Did Your Hair Get Worse Even Tho You’ve Been Taken Finasteride For 1year +

[Jake1996]

Hi Guys!

I was wondering if there were anyone out there who actually experienced Finasteride making your hairloss worse?

I don’t wanna hear about the guys who’ve been using it for 2 months and describe the shedding phase. I am talking about people who’ve been on the product for 1 year+?

Thanks for your answers

 

[AnxiousAndy]

Been on finasteride for 21 months. Hair got worse faster and is still getting worse. I'm on additional treatments now but still losing unfortunately

 

[Retinoid]

Please read Propecias clinical trials through the FDA or Merck. This will give you all the information you need.

 

[Jake1996]

Please read Propecias clinical trials through the FDA or Merck. This will give you all the information you need.

That’s exactly what it does not! They don’t describe cases like @AnxiousAndy that’s why I want to hear people’s story instead of getting screwed over by a big drug company’s words

 

[MorningGlory]

That’s exactly what it does not! They don’t describe cases like @AnxiousAndy that’s why I want to hear people’s story instead of getting screwed over by a big drug company’s words

The extreme anecdotal tales you read online are outliers, the various empirical studies on finasteride provide much more rational information.

 

[Retinoid]

That’s exactly what it does not! They don’t describe cases like @AnxiousAndy that’s why I want to hear people’s story instead of getting screwed over by a big drug company’s words

Agree with Morning Glory. Also people like AnxiousAndy ADMITS he has OCD and BDD and is seeking mental treatment. Clinical trials are multi million dollar well designed studies.

 

[german89]

im on finasteride for 6 years now and it didnt stop my hairloss....not even sure if it slowed it down. still losing up to 200+ hairs every day and om diffusing and thinning more and more

 

[londonhairlossvictim]

Hey I just posted also -

Been on Finastride 11 months now, I definetely feel like my temples were better before I started Finastride. Though my Dr has shown my proof of my scalp and follicles that the new ones growing seem to be much healthier than what was there before.

BUT I do feel like before Finastride my hair was better.

I am 34.

I've been told alot by people that it really kicks in after a year. So at the moment deciding what to do, hold or go for a treatment as my hair temples bother me alot and they don't seem to ever improve.

 

[Retinoid]

im on finasteride for 6 years now and it didnt stop my hairloss....not even sure if it slowed it down. still losing up to 200+ hairs every day and om diffusing and thinning more and more

Do you have before and after pics? If you have been losing 200+ hairs a day for 6yrs when you were already thinning I am assuming you are already bald or almost bald.

 

[londonhairlossvictim]

im on finasteride for 6 years now and it didnt stop my hairloss....not even sure if it slowed it down. still losing up to 200+ hairs every day and om diffusing and thinning more and more

Why are you still on it then? 6 years is a long time and clearly by sounds of it, it is not working for you

 

[german89]

why im i still using it? cause i cant do nothing! cant accept that im losing and losing hair. its sort of calming down my self.... proving that im doing something.... difficult to explain

 

[MorningGlory]

really kicks in after a year

It’s not so much that it “kicks in” it’s that after the year point the hair has gone through sufficient cycles for a tentative difference to be noticed.

hold or go for a treatment

Not sure what’s implied here but if you’re referring to a transplant you will be advised to keep taking finasteride anyway.

 

[londonhairlossvictim]

It’s not so much that it “kicks in” it’s that after the year point the hair has gone through sufficient cycles for a tentative difference to be noticed.



Not sure what’s implied here but if you’re referring to a transplant you will be advised to keep taking finasteride anyway.

Well then there has been no difference in my templates...I am at 11 month mark...is my only option a surgical treatment?

 

[MorningGlory]

Well then there has been no difference in my templates...I am at 11 month mark...is my only option a surgical treatment?

If you were expecting temple regrowth in 11 months on finasteride you obviously didn’t research it well. Even with a transplant you have to wait around a year before you’ll see the full extent of its success. There’s no overnight fix beside a wig/hair system I’m afraid.

 

[londonhairlossvictim]

If you were expecting temple regrowth in 11 months on finasteride you obviously didn’t research it well. Even with a transplant you have to wait around a year before you’ll see the full extent of its success. There’s no overnight fix beside a wig/hair system I’m afraid.

What do you recommend then? If you can advise...I posted just recently my situation

 

[londonhairlossvictim]

Here - https://www.hairlosstalk.com/intera...at-i-have-to-do-next-temples-hit-hard.115277/

 

[MorningGlory]

What do you recommend then? If you can advise...I posted just recently my situation

I recommend sticking with your current regimen. Your hair line is good and you have good density.

 

[londonhairlossvictim]

I recommend sticking with your current regimen. Your hair line is good and you have good density.

Yes but can't you see the temple? Nothing seems to be happening there and it's been like that for over a year?

 

[AnxiousAndy]

Agree with Morning Glory. Also people like AnxiousAndy ADMITS he has OCD and BDD and is seeking mental treatment. Clinical trials are multi million dollar well designed studies.

While that may be true I have definitely continued to lose ground and have provided before and afters on here many times as proof. I know finasteride doesn't work for everybody and I may well be in that category but it doesn't explain why I've lost more hair in almost two years of treatment than I have in 5 years of hair loss without medication. Obviously what I'm experiencing is fairly rare and the people in the study could easily have not had the same reaction I have had. For the ones who continued to lose some may have experienced the same thing as me and were simply written off as non responders, which in a sense is true because it didn't stop their hair loss. It is irritating when people try to dismiss mine and others claims as false or irrational. I know my hair better than anybody and this phenomenon, reflex hyperandrogenicity or whatever you want to call it does exist.. Its just hard to prove since a study focused on it would require observations of participants hair loss years in advance to see the rate it progress and then comparing that to years on finasteride. Its a study that's very unlikely to ever happen given how rare this opposite finasteride reaction is. For me, the study doesn't even need to happen as I have all the proof I need already, I just want you to acknowledge that this opposite reaction can and does happen.. Despite how ludicrous it sounds, because I didn't believe it either until it happened to me.