Minoxidil works on the hairline...

[Phatalis]

I keep seeing posts on this. I don't know how rare it is.. but minoxidil definitely works on the hairline. I'll take pics if necessary but it basically almost replaced mine.

Now if only I could ball up and take Propecia.. and maintain this until "the cure" comes out.

[KeepTheHair]

very happy for you...


Hope tiw orks for me!! dammit i hope

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It apparently works on the front hair line in about 4% of users. Congratulations, you are indeed a very lucky young man!

[KeepTheHair]

4%?!

gdammit

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At least that's what I've read. Products are generally much better at maintenance than regrowth and if the hair loss becomes more aggressive, even maintenance becomes a pipe dream.

I'm getting fed up of all this. It's ridiculous that there isn't a cure for baldness yet. I have to pay vast amounts of tax every year to a bloated National Health Service who then waste that money on IVF treatments for people who are sterile for a good reason; breast enhancement(far more boob jobs (thousands) on the NHS than hair transplants (fourteen) for 'self esteem'); keeping terminally ill people alive who should be allowed to die in peace and even sugar pills for time wasters. All a big squanderance of money and yet here I am with two equally important medical conditions (short sightedness and baldness) and neither are covered so I get sod all back from the NHS.

If they're not going to treat all people in Britain equally under the NHS banner, they might as well just close it down. What's the point in an NHS when all it does is discriminate against some conditions in favour of others, especially when those others include keeping heroin addict chavs alive?

[Phatalis]

I agree man. I mean, I don't want to go into all the other stuff...


But with all that aside... Baldness seems like something that should've been cured years ago.

Here we are 2010...

We cna perform open brain surgury and stuff... but baldness is still... a big question mark for a cure. Doesn't make sense.

All these "new" cures coming out seem like.... well... bullshit. I mean, I hear a lot... but don't see anything.

Histogen. Trichoscience...etc etc...

It's a lot of talk but I don't see squat.

Is it because of the politics? I don't know. I'm a computer science student but sometimes I think I should've changed my field... just so I could cure my hair problem lol.

[UK_]

At least that's what I've read. Products are generally much better at maintenance than regrowth and if the hair loss becomes more aggressive, even maintenance becomes a pipe dream.

I'm getting fed up of all this. It's ridiculous that there isn't a cure for baldness yet. I have to pay vast amounts of tax every year to a bloated National Health Service who then waste that money on IVF treatments for people who are sterile for a good reason; breast enhancement(far more boob jobs (thousands) on the NHS than hair transplants (fourteen) for 'self esteem'); keeping terminally ill people alive who should be allowed to die in peace and even sugar pills for time wasters. All a big squanderance of money and yet here I am with two equally important medical conditions (short sightedness and baldness) and neither are covered so I get sod all back from the NHS.

If they're not going to treat all people in Britain equally under the NHS banner, they might as well just close it down. What's the point in an NHS when all it does is discriminate against some conditions in favour of others, especially when those others include keeping heroin addict chavs alive?

I know you made this comment a while back, and I dont know if you're still on this site - but I couldnt agree more - the NHS is inherently feminist - just like cancer research UK... remember the faulty PIP breast implants? The tax payer was forced to front the costs to have them removed... and we're not talking about helping the needy here, we're talking about upper-middle class self-absorbed greedy women who were rich enough to travel to Paris and have breast implants with a private plastic surgeon but not rich enough to sort things out when it all went (excuse the pun) tits up.

Cancer research UK is the worst of the lot, they'll focus only on womens issues and totally disregard men - prostate cancer occurs in almost exactly the same number as breast cancer - but the difference in Government funds that go into breast cancer is in the millions, in-fact, ill bet you no other cancer gets more awareness and funds from the Government than breast cancer.