Can my hair become Minoxidil dependent after only 1.5 month?

[Havok]

your existing healthy hair wont become dependent on minoxidil and if it did then they will all fall out once you stop taking minoxidil.

[uzi]

Yes, but I'm not using minoxidil anymore, plus the shedding began afterwards.

The main thing that I want to know is - will my hairline grow back if the shedding happened because I used minoxidil 3 months ago (And I'm almost certain it did happen because of that) and that it didn't get minoxidil dependent only because I used it for 1.5 months.

[mattj]

What I mean is, at about one month into using Minoxidil, many users experience increased shedding brought on by the drug. This is a normal effect which also occurs when using Propecia or other treatments which actually work.

That Minoxidil you put on your temple counts as use, even if you think of it as a small and insignificant amount.

I'm hoping some Minoxidil users will chime in and confirm what I'm saying.

[uzi]

I have been using propecia for 4 years now but I don't think it has something to do with the current shedding.

[mattj]

Hair that has been gained due to the use of Minoxidil is normally dependant on continued use, but you weren't really using it long enough for it to cause re-growth, so I don't think any sort of dependency can factor into this. If you have continued to use it on your temple and have noticed increased loss then it could be treatment-induced shedding of the sort also caused by Propecia.

Have you read about that? Normally the hair will return.

Yes, Minoxidil can work in re-growing hair at the hairline. It's not amazingly successful in doing this but it happens.

[uzi]

Hi guys.

I have been using minoxidil 2% for 1 month and than minoxidil 5% for just ten days, before I got chest pain and decided to stop using the drug. I applied it twice a day, and gave extreme emphasis on the left side hairline which was thinning a little bit.

It was 3 months ago. Now it seems as if the hair on my left side had gone back much more. It seems unsymmetrical to my right side. I also put a touch of minoxidil on my left temple every day and now i'm losing hair there while the hair on my right side temple is completely fine.

Should I be worried or is it just the shedding that comes along with quitting minoxidil and this hair will grow back? Can receding hairline ever grow back? And most importantly - Can my hair become minoxidil dependent after only 1.5 month?!?