Recent content by Londo

Thanks oldmpber. I had my old Dr. checking on my testosterone levels, but he said they were fine. I just moved. I'll have it checked again.

Hey all! Sorry no pics, but I'll give a little update after 5 years. I just turned 50! My hair has stayed basically the same I think, just getting more gray. Due to some concerns about libido I've reduced my Finasteride to 1/4 milligram with no perceptible change to my hair. The libido loss...

Thanks Jojje. I would hope your hair dries overnight :) I am looking for something that dries much faster than the hour it seems to take Target and CVS liquid minoxidil to dry. Does your Kirkland minoxidil list the percentages of alcohol and propylene glycol? How long would you say it takes to dry?

I checked WalMart's Equate Minoxidil and it had 30% alcohol and 50% propylene glycol too. The Rogaine minoxidil liquid didn't give percentages. Has anyone tried either the WalMart or Rogaine liquid and how were they?

I've been trying CVS 5% Minoxidil for about a week and it seems just about the same as the Target brand. That should come as no surprise as they are both 30% alcohol and 50% propylene glycol.

I don't think my hairs have ever looked better before I started using Finasteride. My hairs are thicker, darker, and shinier, much healthier looking. My hair never spiked as well as it does now. This includes the sides and back of my hair too where I also gained more hair. Pretty amazing.

Pondle, what do the numbers 0 through 160 indicate?

I started with Propecia and am now using quarted Proscar to make sure I'm getting the real thing. If I didn't get results then I'd know Finasteride didn't work for me and I wouldn't be wondering if I'd gotten fakes or not. Maybe I'll try Fincar or Finpecia later, quartered Proscar isn't very...

Re: Londo's story - new pics added 9/14/07 Thanks Ragin. You know, I always thought the before and after pics for hairloss products were totally staged. The guy is always somber looking in the before picture and smiling in the after. Everyone looks better when they are smiling, so I figured...

I've been using Target generic 5% Minoxidil liquid for about 7 months now. It leaves my hair pretty greasy for an hour or more. I also use Rogaine Foam now in the mornings because it dries super fast. I want to keep using the liquid at night because I think I can get it to the scalp better...

I added some 9/14/07 pics on the first post. The overhead pic doesn't look great, but I'd say that is because of the evil flash. Also, the hair at my vertex is 3/4 inches long since my hair grew out from being buzzed. The vertex hair is probably 1 1/2 inches long in my baseline and June pics...

To give you more of an idea of what my hair looks like here is a picture of me from May 2005. Fortunately, all my pictures stop before you can see my belly :) : The parted down the middle and Ceasar hairstyle was about all I could pull off with my thin, fine hair. I lost more hair...

Good question nydheart. I had that. It felt like a mild case of blue balls for a week or so.

6-8 months? Does it take that long to get back to looking decent? I don't think I have the balls, but I've been thinking about fueing in my diffuse bald spot area. I don't think I'd want to transplant up front because I really don't want to be getting multiple transplants to keep up with...

Thanks jcosta. I'd say I've gone from a very diffuse Norwood 2V to a simply diffuse Norwood 2V. I had my hair buzzed to a #1 (1/8 inch) in July. I've decided that I don't like my hair between a #3 (3/8 inch) buzz and 1 inch long as it really shows the diffuseness. My baseline pics were taken at...