best thing you can do.... Cut your hair short. I had long hair half way down my back and thats when all of my hairloss happened. Since I cut it over a year ago it hasnt got any worse. Long hair, lots of combing and ponytails is too stressful on your hair follicles. You may not look metal anymore...
Re: Townsend's story - (age 22, My Headbanging days are over)
Dude just get on the finasteride, seriously I think the side effects are way over exaggerated. Ive never had any, I thought i was having sexual problems due to finasteride, but it was all in my head. Because I was worried I was gonna have sexual...
Re: Newbie...advice needed!
Most acne treatments have hair loss as a side affect, but its only a temporary thing and will recover when u stop taking the medication (i tried various acne medication the strongest being Roacutaine)... plus its usually just a general increase of overall hair...
Im about 90% sure it messed my hair up, mainly because when i used to comb it back tight and rip all my hair out, the hair just never grew back. There was nice thick hair, i ripped it out, and it never came back, not like normal when the hair grows back thinner and thinner until theres just tiny...
Re: winterheartlee's story-(Male, 20, UK) EDIT: Day 1 of fincar
Hey guys
Just posting an update on my progress.
Ive been on minoxidil 5% for a nearly 10 months now and fincar for nearly 4 months... the minoxidil has done a great job on my slighlty thinning crown.. the front is just the problem now.
I...
Re: winterheartlee's story-(Male, 20, UK) EDIT: Day 1 of fincar
Fincar is fine at the mo, I can see lots of tiny thin hairs sprouting through.... and they are the only ones shedding at the moment, if i rub my hands through my hair its just those ones that are falling out.... so i guess that...
Seriously its not as bad as you think....
When you wash and brush ur teeth in the morning put some on...
and when you wash and brush your teeth at night put some on... lol
Im sure you do that everyday, so you dont really have to go out of the way to do it and weird times of the day.
After a few...
hey I know how u feel, im 20 and i was the same as you, always dreading the day my hair would fall out cos of the family history.... so i thought i would lose it early like at 25 onwards.... lol! but 20! didnt expect that.
And yeh its very upsetting when you first realise, i was literally...
The only one that has the FDA approval is the Hairmax Lasercomb. I couldnt find anything about it on the FDA site before, so i emailed them, and they sent me a link to the approval.
I was very tempted to get one, but im still worried it could be a load of garbage and then i would have wasted...
Re: winterheartlee's story-(Male, 20, UK) EDIT: Day 1 of fincar
You can get 4 months of Fincar for £15
Hellova difference in cost between that and propecia... but same ingredients. Just gotta cut 1 tablet into quarters. Yeh Ive started using 1% nizoral too....
lol I wish i didnt have to start...
Re: bdsander story - 1 year on propecia UPDATED PIX 5/11 on pg 3
yeh the top definitely looks thicker... just the sides gone back a bit...
Just use rogaine on your receded sides to try it out.... its not got eath away at hair that is no longer there... just literally put it on the skin where...
wow thats pretty cool.... doesnt look like much happened up until the last few months, but its definitely looking better now.... If it improves a bit more, it will look like you never started losing ur hair...
Good luck
Re: winterheartlee's story-(Male, 20, UK) EDIT: Day 1 of fincar
Fincar is generic Proscar which is just a higher dose of propecia that you cut into 4 or 5 pieces so you get 1.25mg or 1mg of finesteride.
So its just the same as propecia but cheaper... thats it
How long have you been taking it...
Re: winterheartlee's story-(Male, 20, UK) EDIT: Day 1 of fincar
I get my regaine from Boots (minoxidil 5%) and fincar from inhousepharmacy.com
When i had my hair cut from long to shortish... it made my hair look worse. When i had it buzzed even shorter the thinning became more apperent because...