Hopefully my story can shred some light on the options for dealing with hairloss.
So my hair started falling out basically on my 19th birthday due to personal stresses (i think), losing a f*ck load a day. For probably the first 3 months i thought it was diet/life style related and would stop but unfortunately this was not the case. It took me about 1.5 years to get on finasteride and i started using 0.75mg as a way to mitigate the side affects and it actually worked. I got 0 sides for 2 years but unfortunately i was still losing hairs slowly. So that's when i upped it to the full 1mg, unfortunately the second i did that i started getting sides which have been progressively getting worse (very low sex drive, super hard to get it up and to finish, bit of brain fog in the mornings). In the last year my hair has gotten to the point I would always wear a hat so i thought i may as well start on Minoxidil. I honestly wish i never started using it. By the 3 month mark i had hairs popping up everywhere - would have got hairline and full density back if i continued however it ruined my face. I have noticeable crows feet now which i never had before and it sucks. So noticing this i went off Min for 2 weeks to try and rejuvenate my face and.... lost all my gains. I'm currently using 0.5ml min 6 nights a week along with 1mg finasteride 5 nights a week and its slowed my hairloss to about 15 hairs a day. Having to deal with this at such a young age sucks, I hate going out, too self conscious to get a girlfriend or go in the ocean at the moment. I'm hoping something better comes out in the next year or so and we can all enjoy a bit of freedom.
So my hair started falling out basically on my 19th birthday due to personal stresses (i think), losing a f*ck load a day. For probably the first 3 months i thought it was diet/life style related and would stop but unfortunately this was not the case. It took me about 1.5 years to get on finasteride and i started using 0.75mg as a way to mitigate the side affects and it actually worked. I got 0 sides for 2 years but unfortunately i was still losing hairs slowly. So that's when i upped it to the full 1mg, unfortunately the second i did that i started getting sides which have been progressively getting worse (very low sex drive, super hard to get it up and to finish, bit of brain fog in the mornings). In the last year my hair has gotten to the point I would always wear a hat so i thought i may as well start on Minoxidil. I honestly wish i never started using it. By the 3 month mark i had hairs popping up everywhere - would have got hairline and full density back if i continued however it ruined my face. I have noticeable crows feet now which i never had before and it sucks. So noticing this i went off Min for 2 weeks to try and rejuvenate my face and.... lost all my gains. I'm currently using 0.5ml min 6 nights a week along with 1mg finasteride 5 nights a week and its slowed my hairloss to about 15 hairs a day. Having to deal with this at such a young age sucks, I hate going out, too self conscious to get a girlfriend or go in the ocean at the moment. I'm hoping something better comes out in the next year or so and we can all enjoy a bit of freedom.
