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I’m thinking about trying topical minoxidil, but since this requires a daily application along with leaving it in your hair for about 4 hours I would like to do my best to confirm that I’m a responder. Has anyone tried a “test area” prior to fully committing such as along the hairline, temples...

I’m thinking about trying topical minoxidil, but since this requires a daily application along with leaving it in your hair for about 4 hours I would like to do my best to confirm that I’m a responder. Has anyone tried a “test area” prior to fully committing such as along the hairline, temples...

I was in a similar boat as you where I had been on Propecia and felt like it was becoming less effective so I decided to jump ship to dutasteride 3-4 times a week while still taking procecia on the other days. I was on it like this for several months and did notice less hair fall when taking showers...

I can’t either which made me initially think I was experiencing these issues from something else, but when I dropped my dosage and eventually stopped taking it the symptoms started to get less and less severe. When I would start taking it again the symptoms would get worse again. Shortness of...

I gotcha. I definitely get what you mean when you say it doesn’t feel like oxygen was filling your lungs as I mentioned for me it was mostly laying down, but it would also be randomly when I’m sitting down. It’s rough when it randomly gets hard to breath when I’m just sitting and very weird it’s...

I’m confused as to what this in reference to.

Did you happen to go to the doctor after experiencing the shortness of breath? Im just curious about what’s going wrong within our bodies resulting in the shortness of breath. Did you experience it all the time while dutasteride was in your system or only when laying down/sitting?

I’ve been on finasteride since 2015 I believe and haven’t experienced any side effects except minor gyno like symptoms. It was about two months into Dutasteride where I woke up with the pounding chest and started experiencing the shortness of breath. My initial thoughts were it could possibly...

Hello Everybody. Has anyone here taken dutasteride and experienced a combination of shortness of breath and chest discomfort? I would describe the chest discomfort as heart burn on the low end and a pounding at it’s worse that is very uncomfortable. I was on the dutasteride for about a month when I...

What kind of heart concerns? I know oral minoxidil has been known to cause heart palpitations and an increased heart rate, but most people that have experienced this have said those sides passed from what I’ve seen.

Have you had solid regrowth at least? I’m tempted to give it a try in the next couple months. Definitely have the common worries such as potential effects on the heart, a massive shed without improvement, or crazy amounts of body hair.

Out of curiosity has anyone else experienced regrowth similar to this from oral minoxidil or is this just simply a case of the OP being a hyper responder? In regards to the question I’d much rather be a werewolf if it was simply the hair on my head and facial hair. If it was hair all over my...

Pictures aren’t really necessary get people’s opinion on which route between the two listed would be the best option. I’ve already described my treatment history and that I maintained for most of that duration except for some time within the last 9 months I started to lose ground. I want to hear...

I’ve thought about doing this as I’ve heard people have had success cycling the two, but I don’t know if I could get my dermatologist to do that. I had called today in regards to getting a prescription for the oral minoxidil that he had suggested instead of dutasteride so that I can take both...

Ideally I want to do dutasteride and oral minoxidil, but I believe my dermatologist is only going to let me do either Dutasteride alone or continue with Finasteride and add oral minoxidil. I know dutasteride is heavy duty on its own, but just seeing how bad the hair loss has gotten over the...