Finasteride Making Hair Worse?

[Buster]

Anyone here ever think that maybe the treatment didn't work for them and their incessantly stressing exacerbated their hair loss?

I honestly don't know what to think. I've thought long and hard about it and talked with my doctor who said it's not possible and that I'd probably be worse off without Fin, but all that I know is that I got Fin from the doctor because I noticed that I was slightly thinning in the crown. I was thirty-six at the time and my hair line started receding when I was seventeen, but it thankfully stopped/slowed and at the age of thirty-six I was able to style my hair in such a way to hide it. I delayed starting Fin for a year because I read some bad posts about it, but then after about a year decided to take the plunge. During that full year beforer starting Fin I was monitoring the thinning in the crown and didn't notice it progressing at all, but I started hearing some good stories about Fin and decided that I wanted to do something about it.

Within the first three months I noticed that my hair on the top had become thinner. My hair line wasn't receding further (that I noticed) but I noticed that I could easly see my scalp through my hair. I read on here, and on ***, that it was probably a Fin shed, and that made me feel better, but that was over a year ago and it still looks as thin as it did after starting Fin.

I wonder if it's possible that when you start Fin it gets rid of the weaker and minitaurized hair for some of us, but then after the "shed" the follicle was so badly damaged that there is no hair to replace it.

[Notcoolanymore]

anyone who has slow hairloss , probably shouldnt touch fin.

This thread is testament to why,

I could be wrong, but I don't think most people around here have slow hair loss. Maybe at this point it is not very noticeable, but it is still happening. I once heard spencer kobren say that you need to lose 50% density before you even notice hair loss. That is a lot of damn hair that is gone. I have seen your pics and you have very little to no hair loss at all. It is very easy to be part of the anti fin crowd when you have a full head of hair. I guarantee if you woke up one day and found yourself at nw3, all the hormones talk would be out the window and you would be popping fin like they were tic tacs.

[yeahyeahyeah]

I could be wrong, but I don't think most people around here have slow hair loss. Maybe at this point it is not very noticeable, but it is still happening. I once heard spencer kobren say that you need to lose 50% density before you even notice hair loss. That is a lot of damn hair that is gone. I have seen your pics and you have very little to no hair loss at all. It is very easy to be part of the anti fin crowd when you have a full head of hair. I guarantee if you woke up one day and found yourself at nw3, all the hormones talk would be out the window and you would be popping fin like they were tic tacs.

I would take it then, sure.

And it is sad that I will have to, unless better treatments come out.

[Notcoolanymore]

I would take it then, sure.

And it is sad that I will have to, unless better treatments come out.

I bet you would take it. None of us are taking the stuff because we want to. I personally don't like taking any drugs, even over the counter stuff. We take this because this is pretty much the only effective think we have.

[BigThinker]

And I don't mean to be condescending with my last post or make light of an obviously troubling part of all our lives, but we gotta be objective here. We know fin works for *most* people. If it doesn't work for you, what is your hair going to do? Deteriorate further.

Serious question: is anyone claiming to have gone through a treatment shed and then never rebounded or at least had their hair loss halted? I think that would be telling.

[Dan26]

25/65, bro you should see baldjerrys results....6 years on dut hair started going downhilll looked very thin (diffuse, solid hairline), then after starting RU, 8 months in his hair looks amazing, great increase of density.

[25 going on 65]

25/65, bro you should see baldjerrys results....6 years on dut hair started going downhilll looked very thin (diffuse, solid hairline), then after starting RU, 8 months in his hair looks amazing, great increase of density.

Where can I see this?

[mpbsucks]

Anyone here ever think that maybe the treatment didn't work for them and their incessantly stressing exacerbated their hair loss?

Well for me, it did work, stopped all hair loss cold for 7 months and then this never ending shed started. Been going strong for almost 15 months now. Never shed like this before starting fin...

[mpbsucks]

And I don't mean to be condescending with my last post or make light of an obviously troubling part of all our lives, but we gotta be objective here. We know fin works for *most* people. If it doesn't work for you, what is your hair going to do? Deteriorate further.

Serious question: is anyone claiming to have gone through a treatment shed and then never rebounded or at least had their hair loss halted? I think that would be telling.

Yeah, alot of us have had this happen, me, alex82, kirby, buster, etc., etc., etc

[25 going on 65]

I am shedding like hell right now. Starting to wonder if this is not from andro alopecia. They are not all miniaturized hairs either, I see a lot of healthy looking hairs coming out too

[mpbsucks]

Buster and mpbsucks, sorry to hear more guys are in the same situation as me I've been on fin for 2 years now and shedding has accelerated rapidly. I'd say I've lost easily 50% of my density since baseline. Why is this not a listed side effect!

alex82, glad to hear from you man, I've been following your posts for almost a year as we both have responded to fin in the exact same manner. I am sorry to hear your still shedding man, hairloss is one thing, but a crazy ass never ending itchy shed is almost untolerable. Anyways, I have tried many different treatments to get the shed to stop but haven't been able to yet. After 13 months on fin I switched to DUT, nothing. I also used RU for a time and still nothing. Now I am off AA's altogther to see if that helps, it has not as of yet. Are you still shedding? If you ever figure out how to get it to stop please let me know, I will do the same for you man

[mpbsucks]

anyone who has slow hairloss , probably shouldnt touch fin.

This thread is testament to why,

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[Hector93]

Hi all - I'm 20 years old and have been on generic almus finasteride for 8 months, 1.25mg eod. So far I have only experienced increased scalp and facial oiliness, mild brain fog, mild change in mood and increased rate of hair loss ('shedding'). My hair has gone from thick with slight corner recession to major recession, frontal thinning and crown thinning, (very similar pattern to Alex82).

I think in cases were hairloss accelerates there could be underlying hair loss factors that fin does not address and may in fact exacerbate, e.g. thyroid, lupus, dermatitis, folliculitis etc due to messing with hormones.

Could also just be highly androgen sensitive follicles to begin with.

Or a vitamin D deficiency.

Or stress.

Or 'just a shed'...

Not really sure what plan of action to take if fin is making shit worse, personally I am going to give it until 12-15 months and try and find an informed dermatologist/ endocrinologist in the meantime - easier said than done.

Also considering changing dosage or changing to brand name proscar/ propecia, i've read some anecdotal evidence online that generic doesn't work as good, what do you guys make of this?