Month: January 2023

I’ve currently been on Finasteride for 3 months now, and Minoxidil for 5. My hairline is starting to regrow extremely slowly, but at the same time i’m not sure it will come back. I also would like to see if it would be possible to lower my hairline with FUE procedure as well as filling in a bit of the horshoe pattern as well that is receding. I contacted a facility in Miami, FL on Saturday I believe and was wondering how long it usually takes to schedule a consultation etc etc… I do realize i’ll probably have to get 1-2 or even 3 more hair transplants by the time i’m 40 but right now at age 20 my only fear is that when I go to college started this year, i’ll have missed out on my college social life due to my insecurity of my high and receding hairline.

At 20, you shouldn’t get a hair transplant. Medication is better. The reason is simple, you are very early in a progressive process and if you start now, you may end up chasing the balding. Any doctor who does surgery on a 20 year-old male is after the money and not the welfare of the patient.

I often tell my patients that it takes 1-2 years to maximize the drug finasteride even with the addition of minoxidil. This man had the patients to hold the course.

I was taking finasteride for 2 years. What do you think?

The slight corner recession has reversed on finasteride over the two year time span.

From the photos, it looks like the drug may have stabilized the loss. It is possibly slightly better but most important it is not worse. If you were to stop the medication, I’l bet you will lose a lot of hair.

The photos show that you have nicely filled in the hairline and regrew some of the frontal hairs as well

This is a very good result from finasteride alone. The frontal area is not as responsive usually to finasteride as the crown is.

If you are under 25 then the doctor you found who is willing to do a hair transplant on you, is not moral or reputable, just a guy who wants your money and doesn’t care about you.. No competent doctor will do a hair transplant on someone under the age of 25.

FUT Questions from tressless

This is a great result, something I would expect in many men. This man used topical minoxidil and appears to be one of the 40% of men who respond to the topical minoxidil

Men always worry about hair loss and young men are hung up on the 3-4% risk of sexual side effects of the drug finasteride; but form time to time we see the huge impact of this drug on hair loss reversal in young men as shown in this photos of a young man on the drug for 2 years. Many doctors are now not prescribing this drug for fear of being involved in the Class Action law suits brought by men who are suing the drug company Merck as they fell that they are part of the 3-4% of those with sexual side effects. Nevertheless, here are the pictures I am referring to.

The value of finasteride and minoxidil in this young man of 21 shows with good fill out of his receded frontal corners.