I was flawless in the application of my meds. I took my 1mg propecia pill everyday and applied 5% minoxidil twice everyday. After a few months I had quite a shed, but I knew it would happen so I stuck with my regimen. The thing is, the shed never stopped. I shed all the way up to month 12 on propecia, so I quit because my hair was so much worse. The past 5 months I've been on 5% minoxidil twice daily with no results other than the shedding has stopped. That horrible shed that started way back when I first started my regimen has stopped, but I'm not sure if it's because something was working or because I stopped the propecia. I just started taking it again just to see if I could at least maintain what I have if the shed is really over. I have had a lot of small blonde vellous hairs where I shed my "good" hair like a year ago this whole time, but they don't seem to be growing at all. I just figured that they're my old dying hairs DYING.
My scalp has been pretty crusty and flaky this whole time, but I always thought it was dried minoxidil residue or something. I also have a problem with infected hair follicles. I've been to the doctor for this long before I was balding, and they just told me to use perscription shampoos (nizoral at the time). I did notice that when parts of my head would itch, I could pull out a huge chunk of hair from the exact spot that was itching, but not that much from anywhere else. I have been rotating nizoral, t-gel, t-sal, and various types of head & shoulders daily throughout this entire time.
the god of hair hates me
