Finasteride Stories: Enquiry From A Recent Starter

[Bigoldben]

I’ve been on finasteride for just over a week now, obviously haven’t noticed any results yet (I do seem to be shedding less although I suspect this is psychological). In recent months the fear of losing my hair has caused me significant anxiety as a 21 year old and for a while I thought it was probably just maturing but in recent weeks my shed hairs have shown increasing differences in diameter. That said no one looking at me would suspect balding and my juvenile hairline remain albeit partially miniaturised. What I’ve decided is to go on finasteride until
a) a better solution emerges
b) I no longer care
c) it stops/ doesn’t work
d) I show significant sides

Basically, given all the scare stories I’m interested in relatively unbiased evidence of people who went on it for long periods of time basically:
a) how successful was it/ what sides did you endure
b) what kind of timeline your hair progressed at
c) how long you’ve been on it/ I tend to be on it and what age were you when you started

 

[itsjustsimon]

8 years, been great for 5-6 years or at least I didn’t care abour hair loss anymore. After that I’ve noticed thinning all over my head, jump on dutasteride, now still trying to figure things out. I started when I was 20. No sides except some testicular pain sometimes. Good luck!