odd question...

[Guest]

i found out from this forum that every form of treatment has its own effective period..whether its 3 or 5 yrs....if thats the case shouldn't a guy who is in his early stage of male pattern baldness delay treatment until his condition becomes pretty obvious to ppl?..i mean, the earlier u start treatment the ealier the medication will lose its effectiveness right?? a person who start thinning at say, 24yr old...if he is to start treatment immediately i believe before 30 he will start losing it again and at that time no other treatment can save him..so shouldn't we just delay treatment as long as possible until things go bad...at least cosmestically, we are able to hold out a few more yrs....any advice????

pls dun flame me...

 

[Guest]

no that's totally wrong.

sorry to be blunt but if it was safe to , i'd recommend you start treatment back at age 16 if you were in the early stages of hair loss. waht people on here like college are saying is that your genetics may eventually overpower the medication, but you don't lose time by starting early. it's not a set period of time like 7 years that you keep your hair. It may be that since you're starting at age 24, you may be able to keep it till 31. But if you had started at say 19, you'd be able to keep it till age 31 as well. you see what im saying? the drug doesn't lose its effectiveness. your genetics just overpower it sometimes and your genetics get stronger as you advance in age.

so get on finasteride.

 

[CCS]

what JayMan said is true, but if you start at 19 instead of 24, you would still have some of the hairs that would have permenantly died between 19 and 24. So you keep even more hair by started early.

 

[Guest]

wait im confused, college.

you're saying that you agree with the original poster that it is a set period and that my post is incorrect? please correct me if i'm wrong because i want to have the right info to give to people.

 

[CCS]

no, I was agreeing with you. See that is why it is important to say who you are replying to.

Anyway, to the origninal poster, look at my avator. you can find a bigger picture on myspace or by google image searching: propecia year.

Notice that the group that was on placebo for a year and then swithced to propecia never caught up to the propecia group. Waiting one year cost them 40 hairs permenantly. You only have 650 or so per squair inche, or about 500 per circular inch. That is 8% per year.

If you start at 19, you won't just have an equal amount of hair 31 as you would if you started at 24. You will have 40% more. Actually more than that. Look at how fast the placebo group starts falling after the second or third year.

 

[Guest]

thanks for clearing my doubt...so wat u mean is as long as the male pattern baldness doesn't aggravate and stays the same, the treatment will continue to work right??? because i thought that the treatment lose its effectiveness because our body is too accustomed to it....thanks

 

[CCS]

thats right. its just the genetics and time making it worse. and if male pattern baldness stays the same, the finasteride will work the rest of your life.

 

[Guest]

thanks college....
can one judge the "power" of male pattern baldness by looking at the number of shed hair everyday?? a person who shed 200 hair/day has got a stronger male pattern baldness compare to one who shed 100/day?? and hence will have a lower chance of treatment working for him??

out of curiosity,what are the chances of male pattern baldness staying the same throughout one's entire life...... :lol:

 

[CCS]

not really. The guy who sheds 200 hairs may just have twice as many hairs. Also, male pattern baldness can go fast and then slow down, so the 200 hair person may be in the middle of a time whne it is worse. How agressive it is is the total of all these times. It is hard to predict genetics. I guess if you are losing a lot, it would mean a higher chance that you will shed more later too. I don't know how many hairs I shed because my hair is short. I have not seen any hairs in a long time, and I know the average is 100 per day for non-balding people.

If you have 100,000 hairs, and loose 100 more than you replace each day, it will take you 3 years to go smooth bald, though the top is only 1/3 of the head, so 1 year. Who knows how many you are replacing.