Just asking minoxidil question to experienced users

[Majinhanamichi]

Just asking question to the season minoxidil users

If i only applied minoxidil to the temples, does it affect any growth on the other areas as well?

If you stoppped minoxidil after using it on a certain area, will you lost that certain area only or shedding will affect your whole scalp?

many thanks to all!

MH

 

[Bryan]

Just asking question to the season minoxidil users

If i only applied minoxidil to the temples, does it affect any growth on the other areas as well?

There is some evidence that the effect of topical minoxidil does extend out a bit to areas beyond where you actually physically apply it. I've been meaning to post about that for a long time.

Bryan

 

[jason566]

how far out though?

 

[The Gardener]

Quite a bit. Many minoxidil users here have noticed that after starting minoxidil, their beards grow faster. Same for me. Not only that, but there has been very very obvious thickening of my sideburns. You know that line where your sideburn hair meets the thick, coarse hair of the beard? Well, for me that line was well below my ears. Now, after minoxidil, even my upper sideburns are growing in thicker and coarser... that is, the hair parallel with my ear opening. For me, this hair has always been thin and now I have to trim the sh*t down between haircuts to keep it clean looking. The most dramatic changes have occurred in the hair on the back of my neck. You know, that strip of hair on the lower back right about at your collar-line that your hairstylist normally trims off... well, that strip of hair is growing in quickly! Again, I have to shave it off myself in between haircuts to keep from looking like a primate.


Read Dr. Lee's statement on this phenomenon at http://www.minoxidil.com. minoxidil diffuses all throughout the scalp. Of course, this does NOT mean that you can just dump a ml of it on the crown and expect it to do its thing everywhere. But, he does make clear that you do NOT have to cover every square inch of your scalp with minoxidil to get good coverage. If you dot your affected area with the chemical, it will spread out under the skin in the 'horny layer' as he refers to it, that is, the layer of skin between the dead outer shell and the inner skin which is gushing with lymph and other bodily fluids.

 

[jason566]

is that a good thing or bad thing gardner..because Ive been applying about 4 drops once a day for past 2 weeks or so and my hair in the front and right side feels thinner..good sign?...
I mean can only 4 drops or less that i use spread out far?

 

[The Gardener]

Good question. I don't think there is a standard answer to it.

For me, I apply several droplets all over from the front to my crown. Now, the front of my hair is responding, albeit sluggishly, yet the hair at the back of my neck and my beard got noticeably thicker immediately!? So, I think that hairs on some parts of the head respond with only a hint of the substance in your skin, but other hairs (unfortunately, the DHT-affected ones) seem to need more time and patience for minoxidil to do its thing.

I think it varies from person to person. I would doubt that 4 drops would work for the entire head... but for a person who is lucky enough to be a great natural responder to minoxidil, it might. Some people respond to it all over, some people only respond in the crown and not the front, and yet for others minoxidil seems to have no effect.

I suggest experimenting... and watching what happens.

As for the thinning on the right side... I am going out on a limb here, but from my personal experience the right side of the head is naturally weaker. For me, it is the side that was the most thin, and is the side that is taking minoxidil longer to positively affect. I brought this up with my gf's boss, a dermotologist (who is not really a hair specialist, but he knows quite a bit) and he says it has to do with the fact that hair grows on your head in a spiral pattern.

If minoxidil starts to work for you as it does for me, the first positive sign you will notice is a thickening of the thin, but existing hairs. Regrowth, i.e. an actual increase in hair count, takes more time.

 

[jason566]

Hi Gardener
the 4 drops i apply are on vellous peach fuzz hairs not erminal hairs..i have this area on my right and left side that has weak hairs there..and i been applyin to only my right side to test the stuff for the first few months..and figure if those weak hairs peach fuzz and veallous get thicker..then i know it works..and can apply more further throughout my fronmt etc..so yeh ..Im only applying on top of those vellous hairs..good enough u think?..I wish i could do a tet that would say yes minoxidil will work for u..lol
but ive only been applyin 2 weeks and my hair feels thinner even in areas im not applyin..but only 4 drops?..maybe im sentive to the stuff