Started on Propecia on 3/5/2011

[jstyler]

Do you think you'll stick with it?

I may be wrong, especially given that I have 3 months less experience taking propecia than you, but doesn't it take awhile to begin having an effect?

The way I imagine it working is that when you start taking it, it doesn't improve the hair that already exists until that hair is lost, after which the new hair cycles in marginally stronger than the last. Then over successive cycles, the hair should come in marginally improved each time until it makes a noticeable difference.

Not sure if that bears any resemblance to the real process though.

[Aznstan]

I'm coming up to my fourth month now and I don't believe it is working for me. My hair is incredibly thin, wispy and is not looking any better.

Infact I think I have lost a bunch of hair at the rear of the top of my head (is that the crown?) and vertex.

if you want to see results you should stick with it for a few more months, for hte first 4-5 months i didnt notice any significant change in my hair thickness, but by the 6th month my hair had grown very thick and quickly too i might add. And I even noticed a bit of regrowth.

I eventually stopped taking propecia because I was getting some sexual side fx from it and it freaked me out too much to continue and w/i two months I had lost all my new hair. But i am thinking of going back on it because my hair is shedding more quickly now and I dont know if I can deal with being shaved.....especially when people say the side fx of propecia usually subside for them after a few months....

[kanyon]

Oh I will continue to use it without doubt. I didn't expect to see any improvement within the first 4 months and it's possible things would be worse if I didn't take it at all.

Infact I will be going to the doctor this week to get another 4 months supply.

The balding process started for me around 8 years ago and I combated it with Rogaine only (which I don't regret). I do worry that because I haven't started using Fin until now that it's too late.

[PatientlyWaiting]

Oh I will continue to use it without doubt. I didn't expect to see any improvement within the first 4 months and it's possible things would be worse if I didn't take it at all.

Infact I will be going to the doctor this week to get another 4 months supply.

The balding process started for me around 8 years ago and I combated it with Rogaine only (which I don't regret). I do worry that because I haven't started using Fin until now that it's too late.

That's good, a good attitude to have. Realistically, this is what some people fail to understand: You need to give it at least 12-18 months to start seeing results. Before 12 months, all you should see is your hair slowed down/stopped shedding brutally. Of course with the occasional sheds that are supposed to happen.

So since you seem patient, don't get discouraged over not seeing regrowth before 12 months. The people that get results really fast are just lucky that their hair loss is not that aggressive or they caught it at the perfect time. The more aggressive your hair loss is, the more time you should give it to start regrowing.

I'm into my 7th month of taking generic fin/6th month of Minoxidil, and I can tell you with the way I was losing hair, things would have looked pretty nasty right now, instead I have a NW2 with diffused thinning on vertex and hairline that looked way worse last year and baby hairs on the left temples that were not there last December. I'm gonna be patient until the 18th month to really see what the treatment has done for me. And just for the hell of it i'm adding NOW Biotin capsules, Avalon Organics Biotin B-Complex W/ Saw Palmetto shampoo & Conditioner, and i'm also gonna try out Mane N Tail Horse Shampoo and Conditioner. Yeah, they're pretty cheap shampoos, but I heard they thicken your hair. I want to give them a try to see if they make my baby hairs grow. I am aware they are not for hair loss. But since my hair loss stopped, why not give thickening shampoos a try now? I'm sure they can only boost fin/minox effects and also the biotin capsules will help, I hope. If they don't work, well, they're cheap, no biggie. The reviews convinced me to buy them.

[michael85]

Well it has been 3 months since I started on the medicine. After about 1 month into the medicine I cut my hair pretty short (blade 3). I did notice that the hair was not falling off as frequently but again new hair growth was probably not happening. Now my hair is long again , and the long hair clearly shows that I have a receding hairline. Propecia may not have helped in hair growth but I do think it is reducing the rate at which my hair is lost. I do not seem to show any sides, and with a short hair cut my hair does look full and better. Also for the past 3 months I have stopped thinking about hair loss which is the biggest gain for me.

[mothernature]

how do ustop thinking about hairloss? If i could do that it would actually do alot of good for my hair but it seems impossible

[michael85]

Well, losing hair is my destiny... but later in life I do not want to blame myself that I did not try to prevent this from happening... My effort to prevent this was to take Propecia... if it helps, then it helps, else destiny will take its course... No point breaking your head and trying to find a hidden cure somewhere, because if it is there then Propecia wouldn't exist!

[VictimOfDHT]

Michael, It's more genetics will take its course rather than destiny. If the gene for baldness wasn't passed on to you by your father/mother destiny would NOT make you lose your hair. We're copies of our parents. I blame my ****ing father for this curse. 101%.

[Rupi]

you cant blame your father man, he got ****ed just like everyone on this forum.. haha

No offense to anyone of course ..

[Jcm800]

you cant blame your father man, he got ****ed just like everyone on this forum.. haha

No offense to anyone of course ..

I can't blame anyone, no one in my family lost their hair, I can't pin it on no one grrrrr.

[VictimOfDHT]

you cant blame your father man, he got ****ed just like everyone on this forum.. haha

No offense to anyone of course ..

