Hey guys, I've never posted on here before, but I've been lurking for a while. I started nizoral & finasteride 2 months ago, and while I have no idea if it's working for male pattern baldness yet, I've been amazed at what it's done for my general scalp health and I was wondering if any of you guys have experienced something similar.
My hair loss isn't terrible (almost identical to Norwood 2 on the home page, maybe a touch better from the top view), but it started diffusing a tad, so I decided to treat it. The same Derm. that prescribed me Propecia has probably tried 10 different things over the last decade or so to try and clear up fairly moderate psoriasis in my scalp, eyebrows and beard area to no avail. Literally nothing made a dent, but after only about a month of using nizoral (which my Doctor has never mentioned before, I got that idea from this site), my scalp completely cleared up. I use it on my eyebrows now with the same level of success.
It makes me wonder, though, if maybe I didn't have psoriasis at all. Could it have been some symptom of male pattern baldness that's gone away now that I'm treating it? Have any of you had the same experience?
I'm almost as happy about this as I would be about regrowing hair in the nw1 area that I've lost, so I just felt like sharing it and seeing if anyone else has been through the same. Really bad flakes can be as embarrassing as thinning some times.
I'm also scared to death to try minoxidil due to my aforementioned sensitive scalp. Should I not get greedy or am I missing out on potential gains? Do any of you have psoriasis and use minoxidil?
Apologies if this is in the wrong discussion category. It didn't seem serious enough for one of the treatment pages.
My hair loss isn't terrible (almost identical to Norwood 2 on the home page, maybe a touch better from the top view), but it started diffusing a tad, so I decided to treat it. The same Derm. that prescribed me Propecia has probably tried 10 different things over the last decade or so to try and clear up fairly moderate psoriasis in my scalp, eyebrows and beard area to no avail. Literally nothing made a dent, but after only about a month of using nizoral (which my Doctor has never mentioned before, I got that idea from this site), my scalp completely cleared up. I use it on my eyebrows now with the same level of success.
It makes me wonder, though, if maybe I didn't have psoriasis at all. Could it have been some symptom of male pattern baldness that's gone away now that I'm treating it? Have any of you had the same experience?
I'm almost as happy about this as I would be about regrowing hair in the nw1 area that I've lost, so I just felt like sharing it and seeing if anyone else has been through the same. Really bad flakes can be as embarrassing as thinning some times.
I'm also scared to death to try minoxidil due to my aforementioned sensitive scalp. Should I not get greedy or am I missing out on potential gains? Do any of you have psoriasis and use minoxidil?
Apologies if this is in the wrong discussion category. It didn't seem serious enough for one of the treatment pages.