Age and finasteride

[kiver1]

Does anyone know if age determines regrowth? I'll be starting finasteride at 36...

 

[Wash n' Gone]

I am 33 and about three and a half months in. Hair seems a little better - especially on top and crown. Front is still annoyingly fly away, but definately no worse. If you have male pattern baldness caused by DHT sensitivity, finasteride will help no matter what your age. Good luck :thumbs_up:

 

[RaginDemon]

You should consider minoxidil if you want regrow...finasteride is for maintainese IMO.

 

[jdr_333]

Started using finasteride 7 months ago, I'm 37. It has maintained my hair pretty well I think. My crown seems to be getting a bit thicker since starting minoxidil foam a couple of months ago.

 

[cal]

Regrowth is not common/major no matter what age you start it. Maintinence & thickening is common.

The age is somewhat important but I also think your natural genetic susceptibility to androgenic hair loss is at least as big of a deal. There are all these cases of guys who went bald very aggressively at 22 wondering why they don't get the "fantastic results" that other guys talk about getting from the stuff -- well duh. If your balding was slow & gradual then the finasteride has a much better chance of fighting it.

 

[beaner]

Why does everyone say regrowth is not common? Didn't 2/3 of men in the Propecia trials have regrowth and 85% in the Rogaine foam trials? That doesn't sound too uncommon to me. I think regrowth is uncommon on hairloss forums where all the non-responders tend to congregate. Anyway, I didn't start with finasteride until I was 36 and am having good results.

 

[Cassin]

People have come through here in their 50's and used it to success.

Can't remember any usernames since people that age rarely use forums so they didn't post much.

 

[cal]

Regrowth might be common depending on how you define it. I don't see a whole lot of guys jumping back entire Norwood levels over it, and a lot of the finasteride-induced gains are eventually lost again within a few more years as male pattern baldness continues (albeit MUCH more slowly than nature intended).


finasteride very often work wonders for thickening and loss-prevention.

 

[abcdefg]

You in all honesty cant predict anything on how you will react. Try it and see what happens. Men of any age could react well, people with severe male pattern baldness could react well. Its pretty much anyones guess what might happen noticing coincidences of a what a few people in a forum report does not mean thats true of most cases.