I cant understand what is happening! My hair is going away!

[KipWinger]

hi! i started finasteride since 7 months ago, and it was just great becouse in the firt week i stopped my hair loss. only two or 3 hair when take bath and before was like 30 hairs or more! i am taking nizoral shampoo since two months. i was begining to like my hair again! becouse he seemeg to apear more hair! and beautiful. my hair line was ok, every thing was going fine. but since two months ago more or less my hair begun to fall again like it was falling before finasteride! and it dont stops! now i can see my hair line soo poor and bad, receiding very fast, and my hair is so thin! i dont know what to doooo! is this a finasteride shed? i need a urgent help, becouse since this is happening to me i am becoming crazy i think about it all day all the time, i am soo sad. my hair was going so great what happened to fall my hair again? i can see mush more my scalp!!! HELP HELP HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Trent]

alright kip, it sounds like you are a responder to finasteride, so that's good news. first thing, try and relax. I know its tough, and i have a hard time doing it as well, but you gotta push yourself to try and relax about this. Take the situation logically and not impulsively. a 2 month or so shed is not unheard of. I would stick with your treatment, and try and wait it out some. I recommend using a little toppik or some kind of cosmetic thickener to get you through the trying times without having fits of anger and depression when you glance in the mirror. The odds are working for you that this is just a shed and your hair will start to get better again.

 

[KipWinger]

hi Trent! thancks for your post! this is a very dificult situation... looking me on the mirror? i allreaddy have afraid of mirror! i try to avoid them. i avoid go out home and in this mounths i stay closed in my room reading post in here in a hope of something good. i hope this is a shed for finasteride and i wiill respond well this. but this is allreaddy two mounths in shed! how many more time i have to wait? i am shedding but i dont see many new hairs, if i was shedding and seen many new hair i was hopefull but in my case i see only some. i allreaddy buy in the net a product for laser therapy i hope that will do something good for me. I just hope that this pass away and everyone never expirence some like that! great luck to all .

trent this happened to you? it stopped allready? how many time you were falling? in which mounth?

 

[KipWinger]

anyone have pass a shed in finasteride and then it start to become better again? with strogger hair groing up?

 

[jfrank]

i've been on propecia for two months... and have had near 1.5 months of continuous shedding.. (especially in the frontal hairline, which 2 months ago was the thickest of my hair).. freaks me out.. everyday i break out the ruler to see if my hairline has receeded..

i'm freakin out too.. yup, and have covered up my mirrors too.. i use toppik when i go out... worked everywhere else but the front... sucks

 

[pleasegodno]

trent, i notice that you're seeing some results now. did you find that when you were finally able to relax that your shed decreased? did you have the tendency to get VERY stressed/anxious? did you experience itching and maybe burning? if you have found a correlation, approximately how long after your attitude adjustment did you notice less fallout?

i've been dealing with intense anxiety for a while now and my hair continues to shed--the loss has been very rapid. i hardly have any recession, just diffuse as f***, especially in the front and crown, but it seems to have spread to other areas as well. i know this anxiety is having a negative effect, but it's so hard to rid myself of it because of my hair's current condition and because of the fallout i expect in the coming months from the stress i have now....it's an ironic and horrible fuckin cycle.

 

[Trent]

trent, i notice that you're seeing some results now. did you find that when you were finally able to relax that your shed decreased? did you have the tendency to get VERY stressed/anxious? did you experience itching and maybe burning? if you have found a correlation, approximately how long after your attitude adjustment did you notice less fallout?

Yes, i did (and do) have a tendency to get very stressed out/anxious. to probably the lowest degree of depression one can think of.

No, i have never had itching or burning throughout my treatment or before my treatment.

My attitude adjustment started after i first changed my hair back to my old style. I used to spike my hair up messy and bed head like before hairloss. Once male pattern baldness kicked in, i began to wear it down. It looked terrible on me, kinda like jim carrey in dumb and dumber, but it covered up my loss.

One day at my parents house I decided to say f*** it, i'm gonna see how it looks spiked up again. It didn't look half bad, and i felt like myself again with my old hair cut. i took this as "the treatments might be doing something" since it looks a little better spiked up now. despite my terrible hair days, and great ones, i just spike it up. And my attitude has changed ever since. I still feel shitty some days, and feel like life has just handed me some terrible hand and that i am the butt of some cruel genetic joke. Other days, I sum up the courage to just accept who i am, and be okay with it. As time progresses, i have more days where i'm okay. The treatments seem to be helping, but in a very rollercoaster fashion, and its tough to generalize the whole experience. But my hair LOSS has come to a hault, and i'm back to being me with my old haircut. I guess these two things have helped me to stay positive and get through those stressful and anxious times that you speak of. Has it helped with the fallout? i guess i'll never know. What I DO know, is that being less stressed sure as hell didn't hurt the situation.

PS: The thought of HM being in clinical trials backed by some lofty sponsors helps me through the tough times too. focus on the positives man, that's all you can do. No one wants to be around an anxious depressed self hating person. Think of how lucky you are just to exist. that's some crazy sh*t man. so enjoy this little window of life on earth that you get, and fight like mad to keep your hair. that's all you can do. best of luck to you man. keep your chin up.