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Re: 20 years old, need recommendations "I'm not big on the idea of propecia." At this time and with the current state of medical science and commercially available treatments, Propecia/Finasteride/Proscar (and other similar drugs like dutasteride) is your ONLY chance at keeping the hair you...

No, no mental side effects at all. While on Finasteride I graduated from university, got a great job that requires mostly creative and problem solving skills, no problems learning new things including new languages.

Good luck, mate! I would recommend that when your Doctor does send you to derm, tell the derm right off that you are there because you have "male pattern baldness" and want him/her to give you a prescription of Finasteride and specifically Proscar (or a 5mg generic of Proscar) that you intend to...

Re: STORY/PHOTOS of 35 year old with 13 years on Finasteride gascoigne, my friend, you have a very active imagination! You can rest assured that it's indeed a younger me circa 1999 (with acne skin and color of my normally very dark brown hair made redder by sun and especially by a cheap...

Re: STORY/PHOTOS of 35 year old with 13 years on Finasteride No, I cut it like so (attached file).

Re: STORY/PHOTOS of 35 year old with 13 years on Finasteride The generic I took that Walmart gave me was made in Israel by company called Teva (a good, reliable company) and looked like the long blue pill you're holding (and may be it is!). It worked for me. Just cut it in fours - here's how...

Thanks!:) It was a real shock at first, especially since I always had great, thick hair, wasn't married yet and just starting to date. Hairloss was all that I could think about. However, once I decided to learn what I can start doing that will REALLY help me and then I started to do something...

Hair transplants are a long term commitment when you are still young. This is because you will continue losing hair behind the transplanted area and will need to have additional (and expensive) transplants to fill in the areas as they become bald. Also, hair transplants will not give you the...

gascoigne, I think you have a great chance at regrowing (judging by your pictures) most of what you've lost, including in the front - not just keeping the "weak" hair you have, but making your hair better. But if you don't think you want to deal with pills, sprays, I am afraid there's NOTHING...

Gascoigne... I have been in your shoes and I caught my hairloss early. I am also (I was) quite hairy before I got started - Finasteride helped reduced my body hair as well (but my beard hair is the same - as good as ever). For me it too was a combination of genes from both sides of family that...

"Friend, i appriciate your comment, but your comparation is just not good. With good genetics, you dont even have to brush teeth every day, and they will not fall out until late oldnes." Exceptions prove the rule. Even primitive cultures with no access to modern toothbrushes or toothpaste still...

"Unfortunately, medications can only help 20-30 % (at best) to SLOW hair loosing. The moment you stop using it, all you "saved" hair goes away." Why would you stop? Think of it like brushing your teeth every single day of your life - when you stop (and not brush them ever again), they will rot...

Again, only IF you want to keep your hair, I would NOT ignore it. Every day you wait, you'll have less chance to keep what you have or to regrow. You have to get on Finasteride ASAP. Here's what you do: today make an appointment with a dermatologist (preferably one that says they treat hairloss...

You can do only two things: 1) Accept, as untold millions of men have done, that you will be eventually balding or bald. Long term, it is the easiest solution of them all and your lack of hair will not be an indication that you've failed as a human being. Some of the greatest people were bald...

Re: STORY/PHOTOS of 35 year old with 13 years on Finasteride It just may... it didn't happen overnight for me, but it definitely happened.