Hi everyone,
You usually hear all success stories or stories about sides, but mine is a little different. I first started really losing my hair around January of 2014. Around this time my hair loss was falling pretty fast on my hairline. The temples receded fairly far back and I scheduled a derm appointment in May of 2014. He prescribed my propecia and told me to jump on rogaine. I only took a half pill of propecia and went off of it for a while because of fear of sides. I ended up starting a full pill (1mg) around August of 2014. Ever since I have been taking the full pill. At this point my hair loss was around a NW2. Around November/December of 2014 my hair loss started going in overdrive. I was rapidly thinning all over my scalp and my hairline was receding very fast. Currently my temples have receded extremely far and the middle front of my hairline has also receded back around half an inch, coming close to an inch. I still have no bald spot in the back, but I have a general thinning throughout my scalp. My hair used to be extremely thick, and still is not noticeably thinning from others because of my longer hair length, but it feels like I lost around 40% of the hair on my scalp. My receding hairline is obviously very noticeable if I am not covering it up with long hair. My hair is definitely at its worst so far and I have seen no improvements in my hair since starting the pill. I am uncertain whether the pill actually accelerated my hair loss or if my male pattern baldness was going in this direction, which is very possible. But the pill has definitely not helped. I don't hear too many fail stories on here with young men, and I just wanted to let people know that propecia is not the magic pill for all people that everyone makes it out to be. Has anyone else experienced similar results as a young man, and what did you end up doing? Do you guys think I should continue taking the pill or just cut it out? My derm keeps saying to take the pill, but in all honesty I don't see a reason if it is doing nothing or possibly making things worse.
You usually hear all success stories or stories about sides, but mine is a little different. I first started really losing my hair around January of 2014. Around this time my hair loss was falling pretty fast on my hairline. The temples receded fairly far back and I scheduled a derm appointment in May of 2014. He prescribed my propecia and told me to jump on rogaine. I only took a half pill of propecia and went off of it for a while because of fear of sides. I ended up starting a full pill (1mg) around August of 2014. Ever since I have been taking the full pill. At this point my hair loss was around a NW2. Around November/December of 2014 my hair loss started going in overdrive. I was rapidly thinning all over my scalp and my hairline was receding very fast. Currently my temples have receded extremely far and the middle front of my hairline has also receded back around half an inch, coming close to an inch. I still have no bald spot in the back, but I have a general thinning throughout my scalp. My hair used to be extremely thick, and still is not noticeably thinning from others because of my longer hair length, but it feels like I lost around 40% of the hair on my scalp. My receding hairline is obviously very noticeable if I am not covering it up with long hair. My hair is definitely at its worst so far and I have seen no improvements in my hair since starting the pill. I am uncertain whether the pill actually accelerated my hair loss or if my male pattern baldness was going in this direction, which is very possible. But the pill has definitely not helped. I don't hear too many fail stories on here with young men, and I just wanted to let people know that propecia is not the magic pill for all people that everyone makes it out to be. Has anyone else experienced similar results as a young man, and what did you end up doing? Do you guys think I should continue taking the pill or just cut it out? My derm keeps saying to take the pill, but in all honesty I don't see a reason if it is doing nothing or possibly making things worse.
