3.5 months after quitting minoxidil !!

[jeffreycolin]

Hi,
my name is jeffrey and I'm 19 years old
Last september, I went to a dermatologist because i was afraid to lose my hair and I freaked because i saw that i lose some hairs (15 to 20 per day)
So , when he saw me , he saw my scalp and asked me if i have anyone who is bald in my family , I told him no (no one in my family is bald , even my grandparents and uncles from my dad and also my mom still have hair). Then he told me that I have like a localised hairloss and ordered to apply minoxidil for 3 months and then go back to see him again . during this 3 months , i haven't noticed any change and no shedding is remarked. When i saw him again he told me to reduce the application to 1ml per day for another 3 months. I did what he told me and i have ramarked that i started losing some hairs than. when I saw him again he told me that I have Androgenetic Alopecia and stop minoxidil and use a lotion called kerium for 3 months and if it doesn't work i go back on minoxidil. 2 or 3 weeks after stopping minoxidil I lost too much hair in the places where i used to apply minoxidil and some other places (the left half of my frontal hairline is more thin and also the left temple and on the top of my scalp the density is lower than before I starter using minoxidil) and the density horribly decresed . I applied that lotion called kerium for 1 month and i gave it up because it was doing noithing and i decided not to see that MD anymore cuz i suspected his competence. now it's 3.5 months since i stopped minoxidil and the situation didn't change and maybe i'm still in the post minoxidil shed . now my questions are :
1/Am i going to recover the healthy hair that I lost from using minoxidil (I don t think i have Androgenetic Alopecia because i don t have a familial antecedent)?
2/Does quitting minoxidil put the hairs in telogen phase ? does these telogen hairs regrow after if i don t have Androgenetic Alopecia?
3/How long should I wait to recover?
4/Did my Md intended to cure my hairloss using minoxidil in short-term? Does that mean that I don't have Androgenetic Alopecia and I present another disease ?
5/What do you think of my case?
Thank you for responding

 

[zzzzz]

get baxk on minoxodil and start finasteride.

Once you start minoxidil you NEVER stop IDK what he was saying telling you to get off of it

 

[JHCL1990]

Hi,
my name is jeffrey and I'm 19 years old
Last september, I went to a dermatologist because i was afraid to lose my hair and I freaked because i saw that i lose some hairs (15 to 20 per day)
So , when he saw me , he saw my scalp and asked me if i have anyone who is bald in my family , I told him no (no one in my family is bald , even my grandparents and uncles from my dad and also my mom still have hair). Then he told me that I have like a localised hairloss and ordered to apply minoxidil for 3 months and then go back to see him again . during this 3 months , i haven't noticed any change and no shedding is remarked. When i saw him again he told me to reduce the application to 1ml per day for another 3 months. I did what he told me and i have ramarked that i started losing some hairs than. when I saw him again he told me that I have Androgenetic Alopecia and stop minoxidil and use a lotion called kerium for 3 months and if it doesn't work i go back on minoxidil. 2 or 3 weeks after stopping minoxidil I lost too much hair in the places where i used to apply minoxidil and some other places (the left half of my frontal hairline is more thin and also the left temple and on the top of my scalp the density is lower than before I starter using minoxidil) and the density horribly decresed . I applied that lotion called kerium for 1 month and i gave it up because it was doing noithing and i decided not to see that MD anymore cuz i suspected his competence. now it's 3.5 months since i stopped minoxidil and the situation didn't change and maybe i'm still in the post minoxidil shed . now my questions are :
1/Am i going to recover the healthy hair that I lost from using minoxidil (I don t think i have Androgenetic Alopecia because i don t have a familial antecedent)?
2/Does quitting minoxidil put the hairs in telogen phase ? does these telogen hairs regrow after if i don t have Androgenetic Alopecia?
3/How long should I wait to recover?
4/Did my Md intended to cure my hairloss using minoxidil in short-term? Does that mean that I don't have Androgenetic Alopecia and I present another disease ?
5/What do you think of my case?
Thank you for responding

There's always a chance you could have Androgenetic Alopecia, and there's always a chance you don't. If you do, finasteride is pretty much the ONLY thing that can help stop your hair loss. Your Doctor, like mine, sounds like an idiot when it comes to hair loss. Find another Doctor and ask about finasteride.

