im 22 male and have noticed thinning around my hairline over the past year. hair loss is making me very self conscience and since theres a history of baldness in my family i f*****g want to do anything to avoid hairloss. I've been using advecia for 3 months now but havent noticed anything yet. I dont want to go bald god damit. i cant afford expensive hairloss products. can anybody tell me what my options are.
age 22 help me out
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All I can tell you is to use FDA approved products... i don't think you will get any gain from herbal products that you take orally, I recommend you take propecia and see how that goes for a year or so. and if you need more regrowth add minoxidil.. but you also said your on a budget so you could try buying online because they seem to be alot cheaper that way. Hang in there buddy, i know you don't want the horseshoe just as much as I or anyone else here wants one.
You best bets when starting are the proven, FDA approved treatments, propecia (finasteride) and rogaine/minoxodil. I would start with finasteride only and a good anti-inflammatory shampoo/anti-dandruff like nizoral, t-gel, or t-sal. Nizoral is probably the best, since its active ingredient, ketokonazole, has anti-androgen properties, and has been shown to help with male pattern baldness in studies. Unless you need a lot of regrowth, I'd save minoxodil for a later date if your results from finasteride start to fade.
If cash is a major issue, try getting your doctor to give you a prescription for proscar. Most doctors don't know a whole lot about hairloss, so study up yourself, and explain to them that proscar and propecia have the same active ingredient (finasteride), and that lots of people take 1/4 or 1/5 of a proscar pill instead of a propecia pill. Proscar cost about the same for 30 pills as propecia, but contains 5 times as much finasteride, which means 30 pills last 150 days. You end up spending like $15/month for proscar.
Most herbal products are unfortunately snake oils. They may help a wee little bit in a small percentage of people, but they almost never do.
If cash is a major issue, try getting your doctor to give you a prescription for proscar. Most doctors don't know a whole lot about hairloss, so study up yourself, and explain to them that proscar and propecia have the same active ingredient (finasteride), and that lots of people take 1/4 or 1/5 of a proscar pill instead of a propecia pill. Proscar cost about the same for 30 pills as propecia, but contains 5 times as much finasteride, which means 30 pills last 150 days. You end up spending like $15/month for proscar.
Most herbal products are unfortunately snake oils. They may help a wee little bit in a small percentage of people, but they almost never do.
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http://www.111drugstore.com for your Proscar. Any local drugstore for your Nizoral (1%). Remember to quarter your Proscar. For this you can pick up a pill cutter/splitter at the same local drugstore. Also, next time use the "search" function on the Web site.
D.
sneakyp said:
http://www.111drugstore.com for your Proscar. Any local drugstore for your Nizoral (1%). Remember to quarter your Proscar. For this you can pick up a pill cutter/splitter at the same local drugstore. Also, next time use the "search" function on the Web site.
D.