Hello everyone.
I'd like to start off by saying that I started getting a receding hairline at 16, however by 22 I was only starting to get to NW2 territory, if not less.
In order to take preventative measures I started taking finasteride last may, and stopped in November 2013 due to scaremongering and stories aobut side effects. I hadn't noticed fin doing anything to my hair to be honest, but then again like I said I was barely at a NW2 so I didn't have traces that I was balding.
By late Jan of this year I started fin again. Like I mentioned before I had a very slow case of MPB, barely at a NW2 before starting on Fin late January.
As soon as I started taking fin (and nizoral once a week) my hair started thinning like no other. Most people think sheds are just hairs falling out, they are not just that, it's literally your MPB speeding up and thinning you hair.
I've noticed my scalp has become extremely itchy. Because of this I stopped taking nizoral which I figured was irritating it.
Here are some pics.
http://i.imgur.com/6lB5iVW.jpg -- January of this year (a few weeks before starting fin)
http://i.imgur.com/FXNOSTM.jpg -- 4.5 months on fin (Around May 5 or 6)
http://i.imgur.com/fvxDNG5.jpg -- Yesterday
My question is, should I stop taking finasteride? It has clearly made me lose 30-40% of my hair density.
On other forums people have told me to "ride it out"? But what's to say that it will not just make me completely bald judging from what it already has done?
I'd like to start off by saying that I started getting a receding hairline at 16, however by 22 I was only starting to get to NW2 territory, if not less.
In order to take preventative measures I started taking finasteride last may, and stopped in November 2013 due to scaremongering and stories aobut side effects. I hadn't noticed fin doing anything to my hair to be honest, but then again like I said I was barely at a NW2 so I didn't have traces that I was balding.
By late Jan of this year I started fin again. Like I mentioned before I had a very slow case of MPB, barely at a NW2 before starting on Fin late January.
As soon as I started taking fin (and nizoral once a week) my hair started thinning like no other. Most people think sheds are just hairs falling out, they are not just that, it's literally your MPB speeding up and thinning you hair.
I've noticed my scalp has become extremely itchy. Because of this I stopped taking nizoral which I figured was irritating it.
Here are some pics.
http://i.imgur.com/6lB5iVW.jpg -- January of this year (a few weeks before starting fin)
http://i.imgur.com/FXNOSTM.jpg -- 4.5 months on fin (Around May 5 or 6)
http://i.imgur.com/fvxDNG5.jpg -- Yesterday
My question is, should I stop taking finasteride? It has clearly made me lose 30-40% of my hair density.
On other forums people have told me to "ride it out"? But what's to say that it will not just make me completely bald judging from what it already has done?
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