My expHAIRiment...

[yecats]

Hi All,

As I am New to Signing up to This Site & forum, I thought I'd do the right Thing & tell You about My Hair Goals.

As of January this Year (2012) I have started to Grow My Hair,
after 12 Years of Shaving My Head with the Goal of not Cutting it til' January 2013.

The decision to do This came from Turning 40 & really missing having long Hair as I did when I was in My 20's,
but didn't like where My hair was heading eg. back. I slowly over Time, I shaved off little by little.
Starting with an under cut & wearing it every now & then in a high ponytail,
til' I ended up shaving the front back to meet the ponytail.
I believe it's called a 'Manchu'.
Eventually, I stared shaving My Whole Head & had been for over 12 Years...
Til' NOW!!!

December 2011, I had decided to make My First Time Ever,
New Years Resolution...
To NOT get My Hair cut, til' 2013 & I must say I am enjoying Growing It
& experimenting with what I've got & trying to see if I can thicken or regrow Hair to thinning, balding spots.

I have a Level III Vertex on the Norwood Chart.

At the moment I am experimenting with taking Mens Multi-Vitamins,
Fish Oil Tabs, Biotin, Vitamin C, Chromium Picolinate, Saw Palmetto &
Hair, Skin & Nail Tablets with Zinc.

Whist Washing My Hair 3 Times per Week with Ketoconazole Shampoo
& rubbing Daily a Anti-Fungal Cream (Miconazole Nitrate - Monistat 2%) into My Scalp, whilst using a 0.5mm Derma-Roller 2x a Week & in conjunction with a 4 Laser Raymax LLLT Wand.

Wow, What a Mouth full!!

Plus, Today I Received 3x 60ml Bottles of 5% Minoxidil Extra Strength
& a USB 200x Digital Microscope to record & document My Lil' Experiment.

I'm AM a little hesitant to start using the Minoxidil I ordered,
as I have noticed thickening of the Hair in My Problem Areas
& have starting to get fine little clear Hairs starting to grow where there were none before in My Bald Areas!

Anyhoo, That's enough about Me & My lil' Experiment...

Ciao4noW

[yecats]

Wow, After Reading through a load of various Posts on Here regarding Minoxidil.
I reckon I have come to the conclusion that Minoxidil is a Pain in the Ass & Sounds like a proverbial Prison Sentence!!

From having to apply It Everyday FOREVER til' You Die, to also have it make Your Hair Greasy and feel Horrible once a Day with a Stronger Percentage OR applying the 5% Solution TWICE A DAY, Everyday, Every Week, Every Month, Every Year!!!
I don't understand the reasons behind wanting to go through THIS Routine for a lovely 'maybe' full Head off Greasy, Horrible feeling Hair for the rest of YOUR LIFE?!?

Also, don't Stop if You Start, else the newly Grown Hair will fall out!
WHAT?!? All that Hair & Money down the Drain!!
But, WAIT... If You decide to give It another go.
The Hair that fell out will NOT return?!?

My Question now is, Why use Minoxidil?
It just doesn't seem worth going through all THAT Everyday Forever.

I sincerly apologise if I have offended any One with My two cent rant.

[clandestine]

My Question now is, Why use Minoxidil?
It just doesn't seem worth going through all THAT Everyday Forever.

Good question mate.

[chrisis]

I've been using minoxidil for a few weeks and it's not that big of a deal.

I make sure the area I need it for (receded areas) is wet before applying it, massage it in, and then let it dry. At night I do this while brushing my teeth. In the morning I get up, shower and apply it right after. I let it dry for about an hour while eating breakfast, surfing the net etc. and then I blow dry, straighten and style.

I'm thinking if I manage to grow any hair back I'll cut down the dose to once a day before bed, and continue taking finasteride.

[rupe]

minoxidil is extremely irritating and very inconvenient and makes your hair looks worse than it is after putting it in. but if it works its worth it.

[chrisis]

rupe I don't understand how it can make hair look worse? Granted I haven't tried the foam, but with the liquid I simply have a shower, part my hair out the way, use a pipette to medicate the area and rub it in. Then I just let my hair and scalp dry. Also I've not tried it on my crown because I don't have any balding there. Maybe that's the problem?

[fab]

I'm thinking if I manage to grow any hair back I'll cut down the dose to once a day before bed, and continue taking finasteride.

I saw another post of you saying that you started taking finasteride in November and stopped at the end of January and still suffering side effects.

Are you still taking Fin?

[chrisis]

I saw another post of you saying that you started taking finasteride in November and stopped at the end of January and still suffering side effects.

Are you still taking Fin?

I stopped taking finasteride in January when side effects overwhelmed me. I haven't touched it since despite still having a couple months' supply in my drawer. I did plan to go back onto it at a lower dose when side effects abated, but I'm still waiting. Because of this I now regard finasteride as toxic, at least to me, and will not go near it ever again.

[Tracy C]

From having to apply It Everyday FOREVER til' You Die, to also have it make Your Hair Greasy and feel Horrible once a Day with a Stronger Percentage OR applying the 5% Solution TWICE A DAY, Everyday, Every Week, Every Month, Every Year!!!
I don't understand the reasons behind wanting to go through THIS Routine for a lovely 'maybe' full Head off Greasy, Horrible feeling Hair for the rest of YOUR LIFE?!?

Obviously you know next to nothing about hereditary hair loss or using Minoxidil. You have a lot to learn.

My Question now is, Why use Minoxidil?

Because it works for most people who use it properly. I works for me.

It just doesn't seem worth going through all THAT Everyday Forever.

If you had bothered to take the time to learn what you need to know about hereditary hair loss and how it needs to be treated, you would see that your uninformed comments here are pretty moot.

Using Minoxidl properly is not even close to being as much of a pain in the butt that you are making it out to be. When using the foam, other people cannot even tell you are treating your hair loss.

[fab]

What was your experience exactly by the way?

I took it for 10 years and started developing side effects slowly up to a complete impotence from the last several months, now it's a total ED. Can't get it hard easily, and never hard enough for penetration, and it don't stay hard for more than 2 seconds, 1/10 libido.