Hi, I am 25 years old and have been using rogaine for 3 years now. I also started propecia a few months ago. I've always had a million questions I wanted to ask but had nobody knowledgable to question. I am so glad I found this forum! Now down to business.
1 - I have been very bad about applying the minoxodil twice a day. It makes my hair look thinner than it is and causes a lot of dandruff, so I tend to only put it on before I go to bed. I've always wondered how much this effects the regrowth process. Am I making a huge mistake in doing this, or is once a day still good enough to help?
2 - I'm sure you're all shaking your heads after number 1, but it's about to get worse. I have to be honest here if I want to hear the truth, right? I do not shower every day. I tend to go anywhere from 2 to 5 days between washings as I work from my home computer, don't go out enough to get very dirty, am terribly lazy, etc... The question is, just how detrimental is this to the regrowth process? If I knew it were like the worst thing you could do, I'd probably be more inclined to step up my shower frequency, or at least wash my hair more often.
3 - As you have easily guessed by now, I am not in the best of physical health either. I'm not obese, but I am fat and extraordinarily out of shape. It seems like a long shot, but does a physically inactive lifestyle in any way impede the regrowth process?
4 - What type of climates are good/bad for regrowth? I currently live in a cold climate, but might be moving to a dry-heat desert area soon. It seems to me like heat would be bad for weak hair, but I wouldn't want to go on assumptions. It also seems like dry heat would be better than humid heat. Anyone know anything about this subject?
5 - I've heard that clipping your hair really short is healthy for strengthening it, but at the same time it instinctually seems like I'm "killing" the hair when I cut it to a stub. I wanted to clarify the truth on this matter.
6 - One incompetent doctor I spoke to a long time ago said that dandruff shampoos and all conditioners were bad for my hair and that I should cease using anything but a mild shampoo. Then a few years later a hair stylist told me that I really needed to be using conditioner because my hair was extremely dry and that was bad for it. I've always agreed that my post-rogaine hair gets extremely dry and that it'd be awesome to use conditioner, but was afraid of damaging it further. What is the truth?
Thanks you all so much!
1 - I have been very bad about applying the minoxodil twice a day. It makes my hair look thinner than it is and causes a lot of dandruff, so I tend to only put it on before I go to bed. I've always wondered how much this effects the regrowth process. Am I making a huge mistake in doing this, or is once a day still good enough to help?
2 - I'm sure you're all shaking your heads after number 1, but it's about to get worse. I have to be honest here if I want to hear the truth, right? I do not shower every day. I tend to go anywhere from 2 to 5 days between washings as I work from my home computer, don't go out enough to get very dirty, am terribly lazy, etc... The question is, just how detrimental is this to the regrowth process? If I knew it were like the worst thing you could do, I'd probably be more inclined to step up my shower frequency, or at least wash my hair more often.
3 - As you have easily guessed by now, I am not in the best of physical health either. I'm not obese, but I am fat and extraordinarily out of shape. It seems like a long shot, but does a physically inactive lifestyle in any way impede the regrowth process?
4 - What type of climates are good/bad for regrowth? I currently live in a cold climate, but might be moving to a dry-heat desert area soon. It seems to me like heat would be bad for weak hair, but I wouldn't want to go on assumptions. It also seems like dry heat would be better than humid heat. Anyone know anything about this subject?
5 - I've heard that clipping your hair really short is healthy for strengthening it, but at the same time it instinctually seems like I'm "killing" the hair when I cut it to a stub. I wanted to clarify the truth on this matter.
6 - One incompetent doctor I spoke to a long time ago said that dandruff shampoos and all conditioners were bad for my hair and that I should cease using anything but a mild shampoo. Then a few years later a hair stylist told me that I really needed to be using conditioner because my hair was extremely dry and that was bad for it. I've always agreed that my post-rogaine hair gets extremely dry and that it'd be awesome to use conditioner, but was afraid of damaging it further. What is the truth?
Thanks you all so much!
. nah, i used to be like you, but i went to my derm, and she informed me that its the mistake that every1 makes. she showed me on a special piece of paper how greasy my hair was after one day after washing. she said you should wash your hair every day. i was washing it 2-3 times a week before she told me this.