Vampa said:
Having around a month and a half's supply sitting around (if you use teh entire bottle a day), I really ought to start up again. Actually I will, long story why I stopped my hair loss treatment- let's just say I'm stupid.
But what I'd like to know about fluridil is if it's like minoxidil in the sense that you have to continually use it to maintain the hair you've grown. Or could you grow hair with it, and if you're taking finasteride, would that be able to maintain the hair?
If you're taking propecia, then that should be considered your foundation, and any benefits you're getting from eucapil may or may not be lost if you quit eucapil.
However, it's nothing like minoxidil in that you will be losing minoxidil dependent hair if you drop the treatment. There isn't such a thing as eucapil dependent hair. The ultimate goal with finasteride and eucapil is to limit the harmful effects of dht on the scalp, which finasteride does by inhibiting the formation of dht, and eucapil does by (i'm simplifying here) protecting the hair follicles from dht. Through both mechanisms you're limiting the amount of dht that has a harmful effect on the hair follicles. There are any number of possible treatments than can be used to do this, so you can have different levels of success depending on what treatments you use.
For instance, you might have great results using propecia alone, or you might have even better results when using propecia + spironolactone + revivogen, or great results using JUST eucapil, and so on.... the combinations of treatments you can use to limit the harmful effects of DHT on the scalp are many, and the levels of success you have are, consequently, probably pretty diverse as well.
In the end, finasteride and eucpail should both protect the scalp from dht in different ways. If you drop Eucapil while using finasteride, you're losing that extra (and different) protection, but that's a whole lot different than dropping, say, minoxidil, because from what I understand, hair regrown on minoxidil is completely dependent on using minoxidil indefinitely.
I almost like to think of it as 1)minoxidil regrowth, and 2) Regrowth from treatments that protect the hair follicle from DHT.
THere are a lot of treatments that are potentially successful to use in category 2, but only minoxidil treatments that can address category 1.
It should also be noted that treatments like Eucapil and propecia are really geared towards protecting existing hair (and making existing hairs thicker), whereas minoxidil is gearted towards growing NEW hair.
Does that make sense?