Hairline and Frontal Maintenance Possible???

[Fallout Boy]

Is there anyone on here who has alot of hair on their head who has succesfully completely stopped hairloss for a period of a year or more?? I mean frontal and hairline hairloss too. IF so whats your regimen??

Im just wondering if its even possible to completely stop hairloss or if the best you can do is just slow it down alot.

And how well does Propecia stopped hairloss on your hairline / front part of head for you users out there?? Should i be using something else for my hairline / front part of my head?

My full year of Propecia. is not upyet . only on month 5 but im just curious

 

[Pirate Commander F.B.]

The Hairlosstalk resource library has a study on Propecia's effectiveness on frontal male pattern baldness. It's a pdf file, so you need adobe Acrobat reader. Here is the link:

http://www.hairlosstalk.com/download/finfront.pdf

The basic conclusion of the study is that finasteride works very well for maintenance with frontal male pattern baldness, but regrowth potential is limited.

 

[gonna_win]

The way I've understood it, is that for most of those people that has a very obvious receding temple balding pattern (like Jude Law), have a different hormone causing the hair loss than the one that finasterid is affecting. Dutasterid on the other hand is supposed to be more effective against this type of balding. So it depends a bit upon the hormone makeup in your body. Only time will tell I guess.
My head is plagued with a more general diffuse thinning (which finasterid is supposed to be more effective against), so I hope I'm one of those that will react well to proscar. However, after 3.5 months I've only gotten thinner hair so far..

I'm not so sure about your claim.

 

[Bismarck]

The way I've understood it, is that for most of those people that has a very obvious receding temple balding pattern (like Jude Law), have a different hormone causing the hair loss than the one that finasterid is affecting. Dutasterid on the other hand is supposed to be more effective against this type of balding. So it depends a bit upon the hormone makeup in your body. Only time will tell I guess.
My head is plagued with a more general diffuse thinning (which finasterid is supposed to be more effective against), so I hope I'm one of those that will react well to proscar. However, after 3.5 months I've only gotten thinner hair so far..

I'm not so sure about your claim.

Some claimed that 5ar-I is predominant in the frontal area of the scalp. Therefore, finasteride would worsen male pattern baldness there (More Testosterone).

bis

 

[Fallout Boy]

so by taking propecia im worsening my hairline!!?!? im thinking about dutasteride. but im not trying to get cancer or some other kind of crazy side effect by trying to save my hair.

No one here has had success in maintaining their hairline with Propecia?? or for that matter maintaining it with any other medication/product??

thanks for all the replies!

 

[Pirate Commander F.B.]

so by taking propecia im worsening my hairline!!?!?

Fallout boy, the discussion about finasteride not being good for frontal hairloss is simply speculation. I posted a study above, read it. It contains actual REAL LIFE results! Not guesswork on a message board by laymen (no disrespect to Scarpro intended). Alternatively look at these pictures from one of the members here:

http://www.geocities.com/actionpackti/

From the title of this thread I conclude you're looking for maintenance. My advice is to start Finasteride asap. Finasteride takes some time to kick in and works slow so don't hesitate.

results: There was a significant increase in hair count in the frontal scalp of finasteride-treated patients, as well as significant improvements in patient, investigator, and global photographic assessments.

conclusion: In men with hair loss in the anterior/mid area of the scalp, finasteride 1 mg/day slowed hair loss and increased hair growth.

 

[chewbaca]

The way I've understood it, is that for most of those people that has a very obvious receding temple balding pattern (like Jude Law), have a different hormone causing the hair loss than the one that finasterid is affecting. Dutasterid on the other hand is supposed to be more effective against this type of balding. So it depends a bit upon the hormone makeup in your body. Only time will tell I guess.
My head is plagued with a more general diffuse thinning (which finasterid is supposed to be more effective against), so I hope I'm one of those that will react well to proscar. However, after 3.5 months I've only gotten thinner hair so far..

I'm not so sure about your claim.

