Recent content by uk_propecia1

Me too Hi, I started on Propecia at around the same time as you and have had a similar experience. I haven't been taking it non-stop since then - I was advised by a dermatologist to stop in April (he thought I had alopecia areata, not male pattern baldness) but was then advised by a well-known trichologist...

Same here Sounds similar to my experience - I'm 27, was losing my hair very slowly from my early 20s (so slowly I didn't notice till I looked at photos later) until it suddenly got much worse in about December last year. I started on finasteride in February (no other treatments though). Within...

Update, 6 September 2006 Thanks for the replies, guys - j25: I hope you're right, maybe that's what's happening - are you still on finasteride, by the way? If so, when did you start - and has it never improved since? jbob23: How soon was it each time before you noticed the oily skin/shedding...

Thanks for the replies - I have been taking pictures, I don't really want to post them here but it is clearly worse now than it was. Until about May or so my hairline stayed more or less where it was and the hair loss was diffuse, which was why the dermatologist didn't think it was male pattern baldness, but...

Just wondered if this has happened to anyone else... I'm 27, starting losing my hair in my early 20s but not very fast to begin with (family history of male pattern baldness on both sides of the family). Then since the beginning of this year it began falling out really fast, so I went to the GP, had blood tests...