No sides whatsoever. Hair only recently started to take a beat (hairline is receiding after years of maintaining).
I use minoxidil 2-3ml at night + nizoral twice a week.
I've been using Proscar/4 for nearly 20 years now. Only hassle is to cut them into four precisely. But it is important to do that and you'll learn how to do that, eventually...
I remember the first visit with the derm.
He said: "hey, do not worry too much, in a decade the worst you can expect is to end up like me".
I petrified: the guy was a nw4 to be optimistic!
Then and there I started thinking to go with the big guns.
My father is a Norwood 4-5 and his brother a nw4 with diffuse thinning
By my mother side Norwood 3 to 4 is the norm
I do not think I would have what I have without fina.
Now I'm pretty sure about that
I never suffered from aggressive baldness.
The decision to start early was dictated by the awareness to become very ugly without hair (and I'm still convinced about that...)
So, by the first episode of slight thinning, I decided to go with min and finasteride (plus nizoral after a while).
Seeing all my...
Ups and downs over the last 20 years (I to suffer from telogen effluviums) but basically they stayed the same.
As I said in my previous post, starting February of this year, I began thinning at the frontline.
I've been on Proscar/4 for almost 20 years.
On and off at the beginning, every day religiously since September 2009.
No sides, except for high levels of anxiety, probably more related to the problem I was trying to cure.
Since February of this year a sudden drop in quality especially at the...