can finasteride help grow LONG hairs and not just short 1 inch hairs

[mark16v]

just a question, I'd imagine it only grows back shorter hair, for some reason I can't see long hairs coming through.

hope nobody minds all my posts, I have read quite a bit on the forum before posting (sometimes!) don't mean to offend.

thanks.

 

[mark16v]

bump

Does anybody have any idea about this?

I have a shorter patch on the top of my scalp that is there, but it's short - all the other hairs on my head are long. I'm hoping that finasteride ight improve this??

 

[SE-freak]

This "shorter patch" is an area covered by hairs that have a short anagen part of the cycle. When male pattern baldness progresses the hair cycle becomes progressively shorter and shorter and hair diameter and pigment production reduces.

If you are a good responder to finasteride then a large number of hairs in this area will start a new cycle having recovered from DHT "affliction" meaning that they will possibly start a new cycle with less DHT bound to their receptors. These hairs will have a longer anagen phase and will be able to grow longer.

I hope this is the case for you and all of us eventually.

 

[Bryan]

I find it curious that so many people seem to assume that beneficial effects in hair follicles in response to medical treatment can only begin with a NEW HAIR CYCLE...

Bryan

 

[dead]

I find it curious that so many people seem to assume that beneficial effects in hair follicles in response to medical treatment can only begin with a NEW HAIR CYCLE...

Bryan

It is not at all curious, you simply are more educated in these matters than the majority of people who post here.

 

[jfrank]

well, wouldnt that explain the increase of shedding at the beginning of treament? new hair cycle, stronger hair??

obviously, this may not be the onyl result from the treatments..

 

[SE-freak]

I look forward to have this myth dispelled by you Bryan and I am not being ironic here. Isn't it true that hair shaft diameter is mainly defined in the very beginning of the anagen phase?

T, we gained a great fellow poster, but diplomacy has lost a great man.

 

[Cornholio]

I am noticing the contour of my temples changing some after 3 months of multi-drug treatments... The hair is finer and lighter than other areas, and less pigmented, but is definately new and cosmetically visable. My girlfriend noticed them without me pointing them out...

I would think that they MAY progress to longer thicker hair if my treatments are enough to beat back the damage and atrophy induced by androgens and DHT. It may be a gradual process, but it makes sense that if they were awakened and growing due to treatments there is the potential for them to improve further with more time... In any case I am glad to have them : )

 

[GeminiX]

Personally speaking, I had some hairs just sit there, not growing, not shedding, just holding fast at about 1 1/2 inches, but after a year or so they eventually fell out and seem to have come back as thicker longer hairs which keep growing.

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[mark16v]

sounds good.

my hair is pretty much fine, apart from this one partch, right on my middle parting, and I worry these short hairs will fall out - and leave a nice, stupid bald spot.

will be starting my treatment in a couple of weeks time once I have found the best source to buy from.

 

[Bryan]

well, wouldnt that explain the increase of shedding at the beginning of treament? new hair cycle, stronger hair??

Sure. I don't have any particular problem with the generally accepted notion that medical treatment may push follicles that are currently resting into a new growth phase, with the accompanying sudden loss of their telogen hairs. But why would that be incompatible with the idea that follicles and their hairs can ALSO be strengthened when treatment is begun mid-anagen?

Dr. Proctor has mentioned over the years that sometimes you can see shed hairs that enlarged a bit over their length, in response to treatment (or continued to miniaturize, for that matter, due to male pattern baldness).

Bryan

 

[wangho75]

well, wouldnt that explain the increase of shedding at the beginning of treament? new hair cycle, stronger hair??

Sure. I don't have any particular problem with the generally accepted notion that medical treatment may push follicles that are currently resting into a new growth phase, with the accompanying sudden loss of their telogen hairs. But why would that be incompatible with the idea that follicles and their hairs can ALSO be strengthened when treatment is begun mid-anagen?

Dr. Proctor has mentioned over the years that sometimes you can see shed hairs that enlarged a bit over their length, in response to treatment (or continued to miniaturize, for that matter, due to male pattern baldness).

Bryan

well I dont know what to think. I had a big patch of long vellus hair grow in on the vertex and there it sat for months. It eventually thinned just a bit, and then came back almost overnight as terminal and dark hair.

Some of my new terminal hair were first vellus, then shed, then 3 months or so later were full dark terminals. My hair was diffused enough on the hairline to be able to single out any new hairs, being that they were very early vellus, then terminal hairs.

 

[Dinzy]

Though I have yet to experience anything the could qualify as a sucess I have seen some shed hairs that appeared to get drastically thicker. They had a weak velus like tip and a thin, but definately terminal base. However these hairs were less than an inch long. Basically they looked like this


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