I'm confused - Could use some advise - Is Minox worth the effort?

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Thanks guys - appreciate the feedback - With no job, finances are on the skids


Had I known how cheap generic minox was I probably would have stopped nutri-ox years ago

I have an interesting update ;

I noticed a couple of changes to my hair - 2 days into starting minox (obviously not caused by minox), so I stopped the minox, since it wasn't responsible for the changes.

When I created the two threads on this forum July 15th and the 17th (approx 2 weeks ago) I thought my hair hadn't changed much lately (last few years), hence deciding to stop nutri-ox and start minoxidil/dermrolling instead - or, so I thought. My rationale was that after 5 years on nutri-ox, I assumed that I had plateaued and "maxed- out" on the benefit of the product - with the exception of some initial regrowth, I hadn't actually noticed much of a change in the last 3 years (give or take) of using it. When your hair isn't thick enough to hide the scalp, from vertex to front hairline, it takes a lot to notice changes. Of course, changes are slow to avail themselves - hence right when I decide to start minox, it suddenly donned on me that I was noticing a change. It may not be much, or it may not be worthy of mention to many, but still, if it is an improvement it seems worthy of mention nonetheless.

In the last month or two, (I didn't write down the date I started these three things - I have to guess-timate) from maybe around May (could be a little less) until around July 17th, I did three things differently that seemed to cause a bit of a change in my hair growth.

1) I increased the number of "pumps" from (nutri-ox) from 7 to between 10-14 pumps (I tried to save $$ by only using 7 pumps)

2) I started a "scalp scatching" finger tip/nails (from some site on older Eastern methods)

3) I had started to drag a heavily bristled brush over my scalp, to augment the finger nail scratching (although I did stop this brush thing, since I'm not sure what caused the benefit, I should pick it up again)

I thought the scalp scratching was a "cheap" easy thing to do. Being a "returning student" going back to my local CC in my mid fifties, most students would rather spit at you than look at you. At least if I could do something to get a little more "grass" growing on top of my head, maybe I wouldn't feel like such a damn freak! And, if the scratching thing turns out to be nothing in the long run, years from now, by time I finally figure that out, maybe I would have scratched my way down through to India, and then I could pick up some more free "Eastern hair growing tips!" (Nothing against Indians of course.)(Glad to know they're moving up the economic ladder.)


I haven't thrown the minox away. I hadn't got around to ordering the dermaroller.

So, where the F does that leave me? I still don't know what the crap to do? start minox again .....?


I know guys hate how thick and gluey the liquid is, and the itching. For me, once the minox dried (during the two days I used it), it really had an immediate thickening effect on my hair - If it didn't want to use it to regrow hair, and if there was an inert version, I'd buy the crap just for the thickening effect!


Question guys - If I do give minox another spin, as far as the shedding, which hairs, in terms of what phase they are in, or location, which hairs will go through the initial shed?