Minoxidil Responsiveness Gene Passed Along With male pattern baldness?

[kj6723]

Tonight I had a little conversation with my dad about hair loss treatment and such (the first one I've had with him), and he revealed that he used rogaine for about 10-15 years, and he said he stopped using it about a year or so ago. My Mom was like, "you stopped?" And he said, "Yeah. Can you tell?" And she gave some non-answer response.

He's had a high hairline for pretty much all of my life, but the time in which he stopped using rogaine also happens to be about the time in which I had begun to notice his hair loss myself, which until now I had assumed was because of my own new found "hair awareness" due to my hair loss.

I would imagine he felt rogaine was doing something positive for him if he continued to use it for over such an extended period of time. I plan to look for pics from over the last decade and make an assessment of how much his hairloss progressed over this time, with special focus on whether or not it sped up significantly over the last year or two.

As I seem to have inherited my male pattern baldness gene from his side of the family, I am wondering about the possibility of a responsiveness to minoxidil also being passed.

This was quite the revelation for me, and he's actually the first person in real life I know that has openly admitted to fighting male pattern baldness in any serious, long term capacity (I had a friend who used rogaine, but I don't think he was committed enough to regular applications for it to matter) . It makes me wonder who else I know might be secretly fighting this fierce, never-ending, uphill battle.

 

[Roberto_72]

Tonight I had a little conversation with my dad about hair loss treatment and such (the first one I've had with him), and he revealed that he used rogaine for about 10-15 years, and he said he stopped using it about a year or so ago. My Mom was like, "you stopped?" And he said, "Yeah. Can you tell?" And she gave some non-answer response.

He's had a high hairline for pretty much all of my life, but the time in which he stopped using rogaine also happens to be about the time in which I had begun to notice his hair loss myself, which until now I had assumed was because of my own new found "hair awareness" due to my hair loss.

I would imagine he felt rogaine was doing something positive for him if he continued to use it for over such an extended period of time. I plan to look for pics from over the last decade and make an assessment of how much his hairloss progressed over this time, with special focus on whether or not it sped up significantly over the last year or two.

As I seem to have inherited my male pattern baldness gene from his side of the family, I am wondering about the possibility of a responsiveness to minoxidil also being passed.

This was quite the revelation for me, and he's actually the first person in real life I know that has openly admitted to fighting male pattern baldness in any serious, long term capacity (I had a friend who used rogaine, but I don't think he was committed enough to regular applications for it to matter) . It makes me wonder who else I know might be secretly fighting this fierce, never-ending, uphill battle.

I think you would be surprised.
We men, for some idiotic reason, are not used to openly talking about our looks and the effort to improve them.
I can tell you this: when my family and his friends asked how he coped with hair loss, my father said he just did not care.
Guess what happened when minoxidil was out in Italy. He bought a six months stash. Unfortunately he had been NW6 for a while then.

 

[kj6723]

I think you would be surprised.
We men, for some idiotic reason, are not used to openly talking about our looks and the effort to improve them.
I can tell you this: when my family and his friends asked how he coped with hair loss, my father said he just did not care.
Guess what happened when minoxidil was out in Italy. He bought a six months stash. Unfortunately he had been NW6 for a while then.

I don't even think of my dad as being a particularly body-conscious type of person, so this tells me there HAVE to be others I know using minoxidil/finasteride etc. Definitely an eye opening bit if information.