Desperate need of help / advice !!

[youngguyhairloss]

Hey guys .. I had set up an appointment with my derm for next Friday but I feel I can't wait much longer without some advice ... I have been on finasteride for close to 5 months and mino for 6. everything was going fine in which I mean I have not experienced any sides up until 3-4 weeks ago when I noticed an unbearable amount of shedding and itchy on my scalp !! I have never had such an intense amount of itchiness even before treatment ... I held a mirror up against my bathroom mirror to observe my scalp and notice a lot of pinkish dots I believe it's folliculitis... I started using nizoral and head and shoulders a lot more often the past 1.5 weeks but my question is should I discontinue my minoxidil use and see if my itch goes away ? The cosmetic appearance of my hair as taken a very bad hit and I feel like I'm worse then my baseline 6 months ago this is extremely disturbing to me if anyone has experience with this please advise me ... I'm freaking out to be honest

 

[lmao9955]

Same thing happened to me at 7 months into Rogaine. Twas probably a second shed and now it has subsided down after 6 weeks. The only option you have is to rideit out.

 

[Hairloss23]

minoxidil sheds shouldn't cause itch, it could be folliculits your derm will be able to tell you for sure, you shouldn't be using Nizoral shampoo more than 2-3 times a week at most. The other possibility is that you could have gotten hyperandrogenicity which is where the androgen receptors upregulate and cause you to lose hair at a quicker rate than before, it also ups the sex drive and other systems based on androgens. Pray you haven't got that...

 

[youngguyhairloss]

Same thing happened to me at 7 months into Rogaine. Twas probably a second shed and now it has subsided down after 6 weeks. The only option you have is to rideit out.

You had the same pinkish dots on your scalp ? Would you suggest to just continue using minoxidil as normal ? For explain in the morning when I wake up the pinkish dots are not noticeable it is only when I scratch at them that they redden

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minoxidil sheds shouldn't cause itch, it could be folliculits your derm will be able to tell you for sure, you shouldn't be using Nizoral shampoo more than 2-3 times a week at most. The other possibility is that you could have gotten hyperandrogenicity which is where the androgen receptors upregulate and cause you to lose hair at a quicker rate than before, it also ups the sex drive and other systems based on androgens. Pray you haven't got that...

I don't think I have hyperandrogenicity doesn't that also cause a outbreak of acne and usually only occurs in women ? I believe it's folliculitis my concern is if minoxidil is irritating it further and if I should take a break from it and only take my finasteride

 

[lmao9955]

You had the same pinkish dots on your scalp ? Would you suggest to just continue using minoxidil as normal ? For explain in the morning when I wake up the pinkish dots are not noticeable it is only when I scratch at them that they redden

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I don't think I have hyperandrogenicity doesn't that also cause a outbreak of acne and usually only occurs in women ? I believe it's folliculitis my concern is if minoxidil is irritating it further and if I should take a break from it and only take my finasteride

Yeah man at the 7 months mark the itch also returned along with increased shed. I had never shed much initially on Rogaine. But at 7 months mark I lost a lot of hair. I got scared and threw in Finasteride. After 6 weeks the shed has slowed down to 20-25 hairs from 80-100. And the itch has also subsided a lot. No I don't have pinkish dots and stuff. Just mild dandruff and the itch.
Try riding out the shed for like 6-10 weeks as that's the average time for a second shed to end from what I have read on these forums. It might last longer.
Keep hope!

 

[youngguyhairloss]

Yeah man at the 7 months mark the itch also returned along with increased shed. I had never shed much initially on Rogaine. But at 7 months mark I lost a lot of hair. I got scared and threw in Finasteride. After 6 weeks the shed has slowed down to 20-25 hairs from 80-100. And the itch has also subsided a lot. No I don't have pinkish dots and stuff. Just mild dandruff and the itch.
Try riding out the shed for like 6-10 weeks as that's the average time for a second shed to end from what I have read on these forums. It might last longer.
Keep hope!

Thanks for the advice bro I do believe the itch is from the shed because it began around the same time I noticed excessive shedding around 3-4 weeks ago as for the pinkish dots idk what they are .. Sometimes they aren't even visible I just got a buzz cut from my barber and he's a good friend of mine and knows I'm on treatment he would tell me if he saw anything and he didn't mention anything
I will stick to what I've been doing