Started on Propecia on 3/5/2011

[PatientlyWaiting]

Well let's look at the bright side, Histogen won that lawsuit and got the patent for their treatment, now they will continue with the phase II.


*Poor attempt at being the peacemaker*

[kanyon]

Why don't we get this thread back on topic. I'm sure Michael wasn't hoping to start a conversation about father issues when he posted the thread.

Anyone else who started on Fin this year care to share their experience so far?

As I said I've been on it for 4 months now after Rogaine finally failed me. Not sure if it's working yet. That could be a sign that it is working I suppose but I have kept my hair long so maybe I'm just covering the bald parts better.

[PatientlyWaiting]

Why don't we get this thread back on topic. I'm sure Michael wasn't hoping to start a conversation about father issues when he posted the thread.

Anyone else who started on Fin this year care to share their experience so far?

As I said I've been on it for 4 months now after Rogaine finally failed me. Not sure if it's working yet. That could be a sign that it is working I suppose but I have kept my hair long so maybe I'm just covering the bald parts better.

Been on fin for 7 months. If I say it hasn't been successful, that's just me being greedy. It has considerably slowed down my hair loss so much, that I believe it has actually halted it, I don't even notice any excessive hair loss. I believe it has actually regrown hair on my vertex, and I would have definitely been worse without fin. No side sexual side effects. I have convinced myself to give it 18 months before really seeing what it has done for me in terms of regrowth.

[VictimOfDHT]

I don't think you're going to be seeing ANY sexual side effects. The few people who do are just like any small % of people who report side effects with any other medication. As we know, all meds can cause some side effects in a small number of people and Fin is the same. In fact, I believe Fin's side effects seem to affect a smaller number of people than many other major meds seem to affect. Let's NOT forget that Fin/Dut are actually medication that are prescribed daily to treat prostate problems. If these drugs were as dangerous as some paranoid nut cases would like us to believe they would've been banned long time ago.

The most important thing is to NOT listen to what people say, and don't think or even be expecting those effects -some people literally expect them- because chances are your brain will start ****ing with you and you'll probably start seeing them.

Been using Fin -and minox- since '98 and I have yet to experience any negatives. All I can say it has probably slowed down my hair loss but didn't halt it.

[PatientlyWaiting]

I don't think you're going to be seeing ANY sexual side effects. The few people who do are just like any small % of people who report side effects with any other medication. As we know, all meds can cause some side effects in a small number of people and Fin is the same. In fact, I believe Fin's side effects seem to affect a smaller number of people than many other major meds seem to affect. Let's NOT forget that Fin/Dut are actually medication that are prescribed daily to treat prostate problems. If these drugs were as dangerous as some paranoid nut cases would like us to believe they would've been banned long time ago.

The most important thing is to NOT listen to what people say, and don't think or even be expecting those effects -some people literally expect them- because chances are your brain will start ****ing with you and you'll probably start seeing them.

Been using Fin -and minox- since '98 and I have yet to experience any negatives. All I can say it has probably slowed down my hair loss but didn't halt it.

That's true about the sides. I always keep a positive mind and brush off sides as just psychological[whether they're real or not]. I have taken propecia/finasteride on and off since I was 18, this is the longest i've been on it. Never experienced sides, and if it really is psychological, then it's not getting me, no offense to anybody but i'm just too mentally focused on reality, to give too much thought to a seemingly imaginary side effect. And you know, if it is a real side effect, then i'm grateful that it hasn't happened to me and I am very sorry for those it did effect and I hope nothing but the best for Finasteride side effect sufferers.

[VictimOfDHT]

The only thing you need to worry about is whether Fin will work for you or not. Hopefully it will.

[Hurts]

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.

Why dont you do us a favour and remove yourself from the gene pool then?

Oh and I couldn't give a shit if the anamosity towards your father was down to the fact that he butt ****ed you as a child buddy, its non of my business.

I hope propecia gets your dick and you have to masterbate with the aid of a penis implant, you ****.

[michael85]

10 weeks update: As some people mention here, Hairloss concern is the least on my head now. All I do is pop a pill every morning and that's about it... Previously while in the gym or just about any mirror I would take a second look at my hair seeing where it is receding. Now I dont do it anymore

So does it mean that its working for me?.. Well certainly my hair loss has not increased, so it is kinda working for me. Sides are absent, and my muscle strength remains the same if not increased

Coming back to my earlier post of destiny, well both my parents have awesome hair and me moms at age 55 is not greying yet! My dad has very little hairloss which is expected at his age of 57, though his hair started greying in his late 20s..

