What should I try? (looking to avoid finasteride/minoxdil)

[startingtoloseit]

I've attached some recent pics. My goal is mainly to maintain what I have got, and I'm going to avoid finasteride/minoxdil. If in 12 months things are looking bad, then I'll reconsider them. For the time being though I'm looking to apply something that I can apply and will hopefully stop or massively slow down further hair loss. ALso I noticed that recently I get quite a bit of itching in the areas that I'm thinning in (also the temples), why is this? ALso I should mention that I don't currently use anything in my hair except for, very rarely, normal shampoo.
Thanks

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[Nashville Hairline]

For a start you should incorporate Nizoral shampoo 3-4 times a week. It might help with the itching you are feeling which is a by-product of the balding process and as a shampoo it is reputed to help with male pattern baldness. Maybe you'll see some stability (or even regrowth) in your emerging bald spot.

As for treatments I think you could try topical spironolactone. As far as I can see its the best topical 5-ar inhibitor out there. Supposed to be smelly though.

 

[beaner]

My goal is mainly to maintain what I have got, and I'm going to avoid finasteride/minoxdil.

Why are you avoiding the only two products that will probably work? You are gettting pretty far along in the balding process and it's only going to get worse. I'm not trying to be pessimistic, just realistic. Nizoral and topical spironolactone might be a good option as the other poster stated, but I seriously would not count on them to save your hair.

 

[MrBastard]

What about fluridil? And ofc a keto shampoo...

 

[startingtoloseit]

My goal is mainly to maintain what I have got, and I'm going to avoid finasteride/minoxdil.

Why are you avoiding the only two products that will probably work? You are gettting pretty far along in the balding process and it's only going to get worse. I'm not trying to be pessimistic, just realistic. Nizoral and topical spironolactone might be a good option as the other poster stated, but I seriously would not count on them to save your hair.

The same reasons as everyone else who is reluctant to take them, but I don't wish to turn it into a discussion over that. My hairloss isn't that noticeable yet so I have a bit of time on my hands to try something safer. If it doesn't work out the finasteride is always there.

 

[Cassin]

 

[zeroheat]

Yep, just buzz it if you are not going to use finasteride/minoxidil combo.

 

[Nene]

If your not willing to take finasteride or minoxidil then just buzz it as others have said. You'll be wasting your money on snake oil otherwise.

 

[TheGrayMan2001]

Nothing else will keep your hair where it needs to be except finasteride and minoxidil.

Everything else is either a supplement to helping those work better, or snake oil.

 

[RSR38]

It IS noticeable. You are headed downhill and a year will cost you plenty more hair. I wish I had not waited 4 years. I'm on the BIG 3 and am having miraculous growth now and I'm 38. I could have saved all my hair if I had started when it was "not noticeable". Now I am trying to regain 4 years of loss. Thank God it's working...

 

[emex4]

......says the guy who plans to wear a wig.

 

[mike_b]

If you are willing to consider finasteride in one year, then why wait at all? It's proven to work, almost nothing else is. It seems like a silly waste of time (and hair), to me.

 

[Hoppi]

Densiti/fluridil/RU58841 (pick your favourite) and Spectral RS

spironolactone could probably be a cheaper (but IMO probably less effective) alternative to the fluridil/RU if needed.

EDIT -- Oh and there is also asc-j9 if you feel like being ludicrously cutting-edge, but it probably costs an arm and a leg! lol

 

[Boondock]

Densiti/fluridil/RU58841 (pick your favourite) and Spectral RS

spironolactone could probably be a cheaper (but IMO probably less effective) alternative to the fluridil/RU if needed.

EDIT -- Oh and there is also asc-j9 if you feel like being ludicrously cutting-edge, but it probably costs an arm and a leg! lol

Seriously man...

 

[Bryan]

I've attached some recent pics. My goal is mainly to maintain what I have got, and I'm going to avoid finasteride/minoxdil.

So have you considered Dr. Proctor's products, prescription Proxiphen in particular? Proxiphen isn't cheap, but he thinks it's more effective than Propecia. If you can afford it, it would appear to be the treatment of choice for people like you who want to avoid finasteride.

 

[Hoppi]

For once I would actually agree with Bryan, but Proxiphen is minoxidil

 

[Hoppi]

Sorry double post (I'm posting from my phone )

 

[dougfunny]

I decided to express my feelings in a poem:

The crazy scientist grabs a vial of shampoo and perfume and mixes them together. how did he make it through med school. he does not know.

put this on your head young moron and pay me money.

the minions responded

i am doctor proctor

do I take it up the butt?

:woot:

 

[Bryan]

For once I would actually agree with Bryan, but Proxiphen is minoxidil

What do you mean?

 

[Halotd]

I'm in the same boat as the original poster. Just a question though to people who bad mouthed Fluridil, are you speaking from experience or from the point of view that finasteride and Min are the only FDA approved proven remedies?