Balth06
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Hi, I've been lurking here for the past few months as my hair situation has been deteriorating at an alarming rate.
I have a question about hair fallout from minoxidil withdrawal. I started minoxidil and Propecia in August 2005 when my hair loss was in the very early stages and only noticeable to me. I didn't think minoxidil was doing anything and it was pre-foam so it was a huge hassle. I stopped using it in August of 2006 but continued with the propecia as I thought (stupidly) that propecia would preserve any hair minoxidil had helped. Shortly after that my hair started to thin in the crown slowly over about 3 months and I thought it was just a normal shed and then in the 4th month I basically had a telogen effluvium and lost massive amounts of hair that has left me well below baseline. Mind you this is only in the back where I had been applying the minoxidil, the front stayed pretty much exactly the same. I'm now using minoxidil again to try to regrow what I've lost. Is that even possible? Or is that hair gone forever now? Won't the minoxidil dependent hair grow back now that its getting its 2x daily fix again? Yeah... so this is pretty much ruining my life as I've gone from no noticable balding in the crown to looking like a hand grenade went off back there in only 4 months. I'm so angry at myself because I always heard that once you start rogaine you can never stop but I just didn't think all muh damn hair would fall out. :? I realize there’s no guarantee with this stuff and no one can really say what will happen, but has anyone experienced anything like this and has regained what they lost from stopping minoxidil after starting to use it again? Thanks allot, this forum has been a huge help to me. Oh, and I'm only 25...Damn :-x
I'm so stoooooopid!
I have a question about hair fallout from minoxidil withdrawal. I started minoxidil and Propecia in August 2005 when my hair loss was in the very early stages and only noticeable to me. I didn't think minoxidil was doing anything and it was pre-foam so it was a huge hassle. I stopped using it in August of 2006 but continued with the propecia as I thought (stupidly) that propecia would preserve any hair minoxidil had helped. Shortly after that my hair started to thin in the crown slowly over about 3 months and I thought it was just a normal shed and then in the 4th month I basically had a telogen effluvium and lost massive amounts of hair that has left me well below baseline. Mind you this is only in the back where I had been applying the minoxidil, the front stayed pretty much exactly the same. I'm now using minoxidil again to try to regrow what I've lost. Is that even possible? Or is that hair gone forever now? Won't the minoxidil dependent hair grow back now that its getting its 2x daily fix again? Yeah... so this is pretty much ruining my life as I've gone from no noticable balding in the crown to looking like a hand grenade went off back there in only 4 months. I'm so angry at myself because I always heard that once you start rogaine you can never stop but I just didn't think all muh damn hair would fall out. :? I realize there’s no guarantee with this stuff and no one can really say what will happen, but has anyone experienced anything like this and has regained what they lost from stopping minoxidil after starting to use it again? Thanks allot, this forum has been a huge help to me. Oh, and I'm only 25...Damn :-x
I'm so stoooooopid!
