Minodil 3m no improvement, shaving head, propecia & creatine

FruktPalm

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Oi folks. Yeah I know IT sucks :(

I've been loosing hair since summer 09 or before that, I did have long hair and didn't quite get that i was losing hair. Thought it was thinning out because it was so long, but i guess i was just in denial. (<- POWERFUL THING :O)

I did start using rogaine on december for a full month, after 3 weeks of inconsistency i started again with one bottle of rogaine. Now i'm on kirland and almost finished the 3rd bottle. NOT HAPPY :( no improvement, just getting worse. And flaking due to "flakeland".

1½ week ago I talked with my doctor and got propecia precribed. I took 1mg pills two days in a row and on the third my dick was cold and numb like a dead fish. I panicked and started to masturbate frenetically to know that it was just a fluke due to the cold weather (sweden) but the erection quality was off and the sperm count lower.

I've haven't touched propecia since, and my dick is a bit better, i can get good erection even thought the feeling is different, a tiny bit numb?, and the sperm count is maybe back to normal, it was low to begin with, but the reproduction speed seems lower. Spontaneous erection seems less frequent to(?).

Now questions:

I was planing on getting a buzz cut because minoxidil dryes my hair and it's long and curly.. bad combo.
http://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk/details.asp?productid=FMREES360
under the warning tab it says that rogaine shouldn't be used # If you have a shaved head.

Bullshit?

Next guy says that shaving and rogaine foam is ok, but he also says
http://www.baldingblog.com/2008/10/02/u ... aved-head/
Propecia won’t keep hair grown by Rogaine (minoxidil) and vice versa. In other words, if you stop Propecia, Rogaine won’t maintain the benefits you saw from Propecia; if you stop Rogaine, Propecia won’t maintain the Rogaine benefits. They work independently.

Considering the scary *** sh*t side effects i got, propecia is completely useless if i cant keep use it for a long time.

I plan on continuing with minoxidil and maybe try 1/2 or 1/4 tablet of propecia when i feel that things are back to normal so that i can see if i still get the negative effects.

And lastly, Creatine monohydrate is said to caused increased Dht levels by 50% (rugby study) and cause hair loss. Could i use it to work out and keep the benefits of propecia on and side effects off? How much does propecias different doses lower dht?

Answers & suggestions?
 

Hoppi

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I'll PM you with some info I've been learning about because we seem to be in similar situations :)
 

moxsom

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Since the creatine study was only done for serum DHT it is impossible to know it's effects on local DHT of the scalp. I wouldn't be too worried about creatine though especially if you were on propecia.
 
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