minoxidil Questions

[Packers]

Ok, I'm ready to get started with minoxidil 5% but have a few questions before getting started. Sorry in advance if they sound like dumb questions.

Can I sweat four hours after application? I like to go the gym or go running around 10 or 11 am so if I apply minoxidil at 6 am will that be ok?
I understand the 4-hour rule but I don't wan't the sweat to affect the absorption in any way.

Do most people wash their hair between applications? (EX. minoxidil applied at night, shower in the morning, minoxidil after shower).

Is it ok if I apply minoxidil back-to-back (EX. minoxidil applied at night, minoxidil applied in the morning, shower after gym)?

Should I be applying minoxidil only on the affected areas or should I just go ahead and run it through my entire scalp? I'm losing hair in the front as well as some thinning in the center of the crown and some thinning in the back.

After applying minoxidil, how long do you usually wait before going to sleep?

Thanks for any and all help!!!

 

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Ok, I'm ready to get started with minoxidil 5% but have a few questions before getting started. Sorry in advance if they sound like dumb questions.

your apologies are rum currency here, you should be ashamed of your self.

Can I sweat four hours after application? I like to go the gym or go running around 10 or 11 am so if I apply minoxidil at 6 am will that be ok?
I understand the 4-hour rule but I don't wan't the sweat to affect the absorption in any way.

I would say a couple of hours should be fine, after that if you wish to run around do so, most of the minoxidil should have got to it's destination by then.

If you are planning on running around alot I would strongly recommend Dr Lee's Quick drying Minoxidil (standard Minoxidil Product Number 500 at Xandrox.com), Dr Lee's stuff dries in around 10 minutes, Rogaine/Kirkland dries in around 2-4 hours, when I changed from Rogaine to Dr Lee's stuff it was like being let out of prison!

Do most people wash their hair between applications? (EX. minoxidil applied at night, shower in the morning, minoxidil after shower).

I would recommed doing so, this will mean you have to shower (or at least rinse your scalp) twice a day.

Is it ok if I apply minoxidil back-to-back (EX. minoxidil applied at night, minoxidil applied in the morning, shower after gym)?

this is essentially the same question as above, it's no going to kill you but you may lose some efficay as the previous nights application (now dry) will form a barrier and possibly stop some of the minoxidil from getting to your follicles.

Should I be applying minoxidil only on the affected areas or should I just go ahead and run it through my entire scalp? I'm losing hair in the front as well as some thinning in the center of the crown and some thinning in the back.

Put the minoxidil where your hair is thinning.

After applying minoxidil, how long do you usually wait before going to sleep?

After the morning application it can be many many hours, the evening application is up to you, there are no rules, if you use Rogaine/Kirkland and apply your evening application half an hour before you go to bed you may end up with most of it on your pillow.

I will lwt you work out the best time in your situation.

Thanks for any and all help!!!

Thanks received and already spent on some 'sorrys'

 

[Packers]

Thanks for the detailed response TynanW. Looks like I will begin my minoxidil ride tonight, hopefully it will do wonders with my hair! :hairy:

If anyone else has any comments/answers to my questions please add, thanks!

 

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If anyone else has any comments/answers to my questions please add, thanks!

Comment: Rogaine will not stop the balding process (dihydrotetosterone minaturizing the follicle), it will simply grow some additional hair for the trip to baldtownâ„¢.

Think of rogaine as a mast on a sinking boat, boat statrs to sink, you don't want to end up in the shark infested waters so you start to climb the mast, for the first part of this scene you appear to be doing well, infact as opposed to actually getting closer to the water, you are infact moving away from it, evetually you will reach the top of the mast and start you journey to the sea.


What you should have done was plug the hole in the boat.


The metaphorical mast in the real world of Minoxidil is about 2-3 years 'tall' this is how long you will have improvements for over your baseline starting point, at around this time the loss you are experiencing from DHT will start to outweight the gains you are making from Minoxidil.

This because by around 2-4 years minoxidil would have recruited all the follicles it was going to.

Result, you start to head towards the great sea of baldness.


Finasteride (Propecia/Proscar) plugs this metaphorical hole (to a certain degree)

Used together you may stay dry for many many years.

 

[Packers]

If anyone else has any comments/answers to my questions please add, thanks!

Comment: Rogaine will not stop the balding process (dihydrotetosterone minaturizing the follicle), it will simply grow some additional hair for the trip to baldtownâ„¢.

Think of rogaine as a mast on a sinking boat, boat statrs to sink, you don't want to end up in the shark infested waters so you start to climb the mast, for the first part of this scene you appear to be doing well, infact as opposed to actually getting closer to the water, you are infact moving away from it, evetually you will reach the top of the mast an start you journey to the sea.


What you should have done was plug the hole in the boat.


The metaphorical mast in the real world of Minoxidil is about 2-3 years 'tall' this is how long you will have improvements for over your baseline starting point, at around this time the loss you are experiencing from DHT will start to outweight the gains you are making from Minoxidil.

Result, you start to head towards the great sea of baldness.


Finasteride (Propecia/Proscar) plugs this metaphorical hole (to a certain degree)

Used together you may stay dry for many many years.

Well I had my finasteride questions already addressed in my first ever post on this forum which you also helped me out with. I'm going to start with a decreased dosage of finasteride, not sure what the exact dosage will be yet. I'm mulling over 1/6 daily or every other day or 1/5 every other day.

 

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Well I had my finasteride questions already addressed in my first ever post on this forum which you also helped me out with.

It would appear I am an all round 'good egg'

I'm going to start with a decreased dosage of finasteride, not sure what the exact dosage will be yet. I'm mulling over 1/6 daily or every other day or 1/5 every other day.

1/5 of 1mg ? or 1/5 of a 5mg Proscar ???

1/5 of 1mg (0.2mg) every other day is very small amount, that's 0.1mg a day or 1 tenth of the amount used in the propecia trials.

This chart may help you make up your mind, it shows a single dose (at various values) against DHT levels.

http://img142.echo.cx/img142/8597/graph85bo.gif


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[Packers]

That's 1/5 of Proscar, not Propecia. I wanna start low, but not that low haha. :lol:

 

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That's 1/5 of Proscar, not Propecia. I wanna start low, but not that low haha. :lol:

LOL !!!!!

Yeah that might have been a tweezers and magnifying glass deal !

Good Luck.

 

[Packers]

Thanks, if I have any success at all it's thanks to this forum. I'm glad I decided to check out the internet, if not I'd be stuck with two options--minoxidil or Avacor. :lol:

 

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minoxidil or Avacor. :lol:

:freaked2:


Before discovering this place (around the late 1970's ) I bought a crate load of some terrible chinese cat urine (well at least that is what it smelt like), boy did I enjoy walking around london in the hot summer with a dark amber stain on my (then) inflammed/balding head, LOL !!!!

Without HairLossTalk.com I would be a bitter character right now, sat in the corner of the pub shouting at people.

Don't forget to stick Nizoral 2% into your routine, it's cheap, lasts a long time and works to benifit male pattern baldness in couple of ways. (DHT suppresent + anti-inflammitory)