2.5 Months Finasteride, still Miniaturizing

[Dan26]

in fact right now i am hardly shedding but my hair looks very thin! previously i was shedding like a dog yet my hair looked like it weas getting thicker :S

It is odd bro...but remember those with MPB have much more hairs in telogen, and when you get on fin/dut it often signals even the healthy hairs to a qwuicker telegon transition so your likely to shed a lot of thin hairs and a lot of thick hairs...overtime if the drug is working, the thick hairs will come back just as they were, and the thinner hairs anagen phase will become longer, perhaps hair will hbecome thincker, and in a year or two you will hopefully 1) not shed nearly as much AND 2) have greater overall density

[TotallyScrewed]

Are you sure the hairs are thinner towards the root and not just depigmented? I too lose a bunch of these in the shower, but I have been maintaining and regrowing. When I look at these hairs I could SWEAR on my life that the root looks thinner and less pigmented. So the other day I took one of these hairs from the shower, bent it around so that the hair bulb was right next to the hair tip, and shot this image with a USB microscope:



What do you notice? The hair is the same thickness! The root isn't thinner, it is just depigmented. I hear this is normal for some people. As your hair transitions from it's growing phase into it's resting phase, pigment activity shuts off.

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately yeah I'm sure :/ some of them are depigmented too lol but they're also thinner.

I'm also sure I'm still receding (I take frequent pics)

dude you are in for constant cycles of what appears to be ''thinning and regrowing'', its just the name of the game brah chill out and see where you are in 18 months...my bet is at or above baseline

for me its like every haircut i get alternates from hair looking ok to hair looking in rough shape

Hmm. Did you recede at all? And you're saying the individual hairs continued to thin and then regrew thicker, or just that your overall density thinned out and regrew? I'm more worried about receding and individual shafts thinning.

[TotallyScrewed]

dude you are in for constant cycles of what appears to be ''thinning and regrowing'', its just the name of the game brah chill out and see where you are in 18 months...my bet is at or above baseline

for me its like every haircut i get alternates from hair looking ok to hair looking in rough shape

Lol, if this doesn't work in 18 months I"ll have moved up 2-3 norwoods.

[TotallyScrewed]

Fun update, 3.5 months now and still miniaturizing fast and have receded even more. Yay for being 1 in 10.

[Buster]

I know how you feel, Buddy. I've been on Fin for two years now, and it hasn't helped me one bit.

[OrdinaryUser]

I've been on finasteride for about 4-5 months and while there is some improvement in thickness in some areas, most of the top is continuing to thin, arguably at a faster rate before I started it. Additionally, my recession worsened. Really getting discouraged now, that I will not benefit from the most effective treatments available and will probably achieve NW 7 status in no time at this rate.

[blondetooth]

Now its time to update bro.

2.5 months is just warming up with fin.

Dut would have been quicker results.

Hows the fin now a few months later?

[TotallyScrewed]

Now its time to update bro.

2.5 months is just warming up with fin.

Dut would have been quicker results.

Hows the fin now a few months later?

Things continued to get worse. At month 7, having far less hair and hair shafts that were much thinner than before, I said **** in and bought dut without a script. It's been about a week, so far no real change.

[TotallyScrewed]

Well, hey, at least you're improving in some areas. My whole scalp has thinned.

[35YrsAfter]

Well, hey, at least you're improving in some areas. My whole scalp has thinned.

I've mentioned this before... Are you guys using Propecia brand of finasteride or a generic online version of finasteride? I hear of problems with the generic versions.

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[TotallyScrewed]

Was generic fin, now on genuine dut. Things are worse than when I started, don't think I'm shedding, just continuing to thin and lose hair. Giving up on life tbh.

[Dispare]

Was generic fin, now on genuine dut. Things are worse than when I started, don't think I'm shedding, just continuing to thin and lose hair. Giving up on life tbh.

So Dut isn't helping?

[35YrsAfter]

Was generic fin, now on genuine dut. Things are worse than when I started, don't think I'm shedding, just continuing to thin and lose hair. Giving up on life tbh.

Never give up. Give dutasteride some time. Also do everything else known to improve hair growth. The best PRP result I have ever seen was with a guy on dut. PRP treatment could be the ticket. Just make sure you aren't taking any medications that contribute to hair loss. Try not to stress about it. Hair loss is not the end of the world.

Chuck

[35YrsAfter]

FYI, just after I posted the above, I met our patient today who is in for a few hundred grafts. He is taking dutasteride and it has helped his hair quite a bit, as is obvious when I look at his photos from 2010. He mentioned that he feels dutasteride is a much better hair loss med than Propecia (finasteride). He said he got sides from finasteride and doesn't notice any side effects from Avodart (dutasteride).

Chuck

[TooYoungToobald]

Was generic fin, now on genuine dut. Things are worse than when I started, don't think I'm shedding, just continuing to thin and lose hair. Giving up on life tbh.

Update bro, I'm in your same shoes would really like to know if DUT is working for you. I have been using it for 40 days now after 5 months of fin during which time I noticed exactly what you noticed. Legit like all hairs falling out were thinner at the bottom than the top. I have also been growing out my hair for like 6 moths now to be able to judge if treatments are working.
Legit losing hope, Update us