Frontal area

[urtor]

Hello, I have receding hairline and temples and starting frontal baldness. I'd like to regrow something but especially maintain what I've got.

Do you think it's necessary to take Propecia if it's not working for frontal areas? I'm considering Rogaine Foam only - the Big Three is too expensive for me and of course I'm afraid of side effects of Propecia.

Do you think that Rogaine with Topical spironolactone and Nizoral could work?

 

[flamingpie]

i have been using the foam on my frontal areas for almost 6 months and i have had positive results. Oddly enough, it seems as if the foam is working better in the frontal areas than it is on my crown.
I havent used spironolactone yet but i hear with the combination of minoxidil its works great.

 

[wolfparade20]

i have been using the foam on my frontal areas for almost 6 months and i have had positive results. Oddly enough, it seems as if the foam is working better in the frontal areas than it is on my crown.
I havent used spironolactone yet but i hear with the combination of minoxidil its works great.

Same thing here. I've been on the foam for about 6 or 7 months and it's worked better in the frontal areas than on my crown (my crown has improved though).

 

[timbo]

Hello, I have receding hairline and temples and starting frontal baldness. I'd like to regrow something but especially maintain what I've got.

Do you think it's necessary to take Propecia if it's not working for frontal areas? I'm considering Rogaine Foam only - the Big Three is too expensive for me and of course I'm afraid of side effects of Propecia.

Do you think that Rogaine with Topical spironolactone and Nizoral could work?

Unfortunately, the frontal area is usually the most susceptible to thinning and is usually the hardest to regrow or maintain. I wouldn't count on Rogaine to do anything by itself.

Topical spironolactone will likely help, but spironolactone and minoxidil degrade each other when they come in contact and it creates an awefull smell.

 

[Shma]

Hello, I have receding hairline and temples and starting frontal baldness. I'd like to regrow something but especially maintain what I've got.

Do you think it's necessary to take Propecia if it's not working for frontal areas? I'm considering Rogaine Foam only - the Big Three is too expensive for me and of course I'm afraid of side effects of Propecia.

Do you think that Rogaine with Topical spironolactone and Nizoral could work?

I wondered the same thing before I started taking Finasteride (Propecia). You have to remember that hairloss usually progresses, if it starts at the front that doesn't meen that it will not progress to the crown later. So it's good to start Finasteride to prevent this.

Finasteride is effective in slowing hairloss in the frontal areas as well. There is a common misconception that it is not effective in the frontal areas, this misconception stemmed from the fact that when Finasteride was evaluated by the FDA, the areas evaluated and observed were only the crown and vertex , not the hairline. So legally Merck could only claim that Finasteride was effective for treating male pattern baldness in the areas of the crown and vertex; this does not preclude that Finasteride is ineffective at treating the hairline though.

I have a friend who started taking Finasteride at the earliest stages of hairloss, it completely stopped his hairloss. He still has a juvenile hairline, and he first experianced hairloss about four years ago.

Finasteride can have bad endocrinological side effects.

 

[Shma]

Seriously, finfighter?

 

[TEDDYRUXPIN]

Hello, I have receding hairline and temples and starting frontal baldness. I'd like to regrow something but especially maintain what I've got.

Do you think it's necessary to take Propecia if it's not working for frontal areas? I'm considering Rogaine Foam only - the Big Three is too expensive for me and of course I'm afraid of side effects of Propecia.

Do you think that Rogaine with Topical spironolactone and Nizoral could work?

Propecia (aka finasteride) slows down hairloss. It's not great at regrowing hair and will keep what you have. I believe, and stand to be corrected, that it can grow some hair back but mainly in the crown.

Rogaine (aka minoxidil) is great at growing hair. FDA tests are only linked to the crown. It does grow some hair back at the crown and can do this in the frontal region. It is extremely poor at growing hair back at the TEMPLES!!!!

The above two should be on your top list as long as you do not suffer from any side effects.

I no longer use nizoral, although I have plenty of stock at home. After washing the hair, less than a day, your hair stinks.

 

[RP3X]

Been using the big 3 for over 2 years now and mainly for frontal area but sadly no real improvement. Id guess it maintained it but then it wasnt going really dropping/loosing that fast but I guess starting at age 30 did not help at all.

I guess if I had started it 5-10 years before I would have got some results.

If anything I do have tons of new tiny mini white hairs that arent really able too be seen if they did sprout out well then that would cure the hair loss but just goes too show u once the hairs gone it really is.

Either way some people get results and others dont, im gonna wait till this fall if theres nadda done too the front ill give up the lot of them... id rather go for a hair transplant or wait for a proper treatment