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Guys, a quick story.
Some 15 years ago, when I noticed I started losing hair, mainly frontal hairline and vertex, I started using 5% Rogaine. In the beginning it really helped me a lot and for years, I used it pretty regularly, morning and evening. It irritated my skin, but it was not so bad, sometimes worse, sometimes quite OK. I simply used it and since then paid not much of attention to the quality of my hair, although I heard from people that my hair improved a bit. It was just now part of my daily routine. I stopped for a bit from time to time, once for 3-4 months, but after seeing through my scalp, I got quickly back to it.
But after all these years, the positive effect weakened. My hairline pulled back slowly and finally I saw in the gym in the mirror the top of my head from behind - it looked really shitty, with big patch of almost naked skin.
So I stopped Minox for good. It did good for some time, but right now I don't think it does much for me anymore. I also shaved my head to 0.5mm. What a relief! Now I see how much I lost in the recent years, but the dreaded bald head is much better than weaker and weaker patches of longer hair, seeing through skin - I just looked much weirder than with shaved head and stubble.
Anyway - why am I writing this. The itching caused by my allergy to Minoxidil alcohol compound stopped completely. Now I am using Nizoral 2% (I know, nothing much to gain with this) and also I eat capsules and/or drink a tea from herb Epilobium parviflorum, based on some info on various hairloss forums. Nothing more, although I will try for a month or two the regimen from Herbaliser, described here on this forum - it looks quite interesting, so I will give it a shot.
But after I shaved my head to 0.5 mm, after a couple of days I noticed many small hair between more longer ones. These are dark like my original color, not vellus, but they seem very small and I don't think they grew much. After 3 weeks that I "discovered" those, they should be almost 1cm long, but they are still like 1-2mm. Did I shave badly? But they do not grow. I am not sure, is it some kind of regrowth? They do not grow on bald spots, only between other hair, where I lost so much ground and where I am thinning very badly.
And I also noticed a couple of new terminal hairs in front of my hairline, but just a 2-3. Never been there anything for years. Strange. Anyway, my hair looks terrible, I am something like very solid NW4, with no complete bald spot on vertex, but going there with intense thinning.
Anyone experienced some regrow after quitting Minox?
Thank you.
Some 15 years ago, when I noticed I started losing hair, mainly frontal hairline and vertex, I started using 5% Rogaine. In the beginning it really helped me a lot and for years, I used it pretty regularly, morning and evening. It irritated my skin, but it was not so bad, sometimes worse, sometimes quite OK. I simply used it and since then paid not much of attention to the quality of my hair, although I heard from people that my hair improved a bit. It was just now part of my daily routine. I stopped for a bit from time to time, once for 3-4 months, but after seeing through my scalp, I got quickly back to it.
But after all these years, the positive effect weakened. My hairline pulled back slowly and finally I saw in the gym in the mirror the top of my head from behind - it looked really shitty, with big patch of almost naked skin.
So I stopped Minox for good. It did good for some time, but right now I don't think it does much for me anymore. I also shaved my head to 0.5mm. What a relief! Now I see how much I lost in the recent years, but the dreaded bald head is much better than weaker and weaker patches of longer hair, seeing through skin - I just looked much weirder than with shaved head and stubble.
Anyway - why am I writing this. The itching caused by my allergy to Minoxidil alcohol compound stopped completely. Now I am using Nizoral 2% (I know, nothing much to gain with this) and also I eat capsules and/or drink a tea from herb Epilobium parviflorum, based on some info on various hairloss forums. Nothing more, although I will try for a month or two the regimen from Herbaliser, described here on this forum - it looks quite interesting, so I will give it a shot.
But after I shaved my head to 0.5 mm, after a couple of days I noticed many small hair between more longer ones. These are dark like my original color, not vellus, but they seem very small and I don't think they grew much. After 3 weeks that I "discovered" those, they should be almost 1cm long, but they are still like 1-2mm. Did I shave badly? But they do not grow. I am not sure, is it some kind of regrowth? They do not grow on bald spots, only between other hair, where I lost so much ground and where I am thinning very badly.
And I also noticed a couple of new terminal hairs in front of my hairline, but just a 2-3. Never been there anything for years. Strange. Anyway, my hair looks terrible, I am something like very solid NW4, with no complete bald spot on vertex, but going there with intense thinning.
Anyone experienced some regrow after quitting Minox?
Thank you.
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