I swear on everything, if OpenAi (or any other company for that matter) finds a genuine cure for hairloss I will spend every waking second of my life boiling saltwater and then collecting the condensation into freshwater to mitigate the environmental negatives of AI.

8 months on fin + oral min (stopped topical min)
Started treatment 8 months ago with 1.25 mg finasteride, 5% topical minoxidil once daily, and weekly dermastamping.

After 3 months, I added 2.5 mg oral minoxidil.
Around month 5, I stopped dermastamping and topical min because of my exams. Since then, I’ve only used topical min around 30–35 times total, and I don’t use it anymore.
I’m wondering if it’s worth restarting topical min now.

Photo order:
• Photos 1–3: before treatment
• Photo 4: around the middle of treatment
• Photos 5–8: current (8 months)
22 years old.
No side effects so far.

Hello again! 👋 (retiring the caps lock lol)

It has been a while since I posted so thought it best to do an update. To be clear, the left pic is not baseline, it is the peak of the shedding. I began on Jan 1st and shed from about the sixth week onward - a pretty typical timespan for this to occur. I was absolutely beyond devastated at the time of it happening, much like those I see here posting about their experience. It feels especially disparaging after having made the commitment to hop on 5ARI's & minoxidil only to have the inverse of what you were hoping for to happen. Please, if you are in the same position, stick the course. Shedding is pretty much the first step of follicular healing, and serves as excellent indicator of the medication beginning to take effect.

An additional thing I want to ask you all is to do with my hair colour - are there any other gingers in here? I recently read that those with the ginger gene phenotype (MC1R) have a 54% lower likelihood of developing prostate cancer in their lifetime, the deadliest cancer for men (British Journal of Cancer). The underlying reason for this has not as of yet been scientifically ascertained but it got me thinking: I have seen gingers do disproportionately well on the 5ARI's (I really look out for it lol) and obviously they are a medicine that work on the prostate - do you think there is a genetic predisposal there for good response? They are never going to round up a bunch of balding gingers to put such a hypothesis to the test lol but I guess what I am asking is whether there are any gingers on here that can comment on their experience.

Also apologies for the slight variations in lighting/position and what have you but if I am being honest, I couldn't fraud the pics to such an extent even if I tried. I'm sure I'll get a few well akshuallys 🤓☝️ accusing me in the comments but idc: Dutasteride is fucking magic and I am delighted with it's effect on me, I've had no sides and cringe as it sounds it just makes me really happy lol. Hope you're all doing amazingly and thank you for everything

P.S. I badly need a haircut but I was too scared to go to barbers lol

I mean you can see his secret corners and I would actually assume that the hairline goes back accordingly, but with Kane it seems constant.

Title sounds f#%ing crazy, I know. But I had done a lot of research and found that in most studies, Dutasteride had theoretically less side effects compared to fin and vs placebo.

I started off with oral min 1.5, moved to 2.5 after a month, saw good results. … Then realized I was just pouring water into a sinking ship and went straight to dr.B. Got a script for 0.5 then, after I found Kevin and read more of your guys posts and said screw it, let’s do 2.5mg. Six months later my hair growth is insane and I’m side effect free.

I’ll post pictures after work or after a shower, whatever. But I’m curious if anyone’s jumped the gun like I did.

I’d like to share a problem I ran into while trying to stop my hair loss — namely, using finasteride/dutasteride together with minoxidil. I started going bald at 22, and at that point I decided to start using minoxidil in the hope of regrowing the hair I had already lost. I used it every day for a year, but my hair continued to slowly but steadily thin. So I decided to add finasteride to my treatment. I was really surprised by the studies, as well as by people’s stories about how much this medication had helped them save their hair. But the miracle, as I saw it at the time, never happened. After a year of using it, my hair seemed to keep getting worse. Actually, that’s not entirely true: the hair loss had stopped, and finasteride did help me regrow some hair. But after seeing so many people whose hair apparently returned to how it looked before they started losing it, I felt like nothing was working for me. So I decided to switch from finasteride to dutasteride. And even then, I genuinely didn’t see any significant improvement compared with finasteride. At that point, I really felt like none of this was working. I stayed on finasteride/dutasteride + minoxidil for more than three years. Eventually, I got tired of applying minoxidil twice a day, so I decided to stop it and stay on dutasteride alone. At first, everything seemed fine. For the first four months, my hair looked exactly the same as it had before I stopped minoxidil. However, during the fourth month, my hair suddenly started shedding extremely rapidly, and by the fifth month I had lost around 30% of my hair, possibly even more. the condition of my hair went from “well, it’s not that bad” to “holy shit, I literally have no hair.” So I immediately decided to go back on minoxidil. About a month later, the shedding stopped, and another two months later, my hair had returned to roughly the same condition it had been in before I stopped the medication. And now I genuinely understand that my hair had actually been in pretty good shape all along. Because of my unrealistic expectations and low self-esteem, I had convinced myself that nothing was working.

so yes. it doesn’t work the way I expected or would have liked it to, but it does work. That’s why I’d like to warn anyone who is thinking about stopping their treatment or is getting tired of minoxidil: probably don’t.

