Any guidance for me?

[nleahcim]

So I started losing my hair at the age of 15. I've always considered that to be proof that somebody up above really hates me. What I noticed first was that I was slowly getting a widow's peak (if that's the right term). Plus, my hairline has just slowly receded, giving me an annoyingly large forehead. I pretty much immediately went on Propecia. I also tried taking Rogaine but I couldn't find a way to make it work for me - it'd always give my hair this disgusting greasy look and take hours and hours to dry. So I gave up on that and stuck with the Propecia.

I'm now 23. A couple years back I switched over to splitting Proscar tablets in 4 to save money. So has the finasteride helped? I think it's slowed things down significantly. Some people even tell me I look better than I did a couple years ago - but they're probably just being nice. I think I pretty much look the same as I did a couple years ago - so that's good. But it makes me look old enough that most people think I'm about 30 years old. That gets old fast.

So Propecia was the best thing out there 8 years ago when I started treatment. Surely science has found something new? I've googled and googled and all I can find is a number of obvious snake oil treatments. Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

-Michael

 

[s.a.f]

So Propecia was the best thing out there 8 years ago when I started treatment. Surely science has found something new?

Sadly no.

 

[Cassin]

So Propecia was the best thing out there 8 years ago when I started treatment. Surely science has found something new? I've googled and googled and all I can find is a number of obvious snake oil treatments. Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

-Michael

There is not much money in hair loss treatments simply due to the fact that insurance companies don't pay for it.

 

[die_hard]

well nleahcim if you've maintained for all that time then you're doing allright. I could have pretty much copied and pasted your hairloss story into mine and it would be the same about when and how balding started. I'm 24 now but I've only been on finasteride for a couple months.

There isn't anything new out there, but it would never hurt to throw in some nizoral and other minor stuff to see what happens

 

[nleahcim]

So Propecia was the best thing out there 8 years ago when I started treatment. Surely science has found something new? I've googled and googled and all I can find is a number of obvious snake oil treatments. Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

-Michael

There is not much money in hair loss treatments simply due to the fact that insurance companies don't pay for it.

I would have thought that people would be willing to pay for it themselves. I mean there are plenty of companies doing various other baldness treatments - like hair plugs - so surely there's a market?

I actually had it in my head that cosmetic stuff was often a bigger market than actual life threatening things.

 

[nleahcim]

well nleahcim if you've maintained for all that time then you're doing allright. I could have pretty much copied and pasted your hairloss story into mine and it would be the same about when and how balding started. I'm 24 now but I've only been on finasteride for a couple months.

There isn't anything new out there, but it would never hurt to throw in some nizoral and other minor stuff to see what happens

I'm definitely not at the same level I was at when I started losing hair in highschool. I think it took maybe 2 years before it stabilized. And even still - I'm not convinced it's totally stable - but if I am still losing hair it's going very slowly now.

So I've seen various mentions of Nizoral shampoo. Is that what you're referring to? Is there a preferred source for it? I should mention that I live in the USA (Boston).

Also is there any reason for me to start up Rogaine again?

Let me be clear that money is not really much of an issue here. I'm really sick of this and if I have to throw some money at this problem - so be it.

Lastly - are there vitamins I should be eating, or things I should be putting in/keeping out of my diet? I took biotin for a while but I didn't notice that doing anything. I do take fish oil and vitamin C daily - but that's it for any sort of vitamins.

Thanks!

-Michael