FREEDOM!!!! QUITTING FINASTERIDE AND MINOXIDIL

LAGUY27

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Hey just wanted to share my story since I been lurking through these forums for quite a while.

I started losing my hair at about the age of 25 when I noticed my hair thinning from my crown area after watching myself in wedding video. For the most part it was hardly noticeable and barely about last summer around July I barely began to notice my hair really shedding from the crown area. It started with a small patch on the right side of crown area and now has continuously began to wrap all around the top of my head. It has became really thin now from the crown and the top of my head and began reading though these forums to try to find a treatment to stop the loss of my hair.

I am 27 now and I started taking the proscar splitting them into 5 pieces and using nizoral. Its been about 3 weeks and recently I bought $100 worth of Minoxidil foam and started using it for a about a few days. Tonight after dropping off my girlfriend without the urge of having sex with her knowing I won't see her for 2 weeks and in bed with a fresh coat of minoxidil I sprung out of my bed. I tried to watch some p**rn and still was not what it was it was just a few weeks ago prior to starting proscar. I eventually relieved myself and noticed the watery side effects of finasteride. I shrugged it off and thought to myself just suck it up. However later on that night the smell of minoxidil just made me nauseous. I woke up and ran to the bathroom and just began to wash it off.

I have decided to accept my fate and just let nature take its course. The side effects of finasteride is just too much for me to deal with and the thought of having to apply minoxidil twice a day is just too much for me to handle.

I understand that people have claimed that these side effects will eventually go away but I am the type of person who never takes any medicine when I am sick. So for their to be clear side effects that are clear as day on my libido and sex function is just too much handle. I came close to just shaving my head but I thought that was just too much of an overreaction. What I do know is that I am done taking this pills and hopefully the side effects will go away before my girlfriend comes back.
 

eXVee

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Good for you. :bravo:

I'm giving this stuff a chance, but if I don't get good results I'm doing it your way too.
 

global

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Well, you only gave it three weeks which is not a fair chance IMO, maybe your libido will come back as your body adjusts.

But its your decision and I wish you luck, as you as you know that aswell as being free from the meds you will be free of your hair.
 

Swanson

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well you dont need to give up so quickly

you can try spironolactone and continue with the minoxidil and nizoral and should be very benefitual in maintaing you hair
 

ali777

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Join the club :sobbing: !!!

I quit finasteride mainly because of the "not feeling myself" side effects. I wasn't involved with anyone at a time, so the sexual side effects weren't such a big deal for me, but I couldn't put up with constantly feeling out of this world.

I was on minoxidil as well. I had dark circles around my eyes and I would occasionally get bloated face. If I lose my face, what's the point of having hair? So, I quit minoxidil too.

I think you should try minoxidil. It might agree better with your body. It was working for me, but I can't use it.
 

Thinning Sucks

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10 years with finasteride and about 25 on and off with minoxidil....they may not grow more hair, does help maintain what you have. Think before you quit Gents....
 

scub

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Thinning Sucks said:
10 years with finasteride and about 25 on and off with minoxidil....they may not grow more hair, does help maintain what you have. Think before you quit Gents....
good lord, 25 years on minoxidil? i thought it came out in the 90s?


anyway, i just started taking propecia a couple days ago and i been having hard boners! its like v**** lol hope it stays that way. sucks for you guys..

i think a lot of you people think about the sides way too much and it's all in your head.. seriously, the side-effects can happen, but it only happens to a certain percent of people and it's rather low. if it effected that many people they wouldn't be making any money! and certainly wouldn't have passed FDA approval if it happened in 10 out of 10 people as some of you people make it seem..
 

beaner

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scub said:
good lord, 25 years on minoxidil? i thought it came out in the 90s?

It was released as a 2% version for hair loss via prescription only in 1986-87, but was being used off label prior to that with pharmacists compounding their own solutions.
 

Milks

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3 weeks = poor show IMO

pretty sure I've heard the sides often wear off within 4-5 months, 3 weeks is just not long enough, should be six months to be sure. Never the less it is your choice and I hope it works out for you.
 

zephyr31

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the sides for me were gone after a few weeks on finasteride and im just as horny as ever now(bet ya wanted to hear that). Iv also had v good results.

as for minoxidil, i personaly think its the worst product iv ever had the missfortue to use, not only did it make my heart go like a rabbits the first day i tried it, it also made my hair look like crap.

twice a day would depress me, if i could stop using it and keep the hair i had grown id maybe give it another go, but knowing that if i stop ill lose my results isnt good.

so id say to you to continue finasteride and nizoral and drop minoxidil, popping a pill every day isnt hard and im pretty sure its the minoxidil that gives you dark circles under your eyes.
 
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