Your Hair are Back..Now what?

[Broken]

So you stuck with finasteride & Min for months if not years, and you have whatever you could hold & whatever you could regrow..Now what?

I have seen so many success stories which are truly inspirational and am myself been using the Big 2 and hoping for same results..But what after that? Will I become a slave to these drugs for the rest of my life? I feel so weak right now..If I want to keep my hair then I have to stick with these meds for years..

I have been thinking about leaving these drugs after I've had decent results, may be on the 7-8 month mark..Leave them slowly & steadily, reducing dosage through weeks & months..But that's not gonna work is it? There has to be a way, I don't want to keep putting these drugs in my body & my hair..Has anyone had success keeping their regrowth without the meds?

May be this is just a rant

 

[s.a.f]

Its up to you take a pill and keep your hair or dont and lose it, to me its a pretty simple choice.
Plenty of people live on medications for various ailments its no hardship.

 

[G k]

..Has anyone had success keeping their regrowth without the meds?

May be this is just a rant

No chance. As you ween of the drugs, your hair also weens off your scalp.

 

[dave_2010]

lol a question like this brings me back to when I visited the AHS and didn't have a clue about hair loss or products etc and wanted some hair bk and to stop the balding...

asked about the course and at the end asked after this 6 month course will I have to keep coming bk or using the products in order to maintain and the guys response to me was something like...

"no your body and scalp will get use to the medication and then develop new hairs without the treatment so you will only need to be here for a 6 month course"

tut tut anything to get a sale :-( didn't go for it tho

 

[Moony]

Yeah, you may have to take a pill or put some stuff on your head for the rest of your days. But when you take a step back and look at your life it's really not that big a deal. You could easily say...

Ahh I don't wanna have to floss/brush my teeth every single day. Or shower. Or eat 3+ meals every day. Or drink all those liquids. Or go to work 5 days a week. Or go to school x days a week. etc.

When you look at all the routines you have in life the 5 seconds it takes to pop a pill in your mouth is literally nothing in comparison. Especially not when the alternative is obviously something you hate more since you're on this site.

 

[Thickandthin]

Realistically, meds are only going to buy you 10-15 years past what your genetically predetermined "bald" age was going to be. And that's best case scenario - i.e. excellent responders who restore a NW4 to a NW2.

So eventually you will end up bald anyway. With that considered, finasteride isn't going to be a real lifetime treatment for most people because once they hit NW4/5, they'll probably just stop using all treatments. Once your frontal hairline is completely gone, there's little point at hanging onto a slighter bigger horseshoe than what you would normally have.

The downside is that getting a hair transplant actually locks you into treatments for much longer (possibly life), because suddenly you are worried about going from NW5-NW6 or NW6-NW7. Which is a process that might take another decade, or may never happen at all.

 

[whats up im joe]

Realistically, meds are only going to buy you 10-15 years past what your genetically predetermined "bald" age was going to be. And that's best case scenario - i.e. excellent responders who restore a NW4 to a NW2.

^is this true. because if it is...whats really the point of trying to keep your hair?

 

[Nene]

Realistically, meds are only going to buy you 10-15 years past what your genetically predetermined "bald" age was going to be. And that's best case scenario - i.e. excellent responders who restore a NW4 to a NW2.

^is this true. because if it is...whats really the point of trying to keep your hair?

Everyone is different. For most people I would say it buys less time but It's not impossible that meds can help you maintain for life. But how can you ask what the point is? Even if meds buy me 10 additional years of hair I'd be happy. I'd much rather go bald at 40 than at 25 or 30.

 

[nickypoos]

Everyone is different. For most people I would say it buys less time but It's not impossible that meds can help you maintain for life. But how can you ask what the point is? Even if meds buy me 10 additional years of hair I'd be happy. I'd much rather go bald at 40 than at 25 or 30.

Damn straight! I know my time with hair is limited, been a NW2.5/3 at 18, any extra time i can have with hair to get me through my twenties is nothing short of a miracle for me.

 

[TheGrayMan2001]

Ok look at it this way.

If you lose all your hair you'll probably have to shave it. You shave it every few days, maybe every day.

If you have some other disease, you might have to take a pill every day.

You brush your teeth and take a shower every day.

It's just one more thing. finasteride takes about 2 seconds of my day. I am not on minoxidil yet but if I do it it can't possibly take that long.