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I’m an 19 year old male and I think that I am starting to have early stages of balding, similar to that of broadcaster steve hartman but at a smaller alot smaller level. Is my hair going to continue to bald until it looks like steve hartman’s or is there a chance that it will stop? Also whats steps can I take at this young age?

You need to have a diagnosis, so get your hair mapped out for miniaturization to determine if that is what is happening to you. Why play guessing games? You need a Master Plan for your long term management and a good doctor to do it for you. I just can’t stress these things enough. My apologies to the regular readers that think I’m sounding like a broken record, but there’s just so little I can do to help via the internet without examining your hair loss, so I must keep recommending the same things over and over.

Have you seen first sign of improvement on Finasteride after one year?

This is not uncommon. Sometimes just slowing the hair loss is hard to notice, but if, while taking finasteride, your biological hair loss activity slows down, then the finasteride may become more effective. This might explain why you see improvement appearing at one year after starting the drug. This drug, in sensitive men, can give reversal of hair loss especially in the young men under 25 or even 30. It works better in the crown than on the frontal areas.

Multiple articles suggests that creatine does contribute to hair loss: see here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19741313/

I have been taking minoxidil 5% on my hairline for 1 year and I wanted to ask you if you think that adding finasteride will help grow more hair?

Adding finasteride will only add potentially more benefit. What you already got from minoxidil over one year is remarkable and unusual.

I’m nearly 25 and my hair is slowly getting worse I want to start finasteride but not sure if its wise to delay it Some of the reasons why I’m thinking of delaying. 1 potential side effects / permentant change in hormonal profile 2 possibility of hair getting worse 3 long term cost. At the same time I want to start to keep what I have

If you take finasteride and, worst case, get side effects of any sort, you can stop the medication. In my fairly extensive experience I have never seen permanent side effects that don’t go away with stopping it.

This is the response that I like to see with the use of topical finasteride plus minoxidil. Topical finasteride keeps the medication in the skin.

i am a 45 yr old male in good health but take blood thinner. i noticed that i was thinning so started a vitamin regimen and rogaine plus Nuhair for men. Im not seeing great results but it hasnt been that long. im still shedding not real bad but 20+ hair when i style. is this normal? and i thought propecia had bad side affect?

P.S. just started a new relationship i want it too go rite plus been kinda stressed too 🙁 help

You really should see a good doctor and find out what is happening. Stress can cause hair loss, but shedding 20 hairs is within the range of the 100 or so hairs anyone might lose per day as new hair grows in (the regular cycling of hair).

This is something I see often. Oral finasteride is very effective at addressing crown loss.

Blondes can lose 80% of their hair without detecting it readily. The best way to determine how much hair you are actually losing is to get a HAIRCHECK test and then you will know exactly where you stand. You may be losing more hair than you are seeing. For finasteride, only 2-4% of people get sexual side effects, so starting at the regular dose is okay. If you only take half the dose, it will be 80% as effective with some people reporting less sexual side effects.