2020-03-19 04:00:132020-03-19 07:50:5714 Months on Finasteride (Photos)
I’m In My 50s and My Hair Started Thinning After I Took HBP Medication
I am 56 years old. i have been taking medicine for high blood pressure for 10+ years – Lisinopril10/12.5 and Ziac 2.5. My hair has been receding since i have been on this medicine like male pattern baldness but within the last 6 months it had thinned all over.
Do you think it could be the medicine i take, vitamin deficiencies, or poor circulation? I have been using hairloss shampoo Curetage and Nizoral and it seems to be worse. I can see lots of little tiny hairs about an inch long in my scalp. Is this MPB or something else.
Lisinopril and Ziac are both known to cause hair loss. Of course, the treatment of high blood pressure is important to your health. Speak with your doctor and ask him to consider switching your medication routine.
If you are in Los Angeles, consider paying me a visit so I can make an assessment of your hair, your hair bulk and the degree of miniaturization.
15 Year Old Wants to Grow a Full Beard
Hey, I just have a few questions that everyone gives me different answers about, and I would really like to hear the right answer. First, I am 15 years old and am trying to grow a full beard. However, only some hairs grow and the others don’t. Will it take a few months for them to develop into a beard or should i quit and wait a few years because i hate the somewhat-beard look? Also, I have a little bit more hair than normal above my shaving line on the cheekbones. I have not shaved it off, but can I or will that make the hairs come out thicker and worsen the situation? Or should I just ignore it and it’ll get better over time? Appreciate if you could answer my questions. Thanx
The ability to grow a full beard will depend on your genes. If you are not destined to have a hairy face, then that is your fate. Look at your father, his father, your brother, and your uncles and you will get to see what you probably have in store for you. Beards take time to grow out and in boys of your age, it is not uncommon for the beard to be patchy. Mine did not fill out until I was in my early 20s and now it is much too full for me. There is no way to make your hair come out “thicker” or faster.
I’m Planning on Getting Pregnant Soon, So Should I Stop Minoxidil Now?
I am experiencing hair loss for the past 6 months. I approached a skin specialist and cosmetologist a month ago. she suggested to use minoxidil 5%. I am using it for one month, but now i lose more hair than earlier. My marriage is in the next month, but she is asking me to use for 3months. I have a plan of becoming pregnant, but once if i stop using minoxidil after the third month, wont i get in to the hairloss trouble again? i am totally worried. please help me out.
You might experience some initial shedding from the medication, but if you stick with it those hairs should regrow. However, if you stop the medication any benefits you see will disappear.
Pregnancy changes things, though. Since you’re planning on starting a family, you might want to stop it now, particularly since you have not been on it long enough to see benefits. There are warnings about using minoxidil when you are pregnant, so if you do become pregnant you should stop using it until after you’ve given birth (and if you plan on breastfeeding, you should wait until that is complete, too).
2009-10-09 12:32:122009-10-08 10:46:22I’m Planning on Getting Pregnant Soon, So Should I Stop Minoxidil Now?
17 y/o on finasteride 3 months
I’m Terrified to Use My Prescription for Finasteride
Ive been sitting with my prescription to fin all week and not taken it because Im terrified of the side effects. Ive been doing a ton of reading on it and it seems any side effect is rare. Im also legitimately seeing regrowth in my buddy who told me to go for it. How often have you seen side effects with this over the years? What are some things I should look for should I give in and start?
Im not sure why I am so worried.
If you talk yourself into side effect, the side effects will be 100% nocebo type effect. But if you did as my son did (he just took it and never gave it a thought), he did notice in a week that his sex drive increased significantly and he then called me about it. Normally, negative side effects, when you subtract the placebo group, is under 2% of men taking the drug.
2020-05-05 04:00:072020-05-04 12:43:45I’m Terrified to Use My Prescription for Finasteride
I am 18 and am now losing my hair and worried about the sexual side effects of Propecia
The internet has spread a great deal of information and misinformation about Propecia (finasteride) which is much over-blown. You need to put the decision in perspective. The risk of these sexual side effects are between 2-4% depending upon the sources you read. My son has been on this drug for 15 year and found an increased sexual drive, not a decreased sexual drive which his girlfriend appreciated very much. How often do you hear about an increased sexual drive? Answer: very, very rarely.
If you were one of the unlucky men to get the sexual side effect, 99+ % of these men find that the side effects go away within 2 weeks upon stopping the drug. Some very small percentage report long term sexual side effects; however these risks are very, very infrequent (less than 1% of the 2-4% people who get negative side effects that persists). Many of the people who reported these sexual side effects may have had sexual dysfunction (normally present in 30% of men 40, 40% of men 40, 50%+ in men over 50) so it is easy to blame this drug for sexual side effects when reduced sexual drive is unfortunately, a sign of aging in many men. Rarely do we see this in 19 year old men, however, you can have a placebo effect if you believe you will be one of them.
The real decision before you, of course, is the problem of progressive balding which this drug is very effective in treating in men of your age. It even reverses the hair loss in many men under 20. You are clearly in the drivers seat, so be careful about what you read and put everything you research into a proper perspective.
2017-01-13 11:06:442017-01-13 11:18:33I am 18 and am now losing my hair and worried about the sexual side effects of Propecia
Immunotherapy may halt diabetes
In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks cell in the pancreas that make insulin. For half a year, 21 patients received injections of an “insulin precursor molecule” every few weeks. A year later, those who received the treatment when compared with the control group, were able to stabilize their insulin levels. This is early but exciting stuff (source: New Scientist, August 2017)
2017-09-08 06:14:002017-09-08 08:58:43Immunotherapy may halt diabetes
19 year old on minoxidil and finasteride 4 months (photo)
In the News – ABC Looks at the Future of Hair Loss Treatments
Snippet from the article:
By the age of 35, two-thirds of American men experience some degree of measurable hair loss, and by the age of 50, approximately 85 percent have significantly thinning hair, according to the American Hair Loss Association.
Given those numbers, finding a cure for baldness has become the holy grail among scientists everywhere.
Read the rest — Hats Off to These 4 Potential Baldness Cures
ABC News goes over 4 potential balding treatments, once again throwing the word “cure” around. The methods they explain (in slideshow form!) are still in the research phase.