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    Hi,

    My advice: STAY AWAY FROM MINOX!
    And if you are on it QUIT (not cold turkey, but very gradually)

    And one more thing: I know there is the debate on weather your 'healthy' hair becomes dependent on minox or now. My opinion:

    YES! It does 100%. It will cause your unhealthy & healthy hair to fall out for 3 - 4 month after you quit.

    However since the huge shed after quitting, my hair in now recovering & regrowing very much everywhere!! It feels better than ever before. Best decision of my life.

    I do however still take natural DHT blocker which I strongly recommend:

    Biotin
    Zinc
    Evening Primrose oil
    Nisim Shampoo (hair stops falling within the week!!)
    Laser comb (3 x week)
    Excersie (5 times week)
    Also I cleaned up my diet, lots of fruit & veg, lean meat

    I promise: THIS WORKS!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jenniferlima View Post
    Hi,

    My advice: STAY AWAY FROM MINOX!
    And if you are on it QUIT (not cold turkey, but very gradually)

    And one more thing: I know there is the debate on weather your 'healthy' hair becomes dependent on minox or now. My opinion:

    YES! It does 100%. It will cause your unhealthy & healthy hair to fall out for 3 - 4 month after you quit.

    However since the huge shed after quitting, my hair in now recovering & regrowing very much everywhere!! It feels better than ever before. Best decision of my life.

    I do however still take natural DHT blocker which I strongly recommend:

    Biotin
    Zinc
    Evening Primrose oil
    Nisim Shampoo (hair stops falling within the week!!)
    Laser comb (3 x week)
    Excersie (5 times week)
    Also I cleaned up my diet, lots of fruit & veg, lean meat

    I promise: THIS WORKS!
    This advice is absolute garbage and I recommend everyone completely ignore it.

    Minoxidil works very well. If you stop using it, it will stop working...obviously.

    The lasercomb is complete junk and DOES NOT work.

    Exercise has no effect on hair loss.

    Diet will have no effect on androgenic alopecia.

    Biotin and zinc will do very little and probably nothing at all for hair. There is only 1 study that shows biotin might help but it will do nothing against DHT and neither will any of the other things mentioned in the above post.

    Nisim Shampoo I am unfamiliar with... but looking at the ingredients I don't really see anything that is going to help with male pattern hair loss.


    Your regimen is an unintelligent one. There is no "debate" whether some hair becomes dependent on minoxidil. It DOES. That has been firmly established. It's a treatment, not a cure.

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    My understanding is that the hairs which become dependent on minoxidil are ones that you would have lost anyway during the treatment. Sort of like when you quit Propecia and within a year you lose all the hairs that were being protected from DHT during that time (except with minox the mechanism is growth stimulation and not DHT blocking, like KeepTheHair pointed out).

    Unfortunately, I have to agree that jenniferlima's advice will not be useful for men with MPB. If a man is losing his hair due to genetics and wants it to stop, he needs proven treatments, not a lifestyle upgrade.
    Exercise, nutrition, special shampoo (besides Nizoral), etc. may improve the quality of existing hairs. It may make individual strands appear healthier. But if that's your whole regimen, your hair will continue to fall out, and the "healthy quality hair" will become a horseshoe pattern on your head.

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    Default Update

    I've been 8 months since I quit minoxidil and I thought I'd update. I didn't quit cold turkey; over a 3 month period, I dropped it to once a day and then three times a week. I noticed an increase in shedding and it would have been due to me stopping minoxidil. However the shed stopped round about 6 weeks after and now my hair is back to where it was when I was on minoxidil.

    So I'm glad I quit minoxidil as for my case it wasn't doing much, it is a hassle to apply twice a day and cost money. I kept using it as it was the fear of losing hair that without minox, I'd be bald. In my case that wasn't true.

    I am still on propecia and been using it for over two years. Like everyone else, I'm waiting for this 'cure' until then propecia is the next best thing.

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    That's interesting seraphix. I haven't quit minox but I started getting lazy with its usage. I didn't intend to quit but in my lazyness (I think) I lost a heap of hair by late last year and am continuing to.

    Since November I've been using it twice a day and unfortunately it doesn't seem to have the same effect as when I started it in 2004. In fact I think it has no effect at all. Am now hoping Propecia will save me.

    What I would give to have the same head of hair I had in only October last year.

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    Default Expect an increase in hair loss if stop using the minoxidil

    Minoxidil will keep your hair that is growing in the anagen phase longer. When you quit using your minoxidil product many follicles will begin to reset or go into the Telogen phase, simply stop growing and will end up falling out. This phase can last around 100 days. Expect a thinner weaker hair the next growth cycle after ending your minoxidil treatment.

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    MOPCLABS, that does sound like what has happened to me. I lost a lot of hair from October to now. Not sure if it's still thinning or has reached a plateau. Certainly looks like I'm continuing to lose it when I wash my hair.

    If you start using Minox again should the hair that has fallen out start to grow thicker each growth cycle again? Or is that the end of hairs growing in that particular spot?

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    Default Never quit

    The truth is you will regrow some of the hair that was lost but not all. Minoxidil work better at keeping what you have than regrowing what you have lost. The bad news you might have more hair loss when you start back using. You will have to go back through the common shed that occurs when starting a minoxidil treatment.

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    If I could hang on to what I've got now I would be content. It's not ideal but I'm 28 now and not 21 like when I started noticing hair loss. So it's more acceptable. As long my hair is long, I'm not swimming, it's not raining, it's not
    really windy or the lighting is terribly unflattering, I'm ok.

    Rogaine was great for me in regrowing hair. Just incredible. I hope it can work as effectively as it did before but I've been using it coinstantly for 3 months now and when I began using it in 2004 I don't think it took this long to notice improvement (even though for many it might take longer than 3 months).

    When people talk about shedding because of treatments, I get a little confused because even when I was regrowing hair on Rogaine for all that time I don't think I noticed increased shedding (by the amount of hair in my hands). I've always lost a heap of hair when I've showered regardless of using an effective product and seeing results.

    Thank you for your advice MOPCLABS and sorry for making this thread about me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KeepTheHair View Post
    Minoxidil does nothing for MPB it only regrows and stimulates some hair growth. Your hair is still getting worse.
    I see that some visitors of this forum want to trump others in inventing the silliest and most absurd claims about minoxidil. Yes, it does nothing for your hair... It only regrows it. LOL

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