look i'm really at a crossroads right now. confused.

[NaS]

hey,

im desperate for advice...

i started on proscar on the 1st of february 2008. so it's been about 5 months since i've started. since then ive noticed a significant worsening of my condition. when i first went to the derm to get my prescription he said my hair was still coarse and dense etc. It's worsened a lot since then. My crown has thinned out a lot more, and especially my mid scalp region. I do not believe it has "haulted" or "maintained" my hair since then. Actually i dont "believe"... i KNOW it hasnt.

Im not being dramatic or trying to be. Im not a retarded prick either - i did my research and am well aware of shedding and how this will occur in the first few months. That's all sweet and good.

But I've been scanning these forums with a fine tooth comb and i realised MANY people were experiencing WORSE hair ever since they started finasteride. is this just mythical sh*t? Like many people have complained about maintaining their crown/scalp but losing heaps of hair on the hair line. some have even spoken about their general hair condition totally worsening... the quality of their hair.. the texture.. Basically im trying to say that some people, after being on finasteride for around a year, have reported WORSE hair - ESPECIALLY on the hair line.

So whats my point? Over the past month, my hair line has absolutely fucked up. How can i describe this.... It's kind of "stringy" looking now. Now i went to get proscar for my crown/mid scalp area, not for my hairline.. although my hairline WAS quite mature, ever since i started it's just gone to the sh*t. The texture and the look of it is just absolutely sh*t. This whole stringy thing has just happened over the past month, so im thinking it could be the proscar kicking in and absolutely f*****g my hair line up.

Now im paranoid that this proscar sh*t is just destroying my hair rather than helping it. But im at a cross roads because i dont know if i should quit it or not. Should i give it a break for a month to see how it goes? Im thinking that if I break now, while its not TOTALLY bad, i can really gauge to see if it really IS the proscar thats f*****g me up, or if its just the male pattern baldness. if its the male pattern baldness, then i can hop on the proscar again straight away.

What do you think? IS this practical? It's a lose lose situation in my eyes, cos i dont believe im gaining ANYTHING from proscar

 

[kre62]

Im in the same exact boat man. I could hide it with toppik and styling when I started, but now my hair looks very thin and stringy in front. Hopefully someone has some input. Ive been on finasteride 4 months.

 

[masculineyourheart]

A lot of posters have said their hair was worse than ever for the first 8-9 months and even up to a year and then really started to pick up after that. Others like DoctorHouse and ghg have never made it back to the baseline ever after long term use, so it could go either way.

I stopped taking it after 5 months not only because my hair was in the worst condition I'd ever seen it but also because it felt damn awful and my scalp was dry, irritated and in no way looking like it was capable of sprouting new hair. Since coming off it, my scalp feels much healthier, the irritation has pretty much gone, my hair is shiny and back to its natural colour. The only problem is that the hair I lost after starting propecia hasn't come back and I'm still losing slowly.

It's up to you whether to stop it or not. I'd suggest you give it a year or so to ride it out and see if things pick up, unless you have something else to replace it with. Spend the next month or so reading up on alternative antiandrogens and DHT inhibitors or the like so that if you do decide to stop, you'll have something else to switch to.

Good luck bro.