To shed or not to shed?

[georgehelton308795]

Dear Users,

Firstly I'd like to congradulate everyone on the contributions I've seen in the general GourmetStyleWellness form. Very informative and more importantly, supportive and comforting.

I do wish however to steal away some of your time in an effort to understand what may be happening within this regime of mine and I will do my best to provide you with all details. I've also seen some posts of others who might be going through the same ordeal - so here she goes:

I've been on minoxidil for roughly 10 months, and proscar for around 4 1/2 months. The min didn't seem to be of any benefit and hense the reason I started finasteride. Around the same time as starting finasteride I decided to use only head and shoulders every day and nizoral/3 days. On top of that I drink probably 2-5 cups of Green Tea, gourge myself on some good brocolie every now and then and take soy power (ground up and put into capsules along with the 1mg finasteride). Seems like alot, but it's become routine so it is actually pretty easy to fulfill.

While only on the min I didn't notice any change in my continual hair loss.. ie. anything could be falling in my hands in the shower. Yet, I noticed that after I started finasteride, the hairs that fell out were no longer then 1/2 inch or so, some been think and some thin. It felt pretty good in an abstract way of think.. lossing hair now - means shed - means working. No change in hair density for the first couple months. But after the third I didn't notice any new growth, nor did my shed stop.. but hey.. keep going right? so, onto past the 4th month now and I've really noticed my hair thinning and my shedding seems to have gotten worse. (and the hairs that are falling out are up to an inch long - but random now).

So that's the output, so here are my thoughts on the subject. My hair is about 1 1/2 to 2" long on the top, and I haven't noticed any of these in the shower. It's fair enough to say that they aren't the ones having problems. So is the shedding a good thing or a bad thing? I know 4 1/2 months isn't really a long period of time, and I'm not thinking of quiting anything for at least a year or two, but has anyone else gone through in the first 4 months something like I have?

Anyways, I hope all is going well for everyone!

Oh yeah, I get my finasteride from worldwide-parmacy.. anyone know this is lidgit? as in, I'm not getting some sugar pill?

George

 

[stepbehind]

I'm experiencing the same problem, with the same timeline. My problem is that I've seen both longer, and shorter hairs falling out. But I've also noticed regrowth in my temple area. I think it's a good idea to stick with it for the time being. I mean, I don't think Propecia would cause growth in one area and balding in another. I'm sure that the shedding is only a precursor to more growth.

 

[georgehelton308795]

Stepbehind,

I agree on the continuing theme. It'd be such a waste to stop trying because of a shed (hair you would have lost anyway down the road). However, it does make the process a little stressfull!

 

[stepbehind]

Yeah George, it's frustrating all right. You don't know how many times I've just wanted to shave my entire head bald and just give up. But then I figure that if I can just maintain the hair that I have, and with new treatments constantly arising, that in a few years I can have a full head of hair again.

 

[stepbehind]

Yeah George, it's frustrating all right. You don't know how many times I've just wanted to shave my entire head bald and just give up. But then I figure that if I can just maintain the hair that I have, and with new treatments constantly arising, that in a few years I can have a full head of hair again.

 

[georgehelton308795]

Stepbehind,

Well I'd say we're both a step ahead in that something is being done, whether there are current results or gonna be future results. We have but one life ahead of us, and although the inevitability of death is somewhere out there, we may as well live it how we want to live it.

In this day and age (The turning point of the Information age) we as customers are "Kings". We know what we want and we get what we want. It's just a matter of time before we can dispose this weak solution of drug treatments (minoxidil, finasteride... others) and permently change our bodies to perform how we want them to (and to stop our immune systems from attacking those little folicles on our heads). Morse Law says that computers are doubling in power ever since there were mechanical calculating machines (from Ray Kurzwell - Spiritual Machines). Givin this, our society has also exploded with huge amount of information - which is also continuing to double beside the computers.. given this rate of expansion.. it won't be too long before we have permenant cures.. lots of them!

But, for the time being, we need to do what we can with the products we have.

George

 

[KeVlaR]

There is no money in cures - treatment of the disease thru expensive medicines that you have to take daily for the rest of your lives - that's where the money is. Nobody is looking for a cure. That is the sad fact of the matter.

 

[georgehelton308795]

In theory I agree with you. There is no point in selling an item once, when you can sell an inferior item for a lot more then once that does roughly the same job (disposable society). This would seem to be imitating what a large, monopoly type organisation would say behind the consumers backs.

I don't believe, however, that all products are designed to have return customers for that product, unless there is an advantage in doing so (again, monopoly). Why not you ask? Well, it could just very well be an advantage to get rich quick by introducing a great product that no one needs to fix.. ever.. although you don't have return customers - you still get the initial onslaught of profits (which could suit the companies needs)

So, a one time use product would put merk out of the hair growing business - which would be true. We can hypothisize about conspirecies all we want, whether they are true or not... all I'll say is one of these days, a break through is going to come and once the media gets hold of it.. nothing will stop it.

PS. think about the cure of Hair Transplanting. It's already out there as a solution, and one stop shop for a cure. Too bad you need a lot of money allow someone to give your head a million pokes with a knife. Now, without the surgery, do you think someone would take a $2000 pill one time only, and cure himself of male pattern baldness? I think this would be a great investment myself.