Minoxidil is an antihypertensive medication, therefore it can lower your blood pressure. This could cause an increase in your heart rate. If this is a problem, you may not be a candidate for this medication. You should ask your doctor.
2018-07-11 06:11:312018-07-19 05:43:12Every Time I Use Minoxidil, My Heart Rate Goes Up.
I don’t think that you want to give up your sex life for your hair, do you? There is another option which is the use of oral Minoxidil. Find a doctor willing to give this to you. It brings back the hair without the sexual side effects.
21M. Complete Erectile Dysfunction. Amazing transformation, but is it worth it to stop Finasteride due to sexual side effects?? from tressless
2018-05-02 08:14:362018-06-19 10:25:51What to Do: Severe Ed but Great Results from Finasteride
“Men who engage in a high level of physical activity report better erectile and sexual function regardless of their race”. The study seems to cross all racial groups (March 20 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine). The threshold seemed to point to at least 2 hours of strenuous exercise such as running or swimming, 3.5 hours of moderate exercise, or 6 hours of light exercise.
Assuming that you are a male, short hair will bald at the same rate as long hair. Many men think that if they shave their head, the hair will come back stronger. That is a myth.
Is it true that eyebrow transplants do not behave like eyebrow hair?
Hair for eyebrow transplants come from the head. As such, they retain their head hair characteristics. There is some need to match head hair and eyebrow hair to see that it is appropriate to use it. This matching is critical. In the afro hair, the hair from the scalp is kinky, and if that hair is moved to the eyebrow, it might not behave as you would hope and the kinky nature of the head hair may not look right in the eyebrow. If the shafts of head hair are too thick, it is possible to thin down the shaft thickness in the hands of an experienced surgeon. Most significantly, the eyebrow hair will grow long and it requires trimming a few times a week because it will grow out ½ inch per month. Not trimmed, it could obtain a length of 3 feet (or whatever the maximum hair length might grow to), which is something that will not look normal.
Here is an example of a patient who had eyebrow transplants in the medial part of his eyebrow. He had forgotten to trim it for almost a month before he came in.
The photo on the left is before; the photo in the middle is 6 months after (with long eyebrow hairs); the photo on the right is also 6 months after (with eyebrows trimmed).
The patient had less than 20 single hair grafts in the area where the long hair is seen. Click each photo to enlarge.
This is what I tell my patients. You should wait out any shedding period and eventually the shedding will stop and the benefit will be there.
Is it a case that the hair is going to shed anyway post surgery and should I wait until I experience hair loss before using Mixoxidil?
It is not automatically expected that you will have hair loss after forehead reduction surgery. It is a complication of this surgery and something that you should speak with your doctor about as this complication is not uncommon in women over 40. Minoxidil might help but maybe not. So a discussion with your doctor is appropriate. Forehead surgeries in women can cause hair loss and we consider that a complication of the process.
ABC World News Tonight (4/25, story 12, 0:25, Muir) reported the FDA has issued warnings to 14 companies that sell “more than 65 allegedly illegal cancer cures” without FDA approval.
The AP (4/25) reports that the agency “says these products, mostly sold on websites and social media, can be harmful, waste money and result in people not getting approved, effective treatments.”
CNN (4/25, Tinker) reports, “Products included in” the “crackdown include pills, creams, ointments, oils, drops, syrups and teas.”
The Washington Post (4/25, McGinley) reports that Douglas Stearn, director of the FDA’s Office of Enforcement and Import Operations, said, “Consumers should not use these or similar unproven products because they may be unsafe and could prevent a person from seeking an appropriate and potentially lifesaving cancer diagnosis or treatment.”
Comment: People don’t like bad news, so if they have a cancer and the doctor tells them that their cancer is not curable, they often seek other solutions and go anywhere and almost to anyone that promises a cure. People can’t deal with the idea that they may have an incurable cancer, but going outside the normal proper medical channels may accelerate their death. This is really a “BUYER’s BEWARE” situation.
Dear Doctor:
Two questions about Rogaine application:
- In addition to taking 1.mg finasteride daily, I’ve been applying Rogaine foam for a few months now, mainly the frontal third of the head. That area alone takes more than the recommended half a capful. Although it is the frontal third that is my main concern right now, I’m somewhat miniaturized pretty much on the N5 area, albeit, to the naked eye, I have a pretty good head of hear at the moment (I’m 29). I just don’t see how it is possible to treat the entire area with less than three times the recommended dosage (which makes the treatment prohibitively expensive and fraught with side effects).Is there any residual benefit to the vertex area through general scalp circulation at all, if the application is on the front third?
- Since Rogaine absorbs into fingers rapidly, does it make sense to apply it with a medical rubber glove, to ensure that more goes into the scalp, not hands? For some reason this issue hasn’t been addressed by Rogaine users.
