After one year with Rogaine and liquid minoxidil

[Gambino78]

This November i finished the first year with Rogaine and minoxidil. First months i used only Rogaine foam, twice per day but in the last 6 months i used Rogaine in the morning and liquid minoxidil 5% in the evening and not any pill (finasteride or similar). I only put some olive virgin oil and rub my head with it, once in 2 days. It is said olive oil is natural DHT blocker.


Till now the results are almost 0. Meaning i had results only in temples area where first i've notices some puffy hair and now there is real hair grown. But where i have the main problem, in the vertex area, not a thing. Nothing. Zero! In fact the vertex area became a little bit bolder than before.

 

[frenchy]

One year on minoxidil! MAKE A WISH!!! (but not a nw1 hairline back)

 

[Gambino78]

One year on minoxidil! MAKE A WISH!!! (but not a nw1 hairline back)

I've read after 24 months you can see some results, more or less. But i see nothing on my crown area. In fact it's a little bit worse than before.

 

[Bad]

Olive oil Dht blocker? Do you have a source?
I would had finasteride... But its your choice.

 

[zzzzz]

minoxidil alone a third of people will continue to lose their hair (no results)

you sould start finasteride and keep taking minoxidil with it

 

[Gambino78]

Olive oil Dht blocker? Do you have a source?
I would had finasteride... But its your choice.

I read on many sites that it works as dht blocker.

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minoxidil alone a third of people will continue to lose their hair (no results)

you sould start finasteride and keep taking minoxidil with it

I will never mess with my hormones! Forget what some people tell you, finasteride or similar pills will affect your sexual health and other things related to it.

 

[earms84]

Read the last paragraph of this post about olive oil and hair loss. They basically admit that there is no actual evidence that olive oil helps with hair loss.

http://www.peashealth.com/how-does-olive-oil-help-to-prevent-hair-loss/

"Although, there is a lack of scientific evidence, there is hardly any harm in trying the oil to see it works."

 

[zzzzz]

I read on many sites that it works as dht blocker.

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I will never mess with my hormones! Forget what some people tell you, finasteride or similar pills will affect your sexual health and other things related to it.

Speak for yourself. I have been taking dutasteride for 8 months with no sides and massive ammounts of regrowth

 

[Notcoolanymore]

Speak for yourself. I have been taking dutasteride for 8 months with no sides and massive ammounts of regrowth

I've been on finasteride for close to 1.5 years, have no sides and also have gotten regrowth. Let me guess gambino has never taken finasteride. Good luck keeping your hair without a dht inhibitor.

 

[Quickstrike]

I will never mess with my hormones! Forget what some people tell you, finasteride or similar pills will affect your sexual health and other things related to it.

If you care about keeping your hair, get on a dht inhibitor. Period.

Life would have been so much easier if I just took that damn finasteride pill a few years ago. It is the smallest pill in the world and if you get on it early, that is all you will need to do - take a tiny pill once a day. Very easy.

Do not rely on minoxidil.

 

[Spanishlad]

I will never mess with my hormones! Forget what some people tell you, finasteride or similar pills will affect your sexual health and other things related to it.

Ok so you will never mess with your hormines but you use olive oil in the hope that its a dht blocker, surely thats a contradiction right there..

Good luck keeping your hair, you will need it!!!

You should forget what some people tell you and simply rely on the scientific studies rather than heresay

 

[rcom440]

Come on Spanishlad, I understand his caution when it comes to finasteride and dutasteride. there is risk of nasty side effects and you know it. Some people get it some don't. It seems he doesn't want to risk.

I would give up olive oil as it won't do anything and start using nizoral shampoo, azelaic acid, topical spironolactone with minoxidil if you don't want to take finasteride or dutasteride.

 

[Spanishlad]

Im not denying that theres a risk of side effects , we all know theres a small risk that finasteride can effect your sexual health but in his post he clearly states that using finasteride WILL effect you sexual health and this just isnt true.

The point I was trying to make is that he expects olive oil to block DHT which is still classed as messing with his hormones, something he said he didnt want to do.

I understand why some people might not want to use finasteride or dutasteride but it gets a bit annoying when these same people who have never tried either drug seem to think they know more than the clear evidence presented in the studies.

 

[Gambino78]

Thanks for all the replies. It's very simple for me, as rcom440 stated, i don't want to risk to be one of the men who is affected by finasteride or other dht blockers. Olive oil may be useless as dht blocker but at least in won't do any harm. Contrary, it is full of vitamines and antioxidants.

I'd rather be bald but with my sexual life unharmed than to get some hair back and to look down at a useless tool or a tool which can't make children anymore.

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First olive oil may be or may be not dht blocker but i put it on my scalp, not inside my body so it's not the same thing. Not at all.

Second i read on net LOTS of cases of men affected more or less by finasteride. The risk is not that small as some people or some comerciants want us to believe it is. From what i read it's a lottery. The worst part is that in most of the cases, the ones who are affected by it recover very very hard after quiting finasteride or don't recover at all. That is what scares me and blocks me to try it at least for a few months.

 

[rcom440]

People who had sides will recover after stoping taking finasteride, for some it is fast recovery while for others it may be quite long that's why they freak out and say they won't recover at all.

While it comes to olive oil it's good for you even it you drink it I use it on my salads

And while it won't do much for hairloss it may make your hair look good.