How many years of recovery should I hope to achieve ?

[noorur]

Hi everyone

I began losing hair since I was 15. My hairloss accellerated when I was 19 onwards, and I have recently added finasteride onto my regime, along with the lasercomb. I began using Revivogen since last november along with Procerin (scam IMO).

How many years of hair can I recover, can my hair look like how it was a year ago, 2 years ago ? 3 years ago ? 4 years ago ?

What I be expecting ??

 

[wangho75]

of course. My hair has gone back to what it looked like 5 years ago in less than 4 months. An emphatic 'hell yes!' differing results for different people though.

 

[noorur]

and where r u on the norwood scale ?

how long have you been losing hair ?

 

[wangho75]

and where r u on the norwood scale ?

how long have you been losing hair ?

About a Norwood 2b with diffusion in the vertex. Been losing ground for about 13 years. I am 30 now.

 

[noorur]

only norwood 2b and been losing hair for the past 13 years ???

wtf

that means your hairloss is very very slow, and that you have a much better chance of recovery than most of us.

i wouldn't be so suprised of you reached your peak regrowth withing the first 6-12 months.

 

[techprof]

wang, no offence. if you are NW2 for 13 years, even if you don't use anything you are likely to be Nw2 or NW3 for life.

 

[fritz96]

Why does he have a better chance at recovery? If it's 13 years, isn't most of the loss not recent enough for recovery?

only norwood 2b and been losing hair for the past 13 years ???

wtf

that means your hairloss is very very slow, and that you have a much better chance of recovery than most of us.

i wouldn't be so suprised of you reached your peak regrowth withing the first 6-12 months.

 

[noorur]

it's because his hairloss is extremely slow, much slower than normal right ?

 

[noorur]

so......

is anyone gonna answer my question ?

What are the realistic expection I should set ?

 

[SE-freak]

I am losing hair for probably 9 years(I am 28 ) and my hairline is straight. How about that? My crown is suffering though.
:roll:

 

[fritz96]

So is the rate of hairloss more important than how recent it was? Does someone who lost hair at a slow rate, say between 13 and 5 years ago, have a better chance at recovery than someone who lost hair aggressively 2 years ago?

 

[SE-freak]

There are two factors regarding possible results of treatment I believe:

1.the level of damaged caused to the follicles during years

2. And the rate of hairloss onslaught.

A slow loss over years can reach an equilibrium through medication much more easily and lead to stabilization.

A rapid loss burst could lead to great improvement through medication as the loss is recent(not many cycles of miniaturization), but I am not sure it could be stabilized that easily.

Of course I could be talking rubbish here. No one really knows the outcome of the process or treatment

 

[noorur]

My hairloss became rapid from last year onwards, and I do beleive they are undergoing the first cycle after the loss.

Does that mean I have a very good chance ?

 

[wangho75]

There are two factors regarding possible results of treatment I believe:

1.the level of damaged caused to the follicles during years

2. And the rate of hairloss onslaught.

A slow loss over years can reach an equilibrium through medication much more easily and lead to stabilization.

A rapid loss burst could lead to great improvement through medication as the loss is recent(not many cycles of miniaturization), but I am not sure it could be stabilized that easily.

Of course I could be talking rubbish here. No one really knows the outcome of the process or treatment

That sounds like a pretty good assessment.

techprof, My hairline had receded and diffused in those 13 years as well, again, just really slowly. BTW, look at Woody Harrelson. You could tell he had bad hair in the earliest seasons of Cheers. His hairloss wasn't very dramatic either 10 years down the line.

If I stay at a Norwood 2, ill be happy with that. I know how to keep my hair so that it looks pretty good even at Norwood 2b. Hairloss can obviously be restored from even a decade ago. Dead follicles? Im not sure I really believe in that.

A brand new dark terminal hair that came in about 3/4 an inch away from ANY part of my hairline and on my temple, makes me not believe in totally dead follicles, and I know for a stone cold fact, it's been over a decade since I've had hair anywhere near that brand new terminal hair. Im not excited about 1 terminal hair, but I am excited that I know the ability to restore hair lost from a LONG time ago is a fact.

What further excites me is that I can't even remember having hair in the zone where that one new terminal hair now resides. Maybe when I was about 15 or 16 maybe there could have been hair in that same zone. Then these tiny black hair stubbles sitting straight across in a Norwood 1 zone and vellus right behind that all on the temples, well, I dont know what the f is up with them. Will it turn terminal? I don't know as I have never gotten much solid feedback whenever I asked about what is happening so far out from my hairline, but that 1 terminal hair (and longer vellus right beside it) tells me hmmm... MAYBE

 

[wangho75]

Ive always had kind of a strange hairloss though. I've had lone stray thick healthy hairs hanging out all by themselves a good 1/2 inch from my hairline, from way back and LONG before I strated finasteride, just totally unaffected by DHT.