasteride and not minoxidil that caused mine.