10 Months Into minoxidil And Hair Now Destroyed. Do I Continue? Potential Cause?

[thornhill59]

Title says it all tbh. I posted here a couple of weeks ago but I'm just looking for some more opinions. Hair was stable on finasteride for over a year. Added minoxidil on my dermatologists recommendation and the area I applied it to has since been totally destroyed. The rest of my hair remains stable. Been 10 months now so im wondering whether its worth continuing and what will happen if I stop.

hair in december (pre-minoxidil) https://imgur.com/a/Z6FEp
hair in may (5 months into minoxidil) https://imgur.com/a/pjQTA
hair today https://imgur.com/a/a0IZj

 

[AnxiousAndy]

" 10 months into minoxidil and hair now destroyed " LOL yeah sure!!
You still have a norwood 2, your hair is definitely not 'destroyed' your 5 month picture shows a great improvement from your baseline pic, you did seem to shed your gains at the newest picture so you are now a little below baseline. I would stick it out for another 2 months and if things dont stabilise or improve drop the minoxidil.. it will take as long to recover as it did to reach this point when you stop so keep that in mind. I take offense to your thread title as even with your current hair state its still better than my hair and im 20!!

 

[thornhill59]

Hey mate, sorry, didn't mean to cause offence, we're all in this together. However, I can't really understand what you're seeing that I'm not. Great improvement? The majority of my hair on that side used to be terminal, now what does grow grows in wispy with little kinks in it. It is of genuinely terrible quality, can't grow it past 3 inches without it curling up and looking bizarre. The rest of my hair is dead straight. As to the title, yes potentially a little dramatic but when you have a super high hairline to start with any attack on your hairline can be game over very fast. If you want another look here's my other thread with another dramatic title.

https://www.hairlosstalk.com/intera...-min-and-my-hair-has-never-been-worse.108925/

 

[AnxiousAndy]

Hey mate, sorry, didn't mean to cause offence, we're all in this together. However, I can't really understand what you're seeing that I'm not. Great improvement? The majority of my hair on that side used to be terminal, now what does grow grows in wispy with little kinks in it. It is of genuinely terrible quality, can't grow it past 3 inches without it curling up and looking bizarre. The rest of my hair is dead straight. As to the title, yes potentially a little dramatic but when you have a super high hairline to start with any attack on your hairline can be game over very fast. If you want another look here's my other thread with another dramatic title.

https://www.hairlosstalk.com/intera...-min-and-my-hair-has-never-been-worse.108925/

Its okay man. In the picture you provided at month 5 it DOES look improved, but only from what i saw in the picture. Have you considered keeping your hair about 3 inches? With long hair the loss tends to look worse than it actually is. I'll stick by what i said, give it another 2 months then drop it if you have no improvement. You should revert to pretreatment hair in a year or less.

 

[thornhill59]

Anyway thanks for your advice mate. The hair quality is what really gets me, just looks bizarre having curling hair up front and thick straight hair in the back, has been pointed out multiple times. I think I'll do what you suggest and also book an appointment with my derm. Was really just wondering if minoxidil changing hair quality this dramatically was all that common.

 

[thornhill59]

And I agree, at that time (5months) I did think it was going to grow back better than before and that the shed was positive but the hair never came back terminal like it was in the before period and unfortunately that low quality area just seems to be spreading. Going for a cut today so might just take your advice. Hair gets tangled up in your identity so sometimes its a bit hard to make a change but I'll see what the barber thinks best.