Does Minoxidil Become Less Effective With Time?

[vinn]

I don't mean that hair loss progresses since minoxidil can't stop the cause of male pattern baldness, I mean does your body build a tolerance to minoxidil like other drugs to the point where it stops having an effect on your follicles? I remember a poster here saying that after one year your body stops responding to minoxidil.

 

[barfacan]

Not really, its just that your alopecia becomes more effective.

 

[Bryant12]

pretty much it does, at 20 years old i used it and revived some frontal hairs, was effective til about 2 years ago when i was 25, i maintained it but i still thinned slowly, now that im 27 has almost no effect

 

[whatevr]

If you stop the process of balding then no. However if you're not doing anything against the miniaturization then after a while you will be taking Minoxidil just to have the same shitty head of hair you had before you even started it, and trust me, that isn't fun.