First time poster with some questions ... please help

[voidcheck]

Hey ... new to the forums and looking for a solution ...

I've always had a very high forehead/widows peak, with slightly thin hair around the edges ... the rest of my hair, however, is exceedingly thick and wavy. I'm 23 and not sure if I'm losing any hair yet ... if anything, my forehead's getting higher (receding) and slightly thinner at the edges. To the best of my knowledge, there are no signs of thinning at the crown.

What products/supplements are there that I can invest in to maintain the amount of hair I have now and regrow any I've lost? My primary concern is frontal, but would like to set up a preventative regimen now for the rest.

Any help anyone can provide wiould be greatly appreciated.

 

[voidcheck]

Dietary advice would also be helpful.

 

[dead]

prevention = finasteride (Proscar / Propecia / Finpeia etc)

finasteride comes in a 1mg or 5mg tablet, use 1mg a day to slow or halt hair loss, using more will unlikely produce better results and increase likely hood of side effects.

 

[voidcheck]

I've heard this has negative effects on the hairline from reading various comments here ... any way to prevent that?

My forehead's high enough already ...

 

[iamnaked]

I would take this kind of negative finasteride schtick with a pinch of salt. It makes no sense for a DHT-reducing chemical to help one kind of hair on your head and wreck the rest. Reports like this represent the paranoid logic of those with male pattern baldness - just because you're doing something at the same time as your hair is receding, does not mean it is necessarily a factor.

 

[jfrank]

speak for yourself.. i dont know.. since starting propecia my hairline went to the crappy... in two weeks, i had suggnificant thinnning.. now i have a hairline of NW3.. (which in three months was perfect) so unless it was on a coincidence nad male pattern baldness decided to accelertate greatly during my propecioa treament, or it was the treatment itself.. im upset...

 

[iamnaked]

Perhaps it is possible that you experienced overcompensatory dht upregulation, jfrank? I have heard of this before, but it sounds pretty rare.
I will still stand by what I said though. Maybe not all propecia-harms-your-hairline stories are devoid of truth, but I am sure some of them are formed in the same way as all other male pattern baldness myths, e.g. hippies who go bald and then assume it was all the pot they smoked.

 

[jfrank]

whats overcompensatory dht upregulation?? will i recover from it?