Any way to keep minoxidil hairs after stopping?

[Healthy Nick]

Is there any way to keep minoxidil grown hairs after stopping minoxidil? is there any possible situation where minoxidil grown hairs could actually be kind of permanent?


I talked to this one guy that used minoxidil 2% for awhile because he was thinning, stopped it once he grew his hair back, and all his hair remained. No problems at all. Is this possible? Or maybe his hairloss was unrelated to male pattern baldness?

 

[morphuesX]

healthynick

start using minoxidil then we will answer :hairy: frankly nick,your questions are getting a little annoying man..stop asking questions for once and start using something!!

 

[flux]

frankly nick,your questions are getting a little annoying man..

Seriously. He just posted four new threads with pithy concerns. wtf. Theres so much good information going through this site every day, as long as he's been here you'd think he'd have a better understanding by now.

 

[The Gardener]

Interesting point. I would think this would be the exception to the rule, but, I do remember one of the Aussie contributors addressing this point. He went to a doctor who was a hair specialist. He said that many people he had seen did NOT lose hair to the point that they would have without minoxidil. He believed that the rejuvenatory properties of the minoxidil sometimes add some youth and energy to follicles that would normally have aged out, extending their lives regardless of the presence of DHT. Not to say that all hair was kept, or that DHT doesn't finally have its way with follicles so programmed to fade away under DHT exposure... but simply that minoxidil can for some delay the pattern of the baldness.

So, when you get off of minoxidil, you shed a lot of hair, but in the long term DON'T shed all the way back to where you would have been if you never started minoxidil... you have chances of ending up a little BETTER than if you never started minoxidil as the minoxidil counters other non-DHT environmental and nutritional factors that cause hair thinning while you were using it.

 

[Healthy Nick]

Thanks for your post Gardner. That was exactly what I was looking for.


As far as the other two idiots go: If you have nothing constructive to say, then stay the f*** out of the thread.

 

[The Gardener]

Then again, H-Nick, I really have to qualify what I said in my post above... the odds are that you will lose all of your gained hair if you stop minoxidil. BUT, the point of the original Aussie poster was that you might not lose it all IMMEDIATELY once stopping minoxidil. Some of the new hairs hang on a little longer.

 

[flux]

As far as the other two idiots go: If you have nothing constructive to say, then stay the f*** out of the thread.

You're right. I'm sorry. I really should have just stayed out of this. Its hard not acting on my moral convictions, but I know its really not your fault that you are who you are.