Recent content by TheSphinx

Thanks for the response, Tyler. I've definitely been using the success stories board to inspire me onward. It's been a week and a half on minoxidil and it seems like my hair has thinned a bit on the upper temple corners of my hairline. Well, the short and thin hairs seem to have vacated leaving...

Looks like great progress! Exciting considering you're only at the 6mo. mark.

Almost at the 1 month mark. I started Nizoral (1%) this week and aim to use it 2-3 times per week. Starting to notice a few mild sides from the finasteride: -mild testicular ache (only twice so far) -increase in shedding -improved complexion I would like to hit my hairline with Rogaine to see if I...

10 Days in. Currently on 1mg Finpecia. Hair texture seems like it has improved a bit. Libido is still strong, no nipple tenderness nor ball ache. Nizoral will arrive in the mail by early next week. Tried it about 5 years ago when I was younger and thought it seemed to make my hair a bit...

Happy New Year ladies and fellows! May 2011 bring us a few more active follicles. Just took my first tab - Finpecia 1mg. I'll post periodically with updates.

Okay. Attempted to sell the Doctor on a prescription for proscar to save some cash, but he said he wouldn't do it as it wasn't approved to treat hairloss. :( So instead I snagged finpecia 1mg today, so I expect I will start in a couple of weeks when it arrives. I will try and keep a picture...

I'm going to attempt to get my doctor to change my prescription to Proscar tomorrow. Hopefully if I bring him some info. on the drug and explain my intent is to save some cash, he will be down for writing it. I definitely want to hear if anyone else thinks I should pick up minoxidil. with the finasteride...

Thanks for the input, skelll. I just found a few pictures from 2004. I'll post them to give you an idea of the steady march of my hairline. I have always had a bit of recession at the temples, but looking at these photos (19 years old) it seems I have lost a bit of ground. Sorry about the...

Cool. Thanks for all of the input so far! It definitely took me a while (and here I am still fishing for confidence-boosters) to get to the point of where I went out and got a prescription. I suppose 1 less thing in my routine wouldn't be such a bad idea. I spent the last few hours cleaning...

Also, from reading the site it seems unitedpharmacy and inhousepharmacy are two legitimate sites to order from? I'm going to try and see if the Doctor will add a Proscar option to my prescription. If not I may try one of the sites above. Propecia at the pharmacy is $73 for a month currently...

Haha. Some of mine I confuse for a bison. :)

Sounds like a good approach. I wear my hair up for about 6-8 hours a day for work, and so my hair seems to shed a lot when I remove the hairband or when I use the shower afterward. I think the highest shed I have had for a day so far has been around 50, maybe a few more than that. I'm also...

Thanks Gemini! As I mentioned in my first post, I really would like for a transplant to be my last option (hopefully years down the road, if at all). I don't think I realized I could get a prescription for Propecia from a dermatologist, so I just went to a local plastic surgeon for that...

And here are the backside shots. The top and crown area of my head are a little thinner than when I was younger, but the surgeon said I would not need any grafts in this area at the moment. Sorry if the long hair makes it difficult to judge!

...well it's not really that bad, but I would like for you all to have a look at the glorious hairline war taking place on my dome. I have been lurking for about a week, having just got a prescription for Propecia from a local plastic surgeon and still being unsure if I really wanted to go down...