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Hello all,
This is my first post on this forum and would like to share my tale/ask some questions.
In the early 00's I started losing my hair at the age of 20. I went to see a specialist in 2003 and he prescribed me with Propecia. I used them for a few months and they didn't seem to work. He said if they didn't work then I should try Rogaine. I used Rogaine twice daily for the first year very diligently and never really missed an application.
It worked a treat! My hair started growing back thicker and I was delighted. I started using it only once a day and did that for a couple of years and it kept working. Then I became lazy and also travelled a bit and would go several months without at a time which didn't seem to stop or reverse the growth.
Over the past year I've been sort of lazy - using it a few times a week and therefore worse than when I started using it but more frequently than when I'd travel for months without using it at all.
I should say that I didn't take it for granted. For 7 years I was so happy and recognised how great the product was.
Then I got my haircut 2 months ago and I literally noticed at that time, wow my hair looks so thin again. It was as if it happened while I was in the chair getting it cut. The hair loss must have mostly happened between September and October 2010 so that most of the hair I grew back just fell out. I'm not sure if my lazyness caught up with me (even though I was using it more than when I was travelling in 08-09 but still not daily) or more frighteningly - if I've built an immunity to it.
I have been freaking out and started using Rogaine with more commitment than previously, applying it twice a day for the first time since 2004. I've been doing this for about 2 months. The situation is no better. I'm worried that the stuff no longer works for me and I need an alternative solution. Perhaps trying the pills again and the very last resort - some kind of surgery.
Hopefully if I'm just more strict on my usage it will start to work again and I won’t need to take such drastic measures.
So could I have built an immunity or could it be that I was using it infrequently? And do you think it would be likely to work as it once did if I continue to use it twice a day or would such intermittent use over the years mean it wouldn't work anymore?
Thanks very much for reading!
This is my first post on this forum and would like to share my tale/ask some questions.
In the early 00's I started losing my hair at the age of 20. I went to see a specialist in 2003 and he prescribed me with Propecia. I used them for a few months and they didn't seem to work. He said if they didn't work then I should try Rogaine. I used Rogaine twice daily for the first year very diligently and never really missed an application.
It worked a treat! My hair started growing back thicker and I was delighted. I started using it only once a day and did that for a couple of years and it kept working. Then I became lazy and also travelled a bit and would go several months without at a time which didn't seem to stop or reverse the growth.
Over the past year I've been sort of lazy - using it a few times a week and therefore worse than when I started using it but more frequently than when I'd travel for months without using it at all.
I should say that I didn't take it for granted. For 7 years I was so happy and recognised how great the product was.
Then I got my haircut 2 months ago and I literally noticed at that time, wow my hair looks so thin again. It was as if it happened while I was in the chair getting it cut. The hair loss must have mostly happened between September and October 2010 so that most of the hair I grew back just fell out. I'm not sure if my lazyness caught up with me (even though I was using it more than when I was travelling in 08-09 but still not daily) or more frighteningly - if I've built an immunity to it.
I have been freaking out and started using Rogaine with more commitment than previously, applying it twice a day for the first time since 2004. I've been doing this for about 2 months. The situation is no better. I'm worried that the stuff no longer works for me and I need an alternative solution. Perhaps trying the pills again and the very last resort - some kind of surgery.
Hopefully if I'm just more strict on my usage it will start to work again and I won’t need to take such drastic measures.
So could I have built an immunity or could it be that I was using it infrequently? And do you think it would be likely to work as it once did if I continue to use it twice a day or would such intermittent use over the years mean it wouldn't work anymore?
Thanks very much for reading!