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[DifferentLine]

What do you mean no results yet? Fin is supposed to maintain what you have now...?

I've heard a lot of people say it doesn't work straight away, and that I should wait a full year before judging its effectiveness. It's possible I'm going through a small shed at the moment.

[DifferentLine]

3.5 months on finasteride:
-no sides
-lots of shedding from ~2 month to current
-a few hairs sprouting at hairline, though most likely just natural regrowth at this point.

My hair is worse snow than when I started. But, if the shedding is truly hairs changing phases to one day return stronger, then it'll all be worth it.

How would you compare your shedding to pre-fin, more or less?

[ryan555]

ryan.. I'm sure you have answered this before.. but after taking it for 14 years.. how did it effect your hairloss? instantly start losing it again or is it still there? how long has it been?

I stopped over three years ago. It took a few months for me to notice a change in my hair. I quit minox at the same time and I think that wreaked more havoc on me, causing a pretty awful shed. My hairline has now receded about a centimeter all the way around, but it appears at the moment that my hair loss was never that extensive to begin with. The hair loss I experienced at 19 when I started taking it was most likely a maturing hairline.

[dpm1129]

Can someone who has taken Propecia for diffuse pattern loss give their experience on the drug?

[25 going on 65]

Can someone who has taken Propecia for diffuse pattern loss give their experience on the drug?

My hair loss is mainly diffuse. Fin thickened it up pretty well and then maintained. I started fin almost 3 years ago. I also used keto shampoo, 2% the whole time. Not sure how much that helped but I doubt it would have had much of a visible result without fin

[goldbondmafia]

My hair loss is mainly diffuse. Fin thickened it up pretty well and then maintained. I started fin almost 3 years ago. I also used keto shampoo, 2% the whole time. Not sure how much that helped but I doubt it would have had much of a visible result without fin

were you taking .5mg or 1mg?

[25 going on 65]

were you taking .5mg or 1mg?

Started at 1.25 mg, then went up to 2.5 mg every day.

I am on .5mg dutasteride now so I dropped my fin back down to 1.25.

[BigThinker]

How would you compare your shedding to pre-fin, more or less?

Way more shedding post-fin, at least where I'm at now.

[StuckInARut]

Three months. No sides but still shedding albeit a bit less. Hoping to maintain a the very least but hoping for regrowth.

[Bacon]

4 months in. I had sides for the first 3 months, but they gradually dissipated. Ball pain in the first few weeks was pretty bad - I was gonna start tapering off the drug if the pain persisted but fortunately it didn't. I also had a reduction in my libido. However, in the past week or so I'm back to my old horny self.

As for results, it's really hard to tell. I feel like my hair's a bit thinner in the hairline (where all of my loss was), and I'm still shedding loads of hair in the shower. But I don't see as many hairs scattered about my desk at work as I used to. No idea if this means anything or not.

In conclusion, I'm gonna stick with it but I've been slightly disappointed so far.