Rogaine - how long before it stopped working?

[goldbondmafia]

I am about to try using rogaine to thicken my hair and fix bad hair follicles. Ive read about the product quite a bit and heard that for some people it works for a year then they shed and thin out, others its worked for a few years then thins out as well, and others have been using it twice a day for years and their hair is still fine great!

To the members that use it on here, how long has rogaine worked for you and is it still continuing to work well or has its effectivness stopped after a certain amount of time?

[Tracy C]

I have been using Rogaine and generic Minoxidil for about three and a half years. It does not seem to be losing effectiveness.

Personally, I am not buying into the notion that it loses effectiveness. I believe there is something else going on in the lives of those who say it just stops working and then they thin out. What that something else might be, I don't know. But it makes more sense to me.

[stravucce]

I don't know about rogain did not use it for long enough to even see it working!

[Tracy C]

Why post a responce then?

[kanyon]

It worked for me for about 6 and a half years. It has completely lost its effectiveness now.

I don't disagree with Tracy. There could be other reasons why it stops working besides building a tolerance. I'd be lying if I didn't say that over the years I used it very inconsistently. Because my results were so incredible, I got so confident and blase about it, and I even went some months without using (when travelling for example) and would get back on it with no hairloss evident.

Finally this caught up with me (or as I believe the stuff just stopped working for me) when I noticed severe hairloss again about 13 months ago. So to combat it, since October 2010 I've been committed and diligent over this past year and applied it twice a day everyday.

So basically it's worthless to me now but I do still use it because I'm scared not too.

I started Fin in February this year (I used Regaine by itself for all those years) and am hoping Fin will work for me until a better treatment becomes available (a few years I guess).

I have been tempted to shave my head with the hope I could pull the look off but I doubt I could. I'd prefer to keep my dodgy combover.

[Tracy C]

I don't disagree with Tracy. There could be other reasons why it stops working besides building a tolerance.

Here is what I think pobably happens... Please understand that I am not a doctor... As men get older, their hormone levels change just as it does in women. As the androgen levels increase, eventually they over power Minoxidil's effect. So in the case of those men who use Minoxidil but don't do anything to keep DHT under control, eventually Minoxidil alone is not enough to keep up the fight...

Ideally, it is best for a male to do something to take control of DHT as well as start Minoxidil from the beginning. If however a man didn't do that, he should do so at the first sign that Minoxidil seems to have "lost its effectiveness".

Does that make sense to anyone other than me?

[WarLord]

It worked for me for about 6 and a half years. It has completely lost its effectiveness now.

I don't disagree with Tracy. There could be other reasons why it stops working besides building a tolerance. I'd be lying if I didn't say that over the years I used it very inconsistently. Because my results were so incredible, I got so confident and blase about it, and I even went some months without using (when travelling for example) and would get back on it with no hairloss evident.

Finally this caught up with me (or as I believe the stuff just stopped working for me) when I noticed severe hairloss again about 13 months ago. So to combat it, since October 2010 I've been committed and diligent over this past year and applied it twice a day everyday.

So basically it's worthless to me now but I do still use it because I'm scared not too.

I started Fin in February this year (I used Regaine by itself for all those years) and am hoping Fin will work for me until a better treatment becomes available (a few years I guess).

I have been tempted to shave my head with the hope I could pull the look off but I doubt I could. I'd prefer to keep my dodgy combover.

LOL So I found another exemplary case, when minoxidil mysteriously "stopped working". I would like to warn all potential users of minoxidil that this stuff is not for lazy and undisciplined people. And what is worse, when the consequences of the sloppy application eventually count up, they come to internet forums and spite their silly agenda that "minoxidil won't maintain hair" to all directions.

"I even went some months without using it..." INSANITY!

"when I noticed severe hairloss again about 13 months ago..." After some long trip, I suppose?