bald spot starting?

[goldbondmafia]

does it look like im balding??

Hard to say. My crown has been the same since I was 10 years old and its similar to yours.

Ive been on fin for 1.5 years now and rogaine foam for 6 months I have seen maintenance for sure, possible slight regrowth at the hairline. Hopefully fin can hold my hair until something better comes out. PS i got a few PMs about oils - I stopped using emu oil years ago and just recently stopped coconut oil forever.

[35YrsAfter]

does it look like im balding??

Camera flash and the way hair is parted can create the illusion of hair loss. Take more pictures with higher resolution, under different lighting with the flash turned off.

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[badumtsss]

does it look like im balding??

[goldbondmafia]

Sometimes hair dressers can just be too nice.. out of all the hair dressers I've had, I've only been told by one that my hair is looking in bad shape (due to hair loss).

You quoted a post that was over like two years old....

Any thoughts on 1 year comparison pics guys? - ps getting on dut 0.5 mg 2x/week starting tomm cannot decide about minox still

[AfterHair]

Will do, but Im already taking saw palmetto twice per day and have been for a month now. What is low level laser therapy? Im willing to try it if it can keep the thickness of the sworl there.




Considering these pics were also taken in bright light it makes it look worse but even in general i do think its very early stages of thinning at the top a bit and the sworl part ofcourse too.

My hairline was receeding a tiny bit, could just have gone into a mature hairline though. My hairline is all good for now, then this swirl thinning comes up...

Right now im taking saw palmetto 2x per day, and putting coconut oil and emu oil on my scalp over night and using nizoral 2 percent three times per week. ive been doing those 4 things for a month now since mid september.

Im just very confused because in regular lighting looking at the back of my hair through a mirror it looks like a relativly normal swirl and even two weeks ago i got my haircut and my hairdresser of 5 years thinks everything is normal and that im not balding. wtf

Sometimes hair dressers can just be too nice.. out of all the hair dressers I've had, I've only been told by one that my hair is looking in bad shape (due to hair loss).

[goldbondmafia]

hey guys, figured I would do a one year update since I began fin 1.25mg last June 10th

Pictures 1 and 3 are baseline, 2 and 4 are today. I personally think I have maintained and possibly seen very slight improvement though nothing crazy.

I was thinking of adding in dut 0.5 mg 2x/week and fin only 5x/week. Or minox either once or twice a day although I haven't decided yet. Do you guys think I should add anything in?

[goldbondmafia]

Lookin good man!

Is fin all you are using?

Have you got your DHT tested since last time bro? I got my DHT tested again and it turns out fin does nothing for me! It's either dut or baldness now aahah

hey dan,

sorry for the slow response ive been out of the country! but yeah im only using fin 1.25mg and nizoral 2%. I haven't gotten any blood tests done since 6 weeks AFTER I started fin but I plan on getting my DHT and test levels taken in early January to compare. I sort of feel like my sex drive is going down a bit which is why I want to get the blood tests done again

[bbbbbb]

Picture 1 is baseline, picture 2 is 6 month point, picture 3 is baseline, picture 4 is 6 month point

thoughts?

Nice, you're on 0.5mg Fin right? Stick with that for another 12 months, sounds like a good plan/

[Dan26]

Lookin good man!

Is fin all you are using?

Have you got your DHT tested since last time bro? I got my DHT tested again and it turns out fin does nothing for me! It's either dut or baldness now aahah

[goldbondmafia]

Picture 1 is baseline, picture 2 is 6 month point, picture 3 is baseline, picture 4 is 6 month point

thoughts?

[goldbondmafia]

Hey are some pictures exactly 6 months and 1 day after starting finasteride. My baseline pictures are on post 109 on page 11.

[mpb47]

That's pretty good then I assumed a lot of it would be gone after stopping it for so long. What made you stop in the first place?

btw, From the pics I provided do you think I should try minox?

Well that is how it was for me, but I don't know how common it is. I have read conflicting statements from 2 different docs. Probably both right, happens differently to different guys.

I stopped because of sides but I have to wonder if there were other issues. That is why I am trying again.

Honestly I don't think I would start on minox just yet. You can always add it latter if needed.

[goldbondmafia]

I'm sorry, I meant to say that I use minox foam every other day after I shower. I did start of using foam twice a day, 7 times a week for years. Probably since I was 19-20 so about 4-5 years. About 2 months ago I stop taking it every day.

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthread.php?t=11443 <---- you can use that as an before pic.

To be honest I don't even think you are fully balding man you hairline and everything looks perfect in both before/after pics

Some docs say yes you will immediately go back to baseline, some say it no but it will gradually return back.

I can tell you I was on it for 4-5 years then stopped. I stayed on Minox though.
At first I did lose a lot of hair but after about a year I would say 50-60% came back so I was still a good bit ahead of where I was before I started. It pretty much stayed like that until about 2 years ago when it started coming back. I recently went back on propecia because I could see it was getting worse esp in the crown. So at least for me some of my regrown hair stayed around on minox alone for a few years afterwords.

That's pretty good then I assumed a lot of it would be gone after stopping it for so long. What made you stop in the first place?

btw, From the pics I provided do you think I should try minox?

[mpb47]

One thing I read from a sheet he gave me after kind of freaked me out. It says the following: "Minoxidil and finasteride work in different ways and can be used together; however they are only effective as long as you keep using them. Within 6-12 months of stopping them, you will lose the hair they helped you save and it will be as if you never used them".

Does this mean if I use fin for 5 years and stop that my hair will fall out during the following 6-12 months and be at the same place as if I never took the drug and waited 5 years?

Some docs say yes you will immediately go back to baseline, some say it no but it will gradually return back.

I can tell you I was on it for 4-5 years then stopped. I stayed on Minox though.
At first I did lose a lot of hair but after about a year I would say 50-60% came back so I was still a good bit ahead of where I was before I started. It pretty much stayed like that until about 2 years ago when it started coming back. I recently went back on propecia because I could see it was getting worse esp in the crown. So at least for me some of my regrown hair stayed around on minox alone for a few years afterwords.

[dex89]

I would say yours looks much better than mine to be honest man yours looks great. So you use the foam one week then next week no foam then 3rd week back to foam etc? Do you have before/after pics?

I'm sorry, I meant to say that I use minox foam every other day after I shower. I did start of using foam twice a day, 7 times a week for years. Probably since I was 19-20 so about 4-5 years. About 2 months ago I stop taking it every day.

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthread.php?t=11443 <---- you can use that as an before pic.