Long-term minoxidil users?

[Assemblage23]

Anyone been using rogaine alone for years? I want to find out the potential of rogaine alone. I just stopped propecia and my dick is back from the dead. I have been using rogaine for the front and stopped it for a while then restarted. I will soon use it on my entire scalp.

Anyone has been on rogaine only? I think I am going to keep my balding head of hair short and apply rogaine just to avoid going cue bald and to maintain for a possible HT in the future.

[Tracy C]

I want to find out the potential of rogaine alone.

Minoxidil alone is only mildly effective, especially for males. If you are unable or unwilling to take the medication that directly addresses the hormone that is triggering your hereditary hair loss, you need to come to terms with your hereditary hair loss and live your live to the fullest anyways. It can be done. Millions of men have done so for thousands of years.

[Tiger norwood's]

Minoxidil alone is only mildly effective, especially for males. If you are unable or unwilling to take the medication that directly addresses the hormone that is triggering your hereditary hair loss, you need to come to terms with your hereditary hair loss and live your live to the fullest anyways. It can be done. Millions of men have done so for thousands of years.

Good advice here Tracy, rogaine does not create any major effect in the battle against male hair loss. Men should try to shave down and see how it feels, and then consider propecia or last resort, hair transplant.

I have used rogaine for about 4 years and then stopped due to skin problems and unwanted hair growth.

[clandestine]

It should be noted that, as is the case with other medications, rogaine must be used indefinitely. As well as constantly, consistently.

[Aames]

It would be a lot more effective if you combined it with a topical DHT inhibitor. I know you got off of fin due to low libido. AFAIK, most topical ones do not absorb systemically so you should be okay downstairs.

[montreal6130]

Hi Assemblage23,

Don't have the answer to your specific question. However, I will add that I've been off propecia for almost 6 months now and been using Rogaine for about 1 1/2 months. It's definitely helped me psychologically to be applying the Rogaine twice a day as i pretty much assumed I'd go bald once off propecia. I will admit that I feel like the Rogaine is doing something but that may simply be me in a wishful thinking state.

About coming off propecia. I have lost a lot of hair and my quality of hair really dropped but it's not as terrible as I first assumed. During month 5 I will say that the shed has really slowed down a lot but there may be another coming, who knows.

I'd recommend doing the Rogaine right away and then decide for yourself if you want to continue. The worse that can happen while on Rogaine is a continuation of what is going to happen naturally anyway.

Thanks.

[Tracy C]

It should be noted that, as is the case with other medications, rogaine must be used indefinitely. As well as constantly, consistently.

This is because hereditary hair loss progresses for the rest of ones life. It's a really simple reality that a lot of people have great difficulty understanding.

AFAIK

The problem with that is you do not know what you are talking about and you do not know what you are doing. You are simply parroting garbage you find on the internet.

[WhyDoesMyScalpHateMe]

Minoxidil worked great for me for a couple of years, but as my thinning regions kept on expanding, the hair regrowth effects obviously got weaker...

[mmmcoffee]

tracy and aames, yall need to kiss and make up.

[UK_]

Minoxidil alone is only mildly effective, especially for males. If you are unable or unwilling to take the medication that directly addresses the hormone that is triggering your hereditary hair loss, you need to come to terms with your hereditary hair loss and live your live to the fullest anyways. It can be done. Millions of men have done so for thousands of years.

Finasteride is only effective for the short term anyway - it might buy you an extra 3 - 5 years at best, that's **** all use to someone who's thinning at 21.

[Assemblage23]

Hi Assemblage23,

Don't have the answer to your specific question. However, I will add that I've been off propecia for almost 6 months now and been using Rogaine for about 1 1/2 months. It's definitely helped me psychologically to be applying the Rogaine twice a day as i pretty much assumed I'd go bald once off propecia. I will admit that I feel like the Rogaine is doing something but that may simply be me in a wishful thinking state.

About coming off propecia. I have lost a lot of hair and my quality of hair really dropped but it's not as terrible as I first assumed. During month 5 I will say that the shed has really slowed down a lot but there may be another coming, who knows.

I'd recommend doing the Rogaine right away and then decide for yourself if you want to continue. The worse that can happen while on Rogaine is a continuation of what is going to happen naturally anyway.

Thanks.

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Thanks for the complete reply it's been two weeks since I have stopped I can still get back on it. When did you recover your sex drive? Mine increased at day 11. But I havent recovered completly yet.

[mpb47]

Finasteride is only effective for the short term anyway - it might buy you an extra 3 - 5 years at best, that's **** all use to someone who's thinning at 21.

Well I have been on it for 15 years and it is still working. Whether it works or not depends on how aggressive your mpb is. I know this firsthand as I have had fast (aggressive) spurts of mpb, but most of the time it has been gradual.

When it was fast, minox did basically nothing and only propecia could stop it. But now that it has slowed down, Minox alone is working for me. And by working I mean it slows it down-not completly stop it. But it is enough to buy me a lot of time.

What ever drug you use for mpb,you will need it for life as like others just said, mpb never truly stops, though I have had mine take breaks.

From what I have read, I will probably continue to get those fast spurts. If/when that happens I will jump back on propecia to try and ride it out.

[Tracy C]

Finasteride is only effective for the short term anyway - it might buy you an extra 3 - 5 years at best.

That is garbage information you found on the internet. There are many guys in this forum who have been taking Finasteride for over 15 years and it is still working for them.

[baldesswonder]

I think only age comes as a factor as your body slowly wins the battle. But i dont see why propecia/proscar can't be doing its job for the rest of your life as much as it can. I dont think your body builds a tolerane like a narcotic drug lol

[montreal6130]

Well, I didn't have any sides that I was aware of. I got off just because I was concerned about the potential-risk (even though there is no clinical proof of it) of long-term sides.

However, when I got off it I realized that I was having sides but they were not very noticeable till I got off. Basically, by around week 3 my morning erections and libido roared back and truthfully it felt amazing. That feeling is the only thing that has kept me off propecia because it just felt so great and don't ever want to lose that again.

Psychologically, the first 4/5 months off were really, really hard for me. I had no idea what would happen to my hair and I had a 'full' head of hair which has become part of my look (i.e. mid-length curly). I shed a lot right as of week 4 and the quality dropped dramatically. However, I feel like it is slowing. And I also got on a regimen that has helped me feel like I'm doing all I can. It includes;

Nioxin shampoo & conditioner (not to fight MPB but just to improve look of hair)
Nizoral (1/week)
Vitamins (Biotin, Vitamin D, Green Tea Extract)
Rogaine (twice daily)

Obviously, there are only 4 things that can be done to deal with MPB (Hair transplant, propecia, rogaine, nothing) but I'm trying to achieve 3 things by the regime outlined above.

(1) support myself psychologically as I lose the hair save by propecia
(2) mild attempt to slow MPB (Rogaine)
(3) Improve the quality & look of my existing hair (Nioxin, Vitamins, Nizoral)

thanks & best of luck.