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Who: Currently 26, almost 27 yr old asian male.
What: male pattern baldness and currently on my 11th month of propecia.
Where: Hair loss predominantly at the front hairline. Theres also a notch front and center of my hairline which seems wose. Ever since propecia, shed from everywhere including sides and back.
When: Slowly started to receed beginning at age 21. Started treatment at age 25. Although on treatment for past yr, it seems like my hair's condition has worsen more in this past yr than the previous 4 untreated years.
Why: Father has slightly receeded hairline but has thinning all over. Grandfather from father side is bald. Grandfather from mother side was a Norwood 3 or 4.
Well thats a simple synopsis of my current journey thru hairloss and treatments. As stated, im about 1 yr into propecia and over a yr in minoxidil. I first started with minoxidil and it seemed to strengthen all my hairs and grew some very tiny hairs that eventually died out.
As for my propecia usage, I feel like thus far it has been a failure. Not only have I not seen any regrowth, I've seen a slightly more receeded hairline (which moved faster prb than the 4 yrs before treatment). I've also seen the quality of my hair become very bad. My hair is very limp and very thin. I never really had a very thick head of hair but now my hair just lays limp on my head.
Two weird phenomenons since propecia:
1) My hair has changed to a lighther color. Im asian so my natural hair color is black, but now my black hair has a brown tint. I've received comments from others asking whether ive died my hair
2) Hair thins at the root. To test whether propecia is working for me, Ive grown my hair out since starting propecia to a fairly long length. This is an attempt to see the new portion of hair growth. Theoretically, if the propecia is working I should see some shed hairs with thicker shaft at the root. However, Im seeing the complete opposite. Ive seen hairs that slowly dwindle til it reaches the root.
Curent plan:
I plan to ride out the current shed Im on right now. It's been about a little over a month since the most horrible shed I've ever been thru. I hope it'll stop soon so I get the chance to see within the next 3 to 4 months whether new hairs have grown in its place and whether they are nice thick hairs. With careful observation, I do see little hairs poking out of my scalp but they look thin. If in 3 to 4 months (around Feb), I do not at least see my shed come to an end or an improvement in my hair, I am going to quit propecia. There just happens to be too many things going against propecia, not only that it may be not working but it may be accelerating my loss.
Hopefully in a few months I can post on this thread the great success of my treatments. Either way I'll post again on this thread next Feb sometime. Im hoping for the best even thru a gloomy outlook
What: male pattern baldness and currently on my 11th month of propecia.
Where: Hair loss predominantly at the front hairline. Theres also a notch front and center of my hairline which seems wose. Ever since propecia, shed from everywhere including sides and back.
When: Slowly started to receed beginning at age 21. Started treatment at age 25. Although on treatment for past yr, it seems like my hair's condition has worsen more in this past yr than the previous 4 untreated years.
Why: Father has slightly receeded hairline but has thinning all over. Grandfather from father side is bald. Grandfather from mother side was a Norwood 3 or 4.
Well thats a simple synopsis of my current journey thru hairloss and treatments. As stated, im about 1 yr into propecia and over a yr in minoxidil. I first started with minoxidil and it seemed to strengthen all my hairs and grew some very tiny hairs that eventually died out.
As for my propecia usage, I feel like thus far it has been a failure. Not only have I not seen any regrowth, I've seen a slightly more receeded hairline (which moved faster prb than the 4 yrs before treatment). I've also seen the quality of my hair become very bad. My hair is very limp and very thin. I never really had a very thick head of hair but now my hair just lays limp on my head.
Two weird phenomenons since propecia:
1) My hair has changed to a lighther color. Im asian so my natural hair color is black, but now my black hair has a brown tint. I've received comments from others asking whether ive died my hair
2) Hair thins at the root. To test whether propecia is working for me, Ive grown my hair out since starting propecia to a fairly long length. This is an attempt to see the new portion of hair growth. Theoretically, if the propecia is working I should see some shed hairs with thicker shaft at the root. However, Im seeing the complete opposite. Ive seen hairs that slowly dwindle til it reaches the root.
Curent plan:
I plan to ride out the current shed Im on right now. It's been about a little over a month since the most horrible shed I've ever been thru. I hope it'll stop soon so I get the chance to see within the next 3 to 4 months whether new hairs have grown in its place and whether they are nice thick hairs. With careful observation, I do see little hairs poking out of my scalp but they look thin. If in 3 to 4 months (around Feb), I do not at least see my shed come to an end or an improvement in my hair, I am going to quit propecia. There just happens to be too many things going against propecia, not only that it may be not working but it may be accelerating my loss.
Hopefully in a few months I can post on this thread the great success of my treatments. Either way I'll post again on this thread next Feb sometime. Im hoping for the best even thru a gloomy outlook
