Sorry for my english, its not my first language, im making this thread to show everyone my story of 5 years battling hairloss, im now 25 years old, i had receeded temples since i was 17 but it was until i was 20 that i noticed that all my hair in the top was thinner and grew slower than the hair the sides, i was diffuse thinning in all the top, so at 20 years old i decided to start minoxidil, this is my regimen
REGIMEN
20-23 years old-minoxidil 1 ml once a day
23-24 years old- no treatment (lost a lot of hair due to stopping min)
24-25 years old- finasteride only for 9 months
microneedling once a week for 3 months
minoxidil 0.5 ml once a day (1/4 of the recommended dose) for 3 months
This is my hair at 20 years old
and this is after a few months of minoxidil usage
as you can see minoxidil worked great for me and i regrew a lot of density on it but eventually after 2 years of usage i started slowly losing my results, i had super thin hair on top i decided to buzz my hair and stop minoxidil after 3 years of usage at 23 years old, i went one year with this buzzed look and people said it suited me so i was okay with it
at 24 years old at the start of the pandemic i decided to grow my hair to see how it looked, as i was buzzing my hair i never realized how much hair i lost after stopping minoxidil and this was the result
i was shocked, i knew you lost a lot of hair after stopping minoxidil but as i was buzzing my hair it was not this noticeable, i panicked at the idea of losing even more hair and immediately ordered finasteride, i saw some great results on finasteride alone in reddit so i was hopping i was one of the lucky ones that got a lot of regrowth from finasteride alone, this was my hair after 8-9 months of finasteride only usage
finasteride basically mantained and made my hair thicker, also i got very minor regrowth only in the temples area, side effects of finasteride were like 2 days of ballache at the first weeks of treatment and i think i have a lower libido but i count that as a positive side effect, also my beard grows at a slower rate, finasteride did what it could for me so i decided to add minoxidil and microneedling but only in the crown area, so i decided to use a low dosage of 0.5 ml once a day, so 1/4 of the recommended dose, this is after only 3 months of adding min and microneedling in the crown
im super happy, still not a great density but i have a lot more coverage than i had a year ago but im only in my third month of minoxidil so i think i will see more improvements, i think im finally winning the fight
REGIMEN
20-23 years old-minoxidil 1 ml once a day
23-24 years old- no treatment (lost a lot of hair due to stopping min)
24-25 years old- finasteride only for 9 months
microneedling once a week for 3 months
minoxidil 0.5 ml once a day (1/4 of the recommended dose) for 3 months
This is my hair at 20 years old
and this is after a few months of minoxidil usage
as you can see minoxidil worked great for me and i regrew a lot of density on it but eventually after 2 years of usage i started slowly losing my results, i had super thin hair on top i decided to buzz my hair and stop minoxidil after 3 years of usage at 23 years old, i went one year with this buzzed look and people said it suited me so i was okay with it
at 24 years old at the start of the pandemic i decided to grow my hair to see how it looked, as i was buzzing my hair i never realized how much hair i lost after stopping minoxidil and this was the result
i was shocked, i knew you lost a lot of hair after stopping minoxidil but as i was buzzing my hair it was not this noticeable, i panicked at the idea of losing even more hair and immediately ordered finasteride, i saw some great results on finasteride alone in reddit so i was hopping i was one of the lucky ones that got a lot of regrowth from finasteride alone, this was my hair after 8-9 months of finasteride only usage
finasteride basically mantained and made my hair thicker, also i got very minor regrowth only in the temples area, side effects of finasteride were like 2 days of ballache at the first weeks of treatment and i think i have a lower libido but i count that as a positive side effect, also my beard grows at a slower rate, finasteride did what it could for me so i decided to add minoxidil and microneedling but only in the crown area, so i decided to use a low dosage of 0.5 ml once a day, so 1/4 of the recommended dose, this is after only 3 months of adding min and microneedling in the crown
im super happy, still not a great density but i have a lot more coverage than i had a year ago but im only in my third month of minoxidil so i think i will see more improvements, i think im finally winning the fight