Hi guys,
I'm new to this forum, I'm mostly using the forums in my country.
My story in short: (altough it should be in the tell my story)
I'm 26 years old and started to lose hair around age of 20 I think, but at this age/period I had my mind in other things and didn't took care of it.
Only at the age of 22 I started to treat my hair loss, tried generic minoxi solution and didn't liked it because of the motorcycle helmet and the fact it kept my hair looking wet and straw.
So, started to use propecia, 1 mg until today (almost 4.5 years, no side effects). my borhters also taking propecia (24 and 20) altough one of them have great full hair but had a small hair loss which I think was temporary.
I lost the front hair line, the next 1/3 and in the vertex.
Since I start took the propecia, my hair loss just froze.
At july 2011 I did hair transplant in Israel, fut procedure, I think about 1000-1300 grafts to the front and the temples.
It looked much better altough the transplant was not high quality and there was lot's of pluggy hairs.
So before a month (march 2014) I did another hair transplant, fue in HDC cyprus.
That was a whole different world in the terms or quality, 3053 grafts (about 2700 to the front and the rest to the crown).
I had to shave my all head for the fue. (this way I found out how bad was the first transplant)
Currently the new hairs fell off and only in a few months I will be able to see the results.
Anyway, I started this week to use Finax (Dr.reddy's) 1 mg since the MSD propecia is expensive in Israel, hope to keep the good results.
I also bought rogaine foam and I will give it a try again from next week.
Next week I should get the MSM, SILICA & BIOTIN I ordered, I read it may help to the hair grow faster (since I had to shave the all head) and Revita shampoo (good or you suggest anything else?)
But my main issue is, should I try Dutasteride ?
I read a lot and found that 0.5 mg of Dutasteride is more effective even than 5 mg Finasteride .
I still don't understand a few things:
1) There is DHT in the scalp and in theblood serum, which is the most important to block? or both?
2) According to Bernstein medical, Dutasteride 0.5mg/day decreases serum DHT 91% and scalp DHT 54%. Finasteride 5mg/day decreases serum DHT 71% and scalp DHT 38% ( so 1 mg of Finasteride is even less, anyone know numbers?), Is that right ?
3) How long Dutasteride and Finasteride stay in the body?
4) Is there any different side effects from the propecia ?
5) Is it worth/logical to take both?
I would like to hear you thougts.
Thanks.
I'm new to this forum, I'm mostly using the forums in my country.
My story in short: (altough it should be in the tell my story)
I'm 26 years old and started to lose hair around age of 20 I think, but at this age/period I had my mind in other things and didn't took care of it.
Only at the age of 22 I started to treat my hair loss, tried generic minoxi solution and didn't liked it because of the motorcycle helmet and the fact it kept my hair looking wet and straw.
So, started to use propecia, 1 mg until today (almost 4.5 years, no side effects). my borhters also taking propecia (24 and 20) altough one of them have great full hair but had a small hair loss which I think was temporary.
I lost the front hair line, the next 1/3 and in the vertex.
Since I start took the propecia, my hair loss just froze.
At july 2011 I did hair transplant in Israel, fut procedure, I think about 1000-1300 grafts to the front and the temples.
It looked much better altough the transplant was not high quality and there was lot's of pluggy hairs.
So before a month (march 2014) I did another hair transplant, fue in HDC cyprus.
That was a whole different world in the terms or quality, 3053 grafts (about 2700 to the front and the rest to the crown).
I had to shave my all head for the fue. (this way I found out how bad was the first transplant)
Currently the new hairs fell off and only in a few months I will be able to see the results.
Anyway, I started this week to use Finax (Dr.reddy's) 1 mg since the MSD propecia is expensive in Israel, hope to keep the good results.
I also bought rogaine foam and I will give it a try again from next week.
Next week I should get the MSM, SILICA & BIOTIN I ordered, I read it may help to the hair grow faster (since I had to shave the all head) and Revita shampoo (good or you suggest anything else?)
But my main issue is, should I try Dutasteride ?
I read a lot and found that 0.5 mg of Dutasteride is more effective even than 5 mg Finasteride .
I still don't understand a few things:
1) There is DHT in the scalp and in theblood serum, which is the most important to block? or both?
2) According to Bernstein medical, Dutasteride 0.5mg/day decreases serum DHT 91% and scalp DHT 54%. Finasteride 5mg/day decreases serum DHT 71% and scalp DHT 38% ( so 1 mg of Finasteride is even less, anyone know numbers?), Is that right ?
3) How long Dutasteride and Finasteride stay in the body?
4) Is there any different side effects from the propecia ?
5) Is it worth/logical to take both?
I would like to hear you thougts.
Thanks.