In my case i started getting a few grey hair in my early 20s and hence i thought i'll take my dad's hair pattern.. but then my elder brother started balding at around 24 and now at 28 has lost most of his hair. Balding started with me too at 24, which is when I started noticing it, and realized I had actually got the gene from my mom's dad(the gene being recessive in my mom, but dominant in me and my brother)... i am 26.5 yrs and at this age my brother was in his mid to advanced stage of balding... With me, because of Propecia that is not happening.. I was balding rapidly till I started medication, and now surely the rate of hairloss has declined...

I plan to stay on this med till I enter my 30s beyond which balding is normal in atleast 50 to 60% guys...

[michael85]

4 month update:

The Pros :
1. I guess hair loss has stopped or reduced drastically... For the past 18 to 20 months hair loss was very obvious.. but in the last 4 months and spanning 2 haircuts I do not see any further hair loss. My hairline has stopped receding
2. No loss in Sex Drive
3. No loss in muscle mass
4. Body seems to have got used to this, as in my first few weeks I did have minor sexual sides, but not any more..
5.Totally stopped thinking about hair loss

The cons:
1. It is still a chemical which I necessarily do not want to intake daily. I hope an alternative non-invasive cure is found soon...

[kanyon]

I've been on Fin for just over 5 months. I'm not sure if it's working but I don't think I've lost a lot more hair since I started. I still see lots of hair coming off my head and think about hairloss a lot.

I would love to see improvement (regrowth or thicker healthier strands of hair) so I can tell if it's working for sure.

If it is maintaining hair then I wonder how long it'll work for.

People say that they see results between 6 months and 12 months but what does that mean? What do you see at that time?

[VictimOfDHT]

You could see either some hair regrowth/thickening, a halt in further loss or it might slow it down dramatically. Of course that's assuming it's going to work for you.

[michael85]

5 month update:

I don't seem to notice any further hair loss nor has my hair line receded. In my first month I did exp minor sexual sides, but not anymore. I get the morning mood which appears to be the yard stick to ascertain if we are sexually active or not...

I make sure that I take my daily 1 mg Generic Propecia (finpecia) pill. I also do my daily workouts and there is no evidence of muscle or strength loss in me...

I guess I am happy with the results thus far(or rather the fact that it has not become worse)...

[scar85]

Let me start off by saying that I know exactly what everyone is going through with losing hair. I may have not said this yesterday (yesterday meaning it feels like this happened so sudden), but i can say it now. I am 26 years of age, had a full thick head of hair, so much hair that my barber/stylists would always talk about how I have thickness to cover 3 heads of hair. Everywhere I went, someone would always compliment me on the thickness. However, that changed in November of 2010. I didnt see it coming, but it happened to me.

I was taking painkillers everyday, and i continued to take them even when I wasnt in great discomfot. I noticed hairs falling off my head but thought nothing of it. Over the course of 2 months, I began to feel that my hair was a bit thinner than before, and as i started to worry and stress about it, IT HAPPENED. I was losing hair in clumps in the shower, hairs were popping out of my scalp resting on my head 24/7. Im talking about hundreds and hundreds of hairs everyday. I was terrified, I honestly thought I had some sickness and that everything would return back to normal.

I went to see a dermatologist in January of this year, and was diagnosed with Seberheic dermatitis..a fungal infection. Hairs were coming out in front of him, and he assured me the hairloss was because of this. He prescribed me a topical medication Ketaconozole to kill fungus, but I talked to him about possibly getting on propecia/proscar as a security measure. He asked if any of my parents had baldness in the family. This is where it hit me, and I knew deep down inside the truth hurts, but it had to come out. YES, my father is a NW3 now in his 50's, and my mothers side is cursed with MBP, my moms brothers are both bald and so was her father. All my cousins, started going bald when they were 16. I have one cousin who is only 19 and he is a NW3! I WAS THE ONLY ONE, saved from this horrific gene, atleast thats what I thought. How could this happen to me all of a sudden? I never used to see any hair clogged in shower drains, or in my hands while shampooing! How could the MPB gene all of a sudden wake up from the dead one day and say I will take your hair now..you have lived 26 years without hairloss but now im going to take your hair overnight and make you catchup with the others! Its almost like showing up for work one day with a thick head of hair, and the next day you show up balding!

