Hi i had a question about propecia. I used this (generic Finasteride) for nearly a year, however i never had any regrowth of hair. I seemed to maintain my hair to an extent, but i still was thinning. I’m curious do you think the medication was stopping my hairloss from progressing or is it more likely that the propecia just was not doing anything and i was buying more pills in fear of losing my hair? I stopped taking it for about a few weeks now and I’m not too sure if the hairloss that will continue from here is going to be from lack of medication or just the medication didnt work?
It was likely that the Propecia (or generic equivalent) was keeping your hair loss from progressing. Not everyone will see regrowth, but just halting the loss is considered effective. If you stop taking the medication, you should expect to see the loss continue in a few months time. If you don’t see more hair loss within a year, then you’ll have your answer.
It doesn’t sound like you had any kind of exam before or during your treatment, so I really don’t know how you can compare the before and after results. You’re taking a gamble by stopping the medication, but it is ultimately your call to make.
The author of that article concludes the piece by saying, “From a medical point of view, there is no need to treat male pattern baldness. At best, the treatments are expensive and only partially effective.”
I would want to know if you are using a tight hat or if you have done anything different during this time period that might cause the hair loss you see. Normally, humans have asynchronous hair cycling, which means that we lose on average 100 hairs per day and regrow the same numbers of hairs. In a 3 1/2 year hair cycle, the entire 100,000 hairs will replace themselves.
You’d have to take measurements and compare them over time to see if the hairline is receding, but having an asymmetrical hairline isn’t unusual and doesn’t necessarily mean you’re losing your hair.