Started on Propecia on 3/5/2011

[blackhairdude]

Congrats on your propecia results!!!
Now your in a position to not be paranoid about your loss anymore will you consider trying regain to grow some hair back???

If its only your hairline im guessing you could almost just paste it on around the hairline itself. I have heard that it travels through the skin, so being just the hairline shoudl mean it doesn't even need to toich the hair right???

This is my plan anyway. Im only on day 2 atm lol. BUt if I can settle my hair over the next 12 months i may decide to try gain some back.

Atm im too scared of regain because of the massive shed, but your results might kick me into gear in trying to regain some hair??

[michael85]

11 month update:

*No sides
*Hair density remains at what it was 11 months ago
*Noticeable reduction in hair fall
*Hair quality slightly improved
*Frontal hairline could have receded 1 mm at the temples.... but I was expecting to be bald by now.. So major fight back!!

Very happy with Propecia (I use finpecia)

[Maradona]

@Maradona... I did have sides initially especially decreased libido... Read my first posts in the thread for timeline. It kinda subsided after 3 weeks.... I guess your body gets used it it and slowly the sides disappear!

The only side I have now is some pimples on my forehead... I dont know if its some deficiency in my diet. But it started after I started this regime. Never had it in my life!

I ordered my propecia from india too...finpecia. I'll post my progress here after i start taking them next month .

Really wish you good luck man, if you have no major side effects you should be good.

[michael85]

@boricotico, just wait for a couple of weeks and keep taking snaps to compare at a later time

[michael85]

@Maradona... I did have sides initially especially decreased libido... Read my first posts in the thread for timeline. It kinda subsided after 3 weeks.... I guess your body gets used it it and slowly the sides disappear!

The only side I have now is some pimples on my forehead... I dont know if its some deficiency in my diet. But it started after I started this regime. Never had it in my life!

[Maradona]

Sorry for the late reply guys

9 month update:

1. No sides at all, and I get the morning mood like old times.
2. Hair loss reduced dramatically and now whatever I lose everyday appears to be the daily shed which happens for everybody
3. THOUGH, I dont think new hair has grown. My hair line has not improved, and it still stays at the same level as from the time I began this medication. Only difference is that the hair is surely thicker, hence it appears as though I have grown new hair. In summary, for me propecia has helped to maintain and enrich whatever hair I had.


@GreatSage ... I generally test my hair strength by casually runnning my palm across my scalp over the sink. Previously even the faintest touch of hair would cause 15-20 strands of hair to be shed... Now, 1 or 2 hair are shed, and sometimes none... In both cases hairstyle was the same, shampoo was the same. I started noticing this change at around the 4th -5th month stage

@r82..., Yes I keep taking pictures of my temples and the crown. My crown was always the weak spot for the past 5 to 6 years. But for the past 2-3 yrs the temples had starting receding massively. Now both the areas maintain their hair. I am especially pleased that the crown has not given way yet!

@boricotico ... Did you go through the initial shed phase?


Recently my colleague went to India on work, and he got me 800 tablets(Finpecia) for under 80$... Seriously its a pity that we need to spend a fortune for this in USA !!

You lucky son of a *@#!, now you can just take propecia till 2015 when when balding will no longer be a problem .

Can you tell us what do you think it's helping in having no side effects at all? I mean you even have your morning wood erections....your body must be made of propecia to be this resistant to the drug...er sumthing.

[boricotico]

Well I can't say I shed because of the pill, before taking it I used to see hair falling but I'm pretty sure as I said, in my fourth month right after the Propecia first 3 months, I felt my hair so much healthy and thick, I remember stop being preoccupied for my hair and I could see myself in any mirror, included my neon bathroom light again. I remember telling myself I could live like that without any difficult.

I don't know how but now I'm in my second month on generic fin(actavis brand) and first I had to start taking just 1/8 of the pill due to loss of libido. After 2 weeks I went back to 1/4 and I think my libido it's ok now but my hair keeps feeling bad.

I'm planning waiting more time but for now I'm not so good.

[michael85]

Sorry for the late reply guys

9 month update:

1. No sides at all, and I get the morning mood like old times.
2. Hair loss reduced dramatically and now whatever I lose everyday appears to be the daily shed which happens for everybody
3. THOUGH, I dont think new hair has grown. My hair line has not improved, and it still stays at the same level as from the time I began this medication. Only difference is that the hair is surely thicker, hence it appears as though I have grown new hair. In summary, for me propecia has helped to maintain and enrich whatever hair I had.


@GreatSage ... I generally test my hair strength by casually runnning my palm across my scalp over the sink. Previously even the faintest touch of hair would cause 15-20 strands of hair to be shed... Now, 1 or 2 hair are shed, and sometimes none... In both cases hairstyle was the same, shampoo was the same. I started noticing this change at around the 4th -5th month stage

@r82..., Yes I keep taking pictures of my temples and the crown. My crown was always the weak spot for the past 5 to 6 years. But for the past 2-3 yrs the temples had starting receding massively. Now both the areas maintain their hair. I am especially pleased that the crown has not given way yet!

@boricotico ... Did you go through the initial shed phase?


Recently my colleague went to India on work, and he got me 800 tablets(Finpecia) for under 80$... Seriously its a pity that we need to spend a fortune for this in USA !!

[boricotico]

I was on Merck Propecia for the first 3 months and at the end of that period I felt my hair was coming back, then I started to take the generic 5mg cut in 1/4 and this is my second month on it and now I feel I'm back at my initial point, does anyone have experienced the same or it's just my imagination?

Actually the last month I noticed I could look myself in mi bathroom mirror again without seeing the no hair spots, but the last month I had to stop doing it again.

[r82]

Good news micheal85 do you have any pictures?

How does it actually work then, im sure ive been suffering from rapid hairloss in general, the front is going fast, and the full head i think.

So ive been on pro for nearly 3 weeks, obv i know its not going to work for a long time in noticing, but does it take an affect in haulting it from the minute you start taking it?(within reason a few weeks to get in your system)...

cause im worrying my hair has seemed to decline in literally the past month or two.

[GreatSage]

Michael how long did it take since you noticed you hair loss had reduced since being on Fin?

[SBTRKT]

Nice Michael!

[michael85]

A couple of days ago I met a few relatives after like 2 years... One of them actually said that I seem to have more hair now.... That's a good sign, and everybody laughed it off when I said I was actually losing hair..

SO now that I am closing towards the 8 month mark, Propecia surely is making its impact felt... My hair is stronger and there is drastic reduction in hair fall, and in my case I have no sides at all!

[PropeciaVictim]

r82,

I'd seriously advice you to stop visiting this forum and other similar sites... Now that you have started the medication, there is nothing anybody here can help you with... However some people can add suspicion into your head causing irrelevant stress and an illusion that a side effect is striking you...

if they were to happen, do not stop medication for atleast 4 months....

Pop the pill and stop worrying about hair-loss!

I agree overall with your advice. Once you have decided to spin the wheel and take Propecia there is no sense in visiting these web pages but you shoudl quit immediately if you experience any kind of clear side effect.

However, no amount of 'suspicion' is going to cause these side effects although it might increase your anxiety levels. Good luck.

[r82]

r82,

I'd seriously advice you to stop visiting this forum and other similar sites... Now that you have started the medication, there is nothing anybody here can help you with... However some people can add suspicion into your head causing irrelevant stress and an illusion that a side effect is striking you...

if they were to happen, do not stop medication for atleast 4 months....

Pop the pill and stop worrying about hair-loss!

very good advice mate. thanks.