POSITIVE experience with Propecia?

[rdawg]

Minoxidil has done wonders for me. In my opinion people should be advised to try that before potentially damaging their hormonal system. Common sense.

I definitely agree with this. I did Minoxidil for over a year before getting on Propecia. Minoxidil helps most, some even get a little growth.

You have to weigh your options when you want to take a drug like propecia for sure, but in propecia's defense, when you dont have sides from it, it is by far the best fighter against hairloss and definitely slows or halts the loss for most.

[BigThinker]

This post is too necessary. Keeps all the negative posts in check.

[ThinningB420]

Minoxidil has done wonders for me. In my opinion people should be advised to try that before potentially damaging their hormonal system. Common sense.

I absolutely agree one should try minoxidil before finasteride.

I've been on minoxidil for 5 months next week and my hair is worse. I've grown some vellus hairs in my hairline but I've also increased diffused thinning throughout my entire scalp (photo results confirm) that I've applied the Rogaine foam. I have my six month appointment with my derm at the end of November. I will see what she says and decide what to do. I'm either going to shave my head or try low levels of fin.

[25 going on 65]

Personally I can only agree with the "minox first" approach for those who are resolved to never, ever use finasteride or who cannot use it. For anyone who will ever use fin for hair loss, the time to start is now (unless you are too young). I say this because minox does not stop or slow MPB from happening, it just forces hair to grow from damaged follicles. So MPB will still progress at the same rate in terms of follicle miniaturization, you will just have a higher hair count (and more terminal hairs) at each 6 month interval than you would have otherwise. And that is fine for those who accept it, but if you're trying to stay at or above baseline for the long term, it will not work.
If you use minox and then fall back below baseline in 2 years (or however long), and then get on finasteride, you basically should have started on fin in the first place. You have only allowed your follicles to take an additional 2 years of damage that fin could have prevented.
I say this with the utmost respect for others who are proposing minoxidil instead of fin. I would like to agree with the approach but just can't do it except for people who can't or won't use DHT drugs.

[ThinningB420]

@ 25 going on 65

I understand what you are saying and agree that minoxidil doesn't stop MPB. However, for someone cautious to tamper with my hormones, it has allowed me to try something while I research and contemplate using finasteride. It's one thing to make a good decision that works out poorly. It's another thing to make a bad decision by not thinking it through.

[ChrisM]

I can tell you after using Lipogaine and then Rogaine on my hair for about 8 months straight (starting from Feb- March thereabouts) it has made a difference it has filled in my vertex with and front of my scalp with thin vellus hairs that some were shedding and then darkening into full fledged . The literal near straight line from my sideburns and the sides of my hair started to fill with light tufts at the temples where hair was nonexistent. I was using this in concert with Regenepure and Nizoral twice a week and apple cider vinegar to clean away sebum blockage, oil plugging up the follicles and dead skin. Before restarting the process again

On July I started finasteride and saw palmetto and I felt the tingle in my testicles followed by a slight burning sensation and then it went away after two days. My semen became watery upon inspection but I never lost my erections though the morning ones were not as common.

I tapered off and went to more saw palmetto when my first batch of fin generics ran out (about 30 1mg pills). The morning erections came back stronger than ever and my sex drive was unaffected throughout the process. Now with my order of 60 pills about two months worth I have started up and there is little shed and the burning weird sensation is gone. I do feel the burning itchy scalp I had when I was twenty something coming back now as when my MPB symptoms first started. It would seem like the DHT is fighting tooth and nail but I am feeling stubble in what used to be light vellus hair near clean bald spots that I shaved down with the rest of my hair look uniform and completely bald. However it would seem that there are early dividends and I can see and feel the stubble or hair that was fairly light and diffuse in areas where hair loss was for more severe.
To give you some context here I am a Norwood 5 going to a 6 and with the progress I am seeing the fin and minoxidil and the keto and if they keep this up will have reversed this by next year to a based on the shadow of new hair coming in that I am seeing to a Norwood 3 and at best 2.5 which is fantastic. I will post pictures soon of my progress but I am fairly satisfied with the product.

[Larence]

I'm really not set on whether i should take the propecia plunge yet. Still can't decide whether to go with it or try http://hairgrowthcure.com alternative

[Lsrf13]

You will always hear about the negative with everyting to do with hairloss and treatments, especially if you are on the hunt for it. Very few guys with positive results have reason to hang around on hair loss message forms. They move on with their lives which is essentially the purpose.

I personally have had remarkable results over 15 years on finasteride, its the secret to my success as it stopped further hairloss dead and enabled me to rebuild what i had permanently lost via HT's .

I’m 54 years old. Last hair transplant was in 2013. Started taking finasteride a year ago. I’ve had a shedding phase around the third and fourth month. My hair started growing back somewhat decently after. Then more shedding begin. After the ninth month, between shedding and regrowth, I wasn’t gaining any ground. Mostly losing ground now. Approaching the year mark, shedding more than ever.
If you can recall, how was your year experience? Understanding that everyone reacts somewhat differently to Finasteride, should I weather through this shedding please?

[JasperT]

I’ve been on propecia/finasteride since probably 1999. I wasn’t aware of side effects but now I’m realizing that I’ve probably had some all along.
I have had tinnitus for years, sort of snuck up on my where I didn’t notice it and now it’s obvious. I have some dizziness, and just developed Peyronie’s. So yeah, I’m worried & wish I could go off of it. I feel trapped now. It goes against everything I believe in to be medicated for this long and yet not taking it and risking losing hair and Aldo revealing my Ht scar seems worse. It’s a ridiculous situation to be in and I regret my ht and meds every day.
So for anyone that’s not on it, stay off. There’s no reason to chance screwing up your body’s chemistry. I feel like a prisoner.

[Lsrf13]

I’ve been on propecia/finasteride since probably 1999. I wasn’t aware of side effects but now I’m realizing that I’ve probably had some all along.
I have had tinnitus for years, sort of snuck up on my where I didn’t notice it and now it’s obvious. I have some dizziness, and just developed Peyronie’s. So yeah, I’m worried & wish I could go off of it. I feel trapped now. It goes against everything I believe in to be medicated for this long and yet not taking it and risking losing hair and Aldo revealing my Ht scar seems worse. It’s a ridiculous situation to be in and I regret my ht and meds every day.
So for anyone that’s not on it, stay off. There’s no reason to chance screwing up your body’s chemistry. I feel like a prisoner.

So far I haven’t experienced any side effects except for a little drop in ED. Other than that, nothing. I haven’t even experienced any positive effects. Since I’m stuck on this drug, for now, is this shedding going to continue into my 13th month?

[Ahab]

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I used to look a pron sites just to "test" whether I could get it up.

LOL. That's a good one.

[Dunase]

Been on it for 2 years, no side effects and grew most of my thinning hairline back. It was receding aggressively about 3 years ago but now I'm back to normal again after jumping on finasteride (Propecia).

[Lsrf13]

So far I haven’t experienced any side effects except for a little drop in ED. Other than that, nothing. I haven’t even experienced any positive effects. Since I’m stuck on this drug, for now, is this shedding going to continue into my 13th month?

As of 12/2018, on Finasteride for 1 1/2 years, I stopped taking. Unfortunately, I noticed zero results while being on, and no change since being off for almost a month. Oh well, back to the drawing board.