Propecia questions from Ireland

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Hey brendanlucey, welcome to my world. lol.

Like you I've started taking proscar (Propecia) by cutting them up into 4 pieces and taking them daily back in march or feb. I can't really recall. I'm in my 6 months now. I've also started taken Nizoral twice a week with proscar.

One of the thing I read for reason on taking Nizoral is that it stop the itching that is associated with loss of DHT. Which I had experience and taking Nizoral shampoo does help relieve the itching. I use to ich every day on my frontal right forehead and top mid scalp where my hair loss has been thinning. It's was mainly thinning on my frontal forehead rightline temples at first. The itching as really slow down or stop thanks to Nizoral. I still at the odd ich now and then but not really bad that I need to scratch it.

One thing I notice is that when I started taking proscar, it seem like my hair loss has continue and spread into the top middle of my scalp where it has really thin even more. Before proscar is was mainly noticeable only to the frontal forehead and around the right temple. People tell me that bit of further loss is part of the shredding from proscar initially to get rid of dead hair so that a new cycle of hair can grow. So I'm hoping that is and giving it a few more months before I decide to see some better consultant on other possible hair loss treatment.

As much as I like my doctor, it's not an expert in hairloss and it's not like he's a genuis that knows everything. It seem to me I be better off talking to a specialist on hair loss on what possible treatment would be best for me but at this point I don't know where to go for that in my city as I'm afraid on those so called hair loss clinic would just try to sell me on a treatment so they can make money off of me instead of being honest with me if I needed a particular treatment or not.

So my advice is what others have told me here and stick with what you doing like me for 8 to 10 months. I've myself have decided not to do rogaine too because I don't think its that bad yet that I need to use rogaine and I hate the idea of spending more money on what I'm already spending and I don't like putting stuff on my hair either than hair spray and gel.

I've never heard of soreness from hair loss before.