2020-09-22 02:21:372020-09-03 12:25:3319 year old on minoxidil and finasteride 4 months (photo)
2.5 months minoxidil and dermaroller (once a week) Photos
I Am 19 Years Old And I Am Balding Like My Norwood 5 Father.
I’m 19 and play college football. My Dad experienced hair loss around my age and was a Norwood V by the time he was 30. His hairloss was gradual and then slowed way down.
I have a lot of stress right now because of playing football and tough academics and I broke up with my gf. It seems this is accelerating some of it. But, I try to calm myself down. What would you recommend me trying to take for now? I will get a transplant or something later after I play college. I just need to get through another 4 years!
Thanks in advance.
As you are finding out hair loss is genetic. In general many men who have the trait of Norwood 5/6/7 patterns will have the pattern show in their 20’s. It does slow down in their 30/40s.
If you want a medical treatment, you need to see a doctor to explore your options such as taking Propecia or Rogaine. It is the only two medication that work. Shampoos, vitamins, and products you may find on the Internet despite the great advertising persuasion, does not work to stop or regrow hair. At best it may be “good” for your hair in terms of keeping the hair’s shine and body.
Other options would be simply shaving! Bald is beautiful (or handsome)… as they say.
I Am 19 and Finasteride Reversed My Hair Loss. Will This Drug Last Throughout My Life?
The answer is a clear no. Finasteride works well when you are young, but less well as you get older. Sooner or later, your genetic hair loss will prevail over the drug Finasteride.
2018-05-25 06:54:032018-05-18 08:52:31I Am 19 and Finasteride Reversed My Hair Loss. Will This Drug Last Throughout My Life?
I Am 2 Weeks After 2500 FUE Grafts, What Is This Growing out of My Head? (Photo)
These are the remnants of the scabs (crusts) that you did not wash off. They are now filling up with water and are elevated. They should easily wash off with a good shampoo and gentle rubbing with your fingertips. I never see this problem in our patients because we wash off the crusts the day of and the day after the surgery so that they never form.
2019-02-11 05:22:422019-02-20 08:33:33I Am 2 Weeks After 2500 FUE Grafts, What Is This Growing out of My Head? (Photo)
19m already on dutasteride for over a year and starting oral minox soon.
You can see my progress on dut in my other post. Visited a dermatologist who prescribed me 2.5mg oral minox (perks of living in los angeles is that doctors take cosmetic concerns seriously) . will be taking it everyday, monitoring blood pressure weekly. Made this post because there isnt much info on oral minox on the internet. I will continue to update you guys in the coming months.
The dose you are on is a bit high with a high risk of complications. Half the dose is better, so speak with your doctor. Taking both drugs at the same time may help some people as the mode of action between the two drugs are different.
2021-01-04 02:11:482021-01-04 11:19:1019m already on dutasteride for over a year and starting oral minox soon.
1mg vs 5mg Finasteride for Hair Growth
Has there been any studies that have shown any increased hair growth taking proscar 5mg daily vs propecia 1 mg daily.
The 1mg dose is just as good as the 5mg dose for treating hair loss. This was determined when the drug company (Merck) did effectiveness testing. I am sure you can get it from the FDA. For urological problems, the 5mg dose is more effective. The question is really about how much finasteride binds to the hair follicles themselves. We know for prostate problems, that there is different binding dynamics than with hair follicles. I am not familiar with any study that directly compares the 5mg dose to the 1mg dose, but I would suspect that like any bell curve, the 1mg recommendation applies to those individuals in the center of the bell curve and that some people most certainly would be better with a higher dose, possibly worth trying if the 1mg dose is not adequate to meet the needs of the patient’s problem. See Pattern-Baldness.com for more.
2 months finasteride & microneedling (photo)
20 Year Old Wants Hair Transplants to Fill in a Surgical Scar, But There’s a Family History of MPB
I am a 20 year old male and was wondering what type of procedures there are, if any, to have hair grow where a scar is from surgery. My freshman year of college at Indiana University I was playing basketball and collided with another player resulting in a depression in my right orbital bone above my eye. To fix the depression a plastic surgeon had to peel my face off to get access to the depressed bone resulting in a scar going from one side of the head to the other. My family having a history of baldness I was wondering if its possible to have hair grow over a scar. Thanks for the help.
I would want to see photos or meet with you in person. I have had one patient with that type of deformity and his transplanted area (including the eyebrow) did correct most of his problem, but everyone and every scar is different. Let’s start off with some photos though, as that is probably most convenient for you. Send them here and reference this post when sending, please.
Having a hair transplant to fix a scar is reasonable provided that you know what would happen to you if you should bald. That means to me that you should, at a minimum, have a Master Plan for your worst case scenario understood.
2 years on finasteride in young man in early 20s
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.