Might the Revivo/spironolactone combo work if finasteride didn't?

[Jaygee]

I'm just a schmo who's getting antsy about things on month 7, especially since there is definite slight recession on my right temple. A few months ago, I'm sure that wasn't there. (Though I was a bloody fool to not take pictures)

As far as I can tell, I don't think my thinnish top is any better or worse, and hopefully I'll be able to keep saying that. But I'm discouraged by my hairline, the right side of which is definitely a tad higher than the left. I'd say the right side might be something like a Norwood 2.3, where the left is just a 2.

***Has anyone heard of an instance where finasteride didn't work, but the revivo/spironolactone combo did?**** Or anything else, for that matter?

Depending on how I ponder this question, the possibility does or doesn't seem logical. Please give any feedback you can on this. I know it is only month 7, but I am getting nervous now. The right temple hairs are definitely thinner than their left counterparts when I look at them plastered across my forehead, and under light this is cosmetically apparant, although still minimally so.

P.S. In direct response to the new temple problem, about 2.5 months ago I started putting minoxidil 5% on that temple once a day, in addition to putting it on the vertex. I've never thought it's doing anything for me, but I'm afraid to stop.

 

[hairface]

Wait another 5 months. STICK to your regimen, how many time will we have to repeat ourselves... It takes one year to see if propecia or even minoxidil, has been working on you or not.

If you are so scared about your right temple, I would suggest you to get some Toppik to make it looks like Norwood 1.3 when you go out on a date :lol: This stuff is great.

BUT REMEMBER : STICK TO YOUR REGIMEN AT LEAST ONE YEAR

GOOD LUCK!

 

[Jaygee]

hairface--I've got good bangs, so I don't have to use Toppik or anything.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not jumping ship before the 12-month mark. No intention. I'm just getting nervous and am trying to look into other options. After all, Deaner, the guy who started just a couple weeks before me, is already declaring major progress, while I can only say that my top is the same (which may or may not be maintainence) and that my right temple is thinning/rising. My left is still normal, as far as I can tell.

Does anyone have any idea if revivo-spironolactone would work if finasteride didn't?

 

[PartTimeNinja]

I'm just getting nervous and am trying to look into other options. After all, Deaner, the guy who started just a couple weeks before me, is already declaring major progress, while I can only say that my top is the same (which may or may not be maintainence) and that my right temple is thinning/rising. My left is still normal, as far as I can tell.

Don't measure yourself with the progress of others and not to be disrespecful to Deaner (he seems like a good guy) but he is known to jump the gun a bit and declare great progress.

I don't really have anything to add in terms of the spironolactone/revivogen combo - I am 10 months in (finasteride/nizoral) and still thinning and I'm going to add Proxiphen i 2 months if this (most unlikely) doesn't turn around....

 

[Jaygee]

I'm puttin' this back on top in the hopes of someone having answers positive or negative....
that damn right temple is really eating at me.

 

[Jaygee]

Ohhh. If no one has an answer for this, please tell me. It's driving me nuts. I look at my right temple and I'm getting really upset. I KNOW it did not have that little "bite" out of it last summer when I started fincar. No way would I not have seen that. The speed at which it appeared is really scaring me. Am I going to be one of those "bald overnight" cases after all?
I know this must look pathetic by now, but I'm hoping that someone on here will know, either from experience or the grapevine, whether revivo/spironolactone might help someone who didn't respond to finasteride.

 

[The Gardener]

We all 'respond' to different things, which is why we all have different regimens. Yes, you might respond well to revivogen and spironolactone, and you might respond well to finasteride. However, you'll never 'know' how well you will respond to any of them if you don't give them a year to work.

There are no guarantees that, 'yes, this particular product WILL work well for you'. Some respond well to some things, others require a different treatment regimen. But, with finasteride, you really need to give it a year.

 

[Jaygee]

I know you need to give it a year----HairLossTalk.com even seemed to insinuate recently that you should wait TWO years, unless I misunderstood him---but I'd be 95% less neurotic right now if it weren't for my right temple. Finally admitting to myself that it's receded about half an inch is really painful. If not for that, I'd be thinking that maybe I was already starting to maintain. My left temple SEEMS to be staying where it is, and I don't think the rest of my crown is any different than it's been for the last year or so.

 

[The Gardener]

I know that feeling, believe me. But, changing your regimen now is not going to help with your temple.

You have to bite the bullet here and be a little strong about it. At least you are 7 months into the process before you noticed this temple recession. Imagine if you were just starting finasteride now, and had 12 months to wait before you knew it would start showing results?

Keep in mind that some of the thinning might also be from minoxidil shed. Given that you just started that 2.5 months ago, the timing might be right? Either way, you are taking the best that science has to offer to keep that hair in place. You might consider upping your minoxidil to 2x/day if you are using it and are unwilling to stop it?

 

[Jaygee]

I hope at least some of it is from the minoxidil, but I only started putting it on the temple (had already been putting it on top) because I noticed thinning there. I'd say I first noticed it around October, after I'd been on finasteride for four months. Since then, it seems to me that the "boundary", so to speak, has gone up. I've tried to figure out what I'm actually seeing---are the hairs regular density but thinner, or are there actually fewer of them, implying a shed? Unfortuantly, it seems to be the former.