I sure can. I don't think he gave a **** about baldness but even if he did, so what he does next, passes it to me ?? I still don't understand this ****ing logic. I mean if something -like baldness- is making my life a living hell and non-stop suffering, I turn around and pass it to my child and let him get ****ed too ??? And of course blame god for it and say it's god's will !! This happens millions and millions of times every day. A parent has whatever genetic problem that they know WILL be passed to their children but they're thinking hey, who cares as long as I satisfy my desire to have a child. Who cares about what the child has to go through!! I've seen parents with HIV have children WHO ARE AUTOMATICALLY BORN WITH HIV ! People for some ****ing reason can't see what's ****ed up with that.
My father not only passed this curse to us, but other shitty things (genes) too. But hey, who cares as long as HE was happy !

[RichardDawkins]

God doesnt exist ;-) never has never will be.

[PatientlyWaiting]

I sure can. I don't think he gave a **** about baldness but even if he did, so what he does next, passes it to me ?? I still don't understand this ****ing logic. I mean if something -like baldness- is making my life a living hell and non-stop suffering, I turn around and pass it to my child and let him get ****ed too ??? And of course blame god for it and say it's god's will !! This happens millions and millions of times every day. A parent has whatever genetic problem that they know WILL be passed to their children but they're thinking hey, who cares as long as I satisfy my desire to have a child. Who cares about what the child has to go through!! I've seen parents with HIV have children WHO ARE AUTOMATICALLY BORN WITH HIV ! People for some ****ing reason can't see what's ****ed up with that.
My father not only passed this curse to us, but other shitty things (genes) too. But hey, who cares as long as HE was happy !

Lol damn you're being too harsh on your dad.

But I feel you though. I have thought the same exact thoughts you just commented. The best we can do as MPB sufferers is at least find a women who has no MPB in her family[I know it's hard to cherrypick a exactly what you want and it's unrealistic and unfair]. But my father went out and dated my mother, who all of her brothers have MPB and her father has MPB. Great, thanks dad, so you're bald and you go out with a women who comes form a bald family, so I was basically ****ed before I was even born. My mom doesn't have MPB though, none of her sisters do either, it's only the males.

With that said, I wouldn't pick any other parents if I had the chance to go back honestly. My mother passed down her straight hair to me, well wtf do I care about what type of hair I have if i'm losing it but hey, it's the thought that matters. My dad also passed down his eyebrows to me, which people think I pluck them but really don't. Also, with MPB and everything, people still think i'm a teenager, thanks to my mother passing her young genes to me. My mother looks like she's in her mid 30s, but she's close to 50. So I guess I was balanced with good and evil, can't have it all your way. I'm sure you too can find positives that your mom and dad give you, no?

[Hurts]

I sure can. I don't think he gave a **** about baldness but even if he did, so what he does next, passes it to me ?? I still don't understand this ****ing logic. I mean if something -like baldness- is making my life a living hell and non-stop suffering, I turn around and pass it to my child and let him get ****ed too ??? And of course blame god for it and say it's god's will !! This happens millions and millions of times every day. A parent has whatever genetic problem that they know WILL be passed to their children but they're thinking hey, who cares as long as I satisfy my desire to have a child. Who cares about what the child has to go through!! I've seen parents with HIV have children WHO ARE AUTOMATICALLY BORN WITH HIV ! People for some ****ing reason can't see what's ****ed up with that.
My father not only passed this curse to us, but other shitty things (genes) too. But hey, who cares as long as HE was happy !

So you're blaspheming your father for bringing YOU into this world and was either too inconsiderate to realise you too will eventually end up bald thus a bad idea OR he had more important things to worry about besides being ****ing bald?

So you're basically saying he shouldn't have started a family or lived his life normally because he was BALD? Give me a ****ing break dude. You're either a really self centered sad human being or your qualms with your father lie way deeper than the honest human nature of multiplication, which is non of my business lies.

[VictimOfDHT]

Hey Hurts, who the **** do you think you are to tell me what to think or not to think about my father ? Don't stick your ****ing nose in someone else's personal life. That's first.
So you're basically saying he shouldn't have started a family or lived his life normally because he was BALD? Living your life normally at the expense of your children IS what being self-centered is all about, dumb ****. When you KNOW you're passing bad genes to your children but you insist on doing it anyway to satisfy your selfish desires at best is what I'm against. When a father for example who has dwarfism marries a woman who has it too and they decide to have children the only thing people can think of is "they have the right to have a family blah blah blah.." What idiots like you don't ever want to think about is the child who's being born to be cursed with whatever jacked genes his parents have without him/her ever having a say in the matter, and then having to live a ****ed up life of suffering because his ****ing parents "wanted to start a family.." Obviously the vast majority of people NEVER see it this way. Of course when the child is born with whatever deformity every body starts blaming god somehow. Well, like I said, you're too dumb for this and I'm not going to waste time on you.
So yeah, I'm "blaspheming" my father. If you have a problem with it go **** yourself or don't read what I have to say and DONT stick your nose in people's personal lives that you know nothing about.