Finasteride Expierences

[townie]

okay guys! i've been on finasteride for nearly 4 months now! been using rogaine and nizoral shampoo for nearly 4 months aswell! I don't think there are any major improvements in my hair, but i'm not fully sure just yet. 4 months might be a bit too early to notice any decent improvements. I have also experienced no side effects at all.

[townie]

What month(if any) did you start noticing a change and major improvement in your hair? Are you happy with the product? How do you take your finasteride? What time of day do you take your finasteride? Share your experiences guys, would love to hear them.

[Artista]

Hi there Townie , Ive been on Fin' for almost 3 months now. My wife and I already do sense that there is some type of minor change on my scalp.
I have to tell everyone this as well,
I went in for my yearly security badge renewal at work.
Employee images are updated every year as well and placed on the badge.
The city worker , after taking my picture, compared the 2 badges and asked me this
" It looks like you have more hair on the new badge (compared to last year's) am I right?"
I responded,,'I guess so' LOL.
Talk about a positive experience..

[townie]

Hi there Townie , Ive been on Fin' for almost 3 months now. My wife and I already do sense that there is some type of minor change on my scalp.
I have to tell everyone this as well,
I went in for my yearly security badge renewal at work.
Employee images are updated every year as well and placed on the badge.
The city worker , after taking my picture, compared the 2 badges and asked me this
" It looks like you have more hair on the new badge (compared to last year's) am I right?"
I responded,,'I guess so' LOL.
Talk about a positive experience..

Good to hear that mate. How much hairloss had you before you started finasteride?

[Artista]

Townie, Im at a NW5a (approx)
Check out my thread regarding my Finasteride usage thus far.

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthread.php?t=13550

Of course anything positive that we have noticed thus far has been minor and anecdotal at best.
My hair on top affected by DHT seems to have developed better pigmentation and fluffiness and my 'good' hair has definitely shown to be more robust these days!

[townie]

Townie, Im at a NW5a (approx)
Check out my thread regarding my Finasteride usage thus far.

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthread.php?t=13550

Of course anything positive that we have noticed thus far has been minor and anecdotal at best.
My hair on top affected by DHT seems to have developed better pigmentation and fluffiness and my 'good' hair has definitely shown to be more robust these days!

just read it there man! good to hear you've noticed improvements! I am only 20 and i am a NW2(approx). I have thinning on both temples and the recession process has began. Seen as I still have plenty of hair, maybe i think that is why it is harder to notice significant improvements? Does that make sense do you think? I'm hoping after another few months i will feel how you feel at the moment, i'd imagine it is a good feeling!

[Artista]

That does make sense Townie ,,hang in there.
I believe that you will see much more improvement in time..especially since you are so young my friend. "Patience is a virtue"
By the way,,thank you for checking out my Fin' thread.

[townie]

No problem man

[townie]

That does make sense Townie ,,hang in there.
I believe that you will see much more improvement in time..especially since you are so young my friend. "Patience is a virtue"
By the way,,thank you for checking out my Fin' thread.

My only fear is that the piece of tablet i take is too small for it to be effective. I take a quarter of a 5mg tablet of proscar. The quarter piece is so small that i wonder at times does it even get digested into my system. What do you think?

[jetfly]

just read it there man! good to hear you've noticed improvements! I am only 20 and i am a NW2(approx). I have thinning on both temples and the recession process has began. Seen as I still have plenty of hair, maybe i think that is why it is harder to notice significant improvements? Does that make sense do you think? I'm hoping after another few months i will feel how you feel at the moment, i'd imagine it is a good feeling!

Sorry mate, you are a NW 3. Lately I have been seeing many posts from you that proscar isn't working, it's making it worse etc...
I would suggest to you just stay away from this forum and take good quality picture every month. Lurking on this forum is actually quite depressing, it constantly reminds you of your hair loss.
Stick with your regime, take pictures and compare.
Remember sometimes it can take up to 18 months to see improvement, but in reality if you manage to maintain your hair you should be happy.
Take pictures!!

[Artista]

Good Morning all (US time)
Townie I know of someone personally (not here on the forum)
who had a very good response from Finasteride(he was on it for a couple of years). He would take .5 mg each day by breaking the 1 mg in half.
In my research I have seen much info that .5 does very good.
I decided to stay on 1 mg for the time being.
Apparently Finasteride packs a lot of punch.
Jetfly makes good sense, thanks Jet'.
Don't become obsessed (not saying that you are) with hair loss forums,,even Spencer Kobren advises that, especially for our young members.

[Lewis Hamilton]

It can take 6 - 9 months for Propecia to really show it's mettle. Keep going, but be warned. The side effects will creep up on you and your body will become a human jelly/jello.

It took me 12 months before I really noticed a massive improvement.

It took me a further 7 years before I lost my libido, became exhausted, anxious etc. As soon as I stopped the medication I was back to normal for a week, then had the post termination 'crash' and have been struggling ever since (2 years!).

Be warned.

[Notcoolanymore]

Give it a rest dude. The stuff is really getting old. Every one has read the same fear spreading garbage a thousand times over. We know the risks and decided to take what has been proven to help. I don't get what you guys are trying to prove. Are you here to try to help guys or scare them into not treating their hair loss? I don't understand why you would do that. The way I see it, all you guys(the ones that always chime in on how finasteride destroyed their life) are miserable and want everybody else to join in your misery.

[redy]

want everybody else to join in your misery.

I'd say it's about 50/50 with those who actually are trying to keep people from their fate and people who just don't want to see people successful with the drug because they weren't.

Life isn't fair, but nobody gets anywhere without risk...

[Affect]

Guess I could come in here and give some info about my case. I'm a 20 year old guy who started to lose slow ever since 18, when I was 19-20 I had a really bad depression period with stress and I lost tons of hair, half my hairline was pretty much gone, that is when I decided to go on propecia and damn son I almost have a hairline again and It's only been 4 months, although the length of the hair is a big difference as I do have pretty long hair (shoulder length almost) so half my hairline is long and the other part is maybe 2 months of hair on so about 4ish cm.

And I don't lose like crazy anymore either, I do think bunch of the regrowth is because of my stress/depression period I had and you are bound to regrow that hair once you are out of that phase, or so I heard at least.

Had some watery semen for about 3 weeks then I was back to normal and I do cum a lot easier ever since I started with Propecia (no idea if it is a side effect though), although I can keep it up the same amount as before so I don't really care all that much.

Started July 1th, so it's close to 4 months soon, missed 2 days on the pill (today was one of those days). I am thinking about using Minoxdil also but I am actually a bit afraid, pretty funny as I just jumped on Propecia even though I read about all the sides and such. Will wait 1 year at least before I decide if I should start with Minoxdil or not.