when to quit finasteride?

[honk]

i've been on proscar for a bit over a year. i'd never had a problem with the crown but as soon as i started it began to thin. i imagine i've lost around 35%-40% of my hair during the year. i orginally thought it was a prolonged shed so i stuck it out.

could the proscar have been detrimental to my hair? is it worth just stopping now?

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[TheGrayMan2001]

It might just be that your crown is so sensitive to DHT that it was going to fall out no matter what and finasteride can't help you there :-\

 

[curiouscharles]

how old are you - how long had your hairloss been going on, how aggressive was it?


i'm f*****g flabbergasted people don't mention these things by default considering how important they are when it comes to finasteride's effectiveness in YOUR situation

 

[vellusfarmer]

I'm in the exact same situation than you, honk. I don't know when it's really the right time to quit, but I've sort of decided that I will still give it a couple of months, so 14-month mark is pretty much it. Maybe 15. But that's it then, no coming back. Sure - some people might get results only after 2 years, but this is purely about probabilities. Surely there is always some people who might react not until 3 years....but the percentage is insignificant. You can't wait to make it 99,99999% sure. To me, it makes sense to quit when you haven't had results during time when 90%-95% of users have had results. And based on my observations here on the forum, 15 months is enough for this.

i'm f****ing flabbergasted people don't mention these things by default considering how important they are when it comes to finasteride's effectiveness in YOUR situation

Interesting point. There would be a lot of potential in this "online hair loss community" if all users would systematically enter and update their data on various things. And then other users could search this database to find people to match exactly their profile and see the results, not only in stories, but in exact measures, graphs, correlations. A lot of hassling, guessing, asking the same questions again and again, opening same topics again and again, would reduce via this kind of a systematic and comprehensive hair loss insight database. The problem is of course that the users cannot really be incentivized for entering and updating their profile constantly and carefully. And no, this kind of database doesn't exist anywhere. If you have some service or forum functionality in mind, I'm talking about something much bigger and much more comprehensive than that.

 

[honk]

how old are you - how long had your hairloss been going on, how aggressive was it?

i'm now 23, my temples started receding at around 19 but wasnt too much of an issue. at that stage the rest would be considered thick. i started to take proscar at 21 as a preventative. pretty much straight away i started losing hair much more aggressively on both the temples and crown. over the course of a year i've lost a fair percentage of my hair, so very aggressive.

i've also had some loss on non-male pattern baldness areas like the sides of my head. i had my thyroid checked and this was not an issue