Recent content by wastingpenguins

Hi guys, I was just browsing around the internet today and remembered this forum so I decided to come back share my success story! My troubles first started midway through my sophomore year of high school (young, I know!). Friends and family started noticing thinning around my hairline and...

Okay, so I'm going on a camping trip down in Kentucky with a few buddies next week. Should be a good time. Quick question-- has anyone used minoxidil twice a day, for a good four or five days without a shower? A friend of mine who is also using it said that his scalp gets slightly irritated and...

I disagree with everyone here. From the looks of the pictures, I'd say you have male pattern baldness, just like all of us. Luckily, things arent' too bad yet. Get on the proven treatments, and soon.

md2002-- Thanks for the words of encouragement. The hardest thing for me is that I'll be going off to college in a few months. It's going to be tough applying minoxidil and taking finasteride with shared dorms and community bathrooms, but that doesn't matter half as much as the thought that I'll...

What I would give to buy myself five years on finasteride. I'm almost nineteen (yes, that's right, 18 years old and sitting around on a hairloss forum. Sad.), and have using the Big 3 religiously for a little over a year now. In fact, when I started, my hairloss was in the VERY earliest stages, no...

Ha. I'm going to assume that was a joke. Anyway-- any of US can clearly see that you are losing your hair, to some extent. Any normal person on the street wouldn't give it a second though, however, and that's what matters. I suppse you are somewhat in the same boat as me-- I'm fine...

Bad idea. If you're going to try Propecia, get on it now. The longer you wait and the worse your hair gets, the less chance Propecia will help you. Trust me. I'm sorry to say, and I'm sure 90% of the people here will agree-- I think your brother is misguiding you. Propecia is a very, very safe...

My doctor prescribed me Propecia before I was eighteen. It shouldn't be a problem.

Social Drinker-- he said that he was getting irritation with the Kirkland minoxidil and that is why he made the switch.

Agh!

I use Propecia, 5% minoxidil and Nizoral. You could get Finasteride from countless places online. Personally, I got mine from my general physician, who agrees that I probably have premature male pattern baldness. It's my derm who doesn't think I do.

Ha. My dermatologist still insists I have Telogen Effluvium and nothing more. I'm positive that's not it though.

Haha. Remember the guy who posted his pictures on here, with the shaved head and the tattooed forehead? The one who was talking about how he used to be a model, etc. Everyone told him he needed to smile in his pics, and his response was that he fractured his jaw playing rugby. The impending...

I was getting on the Dr. Lee's site to order more minoxidil, and I starting looking through the products. I was always worried about scalp irritation, and that is why I wanted to used Dr. Lees. It was supposed to contain less PPG, and hence be better for my scalp. I just realized, by looking...

:shock: What exactly does someone do to make a minoxidil application take ten minutes?