Recent content by NoLongerWorrying

More of a regular lurker. Would have known nothing about treatments had I not spent so much time worrying and incessantly reading everything there in my mid 20s.

Another year later, nothing really new to add - the 'big three' still appears to be the 'big three'. Hair hasn't seemed to change over the past year. Breakthroughs in the medicine world in treating viruses appear to be encouraging.

A bit of an update - during all of this Coronavirus seclusion (and a bit before), I got bored and got serious with Minoxidil for the first time in years and it did add visible hairs to my hairline back to about where it was when I was 24 or so. Still on the same boring 1.25 mg of generic finasteride...

I’ve used propranolol 60 MG extended release daily for 4 years and it has had absolutely no effect on hair for me. This is the first that I’ve heard about hairloss as a possible side. I’ve been on finasteride for about 12 years.

Not sure what you’re asking. Had receding hairline and crown loss beginning and got on the ‘big 3’ about 12 years ago. Crown filled back in and hairline recession slowed to a crawl if anything. Over the years got lazy and quit minoxidil but stayed on generic finasteride and nizoral 1%. Hair is...

12 years on finasteride, pretty much at baseline

I had a flip phone and a digital camera then. Like a lot of you, I took hundreds of pictures of my head from every angle. I have no idea where those pictures and that camera ended up and really don’t care. For me, I was able to grow my hair out and be a character from my niece’s favorite...

Yes yes. A bunch of forum members 10-12 years ago bought it from someone in China as I recall and same with RU.

No I don’t believe so. Continued hairline recession but very slow that virtually no one else really would notice but me. Hairline never filled in other than tiny hairs caused by minoxidil that are now gone since I’ve been off minoxidil for several years. Vertex filled in compeletely within a...

And this was the same type of stuff posted on message boards 12 years ago that was giving me a mistaken belief that a ‘cure’ was around the corner and probably the same type of stuff wrote about 12 years before that. Just being honest - you will drive yourself crazy reading about all these...

Yes, absolutely just from the standpoint of worrying about my hair. Obsessing over anything is unhealthy and when I was 23-25ish it was causing me real anxiety and some crazy belief that people were staring at my hair when I went out (the reality is, no one really cared and no one was staring...

None that I’m aware of but there would be no way to know as there could be side effects that built up over time that I didn’t notice or didn’t attribute to finasteride. I will say that my sex drive appears to be a bit higher on finasteride than the times when I have got off it for a week or so. Could...

Oh and I do complimented quite often among the group of 30-40 years old that I associate with that I have ‘great hair.’ I just smile and say thanks knowing that I’d be NW5 for sure had I not began treatment all those years ago.

When I was 23/24, I started visibly noticing my receding hairline and thinning on top. Like almost all these threads on here, I panicked and did a bunch of research and found a hairloss forum that appears to get little traffic these days. I constantly thought about my hair and checked it...