As I applied the topical medication, I would see hundreds of hairs come out in clumps, it came to the point I couldnt take it anymore. I trimmed my hair down to a number 6 clipper and thats when it hit me..I saw the thinning..in the CROWN. How could this happen overnight? Just the day before, I had enough hair in the crown to fill up 3 crowns..my cousins were always jelous how i had so much hair there and always asked me what my secret was. I nearly cried, and proceeded to just shave my head completely bald as it would be easier to apply medication without seeing hundreds of hairs come in my hands. I had the derm put me on proscar 30 days later.

I have been on proscar for 6.5 months now and I will share my results so far but before I do that, I do want to mention that I battled the fungal infection till this day. Egg like round fungus (not lice eggs) were always stuck to the roots and would cause all the hair to continue to fall out. I continued with the hairloss for months because of this, and just recently have been able to maintain a mosly clean scalp from mixing tea tree oil with shampoo and scrubbing my scalp daily. I still get a couple of strands that have that egg like fungus attached to them, but I have mostly solved that problem. Whats strange is that my sister just now had the SAME EXACT problem, we never shared towels or pillows or combs/brushes. Her hair came out in clumps because of that too. Anyways..now onto my results

Month 1-hairloss continued
month 2-hairloss continued
month 3- hairloss continued
month 4- hairloss continued
month 5- hairloss somewhat slowed down
month 6- hairloss pretty much halted

I have not seen any visible regrowth just yet, no major side effects to report although I will say that Im more horny than usual after starting the med. I did encounter some testicular discomfort/pain a couple of days but havnt had that happen again. My crown is still very unevenly thin, I have streaks of visible skin thats uneven. The worst thing about is this, the top/sides/back are still very thick with no thinning, but the crown is still thin. You look at me from the front you would not even think Im going bald. I do want to add most of the fungus was in my crown area..derm says it could be because I use to not clean my hats when I wore them occasionally and didnt shampoo my scalp well. I admit, I used to only coat my scalp rather than scrub it.

In conclusion, I dont know exactly what caused me nearly going bald overnight, wether it was the fungal infection or medication, but 1 thing is for sure..those hairs did not grow back. And I guess I have the MPB gene to blame for that..which seemed like didnt exist for 26 years, but I lost my hair overnight. That is what scared me, people who have been gradually thinning for years know they are going to go bald, but me..this was a SHOCKER..something even till this day I cant recover from. Im a different person now, no self confidence, i think about hair all the time..its completely changed my life for the worst. Just yesterday i used to take walks on the beach, go out to parties and bars, and I felt as if Life was perfect. Girls would run there fingers through my head..and today its changed. I feel like I am going to continue to bald. I hope there is a cure one day for this sickening disgusting gene called MPB, as I would not wish this upon the worst of my enemies.

Sorry about the loooong post. Ill keep you guys posted on my further results, Im hoping I can atleast regrow back some of what I lost..because having thick head of hair minus the crown looks downright silly..almost looks like my barber only shaved my crown down with no clipper.

[michael85]

My 6.5 month update:

1. No further Hair loss I guess.
2. But hair re-growth has not happened.
3. Started getting pimples on my forehead(which go away in like 2-3 days).. never had this in my life. Only strange thing I have noticed during the course of this medication.
4. No sexual problems
5. No muscle loss


My brother is almost bald now. He is 2years older than me. When he has my current age, he had already lost almost all his hair. I seem to have stopped it, and for me that is the most satisfying prospect.

[kanyon]

My 8 month update:

1) Unsure how my hairloss has progressed and if it's working. Possible slow down or stopping of hairloss. I have very little hair left on my crown (as when I started it) and I wear my hair very long to disguise it. When I sweep it this away and that (from the back and sides) it seems to look the same as it did 8 months ago (when mixed together with the hair I still have on my crown) so that could be good. I didnt take any candid photos before starting it.

2) Definitely no hair regrowth. I think I have many dead hair follicles that are incapable of regrowing hair.

3) I no longer get morning erections or spontaneous erections but I am able to get it up when I watch porn or am intimate with a girl. Erections don't seem to be as strong or last as long. This isn't a problem for me right now as my girlfriend is living overseas. If I have sexual problems when we're reunited, I'll re-evaulate my dosage.

4) I still shed a lot of hair in the shower and when I brush it.

I will continue to use it as it may be slowing down or stopping hairloss.

If it's not windy, wet or my hair hasn't been washed on the day or the day before (when it looks extra thin) I can just get by with concealing my hairloss (I think). So if it stays as is on Propecia, well it'll be difficult but I can grudgingly accept it.