darinasks338
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I'm approaching 50 and the number one thing I have always received compliments on was my hair. Full, super thick head of hair. Never much thought about balding. About 12 months ago, I had to start hormone replacement and as you guessed, I've started noticing shedding. I do know if it's enough to pull the trigger and start therapy or not. The fact I've really never noticed shedding before and now I do, has gotten my attention.
Here is what I access: The morning after shampooing test and where you comb the hair back to front for 1 minute, I get anywhere from 10-30 strands. 10 is the average they say for non balding men. I also do this thing where I clasp my fingers together and run them pulling from the base of my hair up and see how much are between my fingers. If I do this randomly throughout the day, around my head a few times, like maybe 10-15 times, I'll get like 20-30 hairs come out. A few hours later I might get 10-20 more and so on. I'm not ripping my hair, just a gentle pulling up motion. I'm sure you've all done it. When I shampoo there is typically another 15-30 strands in the drain net I use to count the hairs. So all in all, I'm guesstimating, I'm losing 100-150 hairs per day. This has been going on for like 5 months now. I have never noticed really any shedding before and realize I'm probably more aware now and that could be some of this, but really, it was rare to pull more than a random strand out with my fingers prior to starting hormone replacement.
My hair does not look thinner to me per say, but I want to stay ahead on this. A few weeks ago I went out and purchased some monoxidil and RU58841. I am applying the monoxidil twice daily and the RU once. So far the shedding seems to be about the same and I anticipate the typical monoxide shedding phase.
My question is, do you think I'm jumping ahead here and with no real obvious thin spots yet, should I wait? Could I be messing up things with these products if my shedding is in fact just normal shedding? Or is it a good idea to try and beat balding to the punch?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Here is what I access: The morning after shampooing test and where you comb the hair back to front for 1 minute, I get anywhere from 10-30 strands. 10 is the average they say for non balding men. I also do this thing where I clasp my fingers together and run them pulling from the base of my hair up and see how much are between my fingers. If I do this randomly throughout the day, around my head a few times, like maybe 10-15 times, I'll get like 20-30 hairs come out. A few hours later I might get 10-20 more and so on. I'm not ripping my hair, just a gentle pulling up motion. I'm sure you've all done it. When I shampoo there is typically another 15-30 strands in the drain net I use to count the hairs. So all in all, I'm guesstimating, I'm losing 100-150 hairs per day. This has been going on for like 5 months now. I have never noticed really any shedding before and realize I'm probably more aware now and that could be some of this, but really, it was rare to pull more than a random strand out with my fingers prior to starting hormone replacement.
My hair does not look thinner to me per say, but I want to stay ahead on this. A few weeks ago I went out and purchased some monoxidil and RU58841. I am applying the monoxidil twice daily and the RU once. So far the shedding seems to be about the same and I anticipate the typical monoxide shedding phase.
My question is, do you think I'm jumping ahead here and with no real obvious thin spots yet, should I wait? Could I be messing up things with these products if my shedding is in fact just normal shedding? Or is it a good idea to try and beat balding to the punch?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
