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What does that imply?
Cant do serum dht test in my city lab unfortunately.
Cant do serum dht test in my city lab unfortunately.
50 Days Into 0.5mg finasteride Daily And My Test/estradiol/progesteron Levels Havent Really Changed
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well, your estrogen and test are supposed to increase due to inhibition of DHT production, so i assume if thats not the case for me, my DHT production isnt inhibited
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It’s only been 50 days just be patient
Why didn’t you test your dht?
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my trashy city lab doesnt provide dht test cuz reactives are expensive and it has no demand on the market
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Two months is too early to see any sort of result
How long have you been on it and what results have you got, if any?
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6 months and for about a month had a complete halt in shedding
So it took a month to stop shedding, or it took 5 months? Or it stopped for a month then started again?
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Took 5 months to stop shedding, went from hair all over my bathroom to literally finding about 6 hairs around my bathroom. Then I stopped shedding as much in the shower, down to about 6-7 hairs shampooing and conditioning. Also find about 1 hair on my pillow a week. Pull test is also coming back negative even on non showering days, compared to when I used to pull about 8 hairs from everywhere on my head. Just stick it out and hopefully it’ll stop your hair loss, I’m just hoping to maintain for 3-4 years
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Not necessarily. it depends of your aromatase inibition. it could be still effective even if you do not experience any estrogen spikes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496110/
People's story's on here are so much different than the clinical studys. You're hoping fot 3-4 years but the 10% year study show's over 80% maintained. It seems like in actual experiences guys just cling on for a while.
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Gonna have to disagree with you there, this site represented a few thousand men who aren’t responding well. The other few million men who respond well and maintain just like the studies show will never post on here or even know about places like this. So statistically it’s probably about right in terms of 80% maintaining as these forums are a very small minority.
Thanks.
You could maintain for a lot more than 3-4 yrars then, you could go 10, 20 maybe 30.
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Realistically no one knows as it’s dependent on the person, I’ve seen forum posts of people who have had hair loss since 16-17, started finasteride and maintained for 10 years. Personally I’m just hoping for 3-4 years, not expecting much due to my hair loss severity (NW3) at 17 but I’m hopeful
The studys are all done on men with "mild to moderate". Wouldn't you say nw3 is moderate? I'd say your chances are pretty good if you go by the clinical trials.
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Maybe moderate in a middle aged man but that’s aggressive for a 17 year old, but then again I have always been ahead in terms of development with facial hair and what not, only time will tell.