Does finasteride make the light hairs fall out?

[sandyc]

On my double crown, I don't seem to have nowhere near as much light hairs, I have long hair and the hair that falls out at times is half brown and half light blonde to white.

Will these hairs grow back on finasteride?

 

[ripple-effect]

Yes it should... usually the thin hairs will fall out because these are currently the ones most susceptible to DHT attack. So since the drug is lowering the amount of DHT in your system there is less DHT available to continue attacking. The follicle then begins to recover. The hairs in these follicles will shed and be replaced by thicker hairs.

 

[sandyc]

Okay so I've been on finasteride almost 4 months now. I staggered onto it and now take 0.5mg a day.

I think my crown looks better, I think I've had very slow loss over the last 7 years or so. But the left corner of my hairline seems to have thinned out a lot, hardly any light hairs there (this corner has been half dark hairs, half light for about 4 years) but about 6 dark hairs sprouting through (I have long hair)

If i pull my hair to the side tight, it looks like I've now got a widows peak due to the hair that's there now not really showing up.

Any idea if the light hairs will grow back now and when they will? I'm kinda worried finasteride has just killed them.

 

[ripple-effect]

Are you talking about your temples? finasteride doesn't do much for frontal hair loss. It's mainly for the vertex of your scalp.

 

[sandyc]

No, the corner of my hairline. It's obviously done something to this area since all the light hairs are pretty much gone.