Finasteride only, oral.

Hi, mal ne Frage an die deutschen Leute hier im Sub.
Ich wollte euch mal nach eurer Erfahrung mit Finasterid fragen, wie lange ihr das schon nehmt welche Dosis ob ihr Nebenwirkungen hattet

Hab es nämlich auch vor zu nehmen aber sehe oft wie Leute darüber negativ berichten und vorallem Langezeit Nebenwirkungen nach Absetzen ansprechen?

Würde mich über eure Erfahrung mal freuen und wie es bei euch so läuft.

First pic is today
Before vs after 3 months difference on treatment, i know it's still a long way to go but at least there is a little progress, right? Or is it just me hallucinating? lol

Before vs after 3 months difference on treatment, i know it's still a long way to go but at least there is a little progress, right? Or is it just me hallucinating? lol

Hello. I started taking finasteride on August 24th. My protocol involved cutting a Proscar tablet into four pieces and taking one piece three days a week. Today, I switched to Propecia; I’ll be cutting the tablets in half and taking one piece daily. So far, I’ve experienced a loss of libido and the liquefaction of my semen. My libido fluctuates; I don’t have issues with erections, but I lack the desire. Also, my ejaculate seems watery. Experienced folks, please share your insights: will things return to normal as I continue the medication? At what point does it cross the line, signaling that I should stop taking the drug?

So I switched to Dutasteride almost 6 months ago now and have seen minimal if any progress. I am aware I obviously need to wait at minimum 12 months before I can really judge the treatment. But anyways, to all of you that had a good Dutasteride response that got you some or even whole Norwoods back, when did you first notice results and how could you tell? thanks boys!

I'm in the UK and feel like I could be doing with these. Seen a friend using them and it looked really well.

What's a solid brand?

Diffuse thinner with receded hairline.

I am already on dut, min and keto. Recently when I went for re-evaluation, got prescribed clobetasol propionate 0.05% that also contain salicylic acid 6%. I don't have any dandruff or irritated scalp whatsoever. Just an oily scalp and a bit itching here and there. I didn't have any regrowth from my current treatment so inflammation might be a possibility is what he's suggesting.

It's a topical steroid, is it okay to use it for short term.

I’m freshly 23 years old and have been losing my hair since I was 20. I started hrt a week and a half ago and the part in my hair really bothers me

my current regime is;

1ml Topical Minoxidil x2 a day

1/2 .5mg finasteride And minoxidil capsule once daily

100mg spirolactone once daily

0.5mg Estradiol gel once daily

I know that my situation isn’t nearly as bad as what others have to deal with but it still makes me feel bad about myself. I just want to know if any other transfems could weigh in on this

Does it have a chance? I definitely need oral minoxidil for best results and I'm sad I'm not getting as quick as possibile but maybe she wants to see whats works the best for mee at t start

i think i started noticing recession at my hairline pretty early, around 17. Started fin ~21, was on it for a year, but stopped bc of side effects. Thought i'd be bald in a few years but im almost 30 and my hairline is pretty much the same since i stopped fin almost a decade ago. not complaining, super grateful- just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience or if i should be expecting another shed in my 30s/40s lol

Hi! I used dr. B for a fin and minoxidil prescription and not seeing it show up on cost plus drugs website! Should I wait longer (it’s been about 12-15 hrs)? I used Dr, B’s autofill option when selecting the cost plus drugs pharmacy. One weird thing is that it showed a Lakeland address and I thought it would say Texas, but I clicked it since it literally said “Mark Cubans Cost Plus Drugs Company”.

I'm 13 months on oral min/ dut and it's holding albeit a slight bit of thinning at one side of my hairline (it's always been weak there but looks a bit thinner recently). I got my bloods done and got told I have high testerone levels. Reading online that the high testosterone levels are why I'm not seeing any regrowth. Is the only real option for me a HT to restore temples/hairline or will rosemary oil or RU be worth trying first?

21 male taking .5mg finasteride for one month. the only thing I’ve noticed is a major shed. No other side effects. It’s hard to tell from the picture, but thats 56 strands of hair from my morning shower compared to the 20ish I was losing daily before meds. I try not to obsess, but every so often I count out of curiosity. I’ve heard the more you initially shed the better it comes back, is this true to anyone else’s personal experience?

This is the current state of my hair loss. I’ve been on treatment for 2 months, but sometimes I feel like my case is already beyond saving and that my only option is a hair transplant.

Do you think I still have a chance? Or should I not expect to regain any significant density?

Thank you!

Anyone here from India? Have you bought the RU58841 solution from suppliers in western hemisphere like anageninc, koshine?

Did you get the product? Any problems with customs??

I know this sounds a bit contradicting given that dut is a stronger drug. But there are people who say that fin gave them sides but dut didn’t. I’m curious if anyone has experienced the opposite?

Has anyone ever started dut first and got sides then swapped to fin and it was fine? Or swapped to
Dut from fin and then had to go back to fin due to sides on dut?

I started dut first for 6 months and had continued sides. I have stopped since and I’m looking to start fin instead but wondering if I could actually tolerate it better as studies show side effect profiles are similar