TLDR: Started finasteride 1 month ago, still have some shedding, will it get worse before it improves? I also have bad seborrheic dermatitis with itching, redness, scabs, and oily dandruff (buildup). How do these photos look?
https://imgur.com/a/xxV9e
(I’m 18 by the way)
I started finasteride almost one month ago, and I haven’t gotten major side effects. Oddly enough, I remember an old post about sudden pain in the testicle(s), and I recently had that twice. Otherwise there’s nothing I really notice. I had really bad shedding (40+ hairs in the shower) before I started, and when I started on finasteride I had already started usig a topical steroid to help with my seborrheic dermatits (itching and redness and scabs too). I’m also using rogaine on my temples and a little bit on the rest of my hairline, but that looks about the same as before, even a year/two years ago, comparing it to old photos I took of it. However, my crown looks HORRIBLE. It’s a spot where I have really bad build-up/flaking and itching. I’m seeing the dermatologist on Tuesday to see what’s going on with that.
Anyway, is it likely that finasteride is causing this shed before it improves? It wasn’t even bad before. Now you can see through it and it makes me want to die thinking about how much worse it could (will) get if finasteride doesn’t help.
https://imgur.com/a/xxV9e
(I’m 18 by the way)
I started finasteride almost one month ago, and I haven’t gotten major side effects. Oddly enough, I remember an old post about sudden pain in the testicle(s), and I recently had that twice. Otherwise there’s nothing I really notice. I had really bad shedding (40+ hairs in the shower) before I started, and when I started on finasteride I had already started usig a topical steroid to help with my seborrheic dermatits (itching and redness and scabs too). I’m also using rogaine on my temples and a little bit on the rest of my hairline, but that looks about the same as before, even a year/two years ago, comparing it to old photos I took of it. However, my crown looks HORRIBLE. It’s a spot where I have really bad build-up/flaking and itching. I’m seeing the dermatologist on Tuesday to see what’s going on with that.
Anyway, is it likely that finasteride is causing this shed before it improves? It wasn’t even bad before. Now you can see through it and it makes me want to die thinking about how much worse it could (will) get if finasteride doesn’t help.