Some claimed that 5ar-I is predominant in the frontal area of the scalp. Therefore, finasteride would worsen male pattern baldness there (More Testosterone).

bis

this is the first time i hear someone is claiming 5Ar1 casing hair loss...it really depends on what yr norwwod scale is....if yr fron had been bald in the front for a long time u have less chances of propecia working on it..probably minoxidil will work better for regrowth...if u are just starting to lose hair in the front, then propecia will have better chance.....well there has been a known fact that trasnplanted hair signals other hairs surrounding it to grow....so i guess propecia works in the same way......when it stops the hair loss..the hair in the middle surrounding signals other hair including the front to stop shedding as well...this is why the study proves propecia maintains hair rather than regow

 

[Fallout Boy]

Thanks Pirate Commander, i just read the study. that was a really good link and helped me out. I will keep on Propecia. and hope that it works for my hairline too. I'll let you guys know

But my other question with the Maintenance of hair over a long period of time.. If anyone has had success with just keeping their hair and stopping all hairloss please post and explain your success or if you already posted something please provide a link to it!!! that would be awesome..

In the Photo section of this website there are 2 or 3 people that i read about who maintained their full head of hair. One guy wasnt even using propecia so i was seeing if anyone else had simalar success?? i tried to email those guys but i guess they changed their email. GRR

 

[Greg1]

fallout boy, the kind of treatment that I'm on has stopped my hairloss in my front hairline. I will say though that if you lost it before you started treatment that you most likely will not be getting it back. MHO.

Greg

 

[Fallout Boy]

yea my hairline is starting to thin and im hesitant to throw Rogaine into my regimen because i dont know if i would end up sticking to it 2times a day, as i am in college.. but im hoping finasteride. will be enough to maintain what i have .. maybe by month 6 or 7 if my hairline gets worse i will throw rogain 5% in.. not sure though. (on month 5 now) The Propecia study on frontal hairloss makes finasteride. seem promising so i'll keep my fingers crossed!

greg what treatments are you using??

and thy. how / where do you apply your rogaine to? Over your whole head??

 

[Greg1]

fallout boy, I'm using what's called LLL or Low Level Laser therapy. I can't complain.

Greg

 

[thylax]

?

LLL what?

 

[tohair]

If this adds anything - i looked at my college graduation pictures the other day, and i have CONSIDERABLY more hair today than i did the day i graduated. The top of my haid was getting whispy and thin, and i had a 1 inch almost bald patch at the crown.

Lucky, i had been on finasteride for about 4 months at the time that photo was taken. It took 9 months for me to see the effects of the drug, but let me stress that i have a great deal MORE hair than i did then.

What's interesting is I graduated in 1995. I know that i would be bald now if i hadn't started on this drug.

 

[Fallout Boy]

wow tohair thats good to here success like that!

so you've been on finasteride for a number of years now .. are you still taking it?? and over the years how has the maintainance been??

 

[ropcat]

Regarding whether finasteride alone can retain a hairline: I've retained a pretty good hairline for 4+ years now with finasteride and Nizoral 1% -- nothing else. Temples very slowly getting lighter (more vellus hairs) but maintenance has been okay. Wish I'd stuck some topicals in from day one, but I'm too damn undisciplined to make that work (as I learned during a brief flirtation with spironolactone). Pills, pills, I love pills...

 

[jason566]

Some claimed that 5ar-I is predominant in the frontal area of the scalp. Therefore, finasteride would worsen male pattern baldness there (More Testosterone).

bis


Ok now im scared because since starting propecia 2 months ago my frontal hair has thinned badly..but my daily increase in shedding is the same....im worried

 

[gonna_win]

There is too many unfounded claims on this thread.

 

[Fallout Boy]

Pirate Commander posted a study done on this on the first page of the post .. take a look at that. It shows that Propecia. HELPS frontal / hairline!!


and Ropcat you wish you would have started a topical right when you started propecia??

 

[Bismarck]

Pirate Commander posted a study done on this on the first page of the post .. take a look at that. It shows that Propecia. HELPS frontal / hairline!!


and Ropcat you wish you would have started a topical right when you started propecia??

this study says pretty much nothing. read it !!

 

[Pirate Commander F.B.]

Bismarck, how so? Could you be more specific about why you don't value this study?