Do you think I did the right thing?

[lithebod]

About a year ago I approach the akward topic of hairloss with my brother - he is exactly one year older then me and is a diffuse thinner like me...to cut a long story short a year later I have hung on to most of my hair (using rev, tricomin and spironolactone) he has really freefalled from Nw3 to Nw4/5 .

I really dont know if he is aware of propecia. I just sent him a message telling him I am now on propecia and if he wants to talk about it - do you think this was the right thing to do? - I know personally i hate it when people acknowledge my hairloss but I really would hate to think that he is just not aware of a treatment that could help him without sounding like a patronising a**h**

 

[Guest]

About a year ago I approach the akward topic of hairloss with my brother - he is exactly one year older then me and is a diffuse thinner like me...to cut a long story short a year later I have hung on to most of my hair (using rev, tricomin and spironolactone) he has really freefalled from Nw3 to Nw4/5 .

I really dont know if he is aware of propecia. I just sent him a message telling him I am now on propecia and if he wants to talk about it - do you think this was the right thing to do? - I know personally i hate it when people acknowledge my hairloss but I really would hate to think that he is just not aware of a treatment that could help him without sounding like a patronising a**h**

As a brother I think you did the right thing. It showed how much you care. I hope your bro takes it in the right spirit. What Norwood are you ?

 

[lithebod]

Yeah i hope he takes it in the spirit I intended - I definetly know he's not tolerating the situation well - when we last spoke about it a year ago he was as pissed with hairloss as me - he's more "alpha male" then me in the sense he finds it harder to discuss these sorts of things.

Im a diffuse norwood 2 - have managed to experience maintanence and some regrowth at the hairline - and am hoping for good things on propecia.

 

[Guest]

Yeah i hope he takes it in the spirit I intended - I definetly know he's not tolerating the situation well - when we last spoke about it a year ago he was as pissed with hairloss as me - he's more "alpha male" then me in the sense he finds it harder to discuss these sorts of things.

Im a diffuse norwood 2 - have managed to experience maintanence and some regrowth at the hairline - and am hoping for good things on propecia.

Any pics lithebod ? how old are you and what Norwood scale do you think I am from my pics ?

 

[fantasiauae]

You did the right thing, sometimes it it is benefitial to us when people face us with things we like to deny or are not aware of.

 

[lithebod]

I hope he see's it that way

Help me regrow - these are my pics - I dont have any hairline pics as it wouldnt be worth posting them with the rubbish camera I have

Me month 7 of treatment

http://sranks.photosite.com/Album1/Photo0297.html

At month 8

http://sranks.photosite.com/Album1/Photo0313.html


Me at month 10

http://sranks.photosite.com/Album1/Photo0599.html

All these pics were taken on my rev/spironolactone/tricomin regimen.

 

[Logic1]

That was a def a kind choice. I'd much rather here it from a family member that's trying to provide a solution then a random stranger without one. It's also a great benefit that both of you were spawned from the same gene pool therefore you can provide him with a better scope of what's effective rather then him search for an answer on his own and fall victim to a hairloss scam.

 

[lithebod]

Thats exactly why I decided to tell him - The only person to mention it to me was someone at work who made a wise crack in front of my collegues about being stressed at work cos my hair was falling out (really useful) I myself spent about a year using saw palmetto and nioxin - such a waste of time, money but most of all hair!

At least now I feel that he can make an empowered decision about stopping hairloss or letting nature take its course

 

[DonaldAnderson]

Ive been thinkin about telling my brothers about some treatments. Ive been reluctant. I think it was the right move.
I went through saw palmeto too. That sucked. Do you think you had any success with revivogen?

 

[lithebod]

ive never used revivogen on its own so I cant say definatively that it works ( a problem with all unproven treatments). I was using it alongside nizoral and copper peptides for 6 months (and later on added spironolactone).

If you discount the anti androgen effect of nizoral and think of cu peptides as a growth stimulant I would say rev did a decent job as a dht inhibitor by maintaining or slowing down my hairloss considerably - the main reason I stopped it was the hassle of applying it more then the efficacy.

Bottom line - if propecia doesnt work out for me I would go back on rev