How long does medication typically postpone hairloss?

[cacciato]

I know it would vary from person to person, but what is sort of average? I started treatment when I was 21... now 22. What I've come to think from reading, is it will most likely work at least 5-7 years, and possibly more.

Thanks for your input.

 

[cal]

It's heavily dependent upon your original male pattern baldness case (your genetic susceptibilty, not just how far it was allowed to progress). Guys will less severe cases of male pattern baldness in the first place might maintain indefinitely on the current meds. The worst early-balders are sometimes complaining that they can't even stop their loss at all.

And then there's the side effects issue.
I could probably halt my male pattern baldness completely and regrow a whole Norwood level for at least a couple of years with about 2mg of finasteride per day. But that's never gonna happen because the sides get way too severe at anything over 1/2mg.

 

[jh]

According to a post by Michael Barry, with finasteride alone, you should remain above baseline for 12-14 years.

Adding nizoral, minoxidil, spironolactone, etc. will likely buy you a few more beyond that.

 

[cal]

12-14 (and more) happens, but there are also a fair number of guys complaining that finasteride didn't hold off that long.

If your loss has stopped and you're tolerating it accepably at 6-12 months after you started, then you can probably assume something in the range of 4-7 years pretty reliably. Maybe more.

A lot of guys are fine for a long time, but there's a percentage that hit a wall at 4-7 years and start losing again.

 

[antonio666]

it will not do anything

 

[Balth06]

I wonder this myself. I've been on genuine avodart along with minoxidil and nizoral for nearly a year now. Hair has improved but I wonder how long it will last.

 

[metalheaddude]

I really dont understand why all you guys are so concerned, who cares what will happen in 5-10 years from now?? If the medication starts to lose effectivness you deal with it when the times comes. Hopefully by then new and better options will be available for hairloss sufferers.

 

[abcdefg]

Ya if you start meds now they will have better treatments in 5 years. Now if those treatments are affordable or proven safe who knows. Or who knows how propecia will react with those new treatments. There are lots of questions and no one really knows the answers.

 

[ghg]

I can only speak of my experience: they don't postpone hairloss.

 

[bubka]

It's heavily dependent upon your original male pattern baldness case (your genetic susceptibilty, not just how far it was allowed to progress). Guys will less severe cases of male pattern baldness in the first place might maintain indefinitely on the current meds. The worst early-balders are sometimes complaining that they can't even stop their loss at all.

And then there's the side effects issue.
I could probably halt my male pattern baldness completely and regrow a whole Norwood level for at least a couple of years with about 2mg of finasteride per day. But that's never gonna happen because the sides get way too severe at anything over 1/2mg.

please do not listen to a word this guy says, he just makes up crap and pulls numbers out of his ***

to answer your question, finasteride should work for as long as your take it; however, some people do see regression after time because what little DHT that finasteride does not black being produced eventually will make the hairs sensitive again to DHT

 

[RaginDemon]

I really dont understand why all you guys are so concerned, who cares what will happen in 5-10 years from now?? If the medication starts to lose effectivness you deal with it when the times comes. Hopefully by then new and better options will be available for hairloss sufferers.

I agree with him, one should feel glad if the treatments are working NOW, if that's the case one should just learn to enjoy his life while awaiting for better stuff comes out in the future.

I am confident there will be a better fix in the next 5-10 years.