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Hey guys,
So I think I might be the only person on here who has experienced this (hopefully not, but I have yet to find a thread discussing this issue, so I thought i'd share my story). I apologize if this in the wrong place or has been covered already, this is my first post, so i'm still getting used to navigating this site.
A little over a year ago, I started taking 1mg of Propecia a day . It was a decision I didn't make lightly, and I took a lot of time to think things through before I made that choice (we've all heard the horror stories on here). I ultimately made the choice because my shedding was so bad. I couldn't even begin to tell you how much hair I was losing. It covered the shower drain, It was all over the bathroom sink when I combed my hair, all over my clothes during the day, in my car... pretty much everywhere all the time. I'll never forget driving with my friend with the windows down and he was getting hair in eyes and mouth (gross, I know, and pretty embarrassing). The weird thing was that for how much hair I was losing, I still appeared to have a full head of hair, with some thinning on the crown that was getting slightly worse over time, but not as much as I would have expected given the clumps of hair I had in the bottom of the shower each day (I'm going to try to find some pictures for you guys that I can attach on here when I get home tonight).
So I finally started propecia and....... nothing. nothing happened. I had no side effects, no increase in initial shedding, though I was losing so much hair it would probably be impossible to tell. This went on for a few months. I started in September and by the end of February - early march (so around 5 months of nothing lol and then things started looking up), my shedding had basically stopped. I lost virtually no hair in the shower, maybe one or two came out when I combed/brushed, and couldn't really see any excessive loss throughout the day, just normal. It felt great! Then by the end of May the shedding started to return. It started slowly, and with each day and each shower came a little more hair, and a little more. I've read that some people experience a second shed around the 7-8 month mark, so I tried to ride it out. Well its early October now and i'm still shedding, almost back to what it was before I started Propecia. In pictures my hair doesn't look any worse, my crown might be slightly worse than it was, but only a little. The only difference is that my hair feels so much thinner. I have long, shoulder length hair and usually wear a ponytail. I've noticed that my ponytail is so much thinner and that the hair ties have to be wrapped around an extra time to keep my hair back and in place. I'm not really sure whats going on, since my hair looks the same, it almost seems as though I'm thinning throughout my entire scalp, but it's hard to tell.
All I know is that I have been on the drug for over a year, and in that year I had about 3 months of great results, and the rest was as if I have never taken Propecia.
I just thought I'd throw this out there to see if anyone had any similar experiences or advice for me. I really appreciate you all taking the time to read this.
So I think I might be the only person on here who has experienced this (hopefully not, but I have yet to find a thread discussing this issue, so I thought i'd share my story). I apologize if this in the wrong place or has been covered already, this is my first post, so i'm still getting used to navigating this site.
A little over a year ago, I started taking 1mg of Propecia a day . It was a decision I didn't make lightly, and I took a lot of time to think things through before I made that choice (we've all heard the horror stories on here). I ultimately made the choice because my shedding was so bad. I couldn't even begin to tell you how much hair I was losing. It covered the shower drain, It was all over the bathroom sink when I combed my hair, all over my clothes during the day, in my car... pretty much everywhere all the time. I'll never forget driving with my friend with the windows down and he was getting hair in eyes and mouth (gross, I know, and pretty embarrassing). The weird thing was that for how much hair I was losing, I still appeared to have a full head of hair, with some thinning on the crown that was getting slightly worse over time, but not as much as I would have expected given the clumps of hair I had in the bottom of the shower each day (I'm going to try to find some pictures for you guys that I can attach on here when I get home tonight).
So I finally started propecia and....... nothing. nothing happened. I had no side effects, no increase in initial shedding, though I was losing so much hair it would probably be impossible to tell. This went on for a few months. I started in September and by the end of February - early march (so around 5 months of nothing lol and then things started looking up), my shedding had basically stopped. I lost virtually no hair in the shower, maybe one or two came out when I combed/brushed, and couldn't really see any excessive loss throughout the day, just normal. It felt great! Then by the end of May the shedding started to return. It started slowly, and with each day and each shower came a little more hair, and a little more. I've read that some people experience a second shed around the 7-8 month mark, so I tried to ride it out. Well its early October now and i'm still shedding, almost back to what it was before I started Propecia. In pictures my hair doesn't look any worse, my crown might be slightly worse than it was, but only a little. The only difference is that my hair feels so much thinner. I have long, shoulder length hair and usually wear a ponytail. I've noticed that my ponytail is so much thinner and that the hair ties have to be wrapped around an extra time to keep my hair back and in place. I'm not really sure whats going on, since my hair looks the same, it almost seems as though I'm thinning throughout my entire scalp, but it's hard to tell.
All I know is that I have been on the drug for over a year, and in that year I had about 3 months of great results, and the rest was as if I have never taken Propecia.
I just thought I'd throw this out there to see if anyone had any similar experiences or advice for me. I really appreciate you all taking the time to read this.
