minoxidil has stopped working in my hair ..

[abysss]

I have been using minoxidil 2% for 5 years but in 2 months I am having a very large loss of hair and every time I lose more hair so I think the minoxidil and not working.
I've gone to minoxidil foam took a month and the fall continues.
Consider using minoxidil NR-07 to see how it works because I'm desperate.

What I can use?
Prox-N (proxiphen N), spectral ...

Someone in my situation who did?

 

[follicle84]

2% minoxidil is a pretty weak hairloss treatment. Most people use 5% minoxidil. I use spectral dnc minoxidil which is 5% minoxidil combined with procyanides which supposivelly slow or halt baldness and promote regrowth.

 

[Bryan]

Both 2% and 5% Rogaine turn into the same thing when you apply them to your head: a saturated solution of minoxidil in propylene glycol. You just get MORE of it with 5%, when you apply equal quantities of both (like 1 mL).

 

[follicle84]

Wouldn't that mean having to use more 2% minoxidil to get the same effect as 5% minoxidil? If this is the case for money reasons i would pick 5% minoxidil over 2% so it would last longer.

 

[Bryan]

Wouldn't that mean having to use more 2% minoxidil to get the same effect as 5% minoxidil? If this is the case for money reasons i would pick 5% minoxidil over 2% so it would last longer.

Yes. The point, I think, is to apply whichever one is cheaper per milligram of minoxidil. The 5% solution is almost certainly going to be cheaper in that regard.

 

[Todd]

I'm guessing it's not the minoxidil that stops working, but the DHT that kills off your hair faster than minoxidil can keep growing it.

What you need to do is stick with minoxidil (up it to 5%), and get those androgens under control.
Finasteride, ketoconazole, spironolactone, revivogen, dutasteride...

If you want to stick with the topical route, RU is supposed to be the very best out there. spironolactone is by far the cheapest and easiest to get.
Fluridil is also, from what I've read, a decent topical anti androgen, but does not work very well along with other topical treatments, as even small amounts of water degrades it, and it needs to stay on the scalp for a long time in order to have any effect.

 

[Bukowski]

I would not advice anybody to go on Fluridil. I've used it for four months and it did nothing. ( BTW, my hairloss is very, very slow ) I've done a lot of research on the net and most of the guys who have used did not see any improvement in their hairsituation at all. Total waste of money.

 

[Obsidian]

It is your male pattern baldness progressing, I suggest adding in an oral 5ar inhibitor to keep your hair.

If you do not want to do that, I suggest adding in a topical anti-androgen such as spironolactone along with nizoral 2%.

 

[beraldy]

I thought hair loss treatments in general would only last for 5 years or so.

 

[HT55]

I thought hair loss treatments in general would only last for 5 years or so.

I have been on Rogaine since 1992 and propecia since 1997. Both are still working fine

 

[follicle84]

I believe it varies person to person. I think the 5 years talk comes from the notion that most studies in this area do not procede past the 5 year mark, as theres's little or no further improvement after this point. Thats not to say it stops working but rather its best results have been achieved.