7 months on fincar

[solomonf]

I started Fincar (finasteride) on the 15 june 08 and it is now the 21 january 09 which makes it 7 months. I started taking fincar to stop my receding hairline getting any worse. After about 2 months my left temple started to thin and has continued to thin to this present day. All the time i have been on fincar i have been losing hair and i dont even know if it was any more rapid than before fincar. My hairline has slightly receded a little further but it is the thinning thats the issue.

Personally i think that i am a none responder but i just wanted to confirm it with you guys. I mean have any of you got up to or past 7 months while getting worse and then started to recover.

It really breaks my heart becuase i was 70% sure that i would atleast get a slow down in my hairloss. I mean is that really too much to ask for at 18. God life is such a f*****g b**ch sometimes.

Do you think i should try minoxidil or just give up and stay in my room lol (joking)

 

[vipergts]

I was in the same boat as you. Most people on this forum just blindly accept Propecia as a "cure-all" treatment that's the answer to everything. And these people will probably tell you to switch to name brand Propecia or Proscar. My experience was very different. I tried branded Propecia for over a year and actually lost more hair during that time than ever before. So suffice it to say that it failed miserably for me and at the very best did nothing for my hairloss. So yes, to me it looks like you and I are part of that 2 percent minority for whom this drug doesn't work. Suprisingly I have many friends who stopped propecia either because it didn't work, lost effectivness or caused sides effects like gyno, sexual sides, watery semen, etc - I guess all of them must be in that magic 2 percent quadrant too. Do yourself a favor and stop taking finasteride. Go the topical route! I would suggest Minoxidil, Nizoral 2 percent, emu oil, spironolactone Cream and Tricomin for itching and general scalp health. This would be a pretty solid regimen.

Look at it this way. Even if finasteride woked for you, it would have bought you 2-5 extra years. Ultimately you are doomed to go bald - there is still no cure out there.....just go with the topicals, that way you'd know that at least you tried.

Viper

 

[solomonf]

Are you on Min. If so has it improved your hair?

 

[vipergts]

Yeah I am on Min once daily and I rotate T-Gel and nizoral 3-4 times a week. I also use spironolactone 3-4 times a week. Still shedding a lot 250-300 a day some days but less than the propecia days. In other words no regrowth, loss continues but at a slower rate than when I was on finasteride.... Give minoxidil a shot, you have nothing to lose. I did have bad experience with the foam and shed loads of hair with zero regrowth. I am allergic to PG so I can only use Lee's minoxidil with Glycerine. Not sure if its helping but seems mild.

In short nothing really worked for me to stop my shedding or give me any rerowth. The only things that have kind of worked have been stuff that reduced inflammation like Emu oil, Aloe Vera, conditioners. Frankly nizoral and T-gel make my hair over dry so I have to use conditioner every time I use these products.

In short the current treatments suck! If finasteride and Mionox don't do it for you, nothing else will (short of a hair transplant). You will notice on these forums that for virtually 100 percent of success stories the person in question used finasteride. finasteride is a hit or a miss kind of deal. It's is the only thing that could potentially put hairloss on pause (which is what I wanted).....oh well, you win some you lose some.

 

[CCS]

swap a piroctone olamine shampoo for your T-Gel. And make some kind of lavender essential oil topical too, like add 5 drops into your 1 ounce bottle of emu oil or something. Are you rotating spironolactone with revivogen? Sounds like you are doing the best you can. I think azelaic acid cream might be better than the revivogen, since the revivogen has a lot of ingredients in it and is questionable if all of them are good or not.

 

[CCS]

BTW, my brother did not respond to finasteride either. Kept right on losing, maybe even faster than before. Finasteride has completely halted my hair loss for the last 5 years. I even took a close look at where my frontal tuff was at, and it is still there in between the grafts. No way did my surgeon make the hairs that close together, so they must have survived even though bosley said they would all die off. They are thinner though.

 

[vipergts]

Hey CCS, thanks for the tips. I just got some Lavender oil and will mix it with my minoxidil/Emu oil. I haven't used Revivogen as it's too controversial...not seen a single person on these forum who has had someting positive to say about it. I am glad that finasteride did the trcik for you....i WISH it had worked for me....I have no idea why it failed so bad. Right now I don't care about regroth all I want to do is stop access shedding, do you have any suggestions on what else I could try aside from revivogen? Saw Palmetto, Fluridil, etc?

Viper