 

[mr the hairy monkey]

hello jeffreycolin,

1/ I don't know
2/yes they do
3/ if you don't have Androgenetic Alopecia give it 6 months (the time for a telogen effluvium recovery)
4/if he it then it would be foolish , minoxidil isn't a short term treatment for Androgenetic Alopecia , it is for Telogen Effluvium to shake up the lazy sleeping thin follicles.
5/I really don't know

I have myself taken minoxidil for 6 months and then stopped , about a year ago.

it didn't make me bald on the areas which I applied it on , like you my hairloss is unclear , could be Telogen Effluvium (reversible) , could be diffuse patterned alopecia Norwood 5 à la fred the belgian (albeit having one uncle out of 6 exceeding NW2 and a NW1 father)

 

[jeffreycolin]

Thanks mr the hairy monkey , I just want to ask if these informations are certified because when i browse the net i don t find anyone who had made a test..
For the others , i don t want to get back on minoxidil because there s no evidence for having Androgenetic Alopecia because really there s no bald man or woman in my family even the the old grandfathers , they have a thick and a strong hair even at old age ..what i am afraid of is just the possibility that i have killed the healthy hair follicles with minoxidil when i stopped (because strangely i didn t experience a shedding when i started and along the 6 months when i was taking minoxidil), so it will like if a have done a foolish mistake and killed myself

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I forgot to mention that when i first saw him , he told me that my hairloss was due to excessive stress and said that i had a localised alopecia (because i had some exams) that s why he told me to apply minoxidil for 3 months and to reduce the dose after that in order to stop the cure . But i was surprised when i saw him for the third time when he told me that i have Androgenetic Alopecia , for that reason i stopped seeing him.. maybe he just confused me with another patient ??

 

[mr the hairy monkey]

you are welcome jeffreycolin ,

don't be concerned about it , minoxidil only makes the hair that was destined to fall out to fall out , I've been reading this everywhere.

if your hair wasn't destined to fall out then you don't have to be worried , because minoxidil just makes the process quicker.

 

[Ptrt]

if your hair wasn't destined to fall out then you don't have to be worried , because minoxidil just makes the process quicker.

What?

 

[Notcoolanymore]

If it is your destiny, then there is nothing you can do.

 

[jeffreycolin]

Mr hairy monkey so you are saying that if some hairs are destined to fall out at the age of 40 they will fall now if i stop minoxidil ?? :O

 

[mr the hairy monkey]

Mr hairy monkey so you are saying that if some hairs are destined to fall out at the age of 40 they will fall now if i stop minoxidil ?? :O

No, I didn't explain myself clearly , if a hair is doomed to fall out (means it is already in his 3rd life-cycle phase , telogen) it's not growing but resting, yet staying on your scalp (telogen phase lasts 3 months before the hair falling out)

for a person that is not using minoxidil , it would take 3 months to fall out .

for a person that is taking minoxidil , the 3 months would shorten to 1week-1month (that explains the massive shedding caused by minoxidil within the 1month) to fall out.

the difference is , for a male pattern baldness guy : after the telogen phase , the hair follicle will grow a bit thinner hair than its predecessor , taking minoxidil would stimulate your hair follicle to grow it thicker.


so NO , it's only a 3months difference.
because it will only affect the telogen phased hair to fall out.

• Scalp: The time these phases last varies from person to person. Different hair color and follicle shape affects the timings of these phases.
  • anagen phase, 2–6 years (occasionally much longer)
  • catagen phase, 2–3 weeks
  • telogen phase, around 3 months