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I seriously can't tell if people are trolling you or not...? But I see a huge improvement in your hairline. Congrats dude!

Believe it or not, there are people out there who believe having a healthy heart, or curing blindness, are more important than having hair. It all comes down to funding man. It's not that people don't give a crap about male pattern baldness, it's that there are more serious illnesses out there that require more...

Looks pretty much the same.

lol it's been TWO WEEKS (!!!!!) guys, you're really asking for updates??

Finasteride is the drug, Propecia is the brand name - so they're the same thing. You can buy generic brand finasteride which is much cheaper than buying name brand Propecia. The biggest difference is that Propecia tablets are 1mg finasteride, whereas a lot of generic brands are 5mg finasteride -...

lol sorry, perhaps not the best analogy. To answer your question, No, finasteride won't keep minxo-grown hairs. The point I was trying to make was that minoxidil has its own way of growing hair. If it grows hair for you and you stop using it, that hair no longer has minoxidil to support it and...

Minoxidil has its own pathway of growing hair: It widens blood vessels and opens potassium channels, allowing more oxygen, blood, and nutrients to the follicle. Finasteride blocks the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is the main culprit in Androgenetic Alopecia. Think about it...

Sorry if this is a stupid question, just trying to wrap my head around it, but is this at all related to derma-rolling? Or is that a completely different mechanism of action than follicle splitting? If it's similar, does that mean that derma-rolling over the entire scalp will make strong...

abman, any update on this? your results were looking really promising.

Thanks for the feedback guys, definitely helps. David.G - 1863 Grafts, Dr. Wong from Hasson & Wong. Not sure if we're allowed to discuss dollar amount here, so I won't just to be safe. But you can go to their site and it'll give you a price chart.

I know it can take upwards of a year to see final results of a hair transplant, but I'm wondering: at what point are you to not likely see transplanted hairs pop out? I'm 4 and a half months post-op and I'm wondering if all the implanted grafts have already sprouted, or is it still possible...

Yeah I did go through the initial shed but I'm worried that the rest of my hair became minoxidil dependant in the 4 months and that I will experience the shed that everyone fears after quitting minoxidil.

Hello all, I jumped on Rogaine Foam end of July/beginning of August 2014. It completely destroyed my hairline and never saw signs of regrowth after 4 months, so I quit on Dec. 1, 2014. Been a month and a half now since I quit, but I'm wondering, was 4 months long enough for my hair to become...

I would recommend easing into it as well. Take a 1mg pill once every 3 days for the first few weeks. Then move up to a pill every other day for a few weeks. Then eventually every day. Assuming you tolerate it well of course. I think doing it this way allows your body to slowly adjust instead of...

Iopu- have you had any success with spironolactone in your 6 months of using it? I'm thinking about using it on the hairline but there's like no reports on it. I know ppl use it but I haven't seen much feed back. Thanks.