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    My Hair Growth Photos - Three Years Ago And Now

    I'm still doing the same routine - it works for me. Minoxidil sometimes makes my skin a little puffy and every now and then gives me headaches. Maybe the minoxidil is making my pre-existing undereye circles worse, or maybe I'm just 40.
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    My Hair Growth Photos - Three Years Ago And Now

    just revisiting this old thread - same location because it's been my same place of employment for the last 15 years- lighting isnt much the same but close enough - same jacket because it hasnt fallen off yet
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    My Hair Growth Photos - Three Years Ago And Now

    My best guess is that the 600 FUE grafts got me about 40% back, based on how I looked and felt about a year or 18 months after the surgery. The rest is from the drugs.
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    My Hair Growth Photos - Three Years Ago And Now

    my hair transplant Doctor wrote me prescriptions for everything including the oral minoxidil (Loniten). my medical insurance doesn't pay for any of it. there is no official dosage guidelines for Loniten for hair growth - you have to experiment - I have settled on 7.5 mg per day (I had been taking...
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    My Hair Growth Photos - Three Years Ago And Now

    I don't know why I wrote a novel to answer your question- The short answer is that I have experienced no side effects (other than reduced acne) from the dutasteride and finasteride. I take both because there is 'some' shaky evidence online that it works better than just dutasteride or just...
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    My Hair Growth Photos - Three Years Ago And Now

    I'm happy with my current results and hope it lasts- I'm 39 and a half now and this is more hair than I had when I was 18. not doing anything unique - just EVERYTHING all at once (hair transplant, double dose of both dutasteride and finasteride, ORAL minoxidil). I attribute about 40% of the...
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