we are wasting our time

[antonio666]

i know everyone does not want to hear this depressing reality but 90% of us hair loss sufferers are in fact wasting our time trying to stop this balding ,sure people convince themselves that after 3 months of taking propecia they notice less shedding in 90% of these cases that is just the progression of your male pattern baldness slowing down like it would have done without propecia and then in another few months it will speed up,in my opinion the FDA are very wrong to market these drugs to say they work ,when they do not

 

[iamnaked]

Are you acquainted with the success stories' board?

 

[phish]

i think u got it the other way around not 90 percent are wasting their time about 10 percent are wasting their time. i know it sucks to be in that 10 percent but sometimes thats life. please move on and not discourage the other 90 percent that the big 3 has worked for and will work for thank you.

 

[whitemogs]

I think its wrong of you to come here and blurt out your negative opinion as if nobody will get anything out of them. some people will have some positive experiances with it. i for one have, a minor one but still any bit helps. keep your hopes up people

 

[abcdefg]

Well really someone could argue the only real treatment that will have any significant long term impact on helping with male pattern baldness is propecia as of today. Really we have 1 good treatment and the rest is pretty much a crap shoot. Even propecia is kind of a crap shoot but its the best we have thus far. The most frustrating thing is we know dht, testosterone, and androgens are what causes male pattern baldness but we do not have any treatment that effectively stops all androgens from attacking hair follicles or even a treatment that works to stop binding to receptor sites. We have known this for 10 years and countless other things like the whole igf-beta and the whole cascade of events that is involved in yet no treatment that targets that.

 

[ghg]

i think u got it the other way around not 90 percent are wasting their time about 10 percent are wasting their time. i know it sucks to be in that 10 percent but sometimes thats life. please move on and not discourage the other 90 percent that the big 3 has worked for and will work for thank you.

90 percent! LOL. No way. Maybe about 50% get regrowth with the current drugs, but no way 90.

 

[s.a.f]

I'd say not even 50% get regrowth but I think possibly 90% can maintain which is a success in itself.

 

[Sean68]

ive always thought that if you put the effort in and try a few things and then choose well youve got a decent chance of responding...65%?

whenever i/we post stuff like this im always reminded of that statistic about 90% or something similar of everything on the internet being untrue. i think some of the conjecture on here has probably pushed that figure up over the years.

 

[bubka]

another dumbass antonio66690210 post

 

[antonio666]

another dumbass antonio66690210 post

shut the f*** up you little c***

 

[bubka]

thanks, exactly :roll: :jackit:

 

[phish]

didnt say 90 percent regrow, but if your on the big 3 90 percent in 5 years will have same hair or better. i didnt make that up the propecia 5 year trial did. you can take whatever number you guys want with your own opinion on what others say but untill you have a 5 year study with same critera as the propecia trials you really cant mock it.

 

[Axon]

i know everyone does not want to hear this depressing reality but 90% of us hair loss sufferers are in fact wasting our time trying to stop this balding ,sure people convince themselves that after 3 months of taking propecia they notice less shedding in 90% of these cases that is just the progression of your male pattern baldness slowing down like it would have done without propecia and then in another few months it will speed up,in my opinion the FDA are very wrong to market these drugs to say they work ,when they do not

Check my join date.

I haven't receded a millimeter since I began my regimen in 2002.

 

[metalheaddude]

i know everyone does not want to hear this depressing reality but 90% of us hair loss sufferers are in fact wasting our time trying to stop this balding ,sure people convince themselves that after 3 months of taking propecia they notice less shedding in 90% of these cases that is just the progression of your male pattern baldness slowing down like it would have done without propecia and then in another few months it will speed up,in my opinion the FDA are very wrong to market these drugs to say they work ,when they do not

Check my join date.

I haven't receded a millimeter since I began my regimen in 2002.

Probably because you were never balding in the first place! ie: It was your imgination or just a maturing hairline.

 

[Axon]

i know everyone does not want to hear this depressing reality but 90% of us hair loss sufferers are in fact wasting our time trying to stop this balding ,sure people convince themselves that after 3 months of taking propecia they notice less shedding in 90% of these cases that is just the progression of your male pattern baldness slowing down like it would have done without propecia and then in another few months it will speed up,in my opinion the FDA are very wrong to market these drugs to say they work ,when they do not

Check my join date.

I haven't receded a millimeter since I began my regimen in 2002.

Probably because you were never balding in the first place! ie: It was your imgination or just a maturing hairline.

That's incorrect. I have both crown and hairline loss.

 

[beaner]

I haven't lost any hair since starting treatments either. It will be six years in June since I started minoxidil and just over 2 years on finasteride and I'm going strong. Major improvements surfaced after starting the finasteride and I'm still seeing new growth every 3-4 months.

 

[Eureka]

If you have reached this all knowing truth, that we are all wasting our time, Then why are you here?

No way in hell are 90% of the people who take finasteride wasting their time. Your percentages seem to be created on pure ignorance, which seems impossible when written on a board which in itself a wealth of information on hairloss.

I don't know what dreamland you are from, but male pattern baldness does not stop on it's own, when you take finasteride and it slows down, it slows down because your on finasteride.

Some people are wasting their time, finasteride,rogaine,nizoral and whatever else you wish to throw in the foray of products we use for our hair loss, do not work for everyone. When they do work it is to varying degrees, However Almost everyone who uses finasteride notices some sort of difference. It isn't an hallucination, it is finasteride, lowering your testosterone, lowering your DHT.

 

[antonio666]

finasteride does not lower test it raises it

 

[Felk]

Yeah, i've barely receded at all.... in fact not at all, and i've been off the propecia or dutasteride (which thickened things up) for months and just using Proxiphen every second day or so.

Though i personally think my great slowing/cessation of hair loss is down to a change in climate.

 

[vipergts]

I for one partially agree with antonio. Propecia actually accelerated my hairloss ( i used it for a year). minoxidil, spironolactone, Folligen, nizoral, etc did not help much either. BUT I know many people who have reponded very well to Propecia and have kept their loss at bay for several year.

People like you and me are just not good responders....too bad, sh*t HAPPENS, LIFE GOES ON....Trust me, Hairloss is NOT a BIG DEAL at all.