Recent content by rizaster

This is incorrect. Minoxidil doesnt make your cycles go faster. It enters a portion of your hair that is not in the anagen phase, but should be along with the rest of your hair that is in the anagen phase, causing the shed. In healthy hair, 90% is in the anagen phase. With male pattern baldness, it can be half...

Minoxidil is minoxidil, regardless of what product it is. Minoxidil doesnt rsync hair follicles before their natural cycles, this is incorrect. It takes those hair follicles that should be in anagen phase (but arnt)and are cycling through quickly (ie the hairs impacted by male pattern baldness) and synchs them...

My assumption was that you've been on minoxidil for long term, but this doesnt seem to be the case. The way male pattern baldness works in relation to hair cycles is basically a smaller percentage of your hair is in the anagen phase, also known as the growth phase which lasts for 7 years... what minoxidil does is...

This isn't how hair growth/loss works. Hair cycles take about 3 months, so IF the shed was due to switching to foam, youd see the shed about 3 months from the switch, not 10 days. You can expect sheds during regrowth or hair loss. Indication of regrowth is that after the shed is finished, your...

If your scalp is always inflamed, I had the same issue. I started using alone vera st night which helped, but after a few hours it would return. Then I started creating a mixture of oils (castor, tea tree, rosemary and peppermint) which really kept my scalp feeling good for 24 hrs. However...

Exactly, hair transplants where healthy follicles are used take up to a year to regrow hair. They want damaged follicles to heal themselves, produce thick hairs in 2 months. Its laughable the stupidity of some on here....

This is what I've come to realize, people have no idea about how our hair goes through cycles and how that applies to hair loss or hair growth or regrowth.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064188/

Correct...but not understanding the point?

Your making conclusions on the mice study that were not made by the authors, but to be fair, the authors did the same. The authors state in their discussion: "Increased collagen and elastin deposition was shown after microneedle on human20. Therefore, when it applied to scalp, perifollicular...

I would say it took about 2 months for my shedding to get down below what I normally shed, which is where I am at now. That being said, I expect the shedding to return. As long as I am still at base line or better after the next shed cycle, to me that indicates I am headed towards growth. I like...

Yup I get similar wounding when I use the derminator 2, a bit less when I use dermaroller. Your guess is as good as mine as to what is the optimal level of wounding needed...

It's actually not a change in lighting, its moreso a change in angle giving that effect, hence my comment. I also think, that my hair has gotten thicker, which means less light reflection from the scalp and therefore its perceived as more dark. The settings were exactly the same in all pics...

There was a time period in between where I was shedding ALOT for about 2 months, much more than i normally do. And then as if out of no where, it seemed like my hair regrow back thicker. Interestingly, this is exactly what happened the first time I went on minoxidil 5 years ago. I've never had...

My thoughts exactly. I am optimistic but yet still cautious...