Finasteride: My 1 year+ update

[Louis Prima]

I haven't dropped in on the board in a long time, but I'm still on the finasteride. It's been about 1 year and 3 or 4 months or so. When I first started the finasteride, my original complaints were that it didn't seem to help my receding hairline, and, if anything, just seemed to be making it fall out faster, and that it was giving me some major greasy skin, like a second puberty. :freaked2:

Unfortunately, not that much has changed in the last year or so. My hairline is still creeping back day by day, and my skin is still greasy from the finasteride. But I stay on it, just because... well, if I quit that, what else is there? :freaked:

Weird thing is, the hair in the middle of my head and on my crown is nice and thick... If my hairline keeps receding in this same strange pattern, I'm gonna have a mohawk in five years :crazy: I'm hoping that the finasteride will at least keep the hair on my crown.

Has anyone found minoxidil to be effective on the hairline when finasteride fails?

 

[Okayaye]

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[Louis Prima]

Hmmm, looks like I might have to finally give minoxidil a try. I've been putting it off for so long because I just didn't want to deal with the hassle... but I want to deal with a "recession mohawk" even less .

Why haven't you tried finasteride? Just curious

 

[umab]

Hey Louis!

I have got good results with minoxidil on my temples and hairline. Better than on my crown. Yet!

Stick with it man!

 

[VoRteX]

minoxidil is the best proven growth stimulant.

I attribute most of my thickening to 5% minoxidil over the past year. Honestly, I dont think it has grown any "new" hairs except maybe a few smaller ones, but it has significantly thickened my existing hair and improved it cosmetically. My hairline is holding for now. I use it over my whole head 2x/day.

I quit finasteride since I didnt see much benefit vs. the risks.

hope this helps,

happy new year :lol:

 

[Louis Prima]

As I mentioned, I've never used minoxidil, so this may be a newbie question, but: How do you get the minoxidil on the parts of your scalp where there's still thick hair? Or do you? I only ask because you mentioned that minoxidil had thickened your existing hair...

 

[Guest]

With a dropper... you can either rest the dropper on to the scalp through your existing hair moving it throughout the affected area, or part your hair in corn rows running the dropper down each row of the affected area.