I was using the big 3 in order to keep what I had which was probably not a smart idea looking back now since I only had very mild thinning. I remember my hair was doing fine until maybe around the 4 or 5 month of starting Propecia. Then things started getting bad and I got depressed at how my hair started changing so quickly for the worse. Then several months later I started the Rogaine foam. I loved how the stuff went on. My hair still was getting worse but mostly where I was putting the foam. I would get slightly better 3 to 4 months later and then get worse and then I noticed my hairline was suffering the most. My hair texture also changed all over and its no longer thick like it used to be. When I used to get a haircut before the big 3, my hair looked super thick after I left the shop, now my hair is so thin(my density has decreased at least 20 to 25 percent) all over I get sick in the chair while he is cutting it and regret ever starting with the big 3. I talked to another person and he went thru this same scenerio as myself and we both really could not understand how this can happen. I stopped using the foam 2 times day after about 11 months of torture of waiting to get back to my baseline and went to once a day. Then after using it once per day it got slight better. Now I am using Proxiphen and at first I got a major shed with that but now things are better and I am hoping my hairline will just thicken up. I just want my thickness back to what it used to be in the front and down the middle and I will be satisfied. After looking at your photo, I know how you must be feeling now knowing that things have gotten worse and you are on treatments that you thought would at least help keep what you have but now you have lost more than what you have started with. The only advice I can give you keep using your treatments consistently and hope you respond to the point you regrow more hair than when you started. However, its going to be a long wait because hair cycles take many months to recycle. I am impatient and want to see instant results and that is not going to happen. Everyone's case is different. I am sticking with my treatments in hopes that maybe by the end of this year, my hair will get thicker. That is all I can do at this point. I have heard your hair will resort back to the way it was before you started Propecia and Rogaine if you stop all treatments. I would love for that to happen because my hair was so much thicker before I started with the big 3. However, that would be a big gamble and I am just too afraid to lose more now so I will keep fighting with my treatments until something else comes along better. If all else fails, I guess a hair transplant might be my only choice. Good luck to you.
