So my story is quite a long one. Im 38 years old, started noticing recession when I turned 18, panicked and tried all sorts of snake oil for a few years until I was around 23 and started on propecia. Within about a week I noticed I wasn’t shedding any hair at all, it seemed like I found a miracle! After about 6 weeks I noticed strength of erections wasn’t as good before starting but I didn’t care as the results were what I’d hoped for and I was absolutely fine using viagra/cialis. After about 18 months I’d basically grown an unbelievable head of hair, so much so that I was confident to grow it long even comb it back to show my hairline. It was just amazing the results I had. I don’t think I really noticed any considerable shedding that affected my results as I had grown so much back! Anyway fast forward another year and I had become quite aware of the sides, well the only side I suffered, my erections were pretty weak so I decided to come off for a while to go back to normal and then probably restart. Anyway I started reading about all the horror stories and freaked out and binned the rest of the propecia I had. It took a good couple of years to go back to anything remotely resembling my previous sexual function and about 7-8 months for me to start losing the hair I gained. In this time I had various gf’s and was quite happy using viagra/cialis as I had absolutely no problems with that. So over the next few years I just cut my hair short and did my best to style over the recession. About 2.5 years ago I had a transplant at the front, not the best I’d admit but still gave me a better hairline. I started using topical finasteride after to try help maintain but honestly the stuff didn’t do much at all. So now I’m panicking that I would lose the benefits of the transplant. So I took the plunge and started on 0.5mg generic finasteride pills. I eventually upped the dosage to one pill everyday. The results were definitely not as good as they were when I first went on propecia, however I definitely stopped losing hair and maybe some shedding in the first few months but due to hair dressers being closed I’ve geown my hair quite long and really felt ok about it again, in the last month felt like I was getting good results. Then BANG completely unexpectedly and out of the blue I’ve started shedding badly in the last week, I mean loads of hair on pillow, in my hands if I run it through my hair, just really bad. This has been 11 months into taking the full 1mg dosage. In my absolute panic I’ve ordered brand name propecia and dutasteride and am considering starting either.
Basically does anyone have any advice at all?! Has anyone had a similar experience? Could this be normal shedding as I really felt like recently it was just starting to work properly for me this time round? Or has it just stopped working all together? Whilst being on generic finasteride I really haven’t noticed any side effects, very mild if any, as like I say I don’t think I truly ever went back to my original function after propecia but I’ve had zero problems in my sex life due to cialis.
Sorry this is a very long winded post but thought the more detail the better. Thanks!
Basically does anyone have any advice at all?! Has anyone had a similar experience? Could this be normal shedding as I really felt like recently it was just starting to work properly for me this time round? Or has it just stopped working all together? Whilst being on generic finasteride I really haven’t noticed any side effects, very mild if any, as like I say I don’t think I truly ever went back to my original function after propecia but I’ve had zero problems in my sex life due to cialis.
Sorry this is a very long winded post but thought the more detail the better. Thanks!
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