I had excellent maintenance but had to go off a few times for reproductive purposes where I still used min so it seemed great until the time of male menopause and I went frail and ashen overnight.yeah I've heard the samealthough I have heard stories of some ppl retaining and even improving for like 20 years!!
Yeah, ok, everything that dermatologists are saying is just nonsense. Because of reasons, sure.
From my personal experience, dermatologists are not really reliable when it comes to hair loss.
It can add some years to it but honestly I doubt it's worth it. At a certain age your hair is just too sensitive to dht and even as little as 30% will cause hair loss. Finasteride only lowers scalp dht by 50% and dutasteride is like 65%. If you had a way to clear scalp dht 100% then it would be the best prevention.
Interesting. I just started dutasteride yesterday. 37 with a decent amount of hair left. Would like to keep something mildly respectable until at least 45. Didn’t realize it was this dire, but I guess it’s the only choice I have!
When did you first notice hair loss? Aggressiveness is usually correlated to age of onset. You said 10 years finasteride started losing efficacy, did you start right when you noticed hair loss?
Damn. It sounds like you started when I should have started. At age 25 I had very good hair and didn't notice any major recession. Even at 28 I never noticed but 28 was when I think I should've gone on. I thought my dad started balding in his 20 like every bald guy I know but he started in his 30s and by 40 he was bald norwood 7. I wish I was warned about this otherwise I'd check my hairline all the time. If I knew what I knew now I would've started propecia at 25.
Thinning isn't miniaturization.
I read a study on long term efficacy. They took about 115 patients on finasteride. About 7 were non responders, another 40 or so had stability and no improvement and that slowly declined after 10 years and another dozen or so who had improvement but fell to baseline or worse after 10 years. The rest still had improvement.
Any pics of your hair as it currently is ?
Taking a break was definitely a huge mistake, but it wasn’t strictly my choice. I had lost my job and was completely broke, to the point that I could hardly afford food or basic necessities. I just didn’t have the money to keep up treatment. Initially, I kind of went off on and on, trying to get some when I could but then having gaps. Eventually I just gave up and went without for a while. I’m sure it hurt my progress in a huge way.
Can’t say for certain that it wasn’t just a mature hairline years ago, but it’s definitely male pattern baldness now. To be honest, when finasteride was really working for me, I barely thought about my hair. I took my pills and applied minoxidil at night, but otherwise I didn’t really pay much attention because my hair looked good. Now, however, I have Lots of miniaturization of the hairs on the hairline and tons of thinning in the middle of my had, which results in a lack of density of lifelessness. The hair itself is also of far poorer quality. I also lose a lot of hair daily. Most notably, over the past three years or so, I’ve been experiencing tingling, prickly sensations in affected areas. As others here have suggested, this is likely attributable to the process playing out.
Because of any number of reasons that aren't the drugs magically stopping after 10 years. You're looking for things that might fit your conclusion, not accurate. You're not qualified to interpret and draw conclusions from a study. Please stop pushing this 10 year crap, you might mislead stupid people.
Dude. Your hair is fine. Like norwood 2.
