Idea to reduce full-scale shedding when starting minoxidil: your opinion please.

[GwenGwen]

Hi guys,

(sorry for my average english)

I would like to start using minoxidil in the next weeks (waiting for this mail delivery) and I'm worried about the usual shedding that occurs in the first months of using this product.

I'd like to avoid a massive-scale shedding by applying the product only at the very edge (1-2 inch) of the hairline, for the first 1-2 months. Shedding should(?) occur in this region at first, but not elsewhere. Then, I could go gradually deeper, where I still have some hair left.

I don't want shedding in both zones at the same time: 1) temples (where I have few hair left) and 2) middle-front of the head (where I still have some hair). This way, I hope(!) to maintain a not-too-bald-for-my age look.

Question: Is this a good idea? Is it possible to isolate shedding zones this way? Or does shedding occur in a more random/general way?

Anybody has experience using a similar technique?

Thanks in advance

 

[GoldenMane]

Don't try to reduce shedding, it's going to do what it's going to do. Use some hair thickening fibers like nanogen or toppik to cover up thinning hair and ride it out

 

[talmoode]

Don't try to reduce shedding, it's going to do what it's going to do. Use some hair thickening fibers like nanogen or toppik to cover up thinning hair and ride it out

this!


I am no expert but as far as I understand, Minoxidil gets absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream and it travells around. So you will be very much likely to shed all over. But I may be worng here. feel free to correct me!

 

[GwenGwen]

I am no expert but as far as I understand, Minoxidil gets absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream and it travells around. So you will be very much likely to shed all over. But I may be worng here. feel free to correct me!

Yes, this is exactly what I would like to verify. Am I wasting my time, because it's going to be absorbed by the body anyways?

Anybody tried to apply minoxidil to the vertex only? Were you shedding on the temples too?