I just wanted to start off by saying;
Thanks to everyone who has posted on this site. (which I never knew existed). Your words, advice, and experiences are what brought me to this point.
I'm 32 years old, my first signs of losing my hair were around 17. I ignored it however, hoping it was just going to stop. It did not. As the years went by I didn't think it was that bad, around 25 or so, I started hearing from co-workers, friends, family "wow you're losing your hair". Thanks, I didn't even notice.. Still not sure why people even mention it, I don't go around saying "wow, you sure got fat, or damn, your teeth are crooked." I started to wear a hat everywhere I went. Even went as far as telling my wife I won't take family pictures without one lol.
Anyways fast forward to July 4th 2015
After reading thread after thread on this site, I decided to try minoxidil, luckily my wife is a licensed hair stylist so she gets discounts on my hair care products. She picked up Nioxin 5% minoxidil and nioxin 2 shampoo and conditioner.
I picked up some 450 MG saw palmetto, 5,000 mcg biotin with argon oil.
I read on a few threads that applying 4 times a day may increase results, so for the first month I applied minoxidil 4 times a day, 8am 12pm 4pm and 9pmish. Within 2 weeks I noticed Tons of vellus hair all over my scalp, which was pretty much bald. I found myself staring into the mirror literally counting hairs.. After the first month my left temple was filling in nicely, the right temple good, not great. I've kept my hair short since I started using minoxidil just to check progress.
So here we are at almost 2 full months of minoxidil at least twice a day, nizoral 1% 3 times a week, 450mg saw palmetto twice daily, 5,000 mcg biotin twice daily (sometimes I skip a day on the pills).
Hopefully the progress continues, I've not taken pro/finasteride/dutasteride
Thanks to everyone who has posted on this site. (which I never knew existed). Your words, advice, and experiences are what brought me to this point.
I'm 32 years old, my first signs of losing my hair were around 17. I ignored it however, hoping it was just going to stop. It did not. As the years went by I didn't think it was that bad, around 25 or so, I started hearing from co-workers, friends, family "wow you're losing your hair". Thanks, I didn't even notice.. Still not sure why people even mention it, I don't go around saying "wow, you sure got fat, or damn, your teeth are crooked." I started to wear a hat everywhere I went. Even went as far as telling my wife I won't take family pictures without one lol.
Anyways fast forward to July 4th 2015
After reading thread after thread on this site, I decided to try minoxidil, luckily my wife is a licensed hair stylist so she gets discounts on my hair care products. She picked up Nioxin 5% minoxidil and nioxin 2 shampoo and conditioner.
I picked up some 450 MG saw palmetto, 5,000 mcg biotin with argon oil.
I read on a few threads that applying 4 times a day may increase results, so for the first month I applied minoxidil 4 times a day, 8am 12pm 4pm and 9pmish. Within 2 weeks I noticed Tons of vellus hair all over my scalp, which was pretty much bald. I found myself staring into the mirror literally counting hairs.. After the first month my left temple was filling in nicely, the right temple good, not great. I've kept my hair short since I started using minoxidil just to check progress.
So here we are at almost 2 full months of minoxidil at least twice a day, nizoral 1% 3 times a week, 450mg saw palmetto twice daily, 5,000 mcg biotin twice daily (sometimes I skip a day on the pills).
Hopefully the progress continues, I've not taken pro/finasteride/dutasteride
