Finasteride round 2: Facial hair problems?

blizeH

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Bit of background here: I started finasteride in March, it didn't seem to have much noticable impact so I went off it a couple of months ago. I then noticed a considerable increase in shedding, losing about 30 or more hairs every time I washed and dried my hair (always drying it with the bloody towel that makes it all fall out) before going back to finasteride again.

So anyway. I got a new shaver for Christmas, a nice Phillips one, and have noticed that it isn't working maybe as it should, particularly above my lip, as even when I shave it's rather dark. So I went back to my old shaver, same problem. Tried my dad's Remmington foil shaver, same problem. Then I had a wet shave and yup, same problem. Then my dad said what if it's not the shaver, what if it's the tablets?

And it's quite a good question. What if it is those pesky tablets?

It's not that I need to shave more in particular, it's just that when I shave, well, it looks like I haven't. There's a *very* dark mark there that certainly wasn't there before and it looks a bit silly. Could it be the finasteride?

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blizeH

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Just a quick update - the facial hair issues seem to have disappeared now and shaving is a lot easier thank god!

Currently on finasteride every day (cut up into fifths as best I can) and Nizoral every other day with Loreal something or other inbetween.

And I'm still losing on average maybe 50 hairs a day, frankly it SUCKS. I don't think it was like this before but who knows.

Going to stick at it and hope it improves...
 
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