Freedback on Copper Peptide Products?

[gr0]

So I don`t wanna try minoxidil because I`ve been told if you stop using it, it will accelerate your hair loss, because you build a tolerance to it, the surgeon I visited said after 5 years of use you wont get any more benefits but you have to keep using it anyways.

I`m only 25 so I`m kinda leaving that as a last resort.

What about all these copper peptide products? Is it the same deal? Can you just stop using them and do you build up a tolerance to them? and what would be the best product to use?

 

[Nathaniel]

I don't know if your Doctor is right about minoxidil. You don't develop tolerance to products, you just continue to bald. Same applies to copper peptides.

And as far as stopping products, of course you are going to lose hair since the products are helping you stay at or above baseline. So if you stop them you will go back to where you where before. There is no easy way out, either you put the effort and use the products every day or you will end up losing hair. It sucks but its the only option.

As for copper peptides, they are a nice addition to a regimen but not good by themselves. If you have male pattern baldness you need to consider halting DHT before considering copper peptides.

 

[Sean68]

you'd just lose the minoxidil dependent hairs. id be perfectly happy to cross
that bridge when i came to it, youre not even near it. the bridge is
could look like anything from where you are - a dry well or a medieval stone
cottage perhaps?

 

[first]

Even if it helps you maintain and possibly regrow for 5 years, that is likely enough. Who knows what new treatments we have in five years?

 

[Felk]

It gives you more hair than you otherwise would have, but balding continues, yes. Still, the "offset" it provides could equate to taking your hair back 2 or 3 years.

Everyone responds to drugs differently. And this isn't a vague "postmodern" approach to hair loss treatment, it's down to individual genetic variation, enzymes to metabolise drugs, etc. minoxidil could help you keep your hair for 5 or 10 years, for example. If you stop it, your hair has an almighty shed, but then returns to how it would have been had you never touched the minoxidil. I don't think that's a bad deal, you may as well try it.

 

[gr0]

I`m mostly scared that minoxidil won`t work for me and it will make things worse if I stop using it.

I`m maintaining fine right now with propecia, I have a lot of thin weak hairs all over my scalp. Is minoxidil guaranteed to make those weak hairs strong and normal tickness again? maybe guaranteed is a bit of a strong word , let`s go with most likely??

I`m afraid that minoxidil will do absolutly nothing for me and I will end up loosing those weaker hairs after I stop minoxidil, cause once they got a taste of it they become dependent on it? or it does`nt work like that at all?

I`m nine months on propecia , I should give it a year before I decide to add minoxidil anyways right?